1antimuzak
Saturday 2nd November 2024 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 2 in Building a Library.
Andrew McGregor presents the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Kate Kennedy shares her choice of the latest releases. 3.00 Building a Library. Jonathan Cross selects his favourite version of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 16. 3.45 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the past seven days.
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 2 in Building a Library.
Andrew McGregor presents the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Kate Kennedy shares her choice of the latest releases. 3.00 Building a Library. Jonathan Cross selects his favourite version of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 16. 3.45 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the past seven days.
2antimuzak
Saturday 9th November 2024 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Verdi's Il trovatore in Building a Library.
Andrew McGregor presents the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Sarah Walker shares her choice of the latest releases. 3.00 Building a Library. Roger Parker picks his favourite version of Verdi's opera Il trovatore. Written hot on the heels of Rigoletto, and premiered just two months before La traviata, Il trovatore (The Troubador) is one of Verdi's most dramatic operas, and one of his most popular successes. It is packed with great music, including the bombastic Anvil Chorus, Azucena's Stride la vampa and Manrico's heroic Di quella pira. The story, based on a play by Antonio García Gutiérrez, has been described as a high-flown, sprawling melodrama, packed with all manner of fantastic and bizarre incident. 3.45 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the past seven days.
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Verdi's Il trovatore in Building a Library.
Andrew McGregor presents the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Sarah Walker shares her choice of the latest releases. 3.00 Building a Library. Roger Parker picks his favourite version of Verdi's opera Il trovatore. Written hot on the heels of Rigoletto, and premiered just two months before La traviata, Il trovatore (The Troubador) is one of Verdi's most dramatic operas, and one of his most popular successes. It is packed with great music, including the bombastic Anvil Chorus, Azucena's Stride la vampa and Manrico's heroic Di quella pira. The story, based on a play by Antonio García Gutiérrez, has been described as a high-flown, sprawling melodrama, packed with all manner of fantastic and bizarre incident. 3.45 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the past seven days.
3antimuzak
Saturday 16th November 2024 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Berlioz's Les nuits d'été in Building a Library.
Andrew McGregor presents the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Yshani Perinpanayagam shares her choice of the latest classical releases. 3.00 Building a Library. Flora Willson selects her favourite version of Berlioz's Les nuits d'été. 3.45 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the past seven days.
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Berlioz's Les nuits d'été in Building a Library.
Andrew McGregor presents the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Yshani Perinpanayagam shares her choice of the latest classical releases. 3.00 Building a Library. Flora Willson selects her favourite version of Berlioz's Les nuits d'été. 3.45 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the past seven days.
4antimuzak
Saturday 23rd November 2024 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Mozart's Symphony No 40 in G minor in Building a Library.
Andrew McGregor presents the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Lucy Parham shares her choices of the latest releases. 3.00 Building a Library. Nicholas Kenyon selects his favourite version of Mozart's Symphony No 40 in G minor, K.550. The composer worked on the symphony in 1788 when, during a period of just a few weeks, he also finished the mighty 39th and 41st symphonies. Robert Schumann thought it possessed 'Grecian lightness and grace', others have seen it as a work of passion, violence and grief, and some people are struck by the the witty, conversational style also found in Mozart's great operas. 3.45 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the past seven days.
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Mozart's Symphony No 40 in G minor in Building a Library.
Andrew McGregor presents the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Lucy Parham shares her choices of the latest releases. 3.00 Building a Library. Nicholas Kenyon selects his favourite version of Mozart's Symphony No 40 in G minor, K.550. The composer worked on the symphony in 1788 when, during a period of just a few weeks, he also finished the mighty 39th and 41st symphonies. Robert Schumann thought it possessed 'Grecian lightness and grace', others have seen it as a work of passion, violence and grief, and some people are struck by the the witty, conversational style also found in Mozart's great operas. 3.45 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the past seven days.
5antimuzak
Saturday 30th November 2024 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Poulenc's Stabat Mater in Building a Library.
Andrew McGregor presents the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Flora Willson shares her choices of the latest releases of music by Giacomo Puccini, who died 100 years ago yesterday. 3.00 Building a Library. Jeremy Sams selects his favourite version of Poulenc's Stabat Mater, written after the death of the composer's friend artist Christian Bérard and after a visit to the shrine of the Black Virgin of Rocamadour. His setting of the medieval text is scored for soprano solo, mixed chorus, and orchestra and was premiered in 1951. 345 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the past seven days.
