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B茅la Bart贸k's String Quartet No 5 in Building a Library with Kate Molleson and Andrew McGregor

Kate Molleson chooses her favourite recording of Bela Bartok's String Quartet No 5, and Erica Jeal recommends some new recordings of solo piano music.

with Andrew McGregor

9.30 Building a Library
Kate Molleson chooses her favourite recording of B茅la Bart贸k's String Quartet No. 5.

Throughout his career Bart贸k was obsessed with folk music, attracted by the invigorating irregularity its rhythms, its modes, often so contrary to conventional scale patterns, its unorthodox harmonic inflections and deep-rooted connection to landscape and people. He spent 40 years of his life collecting, transcribing and studying the indigenous music of central Europe, including his native Hungary.

By the time of the First World War, folk music pervasively and profoundly informed Bart贸k's own music and its nevertheless uncompromising modernist style and rigorous formal organisation. By 1934, the year he wrote his fifth and penultimate string quartet, Bart贸k's musical style had become more approachable and this wonderful work, at once playful and profound, so full of humanity and packing a huge emotional punch, is among the great string quartets of any century.

10.45
Erica Jeal recommends some new recordings of solo piano music from Piotr Anderszewski, Clare Hammond and Stephen Hough, among others.

11.20
Record of the Week
Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.

2 hours, 47 minutes

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Sat 6 Feb 2021 09:00
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Music Played

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No. 9 in E-Flat Major, Op. 70: I. Allegro

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 9 & 10.
    • Lso Live.
    • 101.

  • Carlo Gesualdo

    Ecco, morir貌 dunque (4th Book of Madrigals)

    Lyricist: Anonymous. Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants.
    • Gesualdo: Madrigali, Libri terzo & quarto.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 36-37.

  • Agust铆n Bardi

    Qu茅 Noche

    Performer: Pascal Contet. Conductor: Paul Meyer. Orchestra: Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie.
    • Tango.
    • 础辫补谤迟茅.
    • 2.

  • Alfr膿ds Kalni艈拧

    Jau aiz kalniem, jau aiz birz膿m

    Performer: Diana Ketler. Singer: Inga Kalna.
    • SKANi.

  • Pietro Locatelli

    Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 3 No. 11: I. Allegro - Capriccio

    Orchestra: Suomalainen barokkiorkesteri.
    • Il labirinto armonico.
    • BIS.
    • 4.

  • Hanns Eisler

    Deutsche Sinfonie, Op. 50: No. 1, Pr盲ludium

    Choir: Wiener Jeunesse-Chor. Conductor: G眉nther Theuring. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Eisler: Deutsche Sinfonie, Op. 50.
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 101.

  • Josquin des Prez

    Missa Pange Lingua i. Kyrie

    Ensemble: Stile Antico.
    • Decca.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No.鈥�10 in F-Sharp Major "Unfinished" (Completed by D. Cooke): II. Scher

    Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲. Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra.
    • Mahler: Symphony No.鈥�10 in F-Sharp Major "Unfinished" (Completed by D. Cooke).
    • BIS.
    • 2.

  • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

    脡tudes pour piano, Book 1: No. 4, Fanfares. Vivacissimo, molto ritmico

    Performer: Jackie Jaekyung Yoo.
    • Etudes: A New Perspective.
    • Genuin.
    • 104.

  • George Crumb

    Makrokosmos I: V. Scorpio. The Phantom Gondolier; VI. Saggitarius. Night-Spel I

    Performer: Martin Klett.
    • Debussy: Pr茅ludes I - Crumb: Makrokosmos I.
    • CAvi-music.
    • 117.

  • Franz Liszt

    Bagatelle sans tonalite

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.

  • Sofia Gubaidulina

    Chaconne

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
    • Variations.
    • BIS.
    • 701.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, Prelude and Fugue No. 9 in E Major, BWV 878

    Performer: Piotr Anderszewski.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 76 No. 4, Hob. III:78 "Sunrise"

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 76 Nos. 4-6.
    • BIS.
    • 1-4.

Record Review

9.00am

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Shostakovich: Symphony No 9 & Symphony No 10

London Symphony Orchestra

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

LSO Live LSO0828 Hybrid SACD

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Gesualdo: Madrigals (Books 3 and 4)

Les Arts Florissants

Paul Agnew (conductor)

Harmonia Mundi HAF890530910

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Tango

Pascal Contet (accordion)

Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia

Paul Mayer (conductor)

Aparte AP246

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Das Rosenband: Richard Strauss, Janis Medins, Alfreds Kalnin

Inga Kalna (soprano)

Diana Ketler (piano)

SKANI LMIC083

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Locatelli: Il Labirinto Armonico 鈥� three violin concertos

Ilya Gringolts (violin)

Finnish Baroque Orchestra

BIS BIS2445 SACD Hybrid

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9.30am 鈥� Building a Library 鈥� Kate Molleson on Bartok String Quartet No 5

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Composer: Bela Bartok

Reviewer: Kate Molleson

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Recommended Recording:

Bartok: String Quartets Nos 1 - 6

Tak谩cs Quartet

Decca 4552972

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Other recommended versions:

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Bartok: String Quartets Nos 1 - 6

Hagen Quartett

DG 4635762

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Bartok: Complete String Quartets

Vegh Quartet

Na茂ve 4870

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Bartok: String Quartets Nos 1 - 6

Emerson Quartet

DG 4776322

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10.15am 鈥� New Releases

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Hanns Eisler: Deutsche Sinfonie

ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Wiener Jeunesse Chor

G眉nther Theuring (conductor)

Capriccio C5428

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The Golden Renaissance: Josquin des Prez

Stile Antico

Decca 4851340

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Mahler: Symphony No 10 (performing version by Deryck Cooke)

Minnesota Orchestra

Osmo Vanska

BIS-2396 SACD Hybrid

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10.40am 鈥� Erica Jeal鈥檚 Pianists

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Etudes 鈥� A New Perspective (Ligeti, Lutoslawski, Liszt)

Jackie Jaekyung Yoo (piano)

Genuin GEN20720

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Debussy: Prelude I, Crumb: Makrokosmos I

Martin Klett (piano)

Avi Music AVI8553484

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Vida Breve (Bach, Chopin, Liszt, Busoni, Hough, Gounod)

Stephen Hough (piano)

Hyperion CDA68260

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Variations (Adams, Birtwistle, Copland, Gubaidulina, Hindemith, Lachenmann, Szymanowski)

Clare Hammond (piano)

BIS-2493 SACD Hybrid

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JS Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 (Excerpts)

Piotr Anderszewski (piano)

Warner Classics 9029511875

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11.20am 鈥� Record of the Week

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Haydn: String Quartets Op 76, Nos 4 -6

Chiaroscuro Quartet
BIS-2358 SACD Hybrid

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  • Sat 6 Feb 2021 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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