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A thorough look at the week's classical music releases, plus news and recommendations.

A thorough look at the week's classical music releases, plus news and the Radio 3 Disc of the Week recommendation.

Record Review: Andrew McGregor with Hannah French and Mark Lowther

05/05/2018

Andrew McGregor with Hannah French and Mark Lowther

BBC Radio 3 - Record Review, Andrew McGregor with Hannah French and Mark Lowther

Building a Library on Corelli's Violin Sonatas Op 5; plus new releases of music by Mozart.

With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library.

with Andrew McGregor

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Building a Library: Corelli's Violin Sonatas Op 5 with Hannah French.

These exhilarating and inventive sonatas by Arcangelo Corelli were published in Rome in 1700 . They are subdivided into church sonatas and chamber sonatas and the last sonata is the famous "Follia", which contains 23 variations for solo violin. 

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Andrew talks to Mark Lowther about new releases of music by Mozart and Haydn etc.

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Andrew chooses an outstanding new release as his Disc of the Week.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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