Letter V Classical Radio this week

Sampling new recordings, including Mahler from Thierry Fischer and the Utah Symphony, Poulenc and Milhaud from pianist Martha Argerich and friends at the 2014 Lugano Festival, and the Catalyst Quartet’s string arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Goldberg Variations.” 

Sept. 3
10 a.m.-1 p.m. EDT
1400-1700 UTC/GMT
WDCE, University of Richmond
90.1 FM
www.wdce.org

Telemann: “Musique de table” – Book 2:
Overture in D major
Friedemann Immer, trumpet
Ann-Kathrin Brüggemann, oboe
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/
Gottfried von der Goltz
(Harmonia Mundi)

Fauré: Violin Sonata
in A major, Op. 13
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Emanuel Ax, piano
(Deutsche Grammophon)

Brahms: Rhapsody
in G minor, Op. 79, No. 2
Alexander Beridze, piano (NY Classics)

Mahler: Symphony No. 1
Utah Symphony/
Thierry Fischer
(Reference Recordings)

Poulenc: Sonata for piano four-hands
Martha Argerich & Dagmar Clottu, piano four-hands
(Warner Classics)

Milhaud: “La création du monde”
(piano quintet arrangement by Darius Milhaud)
Eduardo Hubert, piano
Dora Schwarzberg & Michael Guttman, violins
Nora Romanoff, viola
Mark Dobrinsky, cello (Warner Classics)

J.S. Bach:
“Goldberg Variations”
(string quartet arrangement by Catalyst Quartet)
Catalyst Quartet (Azica)