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Saturday 15th May 2021
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
CPE Bach with Hannah French and Andrew McGregor.
In Building a Library, Hannah French reviews recordings of CPE Bach: Cello Concerto in A, while conductor John Wilson explores a brand new 96-CD set celebrating Andre Previn. 9.30 Building a Library. Hannah French has been listening to recordings of the delightful, elegant A major Cello Concerto by CPE Bach and, in discussion with Andrew, comes up with the must-have recommendation to buy, download or stream. 10.40 Andre Previn became a household name in the '60s and '70s and was a prolific recording artist. Conductor John Wilson has been immersed in a box set compiling all of Previn's EMI and Teldec recordings as both conductor and pianist. He shares his personal highlights in conversation with Andrew. 11.15 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the best releases from the last seven days.
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
CPE Bach with Hannah French and Andrew McGregor.
In Building a Library, Hannah French reviews recordings of CPE Bach: Cello Concerto in A, while conductor John Wilson explores a brand new 96-CD set celebrating Andre Previn. 9.30 Building a Library. Hannah French has been listening to recordings of the delightful, elegant A major Cello Concerto by CPE Bach and, in discussion with Andrew, comes up with the must-have recommendation to buy, download or stream. 10.40 Andre Previn became a household name in the '60s and '70s and was a prolific recording artist. Conductor John Wilson has been immersed in a box set compiling all of Previn's EMI and Teldec recordings as both conductor and pianist. He shares his personal highlights in conversation with Andrew. 11.15 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the best releases from the last seven days.
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Saturday 22nd May 2021
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No 2.
Presented by Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library: Yshani Perinpanayagam chooses her favourite recording of Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No 2, which the composer wrote in 1957 as a gift for his son Maxim to mark his 19th birthday. It is an uncharacteristically exuberant work that Maxim premiered during his graduation at the Moscow Conservatory. Shostakovich intended the concerto to be his last work written for piano, but it is not the heavy farewell that we might expect from the rest of his output. It is also a relatively short and compact work, which ends in a lively dance movement. Although the 2nd Piano Concerto is not considered to be one of Shostakovich's most important works, it has become one of his most popular with audiences. 10.45 Alexandra Coghlan reviews new and recent recordings of choral music. 11.20 Record of the Week: Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No 2.
Presented by Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library: Yshani Perinpanayagam chooses her favourite recording of Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No 2, which the composer wrote in 1957 as a gift for his son Maxim to mark his 19th birthday. It is an uncharacteristically exuberant work that Maxim premiered during his graduation at the Moscow Conservatory. Shostakovich intended the concerto to be his last work written for piano, but it is not the heavy farewell that we might expect from the rest of his output. It is also a relatively short and compact work, which ends in a lively dance movement. Although the 2nd Piano Concerto is not considered to be one of Shostakovich's most important works, it has become one of his most popular with audiences. 10.45 Alexandra Coghlan reviews new and recent recordings of choral music. 11.20 Record of the Week: Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
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RE Stravinsky's "The rite of spring" which I mentioned earlier existed in a version for two pianos that is not often heard or recorded I now have the Hyperion 2018 release on CDA68189, played by Marc-Andre Hamelin and Leif Ove Andsnes. Highly recommended.
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Thanks for the recommendation.
Saturday 29th May 2021
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Bach: Motets.
Presented by Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library: Simon Heighes chooses his favourite version of Bach's Motets, technically challenging works that contain some of the composer's very best music and which can be thrilling in performance by a top-notch group of singers. The St Thomas School in Leipzig where Bach worked kept these pieces in the repertory of its Thomanerchor after the composer's death, performing Singet dem Herrn for Mozart in 1789. His motets are his only vocal works that stayed in the repertoire without interruption between his death in 1750 and the 19th-century Bach Revival. 10.45 Natasha Loges reviews recent recordings of chamber music by Mozart, Piazzolla, Florence Price and songs by Viardot-García, Schumann and Mahler. 11.20 Record of the Week: Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
Saturday 29th May 2021
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Bach: Motets.
Presented by Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library: Simon Heighes chooses his favourite version of Bach's Motets, technically challenging works that contain some of the composer's very best music and which can be thrilling in performance by a top-notch group of singers. The St Thomas School in Leipzig where Bach worked kept these pieces in the repertory of its Thomanerchor after the composer's death, performing Singet dem Herrn for Mozart in 1789. His motets are his only vocal works that stayed in the repertoire without interruption between his death in 1750 and the 19th-century Bach Revival. 10.45 Natasha Loges reviews recent recordings of chamber music by Mozart, Piazzolla, Florence Price and songs by Viardot-García, Schumann and Mahler. 11.20 Record of the Week: Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
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Saturday 12th June 2021
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Orff: Carmina Burana.
