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CD Review

on BBC Radio 3

With Andrew McGregor, who plays some of this month's newest releases.

9.30 Building a Library
Iain Burnside recommends a version of Stravinsky's ballet Les Noces.

10.35 David Huckvale reviews new releases of orchestral music, including recordings of Dvorak's Symphony No 9 in E minor (From the New World) from the Berlin Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado and from the Prague Symphony Orchestra under Libor Pesek, Bruckner from Georg Tintner, Bruch from Richard Hickox and Brahms's Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor with Danish pianist Nikolaj Koppel.

11.00 An interview with violinist David Harrington, who talks about his recording career with the Kronos Quartet and about the forthcoming release of the quartet's new album Caravan.

11.30 Radio 3's Disc of the Week: Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique) - Kirov Orchestra, conductor Valery Gergiev

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Contributors

Presenter:
Andrew McGregor
Presenter (Building a Library):
Iain Burnside
Reviewer:
David Huckvale
Interviewee:
David Harrington
Producer:
Clive Portbury
Producer:
Andrew Lyle
Producer:
Susan Kenyon

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