JS Bach Keyboard Partitas BWV 825-830 with Joanna MacGregor and Andrew McGregor
In Building a Library Joanna MacGregor chooses her favourite recording of JS Bach's Keyboard Partitas BWV 825-830, and Ben Gernon shares his favourite new releases.
Andrew McGregor with the best new recordings of classical music.
2.00 pm
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3.00 pm
Building a Library
Joanna MacGregor chooses her favourite recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's Keyboard Partitas BWV 825-830.
With his six Keyboard Partitas Bach, in his 40s and at the height of his powers, was determined to impress. They are the longest, most complex and technically challenging of Bachβs keyboard suites. And unlike the English and French suites, they are also the only set he published. In these multi-movement, multi-dimensional works Bach seems to have wanted to best and outdo all the competition and with their unparalleled richness, variety and invention he seems to have achieved just that.
Originally for harpsichord, the Partitas have perhaps more often been recorded on the modern piano and by many of the great pianists of our and previous times.
Joanna's choice:
Andras Schiff (piano)
Decca 4758234
3.45 pm
Record of the Week: Andrewβs top pick.
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LouisβClaude Daquin
Le Coucou (Suite no.3 in E minor)
Performer: Fazil Say.- Warner Classics.
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FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin
Berceuse in D flat, Op.57
Performer: Fazil Say.- Warner Classics.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no.5 in C Minor Op.67 (4th mvt)
Music Arranger: Gustav Mahler. Conductor: Michael Francis. Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie RheinlandβPfalz.- Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 (Arr. for Orchestra by Gustav Mahle.
- CapriccioNR.
- 104.
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Sally Beamish
The Partridge / The Lapwing (The Naming of Birds)
Ensemble: Lumas Winds.- Champs Hill Records.
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Ron Jeffers
Workin' for the dawn of peace
Choir: Skylark. Conductor: Matthew Guard.- Dorian Sono Luminus.
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Francis Poulenc
Le jour m'eΜtonne et la nuit me fait peur... (Figure Humaine)
Choir: Skylark. Conductor: Matthew Guard.- Dorian Sono Luminus.
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Johannes Brahms
Piano Quartet no.2 in A Major Op.26 (4th mvt)
Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.- Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. 1.
- Chandos.
- 104.
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George Frideric Handel
Alla Caccia HWV.79 (Foriera la tromba & Alla caccia)
Singer: Rachel Redmond. Singer: Aisling Kenny. Orchestra: Irish Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Whelan.- Linn.
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Johannes Brahms
Horn Trio in E flat major Op.40 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Antoine Dreyfuss. Performer: Amaury Coeytaux. Performer: Geoffroy Couteaux.- La Dolce Volta.
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Francesco Barsanti
Lochaber (A Collection of Old Scots Tunes)
Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.- Channel Classics.
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Henry Purcell
Lilliburlero Z.646 A New Irish Tune
Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.- Channel Classics.
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Jules Massenet
Werther (Act 1: conclusion)
Singer: VΓ©ronique Gens. Singer: Tassis Christoyannis. Singer: Matthieu LΓ©croart. Orchestra: Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: GyΓΆrgy Vashegyi.- Bru Zane.
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