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1antimuzak
Jul 21, 2018, 1:36 am

Saturday 21st July 2018
Time: 09:00 to 12:15 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)

Harriet Smith chooses five indispensable recordings of works by featured Proms composer Beethoven and explains why they need to be heard. Plus this week's outstanding new releases.

2antimuzak
Jul 28, 2018, 1:41 am

Saturday 28th July 2018
Time: 09:00 to 12:15 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)

Sarah Devonald chooses five indispensable recordings of works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of the featured composers at the 2018 BBC Proms, and explains why they need to be heard. Plus the week's outstanding new releases.

3antimuzak
Editado: Sep 1, 2018, 1:45 am

Saturday 1st September 2018
Time: 09:00 to 12:15 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)

Proms Composer.

Handel. Each Saturday during Summer Record Review, one of the programme's stalwarts chooses five indispensable recordings of a great composer featured in the Proms. Today, Simon Heighes plays his top five Handel discs and tells us why you need to hear them. 11.00 Ariane Todes compares 3 CD boxes of recordings made by some of the most legendary of violinists: a 44-CD set of Henryk Szeryng's complete recordings for Philips, Mercury and Deutsche Grammophon, plus a 15-CD set of Joseph Szigeti and a 10-CD set of Max Rostal, both for Milestones of a Violin Legend. 11.45 Proms Recording: Each week during Summer Record Review, we select a major work from the Proms and play you the current Building a Library recommendation. Today, it's an extract from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream performed by Kathleen Battle and Frederica von Stade as first and second fairies and Dame Judi Dench as the narrator with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa.

4antimuzak
Sep 8, 2018, 1:45 am

Saturday 8th September 2018 (starting in 2 hours and 16 minutes)
Time: 09:00 to 12:15 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)

with Andrew McGregor 9.30 Proms Composer: Edward Elgar As the Proms draw to a close to the inevitable strains of Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1, Kate Kennedy explores beyond the crowd-pleasing facade of Edward Elgar to reveal a private, complex and conflicted composer through five indispensable recordings of his music 11.00 Flora Willson picks highlights from a new box set of live recordings celebrating the centenary of legendary dramatic soprano Birgit Nilsson. 11.45 Proms Recording: Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 with Malcolm Proud (harpsichord) and the English Baroque Soloists conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.

5antimuzak
Sep 29, 2018, 1:51 am

Date: On Saturday 29th September 2018
Time: 09:00 to 12:15 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)

with Andrew McGregor. 09.30 Building a Library: Anna Picard listens to some of the available recordings of Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges and makes a recommendation. Maurice Ravel's 1925 one act L'enfant et les sortilèges - The Child and the Spells - portrays a spoiled, violent and surly child who gets his comeuppance from all the things he's abused, destroyed and killed. In a stream of surreal set-pieces, inanimate objects and animals (among them a bat, cats, a squirrel, a frog and a dragonfly) lead the child to a genuine sense of remorse and empathy. At once funny and moving, Freudian allusion rubs shoulders with Ravel's take on American musical comedy, and the opera demands a top-flight orchestra, conductor and cast for it to take wing. 10.55 Jeremy Summerly rounds up recent releases of choral music. 11.45 Andrew chooses an outstanding new release as his Disc of the Week.

6antimuzak
Oct 6, 2018, 1:19 am

Saturday 6th October 2018 (starting in 2 hours and 41 minutes)
Time: 09:00 to 12:15 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)

with Andrew McGregor 09.30 Building a Library: Alexandra Coghlan surveys the recordings of music by Orlando Gibbons and makes a recommendation. Orlando Gibbons was a leading English composer in the early 17th century. He wrote a large number of keyboard works, fantasias for viols, anthems and madrigals (of which the best-known is "The Silver Swan"). His best-known verse anthem is "This Is the Record of John". 10.30 Andrew talks to Harriet Smith about new recordings of chamber music by Beethoven and Mendelssohn. 11.45 Andrew chooses an outstanding new release as his Disc of the Week.

