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CD Review - Building a Library: Bartok: Violin Concerto No. 2 Sz. 112
With Andrew McGregor. Including at 9.30am Building a Library: Bartok's Violin Concerto No 2. 10.30am New chamber music releases. 11.45am Disc of the Week: Strauss: Four Last Songs.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30am Building a Library: Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. 10.30am Handel Round-Up. 11.15am Christine Schafer. 11.45am Disc: Debussy: Complete works for piano.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Vaughan Williams: Job, A Masque for Dancing
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Vaughan Williams's ballet Job - Masque for Dancing; Vivaldi Concertos; Disc of the Week: Bartok Concertos.
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CD Review - 01/08/2009
With Andrew McGregor. Includes recent releases of Schumann; Colin Matthews on the NMC Songbook; Recent Messiaen releases; Liszt: A Symphony to Dante's Divine Comedy.
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CD Review - 02/08/2008
With Andrew McGregor. Including: Ives: Three Places in New England (Orchestral Set No 1). Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D minor, Op 49. Tarik O'Regan: Scattered Rhymes.
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CD Review - 05/09/2009
Presented by Andrew McGregor. Featuring Peter Breiner's suites from Janacek operas; Stephen Plaistow on Chopin recordings; and vocal music by Handel.
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CD Review - 06/09/2008
Andrew McGregor introduces Summer CD Review with a chance to request and catch up with some of the best new recordings of the past few months
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CD Review - 09/08/2008
With Andrew McGregor. Including Godowsky: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Die Fledermaus. Salieri: De profundis clamavi. Mozart: Symphony No 35 in D. Rameau: Castor et Pollux Suite.
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CD Review - 12/09/2009
With Andrew McGregor. Including Pergolesi and Neapolitan opera arias. New opera releases on DVD from Knussen and Tan Dun. Releases from Lully, Monteverdi, Victoria. Verdi: Requiem.
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CD Review - 13/09/2008
Andrew McGregor introduces a summer edition of the programme. Including music by Beethoven, Goehr, Mahler, Bach, Tippett and Margaret Leng Tan's most recent DVD.
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CD Review - 15/12/2007
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30am Critics' Highlights and Challenge: The CD Review critics choose their favourite recordings of 2007. 11.45am CD Review Listeners' Disc of the Year.
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CD Review - 16/08/2008
With Andrew McGregor. Including Britten: Phantasy Quartet for oboe, violin, viola and cello. Handel releases including Organ Concertos, Water Music and Italian Cantatas.
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CD Review - 19/07/2008
With Andrew McGregor. Including: Mozart: Symphony No 34. Scriabin: Piano Sonata No 2. Bax: Nympholept. Josquin: Missa Pange lingua. Messiaen: Les offrandes oubliees.
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CD Review - 20/12/2008
With Andrew McGregor. Rob Cowan, Hilary Finch and Stephen Johnson choose some of their favourite new recordings of 2008 and Radio 3 listeners set them some Christmas challenges.
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CD Review - 22/08/2009
With Andrew McGregor. Including 17th and 18th-century Italian music; William Mival on recent Szymanowski recordings; New Haydn chamber releases; Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle.
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CD Review - 23/08/2008
With Andrew McGregor. Including Mozart: Concerto in G, K216. Highlights from three new archive DVDs of great pianists: With Chopin: Etudes (selection). Sviatoslav Richter (piano).
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CD Review - 26/07/2008
Andrew McGregor presents some of the best new recordings of early 2008. Including Beethoven: Piano Sonata in A flat, Op 110; and Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 1.
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CD Review - 26/12/2009
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Beethoven: Symphony No 9 (Choral). Recent recordings of music by Handel. Disc of the Week: Haydn: Die Schopfung.
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CD Review - 27/02/2010
With Andrew McGregor. Including at 9.30am: Building a Library: Britten: Violin Concerto. 10.30am Reissue of Paul Tortelier's recordings discussed. 11.40am Disc: Bach Motets.
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CD Review - 29/08/2009
With Andrew McGregor. Includes Handel organ concertos and arias by Vivaldi; Adams: Doctor Atomic Symphony; Mahler: Symphony No 7; Opera recordings; Beethoven: Sonata in F.
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CD Review - 29/11/2008
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Sibelius: Symphony No 6. Chamber music, including Grieg and Alkan cello sonatas. Disc of the Week: Strauss: Salome.
