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Summer CD Review

on BBC Radio 3

Andrew McGregor introduces the latest releases, and trawls through some of the CDs of the past season.
9.05 New releases of early music from Spain, France and the Low Countries, including recordings from Jordi Savall 's Hesperion XXI and from baroque guitarist William Carter.
10.00 A survey of recent releases from the Lyrita
Recorded Edition, a ground-breaking project founded in 1959 that explores little-known masterpieces of the British classical canon, including a sonorously scored evocation of the River Thames by Elizabeth Maconchy , EJ Moeran 's lyrical second Rhapsody, and the monumental Cello Concerto by Gerald Finzi , in the recording that launched the career of cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
10.30 Flnzi Cello Concerto
Yo-Yo Ma, RPO, conductor Vernon Handley
11.15 In its latest recording of Neapolitan Baroque music, Italian ensemble Cappella de'Turchini unearths a forgotten Requiem by Francesco Provenzale.
12.30 Disc of the Week:
Highlights from a new CD/DVD featuring the piano duo sisters Katia and Marielle Labeque. Stravinsky Three Easy Pieces: Ragtime; Valse des Fleurs; Tango www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview PHONE: [number removed]. (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) email: cdreview@bbc.co.uk Text [number removed] (standard rate) Disc details are posted on the website and on CEEFAX, BBC1, page 651;

Contributors

Introduces:
Andrew McGregor
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Jordi Savall
Guitarist:
William Carter.
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Elizabeth MacOnchy
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Ej Moeran
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Gerald Finzi
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Yo-Yo Ma.
Conductor:
Vernon Handley
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Francesco Provenzale.
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Marielle Labeque.

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