1antimuzak
Saturday 28th September 2024 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Bach's English Suites in Building a Library.
Andrew McGregor presents the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Emily MacGregor shares her choice of the latest classical releases. 3.00 Building a Library. Lucy Parham selects her favourite piano version of Bach's Six English Suites (BWV 806-811). Confusingly, Bach's English Suites are collections of dances in the fashionable French style of the early 18th century, each prefaced by a prelude. On one level, the suites are a didactic compendium of keyboard style and technique, including written-out examples of the kind of ornamentation Bach would have expected from players, his students and his own children. But these highly stylised and sophisticated dances are also full of typically Bachian small- and large-scale patterning and meaning, from the musical cypher on Bach's name, to the overarching descending organisation of keys of each successive suite. 3.45 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the past seven days.
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Bach's English Suites in Building a Library.
Andrew McGregor presents the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Emily MacGregor shares her choice of the latest classical releases. 3.00 Building a Library. Lucy Parham selects her favourite piano version of Bach's Six English Suites (BWV 806-811). Confusingly, Bach's English Suites are collections of dances in the fashionable French style of the early 18th century, each prefaced by a prelude. On one level, the suites are a didactic compendium of keyboard style and technique, including written-out examples of the kind of ornamentation Bach would have expected from players, his students and his own children. But these highly stylised and sophisticated dances are also full of typically Bachian small- and large-scale patterning and meaning, from the musical cypher on Bach's name, to the overarching descending organisation of keys of each successive suite. 3.45 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the past seven days.
2antimuzak
Saturday 5th October 2024 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Brahms: Symphony No 1 in Building a Library.
Andrew McGregor presents the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Jeremy Sams shares his choice of some of the most exciting new classical releases. 3.00 Building a Library. Katy Hamilton selects her favourite version of Johannes Brahms' Symphony No 1 in C minor, Op 68. Like so many composers in the post-Beethoven Austro-German world, Brahms struggled with what a symphony should be and it wasn't until he was 43, with two orchestral serenades and a symphony-turned-piano-concerto under his belt, that he managed to complete his first. On the surface, its C minor-to-major, darkness-to-light journey might seem freighted with Beethoven's pervasive influence, but this compelling music is suffused with the spirit and sound-world of late 19th-century Romanticism and marks the beginning of another exceptional symphonic cycle. 3.45 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the past seven days.
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Brahms: Symphony No 1 in Building a Library.
Andrew McGregor presents the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Jeremy Sams shares his choice of some of the most exciting new classical releases. 3.00 Building a Library. Katy Hamilton selects her favourite version of Johannes Brahms' Symphony No 1 in C minor, Op 68. Like so many composers in the post-Beethoven Austro-German world, Brahms struggled with what a symphony should be and it wasn't until he was 43, with two orchestral serenades and a symphony-turned-piano-concerto under his belt, that he managed to complete his first. On the surface, its C minor-to-major, darkness-to-light journey might seem freighted with Beethoven's pervasive influence, but this compelling music is suffused with the spirit and sound-world of late 19th-century Romanticism and marks the beginning of another exceptional symphonic cycle. 3.45 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the past seven days.
3antimuzak
Saturday 19th October 2024 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Schubert's Octet in F in Building a Library.
Andrew McGregor presents the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Ben Gernon shares his choice of the latest classical releases. 3.00 Building a Library. Tasmin Little selects her favourite version of Franz Schubert's Octet in F, D. 803. Modelled on the phenomenally popular septet that his composition tutor Beethoven had penned in 1800, tmonied amateur clarinettist Count Ferdinand Troyer commissioned Franz Schubert to write a companion piece nearly a quarter of a century later. The second work he'd written for such instrumental forces, Schubert's Octet in F follows a sequence similar to Beethoven's six-movement septet, although some interpret the ensemble's augmentation with a second violin satisfied Schubert's desire to write in an orchestral style for strings. 3.45 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the past seven days.
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Schubert's Octet in F in Building a Library.
Andrew McGregor presents the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Ben Gernon shares his choice of the latest classical releases. 3.00 Building a Library. Tasmin Little selects her favourite version of Franz Schubert's Octet in F, D. 803. Modelled on the phenomenally popular septet that his composition tutor Beethoven had penned in 1800, tmonied amateur clarinettist Count Ferdinand Troyer commissioned Franz Schubert to write a companion piece nearly a quarter of a century later. The second work he'd written for such instrumental forces, Schubert's Octet in F follows a sequence similar to Beethoven's six-movement septet, although some interpret the ensemble's augmentation with a second violin satisfied Schubert's desire to write in an orchestral style for strings. 3.45 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the past seven days.
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