Summer Record Review

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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: BBC Proms Composer: Schumann with Katy Hamilton and Andrew McGregor

BBC Proms Composer: Schumann with Katy Hamilton and Andrew McGregor

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Katy Hamilton chooses five indispensable recordings of BBC Proms Composer Robert Schumann.

Katy Hamilton chooses five indispensable recordings of BBC Proms Composer Robert Schumann and explains why you need to hear them. Plus a round up of top new classical releases.

Andrew McGregor with the best new recordings of classical music.

9.30 am
BBC Proms Composer: Robert Schumann
Katy Hamilton chooses five indispensable recordings of BBC Proms Composer Robert Schumann and explains why you need to hear them. Katy also shares her 'On Repeat' track – a recording which she is currently listening to again and again.

Friends with Mendelssohn and Brahms, Robert Schumann was one of the major Romantic composers and music critics of the first half of the 19th Century. Schumann first intended to be a lawyer, and then a virtuoso pianist but thwarted by a hand injury he began to compose, to begin with exclusively for solo piano. His output expanded to a huge number of songs, plus chamber music, orchestral (including four symphonies) and choral works. Throughout his adult life he was plagued both by mental illness and by his future and eventual father-in-law (and piano teacher) Friedrich Wieck who furiously opposed Schumann's marriage to his daughter, Clara. He died in an asylum at the age of 46 in 1856, leaving a musical legacy which is central to today's repertoire.    

11.15 am
Proms Recording:
To round off each edition of Summer Record Review, Andrew introduces the Building a Library recommendation of a major work featured in this year's BBC Proms:

Elgar
Enigma Variations        
London Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Monteux (conductor)

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