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CD Review

on BBC Radio 3

Andrew McGregor plays new CD releases.
9.30 Building a Library: Chris de Souza recommends a recording of Brahms's Serenade No 2 in A, Op 16, from those currently available.
10.15 A round-up of recent reissues.
10.45 David Owen Norris reviews new chamber music discs, including Beethoven from the Takacs Quartet and the Florestan Trio, and Mendelssohn and Dvorak from the Beaux Arts Trio.
11.15 An interview with Neil Levin and Paul Schwendener of the Milken Archive about their three-year project to release 52 discs of American-Jewish music from Kurt Weill to
Klezmer, and from cantors to Yiddish theatre.
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: Barber Vanessa
(excerpt) Christine Brewer (soprano: Vanessa), Susan Graham (mezzo: Erika),
Catherine Wyn-Rogers (contralto: Old Baroness), William Burden (tenor: Anatol), Neal Davies (baritone: Old Doctor), Simon Birchall (bass: Nicholas), Stephen Charlesworth (baritone: Footman),
BBC Singers, BBCSO, conductor Leonard Slatkin www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview PHONE:[number removed]email: cdreview@bbcxo.uk Text:[number removed] Disc details are posted on the website and on CEEFAX, BBCI, page 651

Contributors

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Andrew McGregor
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David Owen Norris
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Neil Levin
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Paul Schwendener
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Kurt Weill
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Barber Vanessa
Soprano:
Christine Brewer
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Susan Graham
Contralto:
Catherine Wyn-Rogers
Tenor:
William Burden
Baritone:
Neal Davies
Bass:
Simon Birchall
Baritone:
Stephen Charlesworth
Conductor:
Leonard Slatkin

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