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CD Review - 30/08/2008
Andrew McGregor introduces some of the best new recordings of the past few months, including works by Debussy, Foerster, Nigel Hess, Franck and Tippett.
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CD Review - 30/10/2010
Andrew McGregor with what's new in the world of classical music recordings including: 9.30am Building a Bach Organ Music collection with Stephen Farr.
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CD Review - Andrew McGregor
With Andrew McGregor. Including Vivaldi, Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe, Gottlieb Muffat's Componimenti Musicali, Mahler and Beethoven's Fidelio, recorded at Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
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CD Review - Annual Critics' Round-Up
With Andrew McGrgeor. Including Critics' Pick of the Year 2010; Disc of the Week: Beethoven: Symphony No 6 (Pastoral). Budapest Festival Chorus/Ivan Fischer.
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CD Review - Bach: Two and three-part Inventions
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Bach's two and three-part Inventions; Mahler's Symphony No 2; Disc of the Week: Haydn's Piano Trio in F sharp minor.
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CD Review - Beethoven: Piano Sonata in E flat, Op 7
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Beethoven: Piano Sonata in E flat, Op 7; Conductor Vasily Petrenko; Disc of the Week - Martinu: Den dobrocinnosti.
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CD Review - Beethoven: Quartet in F minor, Op 95
With Andrew McGregor. Includes 9.30am Building a Library: Beethoven's F minor Quartet. 10.30am Orchestral music issues. 11.45am Disc of the Week: Rossini instrumental music.
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CD Review - Brahms, Britten, Chopin, Dvorak
With Andrew McGregor. Includes Brahms: Symphony No 3; Britten: String Quartet No 2; Chopin: Piano Sonata No 3; Webern: Im Sommerwind; Dvorak: Requiem; Beethoven: Sonata in C, Op 53.
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CD Review - Brahms: String Quartet in C minor, Op 51
CD Review with Andrew McGregor bringing all that's in the world of classical music recordings Building a Library: Brahms String Quartet no 1 in C minor.
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CD Review - Britten: Nocturne
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Britten's Nocturne; Violinist James Ehnes on his 'Homage'; and Disc of the Week: Shostakovich's Symphony No 11.
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CD Review - Building a Library
With Andrew McGregor. 9.03am Smetana: Prague Carnival. 9.30am Building a Library: Bach: The Art of Fugue. 10.45am Beethoven piano works. 11.30am Disc: Sibelius: Violin Concerto.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Bach: Cantata (Eine feste Burg)
With Andrew McGregor. Includes Building a Library: Bach: Cantata (Eine feste Burg). Russian orchestral music releases. Disc of the Week: Szymanowski and Britten violin concertos.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Bach: Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Bach: Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen; Song recital discs; Disc of the Week: Beethoven: Egmont incidental music, Op 84.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Bach: Mass in F BWV 233
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Bach: Mass in F, BWV233; New DVD releases: Britten and Pears; and Disc of the Week: Handel Il Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Bach's Mass in B minor
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Bach's Mass in B minor; The Virtual Haydn; Disc of the Week: Britten String Quartets. Elias Quartet.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Barber's Knoxville Summer of 1915
With Andrew McGregor. Building a Library: Barber's Knoxville Summer of 1915; Recent keyboard releases: CPE Bach and Giustini; Disc of the Week: Vaughan Williams' Sancta Civitas.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin; New versions of Beethoven's violin concerto; and Disc of the Week: Schumann/Heine.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle; Recent discs of Bernstein, Barber, Stravinsky and Lindberg; Disc of the Week: Chopin: Nocturnes.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 4
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Beethoven's Cello Sonata in C. Recent releases of Schumann's Frauenliebe und -leben. Disc of the Week: Bellini: La sonnambula.
