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Record Review: Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements with Jonathan Cross and Andrew McGregor

Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements with Jonathan Cross and Andrew McGregor

BBC Radio 3 - Record Review, Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements with Jonathan Cross and Andrew McGregor

Jonathan Cross chooses a favourite recording of Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements.

Jonathan Cross chooses a favourite recording of Stravinsky's Symphony in 3 Movements, and Katy Hamilton reviews Andris Nelsons's new Strauss boxset recorded in Boston and Leipzig.

9.30 am
Building a Library
Jonathan Cross compares recordings of Igor Stravinsky's Symphony in 3 Movements and picks a favourite.

The first movement of Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements began life as a piano concerto. And in a failed bid to join the ranks of well-paid movie composers in Hollywood where Stravinsky now lived, the second movement, with its prominent harp part, was originally conceived to accompany a vision of the Virgin Mary in the 1943 film Song of Bernadette. Stravinsky's genius was to add a third movement, related to the first, and so create a cohesive, satisfying and brilliant whole despite the disparate origins of its first two parts. He completed the Symphony in 1945 and, despite a deeply felt sense of exile, loss and nostalgia, it's perhaps some of the most American-sounding of Stravinsky's music, capped by a resplendent final chord, straight out of Hollywood. 

10.40 am
Katy Hamilton has been listening to 'Strauss Alliance', Andris Nelsons's tempting selection of Richard Strauss's orchestral works and operatic bleeding chunks, showcasing his two orchestras, the Boston Symphony and Leipzig Gewandhaus. 

11.20 am
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