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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 Jeremy Summerly and Harriet Smith

Andrew McGregor with Jeremy Summerly and Harriet Smith

BBC Radio 3 - Record Review, Andrew McGregor with Jeremy Summerly and Harriet Smith

Andrew McGregor with Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms plus Russian and French piano music.

Andrew McGregor with Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms and piano music from Alkan, Rachmaninov and Prokofiev.

with Andrew McGregor

09.30
Building a Library: Jeremy Summerly is in the hot seat, sifting through recordings of Stravinsky's austerely beautiful Symphony of Psalms.

A choral symphony from the composer's 'neoclassical' period, Stravinsky's compact, three-movement work has been fortunate on record with a wide range of interpretations from all round the world.  It inhabits a unique sound world, omitting as it does clarinets, violins and violas, and comparisons are guaranteed to be fascinating.

10.50
Harriet Smith joins Andrew for a round-up of recent virtuoso piano recordings, including Alkan from Paul Wee, Rachmaninov from Daniel Trifonov and Prokofiev from Alexander Melnikov.

11.25
Andrew chooses an outstanding new release as his Recording 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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