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Record Review: Mozart's Symphony No 39 in E flat on Building a Library with Nicholas Kenyon and Andrew McGregor

Mozart's Symphony No 39 in E flat on Building a Library with Nicholas Kenyon and Andrew McGregor

BBC Radio 3 - Record Review, Mozart's Symphony No 39 in E flat on Building a Library with Nicholas Kenyon and Andrew McGregor

Nicholas Kenyon chooses his favourite recording of Mozart's Symphony No 39 in E flat.

The best new classical releases, plus Nicholas Kenyon chooses his favourite recording of Mozart's late, great Symphony No 39 in E flat, plus Katy Hamilton on Bruno Walter.

with Andrew McGregor

9.30
Building a Library
Nicholas Kenyon chooses his favourite recording of Mozart's late, great Symphony No. 39 in E flat major.

Summer 1788. Broke and out of favour with the fickle Viennese public, Mozart completes the remarkable trio of his final three symphonies in just nine weeks. No. 39 is the first of the set, exuberant and full of energy, ending with a characteristically ingenious and playful Mozartian touch: an effervescent moto perpetuo finale whose second theme is the first theme in disguise.

10.45
During his lifetime, conductor Bruno Walter's reputation could hardly have been higher. Born in Germany in 1876, assistant and protégé of Mahler, peer of Toscanini, Walter was a key interpreter of the classical and Romantic Austro-German core repertoire but in the decades since his death in 1962 he seems to have been largely forgotten. Katy Hamilton has been listening to the 77-CDs in Sony's new box of Bruno Walter's US recordings for the Columbia label and makes a contemporary assessment.

11.20
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