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CD Review - Building a Library: BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 17 Op. 31/2, “Tempestâ€
Andrew McGregor introduces CD Review, Radio 3’s weekly programme devoted to all that’s new in the world of recorded music
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CD Review - Building a Library: Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
Special Anniversary Edition: With Andrew McGregor. 9.30am Building a Library: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. 10.35am Listeners' questions. 11.35am Disc: Beethoven: Appassionata Sonata.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Berg: Lyric Suite
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Berg: Lyric Suite; Jordi Savall on the musical and cultural history of Jerusalem; Disc of the Week: Elgar Violin Concerto.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Berlioz's Te Deum
With Andrew McGregor. Building a Library: Berlioz's Te Deum; Recent releases including Gennady Rozhdestvensky; Disc of the Week: Strauss' Rosenkavalier-Suite; Ein Heldenleben.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Biber: ‘Rosary’ or ‘Mystery’ Sonatas
With Andrew McGregor. Including 9.30am Building a Library: Biber's Mystery Sonatas. 10.45am New Releases: Beethoven symphonies. 11.45 Disc of the Week: Handel: Amadigi di Gaula.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Bizet: Symphony in C
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Bizet: Symphony in C; New Releases: Recordings from Glyndebourne/Covent Garden; and Disc of the Week: Martin: Maria-Triptychon.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Borodin: Symphony No. 2
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Borodin: Symphony No 2; New releases: Schumann/Schubert chamber music; Versailles Box Set; Disc of the Week: Sibelius: Kullervo.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Brahms: Die schone Magelone
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Brahms: Die schone Magelone; New early vocal music releases; Disc of the Week: Prokofiev string quartets.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Brahms: Six Pieces for Piano, Op 118
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Brahms: Six Pieces for Piano, Op 118. Semyon Bychkov on new releases. Disc of the Week: Mahler: Symphony No 4.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Andrew McGregor introduces CD Review, Radio 3’s weekly programme devoted to all that’s new in the world of recorded music
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CD Review - Building a Library: Britten: War Requiem
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Britten: War Requiem; New releases of music for solo violin; Disc of the Week: Chopin: Complete Waltzes.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Bruckner: Symphony No 5
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Bruckner: Symphony No 5; Bruce Wood with new Purcell releases; Disc of the Week: Songs by Schubert, Wolf, Faure and Ravel.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Carissimi's Jephtha
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Carissimi's Jeptha; New Releases of Russian Music - Shostakovich and Prokofiev; Disc of the Week: Shostakovich: Preludes and Fugues.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2
Including a recommended disc of Chopin's Piano Sonata No 2. Plus essential Chopin on disc and the Disc of the Week: Chopin: Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op 52.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Chopin: Sonata in G minor, Op 65
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Chopin: Sonata in G minor for cello and piano; Recent opera releases; Disc of the Week: Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 4.
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CD Review - Building a Library: DEBUSSY: La Mer
With Andrew McGregor. Includes Building a Library: Debussy: La mer; Music from the Borel Manuscript; Italian avant garde music; Disc of the Week: Berg: Marsch (3 Orchestral Pieces).
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CD Review - Building a Library: Debussy: Piano Preludes (Book II)
With Andrew McGregor. Including at 9.30am Building a Library: Debussy: Preludes, Book 2. 10.30am Three new opera DVDs. 11.40am Disc of the Week: Schumann: Symphony No 1 in B flat.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Debussy's Suite Bergamasque
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Debussy's Suite Bergamasque; conductor Carlo Maria Giulini; Disc of the Week: Stravinsky's Complete violin and piano works.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Delibes' Coppelia
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Delibes' Coppelia; Recent releases of Romantic orchestral works; Disc of the Week: Beethoven violin sonatas.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Andrew McGregor introduces CD Review, Radio 3’s weekly programme devoted to all that’s new in the world of recorded music
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CD Review - Building a Library: Dvorak: New World Symphony
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Dvorak: New World Symphony. Recent chamber music, including Janacek and Brahms. Disc of the Week: Handel: Cantatas Volume 5.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Dvorak's Slavonic Dances, Op 46
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30am Building a Library: Dvorak's Slavonic Dances, Op 46. 10.45am Cliff Eisen on Mozart's opera Idomeneo. 11.50am Disc of the Week: Bach Violin Concertos.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Falla's El amor brujo
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Falla's El amor brujo; Medieval French music; Disc of the Week: Szymanowski's Complete violin and piano works.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Franck: Trois chorals for organ
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Franck: Trois chorals for organ; New Releases: Gunter Wand conducting the DSO; Disc of the Week: Handel: Olinto pastore.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Gluck: Iphigenie en Tauride
With Andrew McGregor. Including at 9.30am Building a Library: Gluck: Iphigenie en Tauride. 10.15am New violin concerto releases. 11.45am Disc of the Week: Mahler: Symphony No 8.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Handel: Dixit Dominus
With Andrew McGregor. Includes Building a Library: Handel: Dixit Dominus; James Jolly on Purcell, Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn; Disc of the Week: Brahms: Piano Quartet No 3.
