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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: Record Store Day: Andrew McGregor, Katy Hamilton and Chris O'Reilly

Record Store Day: Andrew McGregor, Katy Hamilton and Chris O'Reilly

BBC Radio 3 - Record Review, Record Store Day: Andrew McGregor, Katy Hamilton and Chris O'Reilly

Building a Library on Brahms's Cello Sonata No 1 in E minor, Op 38, plus Record Store Day.

Andrew McGregor rounds up the best new and recent releases, and in Building a Library Katy Hamilton compares recordings of Brahms's First Cello Sonata. Plus, Record Store Day.

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09.30
Building a Library: Katy Hamilton listens to and compares recordings of Brahms' Cello Sonata No.1 in E minor, Op.38.

Brahms composed his first cello sonata between 1862 and 1865, and it was to mark a turning point in his compositional style, away from the exuberant youthfulness of his previous sonata works and towards a more mature character with echoes of the great Austro-German lineage that lay before him.  In it Brahms pays homage to Bach, most notably in the fugal finale, which emerges from a theme that echoes the mirror fugues of Contrapunctus numbers 16 and 17 of the Art of Fugue.  The first movement is a classic sonata form while the second movement, an Allegretto and Trio, is reminiscent of Mozart.  The cello sonata was premiered in Leipzig on 14th January 1871.

10.50
Andrew McGregor marks Record Store Day and is joined in the studio by CEO of Presto Classical, Chris O'Reilly, who brings his pick of the latest releases to hit the shelves of record stores.  Andrew McGregor also discusses the story from the High Street with Jim Elliott, who is Head of the Music Department at Foyles, he finds out what consumers are listening to with Katy Hamilton, and gets up to speed on where classical music downloads are with Steve Long, the Director of Signum Records.

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

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