Ravel's Mother Goose in Building a Library with Ben Gernon and Andrew McGregor
In Building a Library, Ben Gernon chooses his favourite recording of the complete ballet of Ravel's Mother Goose, plus a round-up of the week's top new classical releases.
Andrew McGregor with the best new recordings of classical music.
9.30 am
Kirsten Gibson brings her selection of exciting new releases to the studio and shares her On Repeat track: music she has been listening to again and again.
10.30 am
Building a Library
Ben Gernon chooses his favourite recording of the complete ballet of Maurice Ravel's Mother Goose.
Contes de ma mère l'Oye is a classic French collection of fairy tales by Charles Perrault and the starting point for Ma mère l'Oye, a 1910 collection of five short piano duets Ravel wrote for the two young children of close friends. Each piece takes its title from Perrault: Pavane of Sleeping Beauty; Little Tom Thumb; Empress of the Pagodas; Conversation of Beauty and the Beast; Le jardin féerique. Like so much of his piano music Ravel went on to orchestrate it and soon after expanded the suite into a complete ballet score, reordering the movements and adding six extra numbers. Childhood always struck a special chord with Ravel and the music, with its very particular brand of refined, poetic expression and dazzling orchestration, surely enchants.
Ben's choice:
Sinfonia of London
John Wilson (conductor)
Chandos CHSA5280
11.20 am
Record of the Week: Andrewβs top pick.
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Music Played
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No 21 in C Major, K467 ii) Andante
Performer: Jonathan Fournel. Orchestra: Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.- Alpha.
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George Frideric Handel
Sonata in D major, Op 1 No 13, HWV 37
Performer: Bojan ΔiΔiΔ. Performer: Steven Devine.- Delphian.
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Hans Huber
Serenade No. 2, Winter Nights, v) Carnival
Orchestra: Swiss Orchestra. Conductor: Lena-Lisa WΓΌstendΓΆrfer.- Prospero Classical.
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FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin
Variations on Mozart's 'La ci darem la mano' in B flat major, Op. 2: Theme; Variations 1-3
Performer: Aleksandra Swigut.- Frederic Chopin Institute.
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Domenico Anglesi
La Salviata
Ensemble: Theatro dei Cervelli.- Music in Golden-Age Florence 1250-1750.
- Έι²Ή³ΎΓ©±π.
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JeanβMarie Leclair
Trio Sonata in D Minor, Op. 4, No. 1
Performer: Lucile Boulanger. Performer: Simon Pierre. Performer: Olivier Fortin.- Alpha.
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George Frideric Handel
Air: Streams of pleasure ever flowing'; Duet: Thither let our hearts aspire
Singer: Louise Alder. Singer: Tim Mead. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.- Alpha.
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George Gershwin
The Man I Love / Rhapsody in Blue
Performer: JeanβYves Thibaudet. Performer: Michael Feinstein. Music Arranger: Tedd Firth.- Decca.
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Trad.
Deux Guitars
Performer: Roby Lakatos. Ensemble: Lakatos.- Ensemble Roby Lakatos - "La Bohème".
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 2.
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BΓ©la BartΓ³k
Romanian Folk Dances Sz.56
Performer: CΓ©dric Tiberghien.- Bartok: Cedric Tiberghien.
- Hyperion.
- 1-6.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 14 in A Major, K. 114 i) Allegro moderato
Orchestra: Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen. Conductor: Johannes Klumpp.- Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 9, 14, 20 & 24.
- Genuin.
- 105.
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Jean Sibelius
Six Songs, Op. 88 'Flower Songs'
Performer: Anna Tilbrook. Singer: Alessandro Fisher.- Rubicon.
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Anton Bruckner
Symphony No.4 i) Bewegt nicht zu schnell
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan.- Onyx.
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Francis Poulenc
Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano iii) Rondeau
Performer: Sam Haywood. Ensemble: Galliard Ensemble.- Deux-Elles.
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George Frideric Handel
Theodora: Act 2 (beginning)
Singer: Louise Alder. Singer: Adam Plachetka. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.- Alpha.
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