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CD Review - Building a Library: HANDEL: Messiah
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Berta Joncus on Handel's Messiah. New lute music releases. Disc of the Week: Lukaszewski: Via crucis.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Handel: Water Music
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Handel: Water Music. Recent piano releases, including Schubert. Disc of the Week: Elizabeth Maconchy: The Sofa; The Departure.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Handel's Acis and Galatea
With Andrew McGregor. Building a Library: Handel's Acis and Galatea; new concerto and orchestral discs of Mozart; Disc of the Week: Piotr Anderszewski at Carnegie Hall.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Haydn: Piano Sonata No.60
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Haydn: Piano Sonata in C, H XVI 50. Plus Late Romantic orchestral music and Disc of the Week.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Haydn: String Quartet, Op 77 No 2
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Haydn's String Quartet, Op 77, No 2; Music written during the Holocaust; Disc of the Week: Schubert's Symphonies Nos 8 and 9.
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CD Review - Building a Library: HAYDN: Symphony No. 104 ‘London’
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Haydn's London Symphony; The Endellion String Quartet on recording Beethoven; Disc of the Week: Colin Matthews' Horn Concerto.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Haydn: The Seasons
With Andrew McGregor. Including 9.30am Building a Library: Haydn's The Seasons. 10.40am New Releases: Recordings of Philip Glass. 11.30am Disc of the Week: Bach: Secular Cantatas.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Haydn: Theresienmesse
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30am Building a Library: Haydn's Theresienmesse. 10.15am JPE Harper-Scott looks at recent releases of Elgar's music. 11.45am Disc: Scriabin: Sonata No 5.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Haydn's Surprise Symphony
With Andrew McGregor. Includes Building a Library: Haydn's Surprise Symphony; Historic European organ recordings; Disc of the Week: Janacek's The Makropulos Affair Suite.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Honegger - Symphony No 3
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Honegger - Symphony No 3; Stephen Plaistow on Schumann's less well-known piano works; Disc of the Week: Verdi - Requiem.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Howells: Requiem
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Herbert Howells's Requiem; Recent organ music releases; and Disc of the Week: Schumann: Violin Sonata No 2 in D minor.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Hugo Wolf - Morike Lieder
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Hugo Wolf - Morike Lieder; pianist Louis Lortie on his Beethoven sonata series; Disc of the Week: Bellini - I Puritani.
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CD Review - Building a Library: J S Bach: Partitas for Solo Violin
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Bach's partitas for solo violin; New chamber recordings - Brahms; Disc of the Week: Mahler: Symphony No 5.
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CD Review - Building a Library: John Ireland: Piano Concerto
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: John Ireland: Piano Concerto; Recent Haydn discs, including a new Creation; Disc of the Week: Debussy: Khamma (piano version).
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CD Review - Building a Library: Josquin: Missa Pange Lingua
With Andrew McGregor. Including 9.30am Building a Library: Josquin's Missa Pange Lingua. 10.30am Interview: Pianist Paul Lewis 11.30am Disc of the Week: Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Liszt's Transcendental Studies
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Liszt: Transcendental Studies. Herve Nicquet recordings, including Charpentier. Disc of the Week: Kurtag: Ghosts.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra; Recent DVDs of Rossini operas; Disc of the Week: Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde; Recent Baroque discs, including Pergolesi; Disc of the Week: Rachmaninov: Sonata No 1 in D minor.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Mahler - Ruckert-Lieder
With Andrew McGregor. Building a Library - Mahler: Ruckert-Lieder; conductor Paul Hillier on recording Weill; Disc of the Week: Debussy: Le martyre de Saint Sebastien; Khamma.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Mahler: Symphony No.3
With Andrew McGregor. Including at 9.30am Building a Library: Mahler: Symphony No 3. 11.15am Interview: Cecilia Bartoli. 11.45am Disc of the Week: Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No 2.