Presented by Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library: Jeremy Summerly talks to Andrew about the best recordings of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, composed in 1936 and based on 24 poems from the medieval collection of the same name. The poems cover a wide range of subjects, which are just as topical today as they were in the 13th century: the fickleness of fortune and wealth, the ephemeral nature of life, the joy of the return of spring, and the pleasures and perils of drinking, gluttony, gambling, and lust. Orff said to his publisher `Everything I have written to date, and which you have, unfortunately, printed, can be destroyed. With Carmina Burana, my collected works begin." It became the most famous piece of music composed in Germany at the time. 10.30 Ash Khandekar joins Andrew with new releases of operas by Puccini, Strauss and Weber. 11.15 Record of the Week: Andrew's pick of the best disc from the last seven days.
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Orff: Carmina Burana.
Presented by Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library: Jeremy Summerly talks to Andrew about the best recordings of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, composed in 1936 and based on 24 poems from the medieval collection of the same name. The poems cover a wide range of subjects, which are just as topical today as they were in the 13th century: the fickleness of fortune and wealth, the ephemeral nature of life, the joy of the return of spring, and the pleasures and perils of drinking, gluttony, gambling, and lust. Orff said to his publisher `Everything I have written to date, and which you have, unfortunately, printed, can be destroyed. With Carmina Burana, my collected works begin." It became the most famous piece of music composed in Germany at the time. 10.30 Ash Khandekar joins Andrew with new releases of operas by Puccini, Strauss and Weber. 11.15 Record of the Week: Andrew's pick of the best disc from the last seven days.
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Saturday 19th June 2021
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde.
Andrew McGregor presents. 9.30 Building a Library: Flora Willson chooses her favourite recording of Mahler's orchestral song-cycle Das Lied von der Erde. It is a set of six songs for two voices and orchestra, but is it a song-cycle or a symphony? Mahler certainly intended for Das Lied von der Erde to reflect the world in containing everything, the whole range of human emotions and earthly experience, but the work doesn't easily fall into either the category of song-cycles or truly symphonic works. Mahler drew his texts for Das Lied from a compendium called The Chinese Flute, a translation of Chinese poems by the German poet Hans Bethge. Mahler wrote Das Lied von der Erde in 1908-9 within a year of losing his beloved daughter Maria and receiving the diagnosis of the heart condition that would kill him in 1911. The work begins and ends with two of Mahler's most famous songs: Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde (The Drinking Song of Earth's Sorrows) and Der Abscheid (The Farewell), a hauntingly beautiful, bleak and heartrending farewell to life as the `sun sets behind the mountains". The intervening songs are the introspective; Der Einsame im Herbst (The Lonely One in Autumn) for mezzo, the sprightly Von der Jugend (Of Youth) for tenor, Von der Schönheit (Of Beauty) depicting an innocent scene by a river bank where girls are picking flowers, but are then briefly threatened by the arrival of boys on horseback, and Der Trunkene im Frühling (The Drunkard in Spring). 10.45 Lucy Parham reviews new and recent recordings of piano music. 11.20 Record of the Week. Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde.
Andrew McGregor presents. 9.30 Building a Library: Flora Willson chooses her favourite recording of Mahler's orchestral song-cycle Das Lied von der Erde. It is a set of six songs for two voices and orchestra, but is it a song-cycle or a symphony? Mahler certainly intended for Das Lied von der Erde to reflect the world in containing everything, the whole range of human emotions and earthly experience, but the work doesn't easily fall into either the category of song-cycles or truly symphonic works. Mahler drew his texts for Das Lied from a compendium called The Chinese Flute, a translation of Chinese poems by the German poet Hans Bethge. Mahler wrote Das Lied von der Erde in 1908-9 within a year of losing his beloved daughter Maria and receiving the diagnosis of the heart condition that would kill him in 1911. The work begins and ends with two of Mahler's most famous songs: Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde (The Drinking Song of Earth's Sorrows) and Der Abscheid (The Farewell), a hauntingly beautiful, bleak and heartrending farewell to life as the `sun sets behind the mountains". The intervening songs are the introspective; Der Einsame im Herbst (The Lonely One in Autumn) for mezzo, the sprightly Von der Jugend (Of Youth) for tenor, Von der Schönheit (Of Beauty) depicting an innocent scene by a river bank where girls are picking flowers, but are then briefly threatened by the arrival of boys on horseback, and Der Trunkene im Frühling (The Drunkard in Spring). 10.45 Lucy Parham reviews new and recent recordings of piano music. 11.20 Record of the Week. Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
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Saturday 26th June 2021
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Wind.
