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Record Review

on BBC Radio 3

Presented by Paul Guinery and, from 9.05am, Anthony Burton.

First, Paul Guinery introduces two hours of new releases.

Bach French Suite No 1 in D minor (BWV 812) - Andras Schiff (piano)

7.15 Crusell Divertimento in C, Op 9 - Simon Dent (oboe) South West German
Chamber Orchestra, conductor Vladislav Czarnecki

7.27 Strauss Suite in B flat for 13 wind instruments, Op 4 - London Winds, conductor Michael Collins

7.52 Telemann Der Tag des Gerichts (part 1) - Ann Monoyios (soprano) David Cordier (alto) Wilfried Jochens (tenor) Stephan Schreckenberger (bass) Rheinische Kantorei Das Kleine Konzert, conductor Hermann Max

8.21 Tchaikovsky The Sleeping Beauty (Act 1) - Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, conductor Valery Gergiev

9.00 News

9.05 Building a Library
Handel's Concerti Grossi, Op 3 by Nicholas Anderson. Rodney Milnes on four new operas: Beethoven's Fidelio conducted by Christoph von Dohnanyi, Prokofiev's War and Peace from St Petersburg, the first recording of Britten's Gloriana, and a rarity: Virgil Thomson's Lord Byron.

10.35 Record Release: Prokofiev The Ball (War and Peace)
Yelena Prokina, Olga Borodina, Irina Bogachova, Alexandr Gergalov, Gegam Gregorian, Yuri Marusin, Alexandr Morozov, Kirov Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Valery Gergiev

10.57 Britten Courtly Dances (Gloriana)
Josephine Barstow, Della Jones, Yvonne Kenny, Philip Langridge, Jonathan Summers, Richard van Allan, Welsh National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras

11.20 Not long before he died, the great Russian conductor Kirill Kondrashin moved to the West. Luckily, Dutch radio captured his last performances with the Concertgebouw. Karel Janovicky welcomes Philips's CD reissues as well as earlier Soviet recordings now available on the new label Russian Disc.

12.24 Prokofiev Symphony No 3 - Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Kirill Kondrashin

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Contributors

Presenter:
Paul Guinery
Presenter:
Anthony Burton
Presenter (Building a Library):
Rodney Milnes
Presenter (Kirill Kondrashin):
Karel Janovicky
Producer:
Nick Morgan
Producer:
Clive Portbury

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