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CD Review - Building a Library: MARTINU: Symphony No. 6
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30am Building a Library: Martinu's Symphony No 6. 10.30am Beethoven: Diabelli Variations. 11.45am Disc of the Week: Platti's Concerti grossi after Corelli.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Martinu's Symphony No 4
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Martinu's Symphony No 4. DVD releases of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. Disc of the Week: Schnittke's Viola Concerto.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Mendelssohn: Lobgesang
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Mendelssohn's Choral Symphony No 2; Beethoven Piano Concertos; Disc of the Week: Charpentier's Missa Assumpta est Maria.
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CD Review - Building a Library: MENDELSSOHN: Quartet No 6 in F minor
Andrew McGregor with the programme devoted to all that's new in the world of recorded music. Building a Library features Mendelssohn's String Quartet in F minor.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Mendelssohn's Symphony No 3 in A minor (Scottish)
With Andrew McGregor. Includes Building a Library: Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3; John Eliot Gardiner on the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage; Disc of the Week: Gubaidulina: In tempus praesens.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Messiaen: La Nativité du Seigneur
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Messiaen: La Nativite du Seigneur; Handel vocal recordings; Disc of the Week: Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1, 5.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Monteverdi: 8th Book of Madrigals
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Monteverdi's Eighth Book of Madrigals. Recent James MacMillan releases. Disc of the Week: Schumann's Heine Lieder.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Monteverdi: L’Orfeo
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30am Building a Library: Monteverdi's Orfeo. 10.15am New Releases: With Jonathan Swain. 11.45am Disc of the Week: Janacek: String Quartet No 1.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Monteverdi Vespers of 1610
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Monteverdi Vespers of 1610; Conductor Riccardo Chailly; Brahms Variations for piano; Disc of the Week: Bach: Cantata No 61.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Mozart Sinfonia Concertante K. 364
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30am Building a Library: Mozart's Sinfonia concertante. 10.45am Recent choral releases. 11.15am Cellist Natalie Clein. 11.45am Disc: Liszt: Tone Poems.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Mozart: String Quartet No. 19 in C K465, “Dissonanceâ€
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Mozart's Quartet in C, K465; New Piano Recordings: Debussy and Dukas; and Disc of the Week: Bach: Magnificat.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Mozart: String Quartet No. 23 in F K590
With Andrew McGregor. Including 9.30am Building a Library: Mozart String Quartet, K590. 10.30am Issues of historic recordings. 11.55am Disc of the Week: Bizet: Jeux d'enfants.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Mozart's Gran Partita
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Mozart's Gran Partita; New Wagner releases - Lohengrin and the Ring cycle; Disc of the Week: Albinoni's Sinfonie a cinque.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Mozart's String Quartet in D minor, K421
With Andrew McGregor. Building a Library: Mozart's String Quartet in D minor, K421; Recent recordings of music for Holy Week; Disc of the Week: Schubert's Die schone Mullerin.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov; Simon Heighes on music from Handel's near contemporaries; Disc of the Week: Mozart: Die Zauberflote.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Pelleas und Melisande
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande. Simon Heighes on recent Bach recordings. Disc of the Week: Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, K364.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Pergolesi's Stabat Mater
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Pergolesi's Stabat Mater. A new Sviatoslav Richter release. Disc of the Week: Pergolesi's Saint Emidius Mass.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Poulenc: Gloria
With Andrew McGregor. Including: 9.30am Building a Library: Poulenc: Gloria. 10.30am New Czech music releases. 11.45am Disc of the Week: Robert White: Lamentations a 5.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet; Recent piano concerto recordings, including Schumann and Brahms; Disc of the Week: Mahler's Lieder.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Puccini: La Bohème
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: La boheme on CD/DVD; New Releases: New discs of violin with orchestra; Disc of the Week: Beethoven Symphonies.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Purcell: Dido and Aeneas. Recent cello releases, plus Disc of the Week: Ravel: L'Enfant et les sortileges (excerpts).
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CD Review - Building a Library: R Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra Op. 30
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra. Disc of the Week: Mozart: Piano Concerto in F, K459.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Rachmaninov: Etudes Tableaux Op. 39
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Rachmaninov: Etudes-Tableaux, Op 39; Herbert von Karajan on Disc; 11.45 Disc of the Week: Martinu: Violin Concerto No 2.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1
With Andrew McGregor. Includes Building a Library: Rachmaninov: Symphony No 1. Recent recordings: Chopin from Pollini and Demidenko. Disc of the Week: Bizet: Carmen.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Rachmaninov's The Isle of the Dead
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Rachmaninov's The Isle of the Dead; Disc of the Week: Bach's Magnificat, BWV243.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
With Andrew McGregor. Including 9.30am Building a Library: Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin. 10.30am Recent releases of piano concertos. 11.30am Disc of the Week: Bizet: L'Arlesienne.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Ravel: Piano Trio
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Ravel: Piano Trio; The latest Christmas-themed releases; Disc of the Week: Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (with Jonathan Lemalu).
