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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 Jonathan Swain recommends a recording of Janacek's Taras Bulba from those currently available on CD.
10.15 A round-up of recent reissues.
10.45 Lowri Blake reviews recent string quartet releases, including Debussy and Zemlinsky from the Cuarteto Casals , Tchaikovsky from the Brodsky Quartet, and a complete Mendelssohn cycle from the Emerson Quartet.
11.15 Andrew McGregor talks to conductor Jean-Claude Casadesus about musical life in a French industrial city, how he brought the Lille Orchestra back from the brink, and their new recording of Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne.
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: Britten Death in Venice, Op 88 (excerpt) Philip Langridge (tenor), Alan Opie (baritone), Michael Chance (alto), BBC Singers, City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox
www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview PHONE: [number removed]0300 email: cdreview@bbc.co.uk Text: [number removed] Disc details are posted on the website and on CEEFAX, BBC1, page 651

Contributors

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Andrew McGregor
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Jonathan Swain
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Lowri Blake
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Cuarteto Casals
Talks:
Andrew McGregor
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Claude Casadesus
Tenor:
Philip Langridge
Tenor:
Alan Opie
Baritone:
Michael Chance

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