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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: Haydn's The Creation in Building a Library with Jeremy Summerly and Andrew McGregor

Haydn's The Creation in Building a Library with Jeremy Summerly and Andrew McGregor

BBC Radio 3 - Record Review, Haydn's The Creation in Building a Library with Jeremy Summerly and Andrew McGregor

Jeremy Summerly chooses his favourite recording of Haydn's The Creation.

In Building a Library Jeremy Summerly chooses his favourite recording of Haydn's The Creation. plus celebrated oboist Nicholas Daniel shares his selection of the best new releases.

Andrew McGregor with the best new recordings of classical music.

9.30 am
Celebrated British oboist Nicholas Daniel brings a clutch of new releases  into the studio and shares his On Repeat track, music which he has been listening to again and again.

10.30 am
Jeremy Summerly chooses his favourite recording of Joseph Haydn's The Creation.

Haydn's The Creation was his late, great response at the end of the 18th century to hearing large-scale performances of Handel's oratorios in London. Through rousing choruses, tuneful solo numbers and often spectacular orchestration, it tells the Biblical creation story, beginning with God's reorganisation of chaos and ending with Adam and Eve, happy in the prelapsarian Garden of Eden. 

To begin with, The Creation was an instant hit in England and on the Continent. However, outside Austria, as the 19th century progressed, the charms of its musical representations of nature – roaring lions, cooing doves, buzzing insects, bleating sheep and the like – began to pall (Berlioz famously declared that hearing The Creation made him want to murder someone). But now Haydn has had the last laugh and The Creation has long-been a staple of amateur choral societies and professional performers, with an extensive recorded catalogue. 

Jeremy's choice:
Katharina Konradi (soprano)
Julian Habermann (tenor)
Tobias Berndt (baritone)
Gaechinger Cantorey
Hans-Christoph Rademann (conductor)

11.20 am
Record of the Week: Andrew’s top pick.

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