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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 Nicholas Baragwanath and Sarah Walker

Andrew McGregor with Nicholas Baragwanath and Sarah Walker

BBC Radio 3 - Record Review, Andrew McGregor with Nicholas Baragwanath and Sarah Walker

Building a Library on Mahler's Symphony No 4 and the LA Phil at 100.

Andrew McGregor rounds up the best new and recent releases and, in Building a Library, Nicholas Baragwanath compares recordings of Mahler's Symphony No 4. Plus, the LA Phil at 100.

with Andrew McGregor. 

09.30
Building a Library: Nicholas Baragwanath listens to and compares some of the available recordings of Mahler's 4th Symphony.

Mahler wrote his 4th Symphony on the very cusp of the Twentieth Century and it was premiered in Munich on 25th November 1901.  Since Mahler's death, his 4th Symphony has come to be recognised as one of his most 'classical' and approachable of his symphonic works, although it was considered to be a sacrilegious modernist work at the time of its premiere.  It completes the tetralogy of his first four symphonies, his 'Wunderhorn' symphonies, so called because they each reversion music from his orchestral Wunderhorn songs.  In the case of the Fourth Symphony, it is the disquieting song 'Das himmlische leben' that permeates the entire work and then comes to the fore when solo soprano joins forces with the orchestra for the final movement.

Mahler's 4th Symphony is not scored for a very large orchestra and includes neither trombones nor tuba.  In it, Mahler also makes wonderful use of 'Klangfarben', voices emerging from one another within the orchestra.

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Sarah Walker reviews the new DG 35-CD box set 'LA Phil Centenary Edition', which includes recordings from Stravinsky to Dudamel and Giulini to Esa-Pekka Salonen.


11.25
Andrew chooses an outstanding new release as his Disc of the Week.

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