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CD Review
Building a Library - Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn, strings
3 hours, 15 minutes on BBC Radio 3
With Andrew McGregor. Includes Building a Library - Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn, strings; Iain Burnside on Recent Chopin releases; Disc of the Week: Beethoven string quartets.
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