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CD Review - Building a Library: Ravel: Sheherazade
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30am Building a Library: Ravel's Sheherazade. 10.35am Jonathan Freeman-Attwood on Bach cantatas. 11.35am Disc: Bach: Der Zufriedengestellte Aeolus.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Rebel's Les elemens
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Rebel's Les elemens; Valery Gergiev on Shostakovich's The Nose; Disc of the Week: John Eccles' The Judgement of Paris.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Respighi: Pines of Rome
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library at 9.30am: David Huckvale looks at recordings of Respighi's Pines of Rome. Disc of the Week at 11.45am: Bruckner's Symphony No 4.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30am Building a Library. Strauss: Metamorphosen. 10.30am Recent recordings of music by Domenico Scarlatti. 11.45am Disc: Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3, Op. 78, “Organâ€
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30am Building a Library: Saint-Saens: Organ Symphony. 10.30am Buxtehude Round-Up. 11.50am Disc: Bellini: La sonnambula.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Schoenberg: Five Pieces for orchestra
With Andrew McGregor. Building a Library: Schoenberg: Five Pieces for orchestra, Op 16; Nikolaj Znaider on Elgar's Violin Concerto, Op 61; Disc of the Week: Elgar: Violin Concerto.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Schubert: String Quartet (Rosamunde)
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Schubert: Rosamunde Quartet; Session Report: Jan-Efflam Bavouzet in Debussy; Disc of the Week: Britten: Les Illuminations.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Schubert: String Quintet D956
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30am Building a Library: Schubert's String Quintet in C. 10.15am Recent releases of contemporary music. 11.45am Disc: Berlioz: L'enfance du Christ.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Schubert's Sonata in C (Grand Duo)
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Schubert: Sonata in C (Grand Duo); Sacred choral music from British cathedral choirs; Disc of the Week: Strauss: Alpine Symphony.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Schumann Das Paradies und die Peri; Reissues of Pierre Fournier and Leopold Stokowski; Disc of the Week: Bartok Piano Concertos.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Schumann: Dichterliebe
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Schumann's Dichterliebe; Music for wind bands by Bohemian contemporaries of Mozart; Disc of the Week: Bach, Brahms and Britten.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Schumann: Piano Concerto
With Andrew McGregor. Building a Library: Schumann: Piano Concerto; Rob Cowan on recent Dvorak symphony recordings; Disc of the Week: Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Schumann: Piano Quintet Op. 44
With Andrew McGregor. Including 9.30am Building a Library: Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat. 10.45am New Releases: EMI stereo reissues. 11.30am Disc: Beethoven: 6 Bagatelles.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Schumann's Kerner-Lieder
With Andrew McGregor. Building a Library: Schumann's Kerner-Lieder. Dame Nellie Melba: The London recordings of 1904. Disc of the Week: Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Schutz's Musikalische Exequien
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Schutz's Musikalische Exequien; Vladimir Horowitz's recordings; Disc of the Week: Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Scriabin: Le Poème de l’extase
With Andrew McGregor. Including at 9.30am Building a Library: Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy. 10.45am Baroque violin and cello repertoire. 11.30am Disc of the Week: Haydn: The Creation.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Shostakovich: Symphony No 15
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Shostakovich: Symphony No 15. Conductor Stephen Layton on Handel's Messiah. Disc of the Week: Schubert: Winterreise.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13, “Babi Yarâ€
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Shostakovich's Symphony No 1; New Mahler Releases; and Disc of the Week: Sibelius/Schoenberg Violin Concertos.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Sibelius: Violin Concerto
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Sibelius: Violin Concerto. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra radio recordings. Disc of the Week: Tchaikovsky Songs.
