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Mozart's Piano Concerto No 23 in A in Building a Library with Lucy Parham and Andrew McGregor

In Building a Library, Lucy Parham chooses her favourite version of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 23 in A major, and Roger Parker reviews a selection of new releases.

Andrew McGregor with the best new recordings of classical music.

2.00 pm
Roger Parker reviews a selection of new releases, including music by Bruckner, Bach and Dvorak.

3.00 pm
Building a Library

Lucy Parham chooses her favourite version of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 23 in A major.

This is one of Mozart’s most lyrical and poignant works, especially in the central slow movement. Mozart created the prototype of the piano concerto as we know it with the concertos he wrote for Vienna in the 1780s. He wrote it in 1786, the year of his great opera, The Marriage of Figaro. It is the most chamber-musical of Mozart’s mature piano concertos. The slow movement written in siciliano style reaches operatic depths of heartbreak. But all that dissolves in a finale of rollicking high spirits.

Recommended version
Murray Perahia (piano/director)
English Chamber Orchestra
Sony Classical 88697757852

3.45 pm
Record of the Week: Andrew’s top pick.

1 hour, 59 minutes

Last on

Sat 8 Jun 2024 14:00
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Music Played

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D minor Kk.1

    Music Arranger: Philippe Thuriot. Performer: Philippe Thuriot.
    • Challenge Classics.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto in E flat K.417 iii. Rondo - Allegro

    Performer: Alexandre Zanetta.
    • Alpha.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita no.2 in D minor BWV.1004 (Chaconne)

    Music Arranger: Sébastien Marq. Ensemble: Dissonanti.
    • Incises.

  • Franz Liszt

    Après une lecture de Dante (Annees de pelerinage - 2me annee, Italie)

    Performer: Emmanuel Despax.
    • Signum Records.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.3 in D minor (Part 2, 6th mvt)

    Singer: Jennifer Johnston. Choir: Minnesota Chorale. Choir: The Minnesota Boychoir. Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
    • BIS.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    I dreamt last night (Evening Songs Op.3)

    Singer: Magdalena Kožená. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Pentatone.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    I am that knight (Evening Songs Op.3)

    Singer: Magdalena Kožená. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Pentatone.

  • Erno Dohnanyi

    Piano Quintet no.2 in E flat minor Op.26 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Zemlinsky Quartet. Performer: Paolo Giacometti.
    • Evil Penguin.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony no.3 in D Minor (1st mvt - extract)

    Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Markus Poschner.
    • Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, WAB 103 "Wagner" (1877 Version, Ed. L. Nowa.
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 1.

  • R.H. Marin

    Silencio

    Singer: Nicholas Mulroy. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Performer: Toby Carr.
    • Linn records.

  • Gabriela Ortiz

    Violin Concerto 'Altar de Cuerda' (2nd mvt)

    Performer: María Dueñas. Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Platoon.

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  • Sat 8 Jun 2024 14:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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