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Record Review: Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No 3 on Building a Library with Kate Molleson and Andrew McGregor

Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No 3 on Building a Library with Kate Molleson and Andrew McGregor

BBC Radio 3 - Record Review, Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No 3 on Building a Library with Kate Molleson and Andrew McGregor

Kate Molleson chooses her favourite recording of Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No 3.

Kate Molleson chooses her favourite recording of Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No 3 and Jeremy Summerly rounds up new choral recordings. Plus the best new classical releases.

with Andrew McGregor

9.30
Building a Library
Kate Molleson chooses her favourite recording of Béla Bartók Piano Concerto No. 3.

In a desperate fight against the clock, Bartók finished his final piano concerto (and but for its last 17 bars, his final completed work) just four days before his death in New York on 26th September 1945. More lyrical and less angular than his first two concertos, the third is much recorded, including by many of the biggest and starriest pianists of our times. Perhaps its most memorable music is the central slow movement, based on Beethoven's 'Heiliger Dankgesang' (Holy song of thanksgiving), the middle movement of his string quartet Op. 132, written by Beethoven after he had recovered from illness.  Like the Beethoven, Bartók's music here is apparently simple and serene and features, too, a wonderful example of his night music, including evocative bird calls and a magical blending of orchestra and solo piano.

10.40
Jeremy Summerly has been listening to an eclectic bunch of new choral recordings and shares the best of them.  


11.20
Record of the Week
Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.

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