netradio: : FEB 2010 HOT PICK/NEW RELEASES (2010-02-01)

Here's hoping this new recording of the Piano Concerto will restore its reputation. At its premiere the piece was criticized for being too demanding and unrewarding with thick, muscular textures (Busoni and Bach were definite influences) and a rather gnarly, percussive piano part. It's an ambitious, modernist work to be sure, but Judd leads the RLPO and Wass in a bracing performance, full of thunder and lightning in the outer movements while revealing the tender vulnerability of the middle movement Romanza. Wass is Moses-like as he parts the symphonic seas and carves out the piano's prophetic role. The RLPO delights in the buzzing good humor of The Wasps, written for a student production of Aristophanes' satire at Oxford. Lighter-veined but no less exuberant are the English Folksong Suite (in a Gordon Jacob orchestration) and The Running Set, in which Judd and musicians really savor Vaughan Williams' setting of folk songs from the British Isles.
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NEW RELEASES & RE-ISSUES WEEK ONE

MENDELSSOHN: Piano Trios
Itzhak Perlman, violin; Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Emanuel Ax, piano
SONY: 52192

MAHLER: Symphony No. 6
New Philharmonia Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
TESTAMENT: 1451

RAVEL, RESPIGHI, GRANADOS: Violin Sonatas
Frederieke Saeijs, violin; Maurice Lammerts van Bueren, piano
NAXOS: 8572093

HAYDN: Keyboard Concertos No. 1 & 2 (for organ); POULENC: Organ Concerto
Eurasia Sinfonietta/Jin Wang; Georges Athanasiades, organ
TUDOR: 7165

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4
San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: 30

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NEW RELEASES & RE-ISSUES WEEK TWO

ABRAHAM LINCOLN PORTRAITS: IVES: Lincoln, the Great Commoner; PERSICHETTI: A Lincoln Address; Roy HARRIS: Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight; Ernst BACON: Ford's Theatre - Glimpses of Easter Week 1865; Morton GOULD: Lincoln Legend; George MCKAY: To a Liberator; Paul TUROK: Aspects of Lincoln and Liberty; COPLAND: Lincoln Portrait
The Nashville Symphony & Chorus/Leonard Slatkin; Barry Scott narrator; other soloists
NAXOS: 8559373

Jan Pieterszoon SWEELINCK: Psaumes francais & Canciones Sacrae
Capella Amsterdam
HARMONIA MUNDI: 902033

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C; MOZART: *Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-Flat
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/ Seiji Ozawa; *Eugen Jochum; Martha Argerich, piano
BR KLASSIK: 900701

TELEMANN: Ouverture & Concerti
Holland Baroque Society; Alexis Kossenko, flute, recorder
CHANNEL: 28409

FANDANGOS Y ZARZUELAS: BIZET: Carmen Suite; BOCCHERINI: Introduction y Fandango; SOLER: Fandango; Geronimo GIMENEZ: El Baile de Luis Alonso, La Boda de Luis Alonso; ALBENIZ: Bajo de la Palmera
Dagoberto Linhares, guitar; Maya Obradovich, guitar; Raymond Migy, guitar
PHOENIX RECORDS: 299

Niels Wilhelm GADE: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3
Hasse Borup, violin; Heather Conner, piano
NAXOS: 8570524

AMERICAN SERENADE: Victor HERBERT: Serenade for Strings Op. 12; Arthur FOOTE: Serenade for Strings, Op. 25, Suite in E Op. 63
London Octave/Kypros Markou
DUTTON LABORATORIES: 7238

LISZT: 1st Year of Pilgrimage - Switzerland, Piano Sonata in b
Michael Korstick, piano
CPO: 777478

TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto; DVORAK: Symphony No. 7 in d; MUSSORGSKY: Kohvanschina - Dawn
Berlin Philharmonic/Carlo Maria Giulini
TESTAMENT: 1439
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NEW RELEASES & RE-ISSUES WEEK THREE

Christian SINDING: Music for Violin & Piano Vol. 2
Henning Kraggerud, violin; Christian Ihle Hadland, piano
NAXOS: 8572255

Ronald CORP: Guernsey Postcards, Piano Concerto No. 1, Symphony No. 1
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Ronald Corp
DUTTON: 7233

BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No. 1 in g Op 25, No. 3 in c Op 60
Faure Quartet
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON: 4766323

Louis SPOHR: Der Fall Babylons Overture, Symphony No. 3 in c, Symphony No. 6 in G
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana/Howard Shelley
HYPERION: 67788

DEBUSSY: Complete Works for Piano Vol. 5; Khamma, Jeux, La Boite a joujoux
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano
CHANDOS: 10545

RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No. 3 in d, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra/Valery Gergiev; Denis Matsuev, piano
MARIINSKY: 505

BACH: Flute Sonatas BWV 1020, 1030, 1031, 1032; Partita in a BWV 1013
Joshua Smith, flute; Jory Vinikour, piano
DELOS: 3402
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NEW RELEASES & RE-ISSUES WEEK FOUR

NEW YEAR'S CONCERT 2010
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Georges Pretre
DECCA: 4782113

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: ORCHESTRAL SUITES; Snow Maiden, Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh, MLADA Act III 'Night on Mount Triglav'
Russian National Orchestra/Mikhail Pletnev
PENTATONE: 5186362

Anton Ferdinand TITZ: String Quartets for the Imperial Court of St. Petersburg Vol. 2
Hoffmeister Quartet
PROFIL: 9046

Stanley BATE: Symphony No. 3; Richard ARNELL: Black Mountain Prelude, Robert Flaherty Impression; Erik CHISHOLM: Dante Pictures after Dore
Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Martin Yates
DUTTON: 7239

HOMMAGE A CHOPIN: BALAKIREV, GRIEG, BUSONI, TCHAIKOVSKY, GODARD, VILLA-LOBOS, GODOWSKY, etc.
Jonathon Plowright, piano
HYPERION: 67803

THE NIGHTINGALE IN LOVE: Flute Music of the Late French Baroque; Anne Danican PHILIDOR, Michel de la BARRE, Francois COUPERIN, Marin MARAIS
Robert Stallman, flute; Karl Bennion, cello; Edwin Swanborn, harpsichord
BOGNER'S CAFE: 104

Avner DORMAN: Mandolin Concerto, Piccolo Concerto, Concerto Grosso, Piano Concerto in A
Metropolis Ensemble/Andrew Cyr; Avi, Avital, mandolin; Mindy Kaufman, piccolo; Eliran Avni, piano
NAXOS: 8559620

HAYDN: Violin Concerto No. 1 in C, No. 4 in G; MOZART: Sinfonia Concertante
Orchestra of Age of Enlightenment; Rachel Podger, violin; Pavlo Beznosiuk, viola
CHANNEL: 29309

Gabriel JACKSON: Not no faceless Angel, To Morning, Song (I gaze upon you), etc.
Polyphony/Stephen Layton
HYPERION: 67708