Presented by Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library: Iain Burnside chooses his favourite recording of Mozart's Quintet for Piano and Wind, K 452, written in 1784 and premiered at the Imperial and Royal National Court Theater in Vienna. Shortly afterwards, Mozart wrote to his father saying `I myself consider it to be the best thing I have written in my life". It is scored for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon. 10.45 Nigel Simeone reviews new releases of orchestral music by Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Louise Farrenc and Vítezslava Kapralova. 11.20 Record of the Week: Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Wind.
Presented by Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library: Iain Burnside chooses his favourite recording of Mozart's Quintet for Piano and Wind, K 452, written in 1784 and premiered at the Imperial and Royal National Court Theater in Vienna. Shortly afterwards, Mozart wrote to his father saying `I myself consider it to be the best thing I have written in my life". It is scored for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon. 10.45 Nigel Simeone reviews new releases of orchestral music by Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Louise Farrenc and Vítezslava Kapralova. 11.20 Record of the Week: Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
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Saturday 3rd July 2021
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Beethoven: Kreutzer Sonata.
Presented by Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library: Natasha Loges chooses her favourite recording of Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 9, Op. 47 in A major "Kreutzer". 10.45 William Mival joins Andrew to review the new 91-CD box set, Riccardo Muti: The Complete Warner Symphonic Recordings 11.20 Record of the Week: Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Beethoven: Kreutzer Sonata.
Presented by Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library: Natasha Loges chooses her favourite recording of Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 9, Op. 47 in A major "Kreutzer". 10.45 William Mival joins Andrew to review the new 91-CD box set, Riccardo Muti: The Complete Warner Symphonic Recordings 11.20 Record of the Week: Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
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Saturday 10th July 2021
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and Bach Violin Sonatas.
Presented by Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library. Bernstein's exuberant Chichester Psalms was one of the composer's many strong connections with the UK, commissioned for the 1965 Southern Cathedrals Festival at Chichester Cathedral. Edward Seckerson talks to Andrew about the background to the piece, whilst whittling down the available recordings to come up with the finest recording to buy, download or stream. 10.40 Caroline Gill looks at releases of Bach sonatas - both the sonatas and partitas for solo violin and the sonatas for violin and keyboard - including recordings by Amandine Beyer, Petra Müllejans and Leonid Kogan. 11.15 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the best release this week Show less.
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and Bach Violin Sonatas.
Presented by Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library. Bernstein's exuberant Chichester Psalms was one of the composer's many strong connections with the UK, commissioned for the 1965 Southern Cathedrals Festival at Chichester Cathedral. Edward Seckerson talks to Andrew about the background to the piece, whilst whittling down the available recordings to come up with the finest recording to buy, download or stream. 10.40 Caroline Gill looks at releases of Bach sonatas - both the sonatas and partitas for solo violin and the sonatas for violin and keyboard - including recordings by Amandine Beyer, Petra Müllejans and Leonid Kogan. 11.15 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the best release this week Show less.
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Saturday 24th July 2021
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Rachmainov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
Presented by Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library: Marina Frolova-Walker chooses her favourite recording of Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. 10.45 Harpsichordist and choral conductor Joseph McHardy reviews new discs of baroque music with Andrew. 11.20 Record of the Week: Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Rachmainov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
Presented by Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library: Marina Frolova-Walker chooses her favourite recording of Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. 10.45 Harpsichordist and choral conductor Joseph McHardy reviews new discs of baroque music with Andrew. 11.20 Record of the Week: Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
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Saturday 31st July 2021
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Poulenc with Jeremy Sams.
Andrew McGregor with a selection of the best new classical releases. 9.30 Proms Composer: Poulenc - Jeremy Sams chooses five indispensable recordings by Poulenc and explains why listeners need to hear them. 11.25 Record of the Week: Bruckner's Adagio from Symphony No 6 in A. BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor).