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CD Review - Building a Library - Strauss: Alpine Symphony
With Andrew McGregor. Building a Library - Strauss: Alpine Symphony; A Library of Early English Music; Recent Chamber Music; Disc of the Week - Vivaldi: Ercole sul'Termodonte.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
With Andrew McGregor. Including at 9.30am Building a Library: Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring. 10.30am Bach cantata cycles. 11.30am Disc of the Week: Mozart: Symphonies 38-41.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Stravinsky's Symphony in C
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Stravinsky's Symphony in C; Early keyboard music; Disc of the Week: Beethoven's Complete Works for violin and orchestra.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Stravinsky's The Fairy's Kiss
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Stravinsky: The Fairy's Kiss; Recent Handel discs; Recent Stravinsky recordings; Disc of the Week: Wagner: Gotterdammerung.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini; Pianist Alexander Melnikov; Disc of the Week: Songs by Britten, Finzi and Delius.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio, Op 50
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio, Op 50; Andreas Scholl on his new Purcell CD; Disc of the Week - Schumann: Humoreske in B flat, Op 20.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Tchaikovsky's The Seasons
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Tchaikovsky's The Seasons; New Releases: Recent Bach discs; Disc of the Week: Alfred Brendel: The Farewell Concerts.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Tippett: Concerto for Double String Orchestra
With Andrew McGregor. Includes Building a Library: Tippett: Concerto for Double String Orchestra; DVD releases: Mozart, Beethoven and Bruckner; Disc of the Week: Don Giovanni.
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CD Review - Building a Library Update: Beethoven violin sonatas
With Andrew McGregor. Building a Library Update: Beethoven violin sonatas; Baroque Focus - Bach, Telemann and German contemporaries; Disc of the Week: Szymanowski: Symphony No 3.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6
With Andrew McGregor. Including 9.30am Building a Library: Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 6. 10.30am The Essential Tallis. 11.30am Disc of the Week: Hamelin: In a State of Jazz.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Vivaldi: Stabat Mater RV 621
With Andrew McGregor. Including 9.30am Building a Library: Vivaldi's Stabat Mater versions. 10.00am Downloads. 11.45am Disc of the Week: Janacek's The Excursions of Mr Broucek.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Wagner: Das Rheingold
With Andrew McGregor. Including 9.30am Building a Library: Wagner: Das Rheingold. 10.30am LPO reissues. 11.15am Interview: Jean-Guihen Queyras. 11.45am Disc: Albeniz: Iberia.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
With Andrew McGregor. Including 9.30am Building a Library: Wagner: Ring Cycle DVD versions. 10.35am Harmonia Mundi at 50. 11.35am Disc of the Week: Mozart: The Last Concerts.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Wagner: Die Walküre
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30am Building a Library: Wagner's Die Walkure. 10.30am Helen Wallace looks at some of the latest releases. 11.35am Disc: Bloch: Piano Quintet No 2.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Wagner: Götterdammerung
With Andrew McGregor. Including 9.30am Building a Library: Wagner: Gotterdammerung. 10.40am Bach: B Minor Mass. 11.35am Disc: Goebbels: Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Wagner: Siegfried
With Andrew McGregor. Including 9.30am Building a Library: Wagner: Das Rheingold. 10.45am Naxos A-Z of Conductors. 11.15am The music of Judith Weir. 11.45am Disc: Handel: Esther.
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CD Review - Building a Library: Walton: Viola Concerto
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30am Building a Library: Walton's Viola Concerto. 10.15am Recent releases of contemporary music. 11.45am Disc: Schreker: Chamber Symphony (1916).
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CD Review - Cantemir: The Book of the Science of Music (excerpts)
With Andrew McGregor. Including Cantemir: The Book of the Science of Music (excerpts); Bach cantatas from Masaaki Suzuki, John Eliot Gardiner: Albeniz: Iberia - Book 1.
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CD Review - Chopin played on pianos of the 1830s and 1840s
With Andrew McGregor. Includes Chopin played on pianos of the 1830s and 1840s; Brahms: German Requiem (excpts); Recent releases of Haydn symphonies; Bach: Partita No 6 in E minor.
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CD Review - Choral Music Recordings/Furtwangler/Player Piano
With Andrew McGregor. Including choral music recordings; Rob Cowan on Furtwangler; music for player piano; Tchaikovksy and Stravinsky recordings; Boismortier: Daphnis et Chloe.
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CD Review - Christmas Special
Andrew McGregor presents a special edition, rounding up new releases from composers celebrating their anniversary in 2010. Including Pergolesi, Barber, Mahler, Schumann and Chopin.
