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Summer CD Review

on BBC Radio 3

Andrew McGregor plays some of this month's classical music CD releases.
9.30 Building a Library Revisited:
Ahead of tonight's Proms performance (at 7.30pm), Geoffrey Smith surveys the available recordings of Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore.
10.15 A round-up of recent reissues.
10.50 Simon Heighes reviews new releases of Baroque music, including Handel's opera Rodelinda, and Monteverdi discs from
La Venexiana and soprano Maria Cristina Kiehr.
11.20 Conductor Kurt Masur talks to
Andrew McGregor about life as a musician in the former German Democratic Republic and his love of the music of Mendelssohn and Shostakovich.
11.55 The Listening Booth Your chance to request some of the latest CD releases from the list on the programme website .
12.25 Disc of the Week: Mendelssohn Octet in E flat, Op 20 Ensemble Explorations www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview PHONE: [number removed]email: cdreview@bbc.co.uk Text: [number removed] Disc details are posted on the website and on CEEFAX, BBC1, page 651

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGregor
Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
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Simon Heighes
Soprano:
Maria Cristina Kiehr.
Conductor:
Kurt Masur
Unknown:
Andrew McGregor

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