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Poulenc's Stabat Mater in Building a Library.
Andrew McGregor presents the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Flora Willson shares her choices of the latest releases of music by Giacomo Puccini, who died 100 years ago yesterday. 3.00 Building a Library. Jeremy Sams selects his favourite version of Poulenc's Stabat Mater, written after the death of the composer's friend artist Christian Bérard and after a visit to the shrine of the Black Virgin of Rocamadour. His setting of the medieval text is scored for soprano solo, mixed chorus, and orchestra and was premiered in 1951. 345 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the past seven days.
6antimuzak
Saturday 7th December 2024 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Andrew McGregor presents. 2.05 Marina Frolova-Walker shares hher pick of the latest releases. 3.00 Building a Library. Simon Heigh shares his favourite recording of Bach's Concerto for Flute, Violin & Harpsichord, one of the composer's least-performed, but most delightful multi-instrument concertos. 3.45 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the past seven days.
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Andrew McGregor presents. 2.05 Marina Frolova-Walker shares hher pick of the latest releases. 3.00 Building a Library. Simon Heigh shares his favourite recording of Bach's Concerto for Flute, Violin & Harpsichord, one of the composer's least-performed, but most delightful multi-instrument concertos. 3.45 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the past seven days.
7antimuzak
Saturday 21st December 2024 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Britten's A Ceremony of Carols in Building a Library.
Andrew McGregor presents the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Allyson Devenish shares a selection of seasonal new releases, including Liszt's piano suite Weihnachtsbaum (Christmas Tree), a Christmas album from baritone Benjamin Appl, baroque Christmas cantatas by Johann Kuhnau and a release called Ukrainian Christmas. 3.00 Building a Library. Jeremy Summerly chooses his favourite version of Britten's A Ceremony of Carols, composed while he was crossing the Atlantic on the Axel Johnson, a Swedish cargo ship. The Second World War was raging and the composer and his partner Peter Pears were returning to Britain after a period in the US, so this perennial favourite was composed under imminent threat of attack by U-boats. It was originally scored for three-part treble chorus, solo voices, and harp. Its text is taken from a mixture of anonymous medieval songs and later poems rather than familiar carols. Not all of the texts are about the birth of Jesus or even about winter - in fact one of them is called the Spring Carol. The series of joyful but sometimes dark songs is unified by the framing device of a processional and recessional chant and it contains favourites such as Wolcum Yole, There Is No Rose of Such Vertu and This Little Babe. 3.45 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the past seven days.
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Britten's A Ceremony of Carols in Building a Library.
Andrew McGregor presents the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Allyson Devenish shares a selection of seasonal new releases, including Liszt's piano suite Weihnachtsbaum (Christmas Tree), a Christmas album from baritone Benjamin Appl, baroque Christmas cantatas by Johann Kuhnau and a release called Ukrainian Christmas. 3.00 Building a Library. Jeremy Summerly chooses his favourite version of Britten's A Ceremony of Carols, composed while he was crossing the Atlantic on the Axel Johnson, a Swedish cargo ship. The Second World War was raging and the composer and his partner Peter Pears were returning to Britain after a period in the US, so this perennial favourite was composed under imminent threat of attack by U-boats. It was originally scored for three-part treble chorus, solo voices, and harp. Its text is taken from a mixture of anonymous medieval songs and later poems rather than familiar carols. Not all of the texts are about the birth of Jesus or even about winter - in fact one of them is called the Spring Carol. The series of joyful but sometimes dark songs is unified by the framing device of a processional and recessional chant and it contains favourites such as Wolcum Yole, There Is No Rose of Such Vertu and This Little Babe. 3.45 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the past seven days.
8antimuzak
Saturday 4th January 2025 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 1.
Andrew McGregor presents the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Roger Parkerounds up the best of the week's new releases. 3.00 Building a Library. Joanna MacGregor chooses her favourite version of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 1 in C. When he first got to Vienna, Beethoven concentrated on studying composition with Haydn, but by 1795 he was confident enough to launch a career as a pianist-composer. He started his first piano concerto and probably performed it that year at the Burgtheater in Vienna, but in 1800 he revised it and that is the version we know today, full of the energy and life-force that roars through all Beethoven's greatest works and a great favourite with pianists and audience alike. 3.45 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the past seven days.
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 1.