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Poulenc with Jeremy Sams.
Andrew McGregor with a selection of the best new classical releases. 9.30 Proms Composer: Poulenc - Jeremy Sams chooses five indispensable recordings by Poulenc and explains why listeners need to hear them. 11.25 Record of the Week: Bruckner's Adagio from Symphony No 6 in A. BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor).
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Saturday 7th August 2021
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
BBC Proms Composer - Felix Mendelssohn.
Presented by Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Proms Composer: Felix Mendelssohn. Katy Hamilton chooses five indispensable recordings of BBC Proms Composer Mendelssohn and explains they need to be heard. 11.25 Record of the Week. Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem. City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla (conductor).
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
BBC Proms Composer - Felix Mendelssohn.
Presented by Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Proms Composer: Felix Mendelssohn. Katy Hamilton chooses five indispensable recordings of BBC Proms Composer Mendelssohn and explains they need to be heard. 11.25 Record of the Week. Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem. City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla (conductor).
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Saturday 14th August 2021 (starting in 2 hours and 3 minutes)
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
BBC Proms Composer - Mozart with Natasha Loges.
Andrew McGregor presents a selection of the best new classical releases. 9.30 Proms Composer: Mozart Natasha Loges chooses five indispensable recordings of pieces by Mozart and explains why they should be heard. 11.25 Record of the Week. Strauss: Alpine Symphony. Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor).
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
BBC Proms Composer - Mozart with Natasha Loges.
Andrew McGregor presents a selection of the best new classical releases. 9.30 Proms Composer: Mozart Natasha Loges chooses five indispensable recordings of pieces by Mozart and explains why they should be heard. 11.25 Record of the Week. Strauss: Alpine Symphony. Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor).
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Saturday 25th September 2021
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals.
Andrew McGregor presents. 9.30 Building a Library: Sarah Devonald chooses her favourite recording of Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals. It is a glorious romp in 14 movements for two pianos and chamber ensemble and is among the composer's most popular works, ncluding well-known movements like Elephants, Fossils and the Swan. 10.45 Flora Willson reviews recent releases of vocal music. 11.20 Record of the Week: Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals.
Andrew McGregor presents. 9.30 Building a Library: Sarah Devonald chooses her favourite recording of Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals. It is a glorious romp in 14 movements for two pianos and chamber ensemble and is among the composer's most popular works, ncluding well-known movements like Elephants, Fossils and the Swan. 10.45 Flora Willson reviews recent releases of vocal music. 11.20 Record of the Week: Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
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Saturday 2nd October 2021
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Bach: Coffee Cantata, with Simon Heighes.
Andrew McGregor presents. 9.30 Building a Library: Simon Heighes compares recordings of Bach's Coffee Cantata and chooses his favourite. Among Bach's secular cantatas, Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht is perhaps the most famous and frequently recorded. Probably composed in 1734 for a performance at Leipzig's Zimmermann Coffee House with the student group collegium musicum, the comic cantata satirises the Saxon obsession with coffee, depicting a family dispute between father and daughter Schlendrian and Liesgen, who are at odds about the benefits of the drink. 10.45 Laura Tunbridge reviews recent chamber music releases, including the latest albums from the Chiaroscuro, Escher and Ebène quartets. 11.20 Record of the Week. Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Bach: Coffee Cantata, with Simon Heighes.
Andrew McGregor presents. 9.30 Building a Library: Simon Heighes compares recordings of Bach's Coffee Cantata and chooses his favourite. Among Bach's secular cantatas, Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht is perhaps the most famous and frequently recorded. Probably composed in 1734 for a performance at Leipzig's Zimmermann Coffee House with the student group collegium musicum, the comic cantata satirises the Saxon obsession with coffee, depicting a family dispute between father and daughter Schlendrian and Liesgen, who are at odds about the benefits of the drink. 10.45 Laura Tunbridge reviews recent chamber music releases, including the latest albums from the Chiaroscuro, Escher and Ebène quartets. 11.20 Record of the Week. Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
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Saturday 9th October 2021
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Lehar: The Merry Widow with Nigel Simeone and Andrew McGregor.
Presented by Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library. Nigel Simeone chooses his favourite recording of Lehar's The Merry Widow. 10.45 Emily MacGregor reviews recent releases of 20th-century orchestral music. 11.20 Record of the Week. Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Lehar: The Merry Widow with Nigel Simeone and Andrew McGregor.
