Debussy's Images for Orchestra in Building a Library with Yshani Perinpanayagam and Andrew McGregor
In Building a Library, Yshani Perinpanayagam chooses her favourite recording of Debussy's Images for Orchestra, plus keyboard player Laurence Cummings recommends new releases.
Andrew McGregor with the best new recordings of classical music.
9.30 am
Laurence Cummings, harpsichordist, organist, conductor and music director of the Academy of Ancient Music brings in a selection of new releases to the studio and shares a track with Andrew and explains his current preoccupation with it.
10.30 am
Yshani Perinpanayagam chooses her favourite recording of Debussy's Images for Orchestra.
Composed between 1906 and 1912, Images is Debussy鈥檚 final concert work for orchestra. Over its three sections it abundantly displays his customary sophistication and flair for orchestral sonorities and for painting pictures in sound. The first and last parts of the triptych are folk-inflected: the enigmatic Gigues quotes 'The Keel Row' from Northumberland and two French folk tunes feature in Rondes de printemps. The middle (and most often performed) section, Ib茅ria, is itself a triptych. Even though Debussy famously spent no more than an afternoon in Spain, Ib茅ria's three movements conjure up the sights, sounds and smells of Spain so evocatively that even his Spanish contemporaries were impressed.
11.20 am
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Les nuits de Paris 鈥� music by Massenet, Delibes, Waldteufel, etc.
Les Si猫cles
Fran莽ois-Xavier Roth
Bru Zane 听BZ2005
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Motets of the Bach Family
Soren Leupold (theorbo)
Axel Wolf (lute)
Michael Schonfelder (violin)
Thomas Leininger (organ / harpsichord)
Robert Schroter (organ)
T枚lzer Knabenchor
Michael Hofstetter
Christophorus听 CHR77467
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Marin Marais: Folies d'Espagne, La R锚veuse & Other Works
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 听HMM902315
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Haydn 2032, Vol. 13: Horn Signal
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini
Alpha 听ALPHA692
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09.30am 鈥� Laurence Cummings: New Releases
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Altissima: Works For High Baroque Trumpet 鈥� music by Graupner, Weichlein, Telemann, etc.
Josh Cohen (baroque trumpet)
Ensemble Sprezzatura
Daniel Abraham
Chandos 听CHAN0828
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Stravinsky: Les Noces (1919) - Ravel: Bolero
Ensemble Aedes
Les Si猫cles
Mathieu Romano
Apart茅 听AP300
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Ode 脿 La Nuit 鈥� music by Dvo艡谩k, Brahms, Debussy, etc.
Cello 8
Rapha毛l Pidoux
Mirare听 MIR578
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Dvorak: Violin Concerto & Piano Trio No. 3
Isabelle Faust (violin)
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
Alexander Melnikov (piano)
The Prague Philharmonia
Jir铆 Belohl谩vek
Harmonia Mundi 听HMC931833
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Laurence Cummings: On Repeat
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The Essential Tallis Scholars 鈥� music by Allegri, Clemens, Byrd, etc.
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips
Gimell 听CDGIM201 (2 CDs)
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Listener On Repeat
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Bart贸k: Concerto For Orchestra; Dance Suite
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti
Decca听 4833111
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10.10am 鈥� New Releases
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Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil (Vespers)
The Clarion Choir
Steven Fox
Pentatone听 PTC5187019
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Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 6
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Luisi
DG听 4863481
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10.30am 鈥� Building a Library: Yshani Perinpanayagam on Debussy鈥檚 Images for orchestra
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Recommended recording:
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The Cleveland Orchestra
Pierre Boulez
DG 听E4357662
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Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ata煤lfo Argenta
DG听 E4663782
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City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle
Warner Classics听 9029571137
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Sacroprofano 鈥� music by Vivaldi
Tim Mead (countertenor)
Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen
Alpha听 ALPHA914
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NYCGB Young Composers 4 鈥� music by Sun Keting, Thomas Metcalf, Ben Nobuto, and Claire Victoria Roberts
National Youth Choir of Great Britain
NYCGB Fellowship Ensemble
Ben Parry
NMC Recordings听 DL3051
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11.25am 鈥� Record of the Week
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Jan谩膷ek - Brahms - Bart贸k
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
Faz谋l Say (piano)
Alpha听 ALPHA885
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