Andrew McGregor presents the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Roger Parkerounds up the best of the week's new releases. 3.00 Building a Library. Joanna MacGregor chooses her favourite version of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 1 in C. When he first got to Vienna, Beethoven concentrated on studying composition with Haydn, but by 1795 he was confident enough to launch a career as a pianist-composer. He started his first piano concerto and probably performed it that year at the Burgtheater in Vienna, but in 1800 he revised it and that is the version we know today, full of the energy and life-force that roars through all Beethoven's greatest works and a great favourite with pianists and audience alike. 3.45 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the past seven days.
9antimuzak
Saturday 11th January 2025 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Holst's The Planets in Building a Library.
Andrew McGregor presents the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Elin Manahan Thomas explores an exciting selection of new releases. 3.00 Building a Library. Nigel Simeone chooses his favourite version of Holst's The Planets, a seven-movement orchestral suite written during the First World War. After some initial hostility among a few critics, the suite soon became widely performed. 3.45 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the past seven days.
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Holst's The Planets in Building a Library.
Andrew McGregor presents the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Elin Manahan Thomas explores an exciting selection of new releases. 3.00 Building a Library. Nigel Simeone chooses his favourite version of Holst's The Planets, a seven-movement orchestral suite written during the First World War. After some initial hostility among a few critics, the suite soon became widely performed. 3.45 Record of the Week. Andrew's pick of the past seven days.
10antimuzak
Saturday 18th January 2025 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Marina Frolova-Walker choses her favourite version of Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet fantasy overture in Building a Library. Presented by Andrew McGregor. 2.05 Kate Kennedy explores an exciting selection of new releases. 3.00 Building a Library - Marina Frolova-Walker chooses her favourite version of Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture. 3.45 Record of the Week: Andrew's top pick.
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Marina Frolova-Walker choses her favourite version of Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet fantasy overture in Building a Library. Presented by Andrew McGregor. 2.05 Kate Kennedy explores an exciting selection of new releases. 3.00 Building a Library - Marina Frolova-Walker chooses her favourite version of Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture. 3.45 Record of the Week: Andrew's top pick.
11antimuzak
Saturday 25th January 2025 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
David Owen Norris chooses his favourite version of Brahms' Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77 in Building a Library. Presented by Andrew McGregor. 2.05 An exciting selection of new releases. 3.00 Building a Library@ David Owen Norris chooses his favourite version of Brahms' Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77. 3.45 Record of the Week: Andrew's top pick.
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
David Owen Norris chooses his favourite version of Brahms' Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77 in Building a Library. Presented by Andrew McGregor. 2.05 An exciting selection of new releases. 3.00 Building a Library@ David Owen Norris chooses his favourite version of Brahms' Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77. 3.45 Record of the Week: Andrew's top pick.
12antimuzak
Saturday 8th February 2025 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor.
Andrew McGregor presents. 2.05 Emily MacGregor explores an exciting selection of new releases. 3.00 Building a Library - Katy Hamilton chooses her favourite version of Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, which was written in 1839. Along with the famous Octet, it is one of his most popular chamber works. When fellow-composer Robert Schumann reviewed the work he declared Mendelssohn to be 'the Mozart of the nineteenth century, the brightest musician, who most clearly understands the contradictions of the age and is the first to reconcile them.' 3.45 Record of the Week: Andrew's top pick.
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor.
Andrew McGregor presents. 2.05 Emily MacGregor explores an exciting selection of new releases. 3.00 Building a Library - Katy Hamilton chooses her favourite version of Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, which was written in 1839. Along with the famous Octet, it is one of his most popular chamber works. When fellow-composer Robert Schumann reviewed the work he declared Mendelssohn to be 'the Mozart of the nineteenth century, the brightest musician, who most clearly understands the contradictions of the age and is the first to reconcile them.' 3.45 Record of the Week: Andrew's top pick.
13antimuzak
Saturday 15th February 2025 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Puccini's La boheme in Building a Library.
Andrew McGregor with new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Kirsten Gibson explores an exciting selection of new releases. 3.00 Building a Library: Flora Willson chooses her favourite version of Puccini's La bohème. Puccini's ever-popular opera is set in Paris around 1830 and depicts the life and loves of four Bohemian artists and students. The world premiere was in Turin in 1896 and it has become part of the standard Italian opera repertory and one of the most frequently performed operas worldwide. 3.45 Record of the Week: Andrew's top pick.
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Puccini's La boheme in Building a Library.
