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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 Roderick Swanston recommends the best of the currently available recordings of Grieg's Holberg Suite.
10.15 A round-up of recent reissues.
10.50 William Mival reviews new contemporary music recordings, including Philip Glass's Symphony No 6 (Plutonian Odes),
Henryk Gorecki 's Symphony No 3, and John Cage piano works performed by Martine Joste.
11.20 Andrew McGregor talks to pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja about late Schubert, miniature
Brahms, her life in the former Soviet Union and her duo partnership with Sviatoslav Richter.
11.55 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:
Koechlin Chant Funebre a la Mémoire des
Jeunes Femmes Défuntes, Op 37 Stuttgart Radio Vocal Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Heinz Holliger 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

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Andrew McGregor
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Roderick Swanston
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William Mival
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Henryk Gorecki
Piano:
John Cage
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Martine Joste.
Talks:
Andrew McGregor
Pianist:
Elisabeth Leonskaja
Unknown:
Sviatoslav Richter.
Conductor:
Heinz Holliger

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