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Andrew McGregor with the best new recordings of classical music. 1405 Allyson Devenish selects her pick of the best new releases 1500 Nigel Simeone chooses his favourite recording of Richard Strauss's compilation of incidental music to Molière's play, Le bourgeois gentilhomme. Originally conceived as incidental music for an adaptation of Molière's play that was to be prefixed to a performance of his opera, Ariadne auf Naxos, the trajectory of Strauss' music for Le bourgeois gentilhomme was somewhat convoluted before settling into a nine-movement concert suite we know today. Recreating the mood of the seventeenth century, Strauss invokes the spirit the French composer Lully - who had written the original incidental music to Molière's play in 1670 – and draws rich instrumental colours from a chamber orchestra comprised just three dozen musicians, while deploying the musical language of the twentieth century. Recommended recording: Scottish Chamber Orchestra Richard Armstrong (conductor) CHANDOS CHAN 3168(2) 1545 Record of the Week: Andrew’s top pick. To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask ��ѿ��ý Sounds to play Record Review”