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Alice Farnham and Andrew McGregor in Building a Library on Copland's Third Symphony

Conductor Alice Farnham's personal recommendation for Copland's Symphony no.3, plus the best of the week's new releases.

Conductor Alice Farnham's personal recommendation for Copland's Symphony no.3, plus the best of the week's new releases.

Presented by Andrew McGregor

2.00pm
Ben Gernon's personal pick of the best new releases from the last 12 months

3.00pm
Building a Library
Copland's little-heard Third Symphony is actually one of his grandest, epic works, containing as it does his famous Fanfare for the Common Man. Alice Farnham joins Andrew to reveal her personal recommendation for the recording to buy, download or stream.

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John Wilson (conductor)
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Music Played

  • Kurt Weill

    Huckeberry Finn (This Time Next Year)

    Performer: William Vann. Music Arranger: Katie Bray. Music Arranger: William Vann. Singer: Katie Bray.
    • In Search of Youkali: Songs of Kurt Weill.
    • Chandos.
    • 118.

  • Aaron Copland

    Piano sonata (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • Decca.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Te Deum in C major for soloists, chorus and orchestra: Te Deum laudamus

    Singer: Christina Landshamer. Singer: Sophie Harmsen. Singer: Daniel Behle. Singer: Franz‐Josef Selig. Orchestra: SWR Symphonieorchester. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • SWR.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Octet in E flat major Op.20 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène. Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • Erato.

  • Franz Schubert

    4 Impromptus D.935, Op.142 for piano (no.2 in A flat major)

    Performer: Eric Lu.
    • Warner.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Violin Sonata (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Yeol Eum Son.
    • Naive.

  • Zez Confrey

    Dizzy Fingers

    Performer: Rob Mounsey. Music Arranger: Rob Mounsey. Singer: Zachary Wilder.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Eric Whitacre

    The Pacific has no memory (opening)

    Performer: Anne Akiko Meyers. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Eric Whitacre: The Pacific Has No Memory.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 1.

  • Nadia Boulanger

    La Ville Morte (Act 1 - EXCERPT)

    Composer: Raoul Pugno. Music Arranger: Neal Goren. Ensemble: Talea Ensemble. Conductor: Neal Goren.
    • Nadia Boulanger: La ville morte.
    • Pentatone.
    • 1-3.

  • Josef Lanner

    Malapou-Galopp Op.148a

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • New Year's Concert 2026.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Pines of Rome (The Pines of the Villa Borghese)

    Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • Gramola.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    String Quartet no.15 in E flat minor Op.144 (6th mvt)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • Shostakovich: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 3, Nos. 13-15.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 110.

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