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Purcell's Anthems in Building a Library with Nicholas Kenyon and Andrew McGregor

Nicholas Kenyon's recommendation from the many diverse recordings of Purcell's Anthems, along with the best of the week's new releases.

Nicholas Kenyon's recommendation from the many diverse recordings of Purcell's Anthems, along with the best of the week's new releases

Presented by Andrew McGregor

2.00pm
Writer Flora Willson with a handful of her favourite new releases

3.00pm
Building a Library
Nicholas Kenyon with his personal recommendation from Purcell's numerous anthems. Compact in size and often chamber-like in texture, there is a truly wide range of styles and interpretations for him to discuss with Andrew
Recommended recording: Choir of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford, The English Concert, Simon Preston (Archiv)

3.45pm
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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.35 in D major K.385 'Haffner' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Il Pomo d鈥橭ro. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 35 & 36, Violin Concerto No. 3.
    • Aparte.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite no.1 in G Major BWV.1007 (Gigue)

    Performer: Anastasia Kobekina.
    • Bach: Cello Suites.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Tornami a dir che m'ami (Don Pasquale)

    Singer: Erin Morley. Singer: Lawrence Brownlee. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ivan Repu拧i膰.
    • Golden Age.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 09.

  • William Walton

    Sinfonia Concertante (Allegro vivo)

    Performer: Clare Hammond. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: George Vass.
    • Bis.

  • Marie Ja毛ll

    Dans un r锚ve (Allegretto & Andantino)

    Performer: Manon Galy. Performer: H茅lo茂se Luzzati. Performer: C茅lia Oneto Bensaid.
    • La Bo卯te 脿 P茅pites.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Ein Deutsches Requiem Op.45 (Selig sind, die da Leid tragen)

    Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Rapha毛l Pichon.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Florence Price

    Organ Sonata no.1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Tom Winpenny.
    • Naxos.

  • Florence Price

    Caprice in F major

    Performer: Tom Winpenny.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.

  • Louis Spohr

    String Sextet in C major Op.140 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne Chamber Players.
    • The Romantic Room: Chamber Works by Spohr.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 08.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker - concert suite (Pas de deux)

    Music Arranger: Mikhail Pletnev. Performer: Andrey Gugnin.
    • Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker & Sleeping Beauty Suites; Stravinsky: Firebird &.
    • Hyperion.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    ViolinSonata in G major Op.96 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Performer: Alasdair Beatson.
    • Beethoven: Violin Sonatas No. 2 and No. 10.
    • Signum Records.
    • 6.

  • Michael Tippett

    A Child of our Time (Part 2 - extract)

    Singer: Nadine Benjamin. Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Singer: Kenneth Tarver. Singer: Roderick Williams. Choir: London Philharmonic Choir. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.

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