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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: Brahms's Clarinet Trio in Building a Library with Natasha Loges and Andrew McGregor

Brahms's Clarinet Trio in Building a Library with Natasha Loges and Andrew McGregor

BBC Radio 3 - Record Review, Brahms's Clarinet Trio in Building a Library with Natasha Loges and Andrew McGregor

Natasha Loges chooses her favourite version of Brahms's Clarinet Trio.

In Building a Library Natasha Loges chooses her favourite version of Brahms's Clarinet Trio, and Jeremy Sams shares some exciting new releases.

Andrew McGregor with the best new recordings of classical music.

9.30 am
Jeremy Sams shares some exciting new releases.

10.30 am
In Building a Library Natasha Loges chooses her favourite version of Brahms's Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114.

Brahms' Clarinet Trio is one of his great late chamber works. It was written in the summer of 1891 for the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld whose playing Brahms adored and whom he referred to as his Fräulein Klarinette, or "his dear nightingale". A friend of Brahms, wrote of the trio that "It is as though the instruments were in love with each other." The painter Adolph Menzel was in the audience during the first public performance. He was so moved that he sketched Mühlfeld in the guise of a Greek god, saying to Brahms, "We often think of you here, and often enough, comparing notes, we confess our suspicions that on a certain night the Muse itself appeared in person for the purpose of executing a certain woodwind part. On this page I have tried to capture the sublime vision."

Natasha's recommended recording:
Emanuel Ax (piano), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Richard Stoltzman (clarinet) 
Decca 4101142

Also recommended: 
George Pieterson (clarinet), Menahem Pressler (piano), Bernard Greenhouse (cello) 
Philips 4383652

András Schiff (piano), Peter Schmidl (clarinet), Friedrich Dolezal (cello) 
Decca 4101142


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