The second of three samplers of new classical releases, with music by Mozart, Bruckner, Walton, Bach and Zelenka, plus four baroque arias sung by the remarkable Norwegian treble Aksel Rykkvin.
noon-3 p.m. EDT
1600-1900 UTC/GMT
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Bernstein: “Candide” Overture
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Christian Lindberg
(BIS)
Handel: “Diana cacciatrice” – March, “Alla caccia,” “Foriera la tromba”
Handel: “Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne” – “Eternal source of light divine”
Rameau: “Naïs” – “Je ne sais quel ennui me presse”
Albinoni: “La Statira” – “Vien con nuova Orribil guerra”
Aksel Rykkvin, treble
Mark Bennett, trumpet
MIN Ensemble/Lazar Miletic
(Signum Classics)
Jan Dismas Zelenka: Trio Sonata No. 3 in B flat major
Ensemble Berlin Prag
(Supraphon)
J.S. Bach: “The Well-Tempered Clavier,” Book 2 – Fugue in G minor, BWV 885
Brad Mehldau: “After Bach: Ostinato”
Brad Mehldau, piano
(Nonesuch)
Walton: Partita for orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Edward Gardner
(Chandos)
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K. 595
Piotr Anderszewski, piano & director
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
(Warner Classics)
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E flat major (“Romantic”)
Gewandhaus Orchestra, Leipzig/Andris Nelsons
(Deutsche Grammophon)
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