Presented by Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library. Nigel Simeone chooses his favourite recording of Lehar's The Merry Widow. 10.45 Emily MacGregor reviews recent releases of 20th-century orchestral music. 11.20 Record of the Week. Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
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Saturday 16th October 2021
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Richard Wigmore joins Andrew McGregor to find the must-have recording of Haydn's dramatic Missa in tempore belli, his Mass in Time of War; while Jeremy Summerly brings new releases of works by Josquin, Gesualdo and Jacob Regnart. 9.30 Building a Library. Haydn's Mass in Time of War is sometimes known as his Paukenmesse because of his prominent use of timpani for dramatic effect. It's one of the best known of his fourteen mass settings, and has been lucky on record. Richard Wigmore talks to Andrew about the work and about the very different approaches performers have brought to it, and settles on the ultimate recording to buy, download or stream. 10.30 Conductor and producer Jeremy Summerly has been listening to five new releases of early vocal music, from ear-teasing madrigals by Carlo Gesualdo to a beautiful, little-known mass setting by the Flemish renaissance composer Jacob Regnart. 11.15 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the best release of the last seven days.
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Richard Wigmore joins Andrew McGregor to find the must-have recording of Haydn's dramatic Missa in tempore belli, his Mass in Time of War; while Jeremy Summerly brings new releases of works by Josquin, Gesualdo and Jacob Regnart. 9.30 Building a Library. Haydn's Mass in Time of War is sometimes known as his Paukenmesse because of his prominent use of timpani for dramatic effect. It's one of the best known of his fourteen mass settings, and has been lucky on record. Richard Wigmore talks to Andrew about the work and about the very different approaches performers have brought to it, and settles on the ultimate recording to buy, download or stream. 10.30 Conductor and producer Jeremy Summerly has been listening to five new releases of early vocal music, from ear-teasing madrigals by Carlo Gesualdo to a beautiful, little-known mass setting by the Flemish renaissance composer Jacob Regnart. 11.15 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the best release of the last seven days.
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Saturday 23rd October 2021
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Mendelssohn: Octet.
Andrew McGregor presents. 9.30 Building a Library: Katy Hamilton compares recordings of Mendelssohn's Octet for strings in E flat and chooses her favourite. There has never been a more prodigiously talented child composer than Felix Mendelssohn and proof of that is his octet, which was written in 1825 when he was 16, 10.45 New orchestral releases. 11.20 Record of the Week: Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Mendelssohn: Octet.
Andrew McGregor presents. 9.30 Building a Library: Katy Hamilton compares recordings of Mendelssohn's Octet for strings in E flat and chooses her favourite. There has never been a more prodigiously talented child composer than Felix Mendelssohn and proof of that is his octet, which was written in 1825 when he was 16, 10.45 New orchestral releases. 11.20 Record of the Week: Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
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Saturday 30th October 2021
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Elgar: Violin Concerto.
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library David Owen Norris chooses his favourite recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto in B minor, which was composed for violinist Fritz Kreisler, who gave the premiere in London in 1910, while Elgar made a recording with a young Yehudi Menuhin in 1932 that has become a classic. 10.45 Natasha Loges reviews a recording of the complete songs of Schumann by baritone Christian Gerhaher and pianist Gerold Huber. 11.20 Record of the Week. Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Elgar: Violin Concerto.
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library David Owen Norris chooses his favourite recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto in B minor, which was composed for violinist Fritz Kreisler, who gave the premiere in London in 1910, while Elgar made a recording with a young Yehudi Menuhin in 1932 that has become a classic. 10.45 Natasha Loges reviews a recording of the complete songs of Schumann by baritone Christian Gerhaher and pianist Gerold Huber. 11.20 Record of the Week. Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
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Saturday 6th November 2021
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
With Hannah French and Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library. Hannah French surveys the key works works and recordings of Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka and chooses her favourite. Zelenka was born in Central Bohemia in 1679 and, after his musical education in Prague and Vienna, he spent most of his professional life in Dresden. Much admired by Bach for the harmonic inventiveness of his counterpoint, and friends with Telemann, Pisendel and Weiss, Zelenka was considered one of the giants of the Baroque era. Zelenka's music is also inspired by Czech folk music and it was Smetana who is credited with rediscovering the music of his forebear during the 19th century. 10.45 Joanna McGregor reviews new discs of piano music with Andrew. 11.20 Record of the Week. Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
With Hannah French and Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library. Hannah French surveys the key works works and recordings of Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka and chooses her favourite. Zelenka was born in Central Bohemia in 1679 and, after his musical education in Prague and Vienna, he spent most of his professional life in Dresden. Much admired by Bach for the harmonic inventiveness of his counterpoint, and friends with Telemann, Pisendel and Weiss, Zelenka was considered one of the giants of the Baroque era. Zelenka's music is also inspired by Czech folk music and it was Smetana who is credited with rediscovering the music of his forebear during the 19th century. 10.45 Joanna McGregor reviews new discs of piano music with Andrew. 11.20 Record of the Week. Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
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Saturday 13th November 2021
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Richard Strauss's An Alpine Symphony.
