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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: Summer Record Review: Andrew McGregor with Simon Heighes and Ariane Todes

Andrew McGregor with Simon Heighes and Ariane Todes

Summer Record Review

BBC Radio 3 - Record Review, Summer Record Review, Andrew McGregor with Simon Heighes and Ariane Todes

Simon Heighes chooses five indispensable recordings of featured Proms composer Handel.

Simon Heighes chooses five indispensable recordings of works by featured Proms composer Handel and explains why they need to be heard.  Plus this week's outstanding new releases.

Proms Composer: Handel
Each Saturday during Summer Record Review, one of the programme's  stalwart chooses five indispensable recordings of a great composer featured in the Proms. Today, Simon Heighes plays his top five Handel discs and tells us why you need to hear them.

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Ariane Todes compares 2 CD boxes of recordings made by some of the most legendary of violinists: a 15-CD set of Joseph Szigeti and a 10-CD set of Max Rostal, both for Milestones of a Violin Legend.

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Proms Recording: 
Each week during Summer Record Review, we select a major work from the Proms and play you the current Building a Library recommendation. Today, it's an extract from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream performed by Kathleen Battle and Frederica von Stade as first and second fairies and Dame Judi Dench as the narrator with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa.

Record Review: Summer Record Review

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.

Andrew McGregor with the latest classical recordings and music featured in the BBC Proms.

Andrew McGregor with the latest classical music releases and a focus on recordings of some of the great music featured in the current season of the BBC Proms.

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