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CD Review - Disc of the Week: Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
With Andrew McGregor. Including at 9.30am Building a Library: Suk: Asrael. 10.30am Tallis Scholars 30 years of recording. 11.30am Disc of the Week: Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique.
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CD Review - Disc of the Week: Thomas Ades
With Andrew McGregor. Including Chopin: Four Scherzos; and Disc of the Week: Thomas Ades: Tevot; Violin Concerto; Three Studies from Couperin; Dances (Powder Her Face).
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CD Review - Discs of the Week: Two versions of Mahler's Symphony No 9
With Andrew McGregor. Including Louis Spohr: Anniversary round-up; New releases of operatic arias - Fleming, Terfel; Discs of the Week: Two versions of Mahler's Symphony No 9.
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CD Review - Dowland: In darkness let me dwell
With Andrew McGregor. Including Dowland: In darkness let me dwell; Osmo Vanska talks about recording Beethoven with the Minnesota Orchestra; Dvorak: Rusalka (excerpts).
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CD Review - Faure: String Quartet
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Faure's String Quartet. New Releases: Telemann's Brockes-Passion. Disc of the Week: Mozart's Violin Sonatas.
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CD Review - Favourite CDs of 2009
Andrew McGregor introduces the programme devoted to all that's new in the world of recorded music. Guests Rob Cowan, Hilary Finch and Simon Heighes pick some favourite CDs of 2009.
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CD Review - Haydn: Piano Trio No 43 in C
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Haydn's Piano Trio No 43 in C. Recent Stravinsky recordings. Disc of the Week: Josquin's Missa Malheur me bat.
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CD Review - Jonathan Dove, Korngold, Bach, Beethoven, Suk
With Andrew McGregor. 9.03am Dove: The Star-Song. 9.30am Korngold: String Quartet No 1 (excpts). 10.00am Bach: Suite No 1, BWV1007 (excpts). 11.45am Suk: Symphony in E (excpts).
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CD Review - Martinu: Piano Trio No 1
With Andrew McGregor. Including Martinu: Piano Trio No 1; Bizet: Carmen (excerpts); recordings of Sviatoslav Richter in Prokofiev and Gershwin; Gretry: Andromaque (excerpts).
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CD Review - Martinu, Purcell, Arensky
With Andrew McGregor. Includes Martinu, Purcell, Arensky; recent song recitals including Ravel; Marin Alsop on Dvorak and Bartok; Vaughan Williams: G minor Mass; Mendelssohn.
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CD Review - Mendelssohn Weekend
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Mendelssohn Octet. New Mendelssohn releases, including the Violin Concerto. Disc of the Weekend: Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos.
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CD Review - Recent releases of Bach, Bruckner and Delius
With Andrew McGregor. Including recent Bach and Bruckner releases, Alexandra Wilson on Giuseppe Martucci and recent recordings of Delius violin sonatas and his Double Concerto.
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CD Review - Recent Releases of Mahler
With Andrew McGregor. Including recent releases of Mahler from Zinman, Norrington, Tennstedt and Fischer; Disc of the Week: Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea. La Venexiana.
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CD Review - Saturday - Andrew McGregor
With Andrew McGregor. Celebrating artists appearing in the BBC Proms 2012 and revisiting favourite recordings.
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CD Review - Saturday - Andrew McGregor
Andrew McGregor reviews recordings featuring artists appearing at the BBC Proms 2010 and revisits favourite recordings of the past 12 months.
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CD Review - Schubert, Rachmaninov, Haydn
Andrew McGregor presents a Listeners' Special. Schubert: Fantasia in C for violin and piano, D934 (excerpts). Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2 (excerpts). Haydn: Piano Sonata No 47.
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CD Review - Schubert: Winterreise
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Schubert: Winterreise; chamber music by Beethoven, Czerny and George Onslow; Disc of the Week: Purcell: Dido and Aeneas.
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CD Review - Sibelius: Symphony No 7
Andrew McGregor introduces CD Review, Radio 3's weekly programme devoted to what's new in the world of recorded music.
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CD Review - Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet; Bach Cantatas/Brandenburg Concertos; Disc of the Week: Sibelius' Suite (Belshazzar's Feast).
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CD Review - Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg. Piano music: Perahia, Rubinstein, Perlmuter. Disc of the Week: Vivaldi: La Fida Ninfa.
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