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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 William Mival and Anna Lapwood

Andrew McGregor with William Mival and Anna Lapwood

BBC Radio 3 - Record Review, Andrew McGregor with William Mival and Anna Lapwood

Building a Library on Mahler's Symphony No 3, plus new choral releases.

The best new classical and choral releases and, in Building a Library, William Mival compares recordings of Mahler's Symphony No 3 and picks a favourite.

9.30 
Building a Library: William Mival compares recordings of Mahler's 3rd Symphony - and picks a favourite.

Mahler's monumental 3rd Symphony, completed in 1896, remains to this day the longest symphony in the standard repertory, and one of the most powerful, taking around 90 minutes to perform all six movements.  Composed largely in Mahler's hut on the edge of the Attersee in Austria, his 3rd Symphony is a musical embodiment of nature and the 6 movements together depict what Mahler wrote to his friend Max Marschalk as 'A Summer's Midday Dream.  There are traces of subtitles to each movement, although they were dropped before publication, and the whole symphony opens as 'Pan Awakes' and 'Summer Marches In'.  The first movement takes 30 minutes alone and forms Part 1 of the symphony, while the remaining five movements form Part 2.  The fourth movement sets words from Nietzsche's 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra', to be sung by mezzo-soprano, and the fifth movement sets words from Das Knaben Wunderhorn.

10.50
Conductor and organist, Anna Lapwood, joins Andrew to discuss new and recent releases of choral music.

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

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