Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta with Andrew McGregor and Kate Molleson
Building a Library on Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, plus the best of the week's new releases
Kate Molleson's personal recommendation for Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, plus the best of the week's new releases
Presented by Andrew McGregor
2.00pm
Writer Katy Hamilton with her pick of this week's new releases
3.00pm
Building a Library: Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Kate Molleson talks to Andrew and recommends her personal choice to buy, download or stream.
Alternating quietly intense movements with those of great verve and excitement, it is certainly one of the greatest orchestral works of the last century
Recommended version: Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (Philips 4168362)
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Antonio Salieri
Cublai, gran kan de' Tartari (Sinfonia)
Orchestra: Les Talens Lyriques. Conductor: Christophe Rousset.- Salieri: Cublai, gran kan de' Tartari.
- Aparté.
- 101.
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Mieczysław Weinberg
Improvisation & Romance (Romance)
Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet.- Weinberg: String Quartets, Vol. 5.
- Chandos.
- 105.
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Antonio Salieri
Cublai, gran kan de' Tartari (End of Act 1)
Choir: Chœur de Chambre de Namur. Ensemble: Les Talens Lyriques. Conductor: Christophe Rousset.- Salieri: Cublai, gran kan de' Tartari.
- Aparté.
- 201.
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Ethel Smyth
March of the Women
Music Arranger: Esther Abrami. Performer: Esther Abrami. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Irene Delgado-Jiménez.- Sony.
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Olli Mustonen
Nonet no.2 (extract)
Ensemble: United Strings of Europe.- Bis.
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Fazil Say
Violin Concerto no. 2 Op.87 'Spring mornings in the days of quarantine' (extract)
Performer: Friedemann Eichhorn. Orchestra: Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach.- Naxos.
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Corrina Hewat
My Love Dodging Rizla
Music Arranger: Louise McMonagle. Performer: Louise McMonagle.- Delphian.
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Maurice Ravel
Rigaudon (Le Tombeau de Couperin)
Music Arranger: Kebyart. Ensemble: Kebyart.- Linn.
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Georges Lentz
Violin Concerto '...to beam in distant heavens...' (An Elegy for our Grandchildren’s Planet)
Performer: Arabella Steinbacher. Orchestra: Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Gimeno.- Beethoven & Lentz.
- Pentatone.
- 108.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Marriage of Figaro K.492 (Deh vieni, non tardar)
Singer: Anna Prohaska. Orchestra: Ensemble Resonanz. Conductor: Riccardo Minasi.- Mozart: Haffner-Akademie.
- harmonia mundi.
- 102.
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
The Cuckoo (Sonata Representiva)
Singer: Sid Goldsmith. Performer: Holly Harman. Performer: Carina Cosgrave. Performer: Oliver John Ruthven. Performer: Kristiina Watt.- Penny Fiddle Records.
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
The Frog (Sonata Representiva)
Singer: Sid Goldsmith. Performer: Holly Harman. Performer: Carina Cosgrave. Performer: Oliver John Ruthven. Performer: Kristiina Watt.- Penny Fiddle Records.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony no.11 in G minor Op.103 'The Year 1905' (1st mvt)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.- Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11, "The Year 1905".
- LSO Live.
- 101.
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