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BBC Proms Composer: Beethoven with Marina Frolova-Walker and Andrew McGregor

Mariner Frolova-Walker picks five indispensable recordings of BBC Proms Composer Beethoven and explains why you need to hear them.

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BBC Proms Composer Beethoven

Marina Frolova-Walker joins Andrew to discuss five indispensable recordings of BBC Proms Composer Beethoven and explains why you need to hear them.

3.25 pm
Proms Recording

To round off each edition of Record Review, Andrew introduces the Building a Library recommendation of a major work featured in this year's BBC Proms.

Mahler
Symphony No 6 in A minor: 4th movement (Finale)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Klaus Tennstedt (conductor)

1 hour, 59 minutes

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Sat 10 Aug 202414:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Piano Sonata in A major 'Easter Sonata' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Decca.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.101 in D Major 'The Clock' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Ádám Fischer.
    • Haydn: Late Symphonies, Vol. 3.
    • Naxos.
    • 110.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Coriolan Overture, Op. 62

    Orchestra: Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Beethoven: Overtures.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata no.17 in D minor Op.31 no.2 'Tempest' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sviatoslav Richter.
    • Musical Concepts.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in C major Op.59 No.3 'Rasumovsky' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.
    • Beethoven Around the World: The Complete String Quartets.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 23.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    An die ferne Geliebte Op.98

    Singer: Julian Prégardien. Performer: Christoph Schnackertz.
    • An die Geliebte.
    • Myrios Classics.
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.9 in D Minor Op.125 'Choral' (4th mvt)

    Singer: Gwyneth Jones. Singer: Hanna Schwarz. Singer: René Kollo. Singer: Kurt Moll. Choir: Vienna State Opera Choir. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Beethoven: 9 Symphonies (Remastered 2017 / Live).
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 38.

  • Erik Satie

    Je te veux

    Music Arranger: Gildas Guillon. Ensemble: Van Kuijk Quartet.
    • Alpha.

  • Baptiste Trotignon

    Erik (Ces Messieurs)

    Ensemble: Van Kuijk Quartet.
    • Alpha.

  • Augusta Holmès

    Ireland

    Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland‐Pfalz. Conductor: Michael Francis.
    • Augusta Holmès: Symphonic Poems.
    • CPO.
    • 201.

  • William Corkine

    The Punckes Delight [2nd Tuning ]

    Performer: Jordi Savall.
    • Lessons For The Lyra-Viol.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 19.

  • Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev

    Piano Quintet in G minor Op.30 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Spectrum Concerts Berlin.
    • Naxos.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.6 in A minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Klaus Tennstedt.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 6.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 201.

Broadcast

  • Sat 10 Aug 202414:00
    BBC Radio 3

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