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CD Review

on BBC Radio 3

Andrew McGregor plays some of this month's classical music CD releases.
9.30 Building a Library: Colin Lawson recommends a recording of Schoenberg's Chamber
Symphony No 1 from those currently available.
10.15 With John Eliot Gardiner launching his own record label devoted to Bach cantatas, and complete cycles under way from Ton Koopman and Masaaki Suzuki , Andrew McGregor discusses the current state of Bach cantata performance with Jonathan Freeman-Attwood .
10.45 Catherine Bott reviews recent discs of vocal music, including recitals by Dawn Upshaw and Thomas Allen , Mahler song cycles from
Thomas Quasthoff , Violeta Urmana and Anne Sofie von Otter, and Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne from Véronique Gens.
11.15 Andrew McGregor talks to violinist Pekka Kuusisto about musical life in Finland and his new disc of Mozart concertos.
11.45 The Listening Booth: Your chance to request some of the latest CD releases from the list on the programme website .
12.30 Disc of the Week: Monteverdi Vesprodella Beata Vergine (excerpt) Soloists, Concerto Italiano, conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview PHONE: [number removed]0300 email: cdreviewdibbc.co.uk Text: [number removed] Disc details are posted on the website and on CEEFAX, BBC1, page 651

Contributors

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Andrew McGregor
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Colin Lawson
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John Eliot Gardiner
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Masaaki Suzuki
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Andrew McGregor
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Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
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Catherine Bott
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Dawn Upshaw
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Thomas Allen
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Thomas Quasthoff
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Violeta Urmana
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Andrew McGregor
Violinist:
Pekka Kuusisto
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Monteverdi Vesprodella
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Beata Vergine
Conductor:
Rinaldo Alessandrini

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