Andrew McGregor with new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Kirsten Gibson explores an exciting selection of new releases. 3.00 Building a Library: Flora Willson chooses her favourite version of Puccini's La bohème. Puccini's ever-popular opera is set in Paris around 1830 and depicts the life and loves of four Bohemian artists and students. The world premiere was in Turin in 1896 and it has become part of the standard Italian opera repertory and one of the most frequently performed operas worldwide. 3.45 Record of the Week: Andrew's top pick.
14antimuzak
Saturday 1st March 2025 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Liszt's Totentanz in Building a Library.
Iain Burnside chooses his favourite recording of Liszt's Totentanz (Dance of Death), and Marina Frolova-Walker makes her pick of the latest new releases. 2.05 Marina Frolova-Walker makes her pick of the latest new releases. 3.00 Building a Library - Pianist Iain Burnside choses his favourite recording of Liszt's Totentanz. Composed in the 1830s and revised in the 1850s, Liszt's Totentanz (Dance of Death) was possibly inspired by a fresco Liszt saw in the Campo Santo during a visit to Pisa - The Triumph of Death. It is a fiendishly exhilarating piece for piano and orchestra based on the Dies irae plainchant from the medieval Mass for the Dead, exuding an aura of supernatural fear and terror with piano writing that challenges even the most virtuosic soloists. 3.45 Record of the Week: Andrew's top pick.
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Liszt's Totentanz in Building a Library.
Iain Burnside chooses his favourite recording of Liszt's Totentanz (Dance of Death), and Marina Frolova-Walker makes her pick of the latest new releases. 2.05 Marina Frolova-Walker makes her pick of the latest new releases. 3.00 Building a Library - Pianist Iain Burnside choses his favourite recording of Liszt's Totentanz. Composed in the 1830s and revised in the 1850s, Liszt's Totentanz (Dance of Death) was possibly inspired by a fresco Liszt saw in the Campo Santo during a visit to Pisa - The Triumph of Death. It is a fiendishly exhilarating piece for piano and orchestra based on the Dies irae plainchant from the medieval Mass for the Dead, exuding an aura of supernatural fear and terror with piano writing that challenges even the most virtuosic soloists. 3.45 Record of the Week: Andrew's top pick.
15antimuzak
Saturday 15th March 2025 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Andrew McGregor with the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Sarah Walker makes her pick of the best new releases. 3.00 Building a Library: Nigel Simeone chooses his favourite recording of Dvorák: Symphony No 8. The 8th Symphony, infused with the spirit of Bohemian folk music, was written between August and November 1889 and first performed on Feb 2, 1890, to mark the composer's admission to the Czech Academy of Arts and Sciences. It has an original symphonic structure, appearing to be in the usual four movements, but Dvorák said he wanted to handle themes in a 'different way' in this piece. 3.45 Record of the Week: Andrew's top pick.
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Andrew McGregor with the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Sarah Walker makes her pick of the best new releases. 3.00 Building a Library: Nigel Simeone chooses his favourite recording of Dvorák: Symphony No 8. The 8th Symphony, infused with the spirit of Bohemian folk music, was written between August and November 1889 and first performed on Feb 2, 1890, to mark the composer's admission to the Czech Academy of Arts and Sciences. It has an original symphonic structure, appearing to be in the usual four movements, but Dvorák said he wanted to handle themes in a 'different way' in this piece. 3.45 Record of the Week: Andrew's top pick.
16antimuzak
Saturday 22nd March 2025 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Andrew McGregor with the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Kate Kennedy makes her pick of the latest new releases. 3.00 Building a Library: William Mival chooses his favourite recordings of Bruckner's Symphony No 4. 3.45 Record of the Week: Andrew's top pick.
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Andrew McGregor with the best new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Kate Kennedy makes her pick of the latest new releases. 3.00 Building a Library: William Mival chooses his favourite recordings of Bruckner's Symphony No 4. 3.45 Record of the Week: Andrew's top pick.
17comsat38
Do you work for the BBC? If so, what do you think of their coverage of the serious music scene; by serious I mean anything from the early music troubadors to the minimalists of these days, and all points in between.
21comsat38
That's fine; my question was only to do with the BBC and what it is doing with Radio 3's output.
22antimuzak
Saturday 29th March 2025 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Andrew Matthews-Owen makes his pick of the best new releases. 3.00 Lucy Parham chooses her favourite recording of Schumann's Carnaval. 3.45 Record of the Week: Andrew's top pick.