7antimuzak
Oct 13, 2018, 1:46 am

Saturday 13th October 2018
Time: 09:00 to 12:15 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)

with Andrew McGregor 09.30 Building a Library: Mahan Esfahani surveys the recordings of Franck: Violin Sonata The Sonata in A major by César Franck is one the greatest sonatas for violin and piano ever written. It was written in 1886, when César Franck was 63, as a wedding present for the 31-year-old violinist Eugène Ysaÿe. The piece is cyclic in that all the movements share common thematic threads. And it has attracted some of the finest violin and piano duos into the recording studio over the years 10.30 As part of National Album Day Andrew talks to Simon Heighes about the history of the classical record album from its early days as a physical album in which to store your 78s, to the recording of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto by Nathan Milstein in 1948 which was the first classical long-playing record. With the expansion in playing time, artists and producers were suddenly able to play around with themes, concepts and narratives which gave us some much loved albums which remain in the catalogue to this day. They discuss some classic albums of the past and ponder on the continuing popularity of the album in the age of streaming where in theory the whole catalogue of recorded classical music is now at our finger tips. 11.45 Andrew chooses an outstanding new release as his Disc of the Week This programme is part of BBC Music's support for the first ever National Album Day, which takes place on Saturday 13th October with programming on Radio 1, 1Xtra, Radio 2, Radio 3, Radio 4, 5 Live, 6 Music, BBC One and BBC Four across the week or on the day itself.

8antimuzak
Oct 20, 2018, 1:48 am

Saturday 20th October 2018
Time: 09:00 to 12:15 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)

with Andrew McGregor. 09.30 Building a Library: Mark Lowther listens to some of the available recordings of Bach's seven keyboard concertos, BWV.1052 to BWV.1058, and makes a recommendation. Bach's collection of concertos for solo keyboard are the only collection of concertos in his entire oeuvre aside from the Brandenburg Concertos. These 7 concertos, BWV.1052 to 1058, are thought to have been written in Leipzig during the 1730s, using arrangements made from earlier concertos that Bach wrote while he was still living in Köthen. They are amongst the earliest concertos written for keyboard. 11.00 Kate Molleson sifts through recent releases of orchestral works. 11.45 Tom chooses an outstanding new release as his Disc of the Week.

9antimuzak
Oct 27, 2018, 1:47 am

Saturday 27th October 2018
Time: 09:00 to 12:15 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)

with Andrew McGregor 09.30 Building a Library: Kirsten Gibson surveys the recordings of Purcell: King Arthur King Arthur, or The British Worthy is a semi-opera by Henry Purcell with a libretto by John Dryden, first performed at the Queen's Theatre, Dorset Garden, London, in 1691. It is based on the battles between the Britons and the Saxons and contains some of Purcell's most melodic and adventurous music. 10.30 Andrew talks to Sir Nicholas Kenyon about Bach 333. Said to be the largest project of its kind in the history of recorded music, Deutsche Grammophon in collaboration with a number of other labels present every known note written by J S Bach 333 years after his birth. 11.45 Andrew chooses an outstanding new release as his Disc of the Week.

10antimuzak
Nov 3, 2018, 2:46 am

Saturday 3rd November 2018
Time: 09:00 to 12:15 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)

with Andrew McGregor 09.30 Building a Library: Jeremy Summerly surveys recordings of Stravinsky: Mass Stravinsky's Mass was written between 1944 and 1948 and is one of the most austere and archaic works of his neoclassical period. Stravinsky incorporated elements of his Russian Orthodox faith but chose to set the text of the Catholic Mass out of a desire to create a liturgical work - an impossibility in the Russian Orthodox tradition, which forbids the use of instruments in church. The Mass is one of only a few of Stravinsky's works not have been commissioned, which suggests that the work came about as a result of the composer's own renewed religious consciousness. 10.30 Lucy Parham reviews recent releases of piano music by composers including Debussy, Beethoven and Bartok. 11.45 Andrew chooses an outstanding new release as his Disc of the Week.

