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ѿý Proms Composer: Bartok with Marina Frolova-Walker and Andrew McGregor

Andrew McGregor with the best new classical releases, and Marina Frolova-Walker selects five indispensable recordings of works by ѿý Proms composer Bartók

Andrew McGregor with the best new recordings of classical music

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ѿý Proms Composer: Béla Bartók
Marina Frolova-Walker selects five indispensable recordings of ѿý Proms Composer Béla Bartók

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Proms Recording
To round off each edition of Record Review during the ѿý Proms, Andrew introduces the Building a Library recommendation of a major work by a composer featured at this year's Proms.

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde - VI - Der Abschied
Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano)
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
Marc Albrecht (conductor)

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Music Played

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Le Cygne (Le carnaval des animaux)

    Music Arranger: Leopold Godowsky. Performer: Mats Lidström. Performer: Leif Kaner‐Lidström.
    • Hyperion.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto no.2 in E major BWV.1053 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Beatrice Rana. Orchestra: Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
    • Bach: Keyboard Concertos, BWV 1052, 1053, 1054 & 1056.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.
  • Max Reger

    Im Spiel der Wellen (4 Tone Poems After Arnold Böcklin Op.128)

    Orchestra: Gävle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Jaime Martín.
    • Reger: 4 Tone Poems After Arnold Böcklin, Op. 128 & Romantic Suite, Op. 125.
    • Ondine.
    • 102.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    La Clemenza di Tito K.621 (Act I March)

    Music Arranger: Alexander Gergelyfi. Performer: Alexander Gergelyfi.
    • Mozart's Clavichord.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 3.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Lacrimosa (Requiem in D minor K.626)

    Music Arranger: Alexander Gergelyfi. Performer: Alexander Gergelyfi.
    • Mozart's Clavichord.
    • 17.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Lacrimosa (Requiem in D minor K.626)

    Music Arranger: Franz Xaver Süssmayr. Choir: Warsaw Chamber Opera Chorus. Ensemble: Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense. Conductor: Adam Banaszak.
    • Mozart Requiem in D minor, K626.
    • DUX.
    • 8.
  • Alberto Ginastera

    String Quartet no.1 Op.20 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Miró Quartet.
    • Ginastera: String Quartets.
    • Pentatone.
    • 102.
  • Béla Bartók

    Duke Bluebeard's castle Sz.48 (5th and 6th Doors)

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Singer: John Tomlinson. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Béla Bartók

    String Quartet no.4 Sz.91 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Bartók: The String Quartets.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
  • Béla Bartók

    The Miraculous Mandarin Sz.73 (The girl sinks down to embrace him/The tramps leap out)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin; Dances of Transylvania, etc..
    • Decca.
  • Béla Bartók

    Concerto for Orchestra Sz.116 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Susanna Mälkki.
    • Bartók: Orchestral Works.
    • BIS.
    • 6.
  • Béla Bartók

    Piano Concerto no.2 Sz.95 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Peter Donohoe. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • 20th Century Classics: Bartók.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture (Suite) in E flat major TWV.55:Es4 (extract)

    Orchestra: L’Orfeo Barockorchester. Conductor: Carin van Heerden.
    • Telemann: VI Ouvertures à 4 ou 6 (1736).
    • CPO.
  • James MacMillan

    O Radiant Dawn

    Choir: The Gesualdo Six. Director: Owain Park.
    • Hyperion.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Dum transisset Sabbatum

    Performer: Matilda Lloyd. Choir: The Gesualdo Six. Director: Owain Park.
    • Hyperion.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Toccata & Fugue in D Minor BWV.565

    Music Arranger: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • King of Kings: Bach Orchestral Transcriptions.
    • Chandos.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde (Das Lied von der Erde)

    Singer: Burkhard Fritz. Orchestra: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest. Conductor: Marc Albrecht.
    • Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 1.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Der Einsame im Herbst (Das Lied von der Erde)

    Singer: Alice Coote. Orchestra: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest. Conductor: Marc Albrecht.
    • Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 2.

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