Midday Music, Thursday 6/4/09

11 AM

• Piazzolla/Assad: Milonga per Tre. Salerno-Sonnenberg, Assad, Assad. NSS 07.
• Telemann: Concerto in A minor for recorder, viola da gamba and strings. Pickett, Levy, New London Consort. L'Oiseau-Lyre 433 043.
• Mendelssohn: Piano Quartet No. 3 in B minor, Op. 3 (written when Mendelssohn was 15 years old). Domus Ensemble. Virgin 91183.

12 N

• Traditional American: Where We'll Never Grow Old. Anonymous 4. Harmonia Mundi 907400.
• Chopin: Preludes, Op. 28: Nos. 1-5. Stefan Vladar. Harmonia Mundi 905260.
• Converse: Flivver Ten Million (about the creation and adventures of a Ford motorcar, complete with factory noises and road trip music). Buffalo Phil, Falletta. Naxos 8.559116.
• Dvorak: String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat, Op. 51. Alban Berg Quartet. EMI 57013.

1 PM

• Bermel: Thracian Echoes (2002, inspired by contrastings musics of Bulgaria). Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Rose. BMOP 1008.
• Rachmaninoff: How fair this spot, Op. 21/7, arr. cello and piano. Mischa Maisky, Pavel Gililov. DG 5831.
• Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches. BBC Phil, Gluschenko. Chandos 9321.