Haydn's 'Emperor' String Quartet in Building a Library with Laura Tunbridge and Andrew McGregor
Andrew McGregor with a thorough look at the week's classical music releases, plus news and recommendations.
Andrew McGregor with the best new classical releases.
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The pianist Natalie Burch joins Andrew to review the latest new releases that have caught her ear.
3pm Building a Library: musicologist and academic Laura Tunbridge joins Andrew to survey recordings of Haydn's "Emperor" String Quartet, Op.76 No.3, and make a top recommendation.
Haydn dedicated the final half-a-dozen string quartets he composed, perhaps among his most ambitious, to the Hungarian count Joseph Georg von Erdődy. Written while still employed at the court of Prince Esterházy II, Haydn penned the third of the set - his so-called 'Emperor' quartet - around the same time as his oratorio 'The Creation', with some arguing he managed to distil the full force of his full compositional power and intense symphonic style into the resources of just four performers.
Top choice:
Quatuor Arod
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c3.45pm Record of the Week: the new release that has most impressed Andrew this week.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto no.5 in D major (3rd mvt)
Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Director: Cecilia Bernardini.- Mozart: Piano Concertos K. 175, 449 & 466.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 9.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
English suite no. 3 in G minor (Gigue)
Music Arranger: Duo Kiasma. Ensemble: Duo Kiasma.- Polaris.
- Cypres.
- 6.
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Samuel Barber
Piano Sonata in E flat minor Op.26 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Jiaxin Min.- Fuga Libera.
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Franz Liszt
Ballade no.2 in B minor S.171
Performer: Jiaxin Min.- Fuga Libera.
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Béla Bartók
Black is the earth (8 Hungarian Folksongs Sz.64)
Singer: Lotte Betts-Dean. Performer: Joseph Havlat.- Delphian.
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Ruth Wall
My Lagan Love
Music Arranger: Joseph Havlat. Singer: Lotte Betts-Dean. Performer: Joseph Havlat.- Delphian.
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Fanny Mendelssohn
Songs Without Words Op.8 (no.1)
Performer: Ana-Marija Markovina.- Hänssler Classic.
- 15.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony no.2 'Resurrection' (5th mvt)
Singer: Louise Alder. Singer: Beth Taylor. Choir: Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- BR KLassik.
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Giuseppe Verdi
La luce langue (Macbeth)
Singer: Lise Davidsen. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.- Verdi.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 3.
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Johannes Brahms
Capriccio in D minor (7 Fantasies Op.116)
Performer: Sir András Schiff.- ECM.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Queen of the Night's aria (The Magic Flute)
Music Arranger: Pierre Cussac. Singer: Agathe Peyrat. Performer: Pierre Cussac.- Je chante la nuit.
- Alpha Classics.
- 5.
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Camille Saint‐Saëns
Danse macabre
Music Arranger: Pierre Cussac. Music Arranger: Agathe Peyrat. Singer: Agathe Peyrat. Performer: Pierre Cussac.- Je chante la nuit.
- Alpha Classics.
- 6.
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Lucas Debargue
Summertime - 20 concert variations and finale on a theme of Gershwin
Performer: Lucas Debargue.- Sony.
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George Frideric Handel
Giulio Cesare in Egitto (E pur cosi....Piangero la sorte mia....Dall'ondoso periglio)
Singer: Christophe Dumaux. Singer: Louise Alder. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Harry Bicket.- Handel: Giulio Cesare.
- Linn.
- 6 & 7.
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