Boulez day tomorrow!
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Andrew Matthews-Owen makes his pick of the best new releases. 3.00 Lucy Parham chooses her favourite recording of Schumann's Carnaval. 3.45 Record of the Week: Andrew's top pick.
Boulez day tomorrow!
23antimuzak
Saturday 5th April 2025 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Shostakovich's Symphony No.10 in Building a Library.
Pianist Kathryn Stott assesses some of the week's new releases, and Edward Seckerson picks his favourite recording of Shostakovich's Symphony No.10. 2.05 Pianist Kathryn Stott makes her pick of the best new releases. 3.00 Building a Library: Edward Seckerson chooses his favourite recording of Shostakovich's Symphony No.10 from the many available versions. Shostakovich's Symphony No.10 in E minor was premiered by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky on 17 December 1953. In his memoirs, the composer revealed that he 'wrote it right after Stalin's death and no one has yet guessed what the symphony is about. It's about Stalin and the Stalin years. The scherzo is a musical portrait of Stalin' - a startlingly brutal and terrifying movement in a 45-minute symphony which vividly encapsulates the tragedy, despair and violence of the Soviet regime under which Shostakovich lived. 3.45 Record of the Week: Andrew's top pick.
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Shostakovich's Symphony No.10 in Building a Library.
Pianist Kathryn Stott assesses some of the week's new releases, and Edward Seckerson picks his favourite recording of Shostakovich's Symphony No.10. 2.05 Pianist Kathryn Stott makes her pick of the best new releases. 3.00 Building a Library: Edward Seckerson chooses his favourite recording of Shostakovich's Symphony No.10 from the many available versions. Shostakovich's Symphony No.10 in E minor was premiered by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky on 17 December 1953. In his memoirs, the composer revealed that he 'wrote it right after Stalin's death and no one has yet guessed what the symphony is about. It's about Stalin and the Stalin years. The scherzo is a musical portrait of Stalin' - a startlingly brutal and terrifying movement in a 45-minute symphony which vividly encapsulates the tragedy, despair and violence of the Soviet regime under which Shostakovich lived. 3.45 Record of the Week: Andrew's top pick.
24antimuzak
Saturday 12th April 2025 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Brahms's String Sextet No.1 in Building a Library.
Andrew McGregor introduces new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Conductor Ben Gernon assesses a new box set of live recordings of Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic. 3.00 Building a Library - Violinist Tasmin Little chooses her favourite recording of Brahms: String Sextet No. 1 in B flat, Op. 18 from the many available versions. 3.45 Record of the Week: Andrew's top pick.
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Brahms's String Sextet No.1 in Building a Library.
Andrew McGregor introduces new recordings of classical music. 2.05 Conductor Ben Gernon assesses a new box set of live recordings of Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic. 3.00 Building a Library - Violinist Tasmin Little chooses her favourite recording of Brahms: String Sextet No. 1 in B flat, Op. 18 from the many available versions. 3.45 Record of the Week: Andrew's top pick.
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Saturday 19th April 2025 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Handel's Acis and Galatea with Andrew McGregor and Mark Lowther.
Mark Lowther's personal recommendation for Handel's opera Acis and Galatea, plus the best of the week's new releases. Presented by Andrew McGregor. Writer Flora Willson with her pick of this week's new releases. 3.00 Building a Library: Handel's Acis and Galatea - Mark Lowther talks to Andrew and recommends his personal choice to buy, download or stream. Written to a text by John Gay, of Beggar's Opera fame, the composer modestly described it as 'a little opera'. But it's packed with great tunes and beautiful dramatic moments. 3.45 Record of the Week: Andrew's pick of the best of the best this week.
Time: 14:00 to 16:00 (2 hours long)
Handel's Acis and Galatea with Andrew McGregor and Mark Lowther.
Mark Lowther's personal recommendation for Handel's opera Acis and Galatea, plus the best of the week's new releases. Presented by Andrew McGregor. Writer Flora Willson with her pick of this week's new releases. 3.00 Building a Library: Handel's Acis and Galatea - Mark Lowther talks to Andrew and recommends his personal choice to buy, download or stream. Written to a text by John Gay, of Beggar's Opera fame, the composer modestly described it as 'a little opera'. But it's packed with great tunes and beautiful dramatic moments. 3.45 Record of the Week: Andrew's pick of the best of the best this week.
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