Mahler's Symphony No. 5 in Building a Library with Alice Farnham and Andrew McGregor
Andrew McGregor with the best new classical releases, joined by violinist Adrian Chandler and conductor Alice Farnham, who picks her favourite recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 5.
Andrew McGregor with the best new classical releases, joined by violinist Adrian Chandler and conductor Alice Farnham, who picks her favourite recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 5.
2.10pm Andrew is joined by violinist Adrian Chandler, director of early music ensemble La Serenissima, to showcase some of the new releases that have caught his ear this week.
3pm Building a Library: conductor Alice Farnham surveys recordings of Mahler's Symphony No. 5 and makes a top recommendation.
Since his death in 1911, Gustav Mahler has come to occupy a central place in the history of music and in the orchestral repertory. His Symphony No. 5 is one of the most popular of Mahler's nine symphonies. It was composed during the summers of 1901 and 1902, in the middle of which period Mahler met Alma Schindler, the daughter of a famous landscape painter. Mahler proposed to her in December 1901, and the symphony, with its trajectory from mourning to triumph, reflects this development in its composer鈥檚 personal life.
Top choice:
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (cond.)
Decca 460 299 2
3.45pm Record of the Week: the new release that has most impressed Andrew this week.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony no.3 in D minor (Part 2; 2nd mvt)
Singer: Hanna Hipp. Choir: Tiffin Boys鈥� Choir. Choir: Philharmonia Chorus. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.- Harmonia Mundi.
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Franz Schubert
Das Wandern (Die sch枚ne M眉llerin D.795)
Music Arranger: Roderick Williams. Singer: Roderick Williams. Singer: Roderick Williams. Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.- Franz Schubert: Die sch枚ne M眉llerin. A new arrangement for baritone and string q.
- Signum Classics.
- 101.
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Orlando Gibbons
The Silver Swan
Choir: Gesualdo Six. Director: Owain Park.- Wishing Tree.
- Hyperion.
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Christoph Graupner
Sinfonia in F major GWV.566 (Air and Gigue)
Ensemble: Il Gardellino. Director: Florian Heyerick.- Christoph Graupner: Sinfonias.
- CPO.
- 506.
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Carl Heinrich Biber
Violin Sonata no.6 in C minor (Passacaglia)
Ensemble: Ayres Extemporae.- Linn.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Deuxieme suite in B Minor TWV.43 (Courante and Passpied)
Ensemble: Ensemble BAROCKIN'.- Georg Philipp Telemann Paris Quartets.
- raumklang.
- 24.
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Johannes Brahms
Violin sonata no.3 in D minor Op.108 (4th mvt)
Performer: Andrew Wan. Performer: Charles Richard鈥怘amelin.- Brahms - The Three Violin Sonatas.
- Analekta.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Peter and the Wolf (No sooner had Peter gone鈥nd now, this is how things stood鈥�)
Narrator: Viola Davis. Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.- Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 (Live).
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Sonata in E flat major Op.12 no.3 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.- Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Op. 12 & Op. 24.
- BIS.
- 106.
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Aaron Copland
Symphony no.3 (1st mvt)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.- Copland: Symphony No. 3 鈥� Walker: Sinfonia No. 5, "Visions".
- LSO Live.
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