Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Monteverdi/arr. Carlos: Orfeo Suite; Wendy Carlos, synthesizer (East Side Digital 81422)
Handel: Il pastor fido Overture-Suite; The English Concert/Pinnock (Archiv 419 219)
Couperin: Les Baricades mystérieuses; Trevor Pinnock, harpsichord (Archiv 413 591)
Schumann: Violin Sonata No. 1 in a, op. 105; Gidon Kremer, violin; Martha Argerich, piano (DG 419 235)
W H Harris: Bring us, O Lord God; The Cambridge Singers/Rutter (Collegium 113)

Mozart: Così fan tutte Overture; Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields/Marriner (EMI 47014)
Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, op. 80; Montreal SO/Dutoit (London 421 440)
Menotti: What a curse for a woman is a timid man / Steal me, sweet thief (from The Old Maid and the Thief); Dawn Upshaw, soprano; Orchestra of St Luke’s/Zinman (Nonesuch 79187)
Bernstein: Divertimento for Orchestra; Minnesota Orch/Oue (Reference 87)
Gould: Family Album Suite (excerpts); United States Marine Band/Colburn (USAF 23)

A Spoken Interlude: from Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows, read by Martin Jarvis (Naxos AudioBooks NA327712)
Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow; English String Orch/Boughton (Nimbus 5068)
Arensky: Piano Trio in d, op. 32; Borodin Trio (Chandos 8477)
Lanner: Die Schönbrunner, op. 200; Orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper/Bauer-Theussl (Philips 400 013)