Record Review

Original version

BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

Magazines & Reviews

Music: Classical

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: Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21, 'Elvira Madigan', in Building a Library with Natasha Loges and Andrew McGregor

Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21, 'Elvira Madigan', in Building a Library with Natasha Loges and Andrew McGregor

BBC Radio 3 - Record Review, Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21, 'Elvira Madigan', in Building a Library with Natasha Loges and Andrew McGregor

Natasha Loges chooses her favourite recording of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21 in C.

In Building a Library, Natasha Loges chooses her favourite recording of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21 in C, 'Elvira Madigan', plus the best new classical releases assessed.

Andrew McGregor with the best new recordings of classical music.

9.30 am
Leah Broad brings a selection of new releases to the studio, and in On Repeat she shares a track with Andrew and explains her current preoccupation with it.

10.30 am
Building a Library
Natasha Loges chooses her favourite recording of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467 ('Elvira Madigan').

Perhaps the only piece of music to be named after a Swedish slack line dancer, Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 gained its soubriquet after its remarkable slow movement was used as part of the soundtrack to the 1967 film Elvira Madigan. But circus acts or no, this concerto from 1785 is Mozart at the absolute height of his powers, the foremost pianist-composer of his day, breaking new ground with a series of concertos whose musical depth, virtuosity, inventiveness, woodwind writing and symphonic scale were all unprecedented. 

There are literally hundreds of recordings of this great work, many made by the giants of 20th- and 21st-century piano-playing on modern pianos. But intriguingly, there is a much smaller, if growing number made by musicians who use instruments of the period, allowing us to hear the extraordinary range of colours and textures conjured up by Mozart and which he himself would have heard.    

11.20 am
Record of the Week
An exceptional new release.

Send us your On Repeat recommendations at recordreview@bbc.co.uk or tweet us @BBCRadio3

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.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Record Review

Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21, 'Elvira Madigan', in Building a Library with Natasha Loges and Andrew McGregor

Genres

Brand

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3