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Record Review: Bach's Motets on Building a Library with Simon Heighes and Andrew McGregor

Bach's Motets on Building a Library with Simon Heighes and Andrew McGregor

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Simon Heighes chooses his favourite version of Bach's Motets on Building a Library.

with Andrew McGregor

9.30 Building a Library
Simon Heighes chooses his favourite version of Bach's Motets.

These technically challenging works contain some of Bach's very best music and can be thrilling in performance by a top-notch group of singers. The St. Thomas School in Leipzig where Bach worked kept these pieces in the repertory of its Thomanerchor after the composer's death. And they performed one of them, Singet dem Herrn for Mozart in 1789. His motets are his only vocal works that stayed in the repertoire without interruption between his death in 1750 and the 19th-century Bach Revival.

10.45
Natasha Loges reviews recent recordings of chamber music by Mozart, Astor Piazzolla, Florence Price and songs by Viardot-García, Schumann and Mahler.

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

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