9.05 Record Review continues with Richard Osbome.
Building a Library: Beethoven's String
Quartets, Op 74 (Harp) and Op 95 (Serioso) usually come together on one disc. Richard Wigmore assesses this contrasted pair. Stephen Plaistow also has comparisons in his new releases of piano music: Chopin on fortepianos of the 1830s and modem grands, and Mozart from Shelley, Larrocha and Pletnev.
10.35 Record Release
Chopin 12 Etudes, Op 25 John Bingham (piano)
11.11 Britten Diversions
Leon Fleisher (piano left hand)
Boston SO/Seiji Ozawa
11.37 Chopin Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op 52
Alexei Lyubimov (Erard piano)
11.49 DG have remixed
Karajan's best-selling early digital recordings and claim they have come up with Karajan Gold.
Richard Osbome talks to
Klaus Hiemann of DG's
Hamburg recording centre about the technology and asks Stephen Johnson to sample the results, ending with the 1984 recording of
12.30 Beethoven
Symphony No 8 in F Berlin PO. Discs
Producers Nick Morgan and Clive Portbury
(9.05-10.35am repeated Wednesday 2.00pm)