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2020's Records of the Week

Hannah French presents the 'creme-de-la-creme', a round-up of some of the releases picked as Record Review's Records of the Week in 2020.

Hannah French presents the 'creme-de-la-creme', a round-up of some of the releases picked as Record Review's Records of the Week last year.

Music includes Shchedrin from Mariss Jansons, Ravel from Les Siecles and the recommended version from yesterday's Building a Library review of Brahms's exuberant Horn Trio.

2 hours, 29 minutes

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in D Minor after Alessando Marcello, BWV.974

    Performer: Alessio Bax.
    • Italian Inspirations.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 101.
  • Maurice Ravel

    La Valse

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Ravel: La Valse - Mussorgsky: Les Tableaux d'une exposition (Orch. Ravel).
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 116.
  • Jules Massenet

    Thais: Act One (finale)

    Singer: Erin Wall. Singer: Joshua Hopkins. Singer: Andrew Staples. Choir: Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. Orchestra: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.1 in C major Op.21 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Bernhard Forck.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Horn Trio in E flat major, Op. 40

    Performer: David Guerrier. Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: Nicholas Angelich.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    John Passion, BWV 245 (Part One, nos.12-14)

    Singer: James Gilchrist. Singer: Hana Bla啪铆kov谩. Singer: Damien Guillon. Singer: Zachary Wilder. Singer: Christian Immler. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S. Bach: St. John Passion, BWV 245.
    • BIS.
    • 113.
  • Rodion Shchedrin

    Carmen-Suite (After Bizet's WD 31)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.

Broadcast

  • Sun 3 Jan 2021 21:00