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Radio 3,09 Apr 2016,28 mins

Rob's Gold Standard

Saturday Classics

Available for over a year

Rob Cowan mines the archive for great recordings, forgotten musical heroes and repertory adventures This week, conductor Willem Mengelberg presents lively Handel from New York, Elly Ameling and Helen Watts sing Bach, while violinist Henryk Szeryng's account of Szymanowski's luminous Concerto no.2 is an unmissable classic of the gramophone.

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