Zelenka, Alwyn, Mahler, Bach - free on the Gramophone Player!

Martin Cullingford
Friday, May 6, 2011

Log on to the Gramophone Player to listen to movements or tracks from all of this month’s Editor's Choice recordings, plus excerpts from the DVD of the Month. There’s also a newly transferred Recording From the Archive, and you can compare samples from this month’s The Collection. All Editor's Choice tracks click through to the Gramophone review, and all tracks have a link to where you can buy the recording.

This month’s Recording of the Month is of music by Zelenka – his Officium defunctorum and Requiem – performed by Václav Luks and Collegium Vocale 1704, and you can hear an excerpt on the Player. The nine other Editor’s Choice recordings include: Alwyn’s Violin Concerto and other orchestral music, from Lorraine McAslan in the Concerto, the RLPO and David Lloyd-Jones on Naxos; Andreas Staier in CPE Bach on Harmonia Mundi; from the archive, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, recorded live by Tennstedt and the LPO on the Orchestra’s own label; and Martha Argerich and friends, from the Lugano Festival, recorded last year by EMI. You can hear excerpts from these and all other Editor’s Choice discs, as well as the Reissue of the Month (Liszt’s complete piano music from Leslie Howard on Hyperion) and the DVD of the month, Mahler’s Ninth from Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.

This month’s Collection explores recordings of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, and you can listen to excerpts from our leading recommendations: Nathan Milstein (DG), Gregory Fulkerson (Bridge), Rachel Podger (Channel) and Alina Imbragimova (Hyperion). Finally, this month’s newly remastered Archive Recording is an early Harnoncourt record of music by Bach.

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Happy listening!

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