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library: Mark Simpson compares recordings of Richard Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie and chooses his favourite. The epic Alpine Symphony is Strauss's vivid evocation of the thrills and spills of a day out in his beloved Bavarian Alps, including dangerous moments and a glacier on the way up to a spectacular view from the summit. On the way down there's a violent thunderstorm and at the end, as the sun sets and night falls, the deep, emotional satisfaction of having completed an arduous and exhausting journey. The 1915 tone poem thrillingly tests an orchestra, at once collectively, its individual sections and its principal players. And it also tests a conductor who has to convincingly marshal a score calling for 130-plus musicians including 34 brass players (with 12 offstage horns) and a percussion section stocked with, among other things, wind machine, thunder machine and cowbells. Spare a thought, too, for the recording engineers. 10.40 Sarah Devonald reviews a box set of newly-released live radio recordings made in the late 1990s and early 2000s by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe conducted by Nickolaus Harnoncourt, including symphonies by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms. 11.20 Record of the Week: Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Richard Strauss's An Alpine Symphony.
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library: Mark Simpson compares recordings of Richard Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie and chooses his favourite. The epic Alpine Symphony is Strauss's vivid evocation of the thrills and spills of a day out in his beloved Bavarian Alps, including dangerous moments and a glacier on the way up to a spectacular view from the summit. On the way down there's a violent thunderstorm and at the end, as the sun sets and night falls, the deep, emotional satisfaction of having completed an arduous and exhausting journey. The 1915 tone poem thrillingly tests an orchestra, at once collectively, its individual sections and its principal players. And it also tests a conductor who has to convincingly marshal a score calling for 130-plus musicians including 34 brass players (with 12 offstage horns) and a percussion section stocked with, among other things, wind machine, thunder machine and cowbells. Spare a thought, too, for the recording engineers. 10.40 Sarah Devonald reviews a box set of newly-released live radio recordings made in the late 1990s and early 2000s by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe conducted by Nickolaus Harnoncourt, including symphonies by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms. 11.20 Record of the Week: Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
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Saturday 20th November 2021
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Mozart's Divertimento in E Flat.
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library: Roger Parker talks about the wide range of approaches to one Mozart's Divertimento in E flat, K 563, from classic recordings from the 1960s and '70s to young ensembles' recent additions to the catalogue. 10.40 Caroline Gill reviews recordings of string quartet recordings by Mendelssohn and Schubert, and two of Kormgold's rarely heard works. 11.15 Record of the Week: Andrew picks the best new release of the last seven days.
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Mozart's Divertimento in E Flat.
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library: Roger Parker talks about the wide range of approaches to one Mozart's Divertimento in E flat, K 563, from classic recordings from the 1960s and '70s to young ensembles' recent additions to the catalogue. 10.40 Caroline Gill reviews recordings of string quartet recordings by Mendelssohn and Schubert, and two of Kormgold's rarely heard works. 11.15 Record of the Week: Andrew picks the best new release of the last seven days.
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Saturday 27th November 2021
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Brahms: String Quintet No 1 in F.
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library: Natasha Loges compares recordings of Brahms' String Quintet No 1 in F, Op 88, and chooses her favourite. Brahms composed the piece in 1882 during a summer sojourn in the Austrian spa town of Bad Ischl. Like the Mozart string quintets, it is written for two violins, two violas and one cello and Brahms intimated to his friend Clara Schumann that it is one of his finest works. The quintet comprises three movements, with a glowing allegro non troppo ma con brio and an exuberant fugal finale bookending an expansive and passionate slow movement. 10.45 Yshani Perinpanayagam reviews new discs of 20-century music with Andrew. 11.20 Record of the Week: Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Brahms: String Quintet No 1 in F.