11antimuzak
Nov 10, 2018, 1:47 am

Saturday 10th November 2018
Time: 09:00 to 12:15 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)

with Andrew McGregor 09.30 Building a Library: 350 years to the day since François Couperin's death, Simon Heighes surveys the Leçons de Ténèbres and makes a recommendation. In 18th century France theatres were closed during the Easter fortnight and fashionable audiences seeking Holy Week's hot ticket flocked to church services, the only available entertainment - and the only place professional opera singers were allowed to perform. Composers took advantage of their resources and Couperin's Leçons de Ténèbres from around 1713 were written as an integral part of the liturgy for the end of Lent, settings of texts from the Old Testament Book of Lamentations. Although modestly scored for one and two voices and organ, the music makes a deeply expressive and satisfying sequence, by turns meditative, dramatic and contemplative as it deals with the captivity of the Jews and the destruction of the temple of Jerusalem in 587 BC and demands top-flight singers. 10.50 Katy Hamilton reviews a new box set of re-releases featuring legendary Ukrainian-born American cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. 11.45 Andrew chooses an outstanding new release as his Disc of the Week.

12antimuzak
Nov 17, 2018, 1:45 am

Saturday 17th November 2018
Time: 09:00 to 12:15 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)

with Andrew McGregor 09.30 Building a Library: Ben Walton surveys the available recordings of Rossini's Petite messe solennelle. The great opera composer Rossini died 150 years ago this week. According to popular legend he more or less stopped composing after completing his operatic masterpiece William Tell and spent his final years in a sybaritic and depressed retirement. However he did compose two glorious works of religious music during this final period: the Stabat mater and the Petite messe solennelle. The Mass is famously neither little nor solemn. It is a large-scale work with a stream of lyrical arias and energetic choruses. Originally scored for 12 voices, 2 pianos and a harmonium; it is also sometimes performed in a fully orchestrated version. Rossini said of his final masterwork, "Dear Lord, here it is finished, this poor little mass. Have I just written sacred music, or rather, sacrilegious music? I was born for opera buffa, as you well know. Not much technique, a little bit of heart, that's all. Blessings to you and grant me Paradise." 10.30 Marina Frolova-Walker reviews a recording of the sacred opera, Moses by Anton Rubenstein and recent releases of Russian orchestral music including symphonies by Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Weinberg. 11.45 Andrew chooses an outstanding new release as his Disc of the Week.

13antimuzak
Nov 24, 2018, 1:46 am

Saturday 24th November 2018
Time: 09:00 to 12:15 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)

with Andrew McGregor. 09.30 Building a Library: Harriet Smith listens to some of the available recordings of Mendelssohn: String Quartet No.2 in A minor, Op.13, Mendelssohn was still a teenager when in 1827 he composed his 2nd String Quartet in A minor, Op.13, yet he had already written a number of other impressive chamber works including his much-loved and celebrated Octet. This String Quartet No.2, written the year in which Beethoven died, represents Mendelssohn's first mature string quartet. The influence of Beethoven on Mendelssohn can also be heard in this string quartet. It is a highly passionate work and its four movements (Adagio - Allegro vivace; Adagio non lento; Intermezzo and Presto - Adagio non lent) are unified by a theme 'ist es wahr?' (is it true?) first heard in the opening bars. 11.00 Andrew McGregor discusses new and recent releases of baroque music. 11.45 Andrew chooses an outstanding new release as his Disc of the Week.

14antimuzak
Dic 1, 2018, 1:47 am

Saturday 1st December 2018
Time: 09:00 to 12:15 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)

with Andrew McGregor 09.30 Building a Library: Sarah Devonald picks a personal favourite from among the recordings of Dvorak: Wind Serenade in D minor. 'It would be difficult to discover a finer, more refreshing impression of really abundant and charming creative talent', wrote no less an authority than Johannes Brahms about Dvorak's Wind Serenade. Inspired by Mozart's great Wind Serenade for 13 wind instruments, this 1878 work is suffused both with the spirit of Czech folk music and Dvorak's distinctive blend of sunniness and wistful nostalgia. The Serenade's wonderfully idiomatic instrumental writing still sounds fresh and delightful and it was one of Dvorak's earliest successes, helping to carry his reputation to the rest of Europe and beyond. Recordings cover 60+ years and range from rustic and characterful to refined and ultra-sophisticated. 11.00 Jeremy Summerly separates the plums from the turkeys from among the Christmas releases. 11.45 Andrew chooses an outstanding new release as his Disc of the Week.
(Stereo, Cello and Double Bass, Including Three Horns)