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library: Natasha Loges compares recordings of Brahms' String Quintet No 1 in F, Op 88, and chooses her favourite. Brahms composed the piece in 1882 during a summer sojourn in the Austrian spa town of Bad Ischl. Like the Mozart string quintets, it is written for two violins, two violas and one cello and Brahms intimated to his friend Clara Schumann that it is one of his finest works. The quintet comprises three movements, with a glowing allegro non troppo ma con brio and an exuberant fugal finale bookending an expansive and passionate slow movement. 10.45 Yshani Perinpanayagam reviews new discs of 20-century music with Andrew. 11.20 Record of the Week: Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
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Saturday 4th December 2021
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Heinrich Schütz.
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library: Henrich Schütz is one of the most important composers before the time of Bach, but with more than 500 surviving works and despite his pivotal position as the first German composer to to achieve international fame and repute, he is perhaps still not as well known as he should be. Kirsten Gibson surveys recorded collections of the 17th-century composer and recommends the best one for anyone unfamiliar with his music. 10.40 Camille Saint-Saëns's long and prolific life came to an end in Algiers 100 years ago. A 34-CD box set of his works has been released to mark the centenary and Francophile Jeremy Sams has spent the last month sifting through it. 11.25 Record of the Week: Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Heinrich Schütz.
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library: Henrich Schütz is one of the most important composers before the time of Bach, but with more than 500 surviving works and despite his pivotal position as the first German composer to to achieve international fame and repute, he is perhaps still not as well known as he should be. Kirsten Gibson surveys recorded collections of the 17th-century composer and recommends the best one for anyone unfamiliar with his music. 10.40 Camille Saint-Saëns's long and prolific life came to an end in Algiers 100 years ago. A 34-CD box set of his works has been released to mark the centenary and Francophile Jeremy Sams has spent the last month sifting through it. 11.25 Record of the Week: Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
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Saturday 11th December 2021
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Shostakovich: Leningrad Symphony.
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library. Edward Seckerson explores recordings of Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony. Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No 7 in C was at first dedicated to Lenin, but eventually the composer dedicated it to the besieged city of Leningrad, where it was first played in 1942, during the siege by German forces. It soon became popular in both the Soviet Union and the West as a symbol of resistance to fascism and totalitarianism. The work is still regarded as an important musical testament to the 27 million Soviet people who lost their lives in the Second World War. 10.40. Anna Picard talks to Andrew about recent recordings of vocal music ncluding pieces by Berlioz, Canteloube and Britten. 11.25 Record of the Week. Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Shostakovich: Leningrad Symphony.
With Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library. Edward Seckerson explores recordings of Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony. Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No 7 in C was at first dedicated to Lenin, but eventually the composer dedicated it to the besieged city of Leningrad, where it was first played in 1942, during the siege by German forces. It soon became popular in both the Soviet Union and the West as a symbol of resistance to fascism and totalitarianism. The work is still regarded as an important musical testament to the 27 million Soviet people who lost their lives in the Second World War. 10.40. Anna Picard talks to Andrew about recent recordings of vocal music ncluding pieces by Berlioz, Canteloube and Britten. 11.25 Record of the Week. Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
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Saturday 8th January 2022
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony.
Presented by Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Marina Frolova-Walker recommends a version of Prokofiev: Symphony No 5 in B flat in Building a Library. The composer wrote it in just a month in the summer of 1944 during the Second World War, and intended it as `a hymn to free and happy man, to his mighty powers, his pure and noble spirit." The 1945 premiere was conducted by Prokofiev himself and the symphony has remained one of the composer's most popular works. 10.40 Roger Parker talks to Andrew about new opera recordings, including Rameau's Platee, Verdi's Macbeth and Puccini's Madam Butterfly. 11.25 Record of the Week: Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
Time: 09:00 to 11:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony.
Presented by Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Marina Frolova-Walker recommends a version of Prokofiev: Symphony No 5 in B flat in Building a Library. The composer wrote it in just a month in the summer of 1944 during the Second World War, and intended it as `a hymn to free and happy man, to his mighty powers, his pure and noble spirit." The 1945 premiere was conducted by Prokofiev himself and the symphony has remained one of the composer's most popular works. 10.40 Roger Parker talks to Andrew about new opera recordings, including Rameau's Platee, Verdi's Macbeth and Puccini's Madam Butterfly. 11.25 Record of the Week: Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.
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