15antimuzak
Dic 8, 2018, 1:43 am

Saturday 8th December 2018
Time: 09:00 to 12:15 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)

with Andrew McGregor 09.30 Building a Library: Iain Burnside picks a personal favourite from among the recordings of Haydn's Piano Sonata in Eb, H 16:52 Written in 1794, this is the last and one of the greatest of Haydn's piano sonatas. In this piece Haydn expanded the sonata structure beyond its normal scope, explored unusual harmonies and developed his thematic material with unusual rigour. Haydn wrote it for the outstanding pianist Therese Jansen, who lived in London at the time of his visits there in the 1790s. 1030 Andrew and Flora Willson discuss the latest batch of new opera releases including Verdi's Macbeth and Wagner's Gotterdammerung 11.45 Andrew chooses an outstanding new release as his Disc of the Week.

16antimuzak
Dic 15, 2018, 1:48 am

Saturday 15th December 2018
Time: 09:00 to 12:15 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)

Throughout today's programme Andrew McGregor is joined by Record Review regulars Katy Hamilton, Jeremy Sams, Harriet Smith to hear them round up and play their top recordings of 2018. 09.30 Building a Library: William Mival picks a personal favourite from among the recordings of Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks). In an exhilarating tour de force of orchestral writing and musical form, Strauss's 1895 symphonic poem depicts the exploits of the 14th century Till Eulenspiegel. Rascally, foolish and mischievous, courageous and scornful, Till rampages through medieval German society, leaving destruction and outrage in his wake as he confronts and exposes pomposity and hypocrisy. By identifying himself through musical brilliance as an anarchic devil-may-care hero, Strauss was at least in part giving the finger to the musical establishment after the critical dubbing of his recently premiered first opera Guntram. Late in life, Strauss said of Till 'I just wanted to give the people in the concert hall a good laugh for once.' Or was that, too, just another prank...?

17antimuzak
Dic 22, 2018, 1:44 am

Saturday 22nd December 2018
Time: 09:00 to 12:15 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)

with Andrew McGregor. 09.30 Building a Library: Caroline Gill listens to and compares some of the available recordings of Vivaldi: Gloria, Although Vivaldi wrote 3 settings of the Gloria (RV588-RV590), it is RV589 that has become known simply as 'The Vivaldi Gloria', owing to its enduring popularity. It is thought to have been composed in 1715 for the Pio Ospedale della Pietà, the orphanage, convent and music school in Venice in which Vivaldi taught. Not only is the Vivaldi Gloria strongly influenced by the operatic style of the day, but it also mimics the prevalent concerto grosso style in its alternating episodes for tutti choir and solos. Above all, Vivaldi's Gloria has gained its popularity because of its vibrant musical personality. 11.00 Andrew McGregor discusses new and recent releases of organ music with Oliver Condy. 11.45 Andrew chooses an outstanding new release as his Disc of the Week.

18antimuzak
Ene 5, 2019, 1:53 am

Saturday 5th January 2019
Time: 09:00 to 12:15 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)

with Andrew McGregor 09.30 Building a Library: Laura Tunbridge picks a personal favourite from among the recordings of Debussy: String Quartet Claude Debussy wrote his only string quartet in 1893 when he was 31 years old. After abandoning his opera Rodrigue et Chimène, he planned to write two string quartets. But this was the only one he completed. It is full of sensual and impressionistic harmonies. Debussy wrote that "any sounds in any combination and in any succession are henceforth free to be used in a musical continuity." 1030 Andrew and Tom McKinney discuss the latest batch of new releases of music by contemporary composers 11.45 Andrew chooses an outstanding new release as his Disc of the Week.

19antimuzak
Ene 12, 2019, 1:52 am

Saturday 12th January 2019
Time: 09:00 to 12:15 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)

with Andrew McGregor. 09.30 Building a Library: Kate Molleson listens to and compares some of the available recordings of Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No.1, Prokofiev began sketching his Violin Concerto No.1 in 1915 against a backdrop of war, and composed the bulk of it in the turbulent revolutionary year of 1917. It proved to be one of his first mature works. The Violin Concerto is a virtuosically brilliant work, that also captures the lyrical quality of the violin with searing melodies that rise above the orchestra. It was premiered on 18th October in 1923 by violinist Marcel Darrieux under Serge Koussevitzky at the Paris Opera, but was somewhat overshadowed in that concert alongside a performance of Stravinsky's Octet. 11.00 In this the 90th birthday year of conductor, composer and arranger André Previn, Andrew McGregor discusses with Andrew Mellor a new 55-CD collection from Sony Classical of the artist's classical RCA and CBS discography, ranging from the early 1960s to the mid-1990s. 11.45 Andrew chooses an outstanding new release as his Disc of the Week.

20antimuzak
Editado: Ene 19, 2019, 2:01 am

Saturday 19th January 2019
Time: 09:00 to 12:15 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)

with Andrew McGregor. 09.30 Building a Library: Roger Parker listens to and compares the available recordings of Handel's opera Ariodante. Handel's operas were the talk of the smart set in early 18th Century London. The exotic mix of temperamental prima donnas and castrati with Handel's sublime music was a potent combination. And Ariodante was one of the very best of his operas. It contains a series of extraordinary arias for the title role from the mournful aria, "Scherza infida" to the joyful "Dopo notte" with exciting vocal acrobatics. 10.30 Andrew is joined by Anna Picard to discuss a group of recent orchestral releases by Chopin, Mendelssohn and Mozart; including a cycle of the Beethoven Piano Concertos from soloist Mitsuko Uchida and the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle. 11.45 Andrew chooses an outstanding new release as his Disc of the Week.

21antimuzak
Ene 26, 2019, 1:50 am

Saturday 26th January 2019
Time: 09:00 to 12:15 (3 hours and 15 minutes long)

with Andrew McGregor 09.30 Building a Library: Erica Jeal picks a personal favourite from among the recordings of Robert Schumann: String Quartet in A major Op. 41, No. 3. Dedicated to his friend Mendelssohn, Schumann's three Op. 41 quartets come from an intensive two months in 1843, before which Schumann had assiduously studied the string quartets from the great masters of the medium: Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. The third quartet betrays none of Schumann's frustration and gloomy moods as he struggled to come to terms with the shadow cast by his wife of nearly 3 years, the celebrated pianist (and main breadwinner) Clara. 11.00 Errollyn Wallen reviews the groundbreaking 1970s CBS Masterworks Black Composers Series, newly reissued for the first time on CD. 11.45 Andrew chooses an outstanding new release as his Disc of the Week.

22antimuzak
Feb 2, 2019, 1:45 am

Saturday 2nd February 2019 (starting in 2 hours and 19 minutes)
Time: 09:03 to 12:15 (3 hours and 12 minutes long)

Natasha Loges compares recordings of Schubert's song cycle Schwanengesang, and Stephen Johnson and Lucy Parham review new releases of the concerto repertoire.

23antimuzak
Feb 9, 2019, 1:44 am

Saturday 9th February 2019 (starting in 2 hours and 19 minutes)
Time: 09:03 to 12:15 (3 hours and 12 minutes long)

With Andrew McGregor. Nicholas Kenyon compares available recordings of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat, `the Emperor", and Sarah Walker reviews new chamber music releases.

24antimuzak
Feb 16, 2019, 1:50 am

Saturday 16th February 2019
Time: 09:03 to 11:00 (1 hour and 57 minutes long)

As part of Berlioz 150, Jeremy Sams chooses his five must-have recordings of essential works by the composer, and Andrew McGregor presents his Disc of the Week.

25antimuzak
Feb 23, 2019, 1:47 am

Saturday 23rd February 2019
Time: 09:03 to 12:15 (3 hours and 12 minutes long)

Flora Willson compares recordings of Verdi's opera La Forza del Destino and composer William Mival talks about new releases of symphonies by Sibelius, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky.

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