Andrew McGregor introduces Radio 3′s weekly programme devoted to all that’s new in the world of recorded music, including some of the latest releases requested by listeners.
Schubert: Winterreise
Last broadcast 07 Feb 2009, 09:00 on BBC Radio 3.
SZYMANOWSKI: String Quartet in C major Op.37
(c/w ROZYCKI: String Quartet in D minor Op.49; SZYMANOWSKI: String Quartet No.2 Op.56)
Royal String Quartet (Isabella Szalaj-Zimak – violin, Elwira Przybylowka – violin, Marek Czech – viola, Michal Pepol – cello)
Hyperion CDA67684 (CD)
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SZYMANOWSKI: Masques Op.34 (Movement 3)
(c/w Sonata No.3 Op.36; Twenty Mazurkas Op.50 No.9-12; Métopes Op.29; Two Mazurkas Op.62)
Roland Pöntinen (piano)
BIS BIS-CD-1137 (CD)
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SZYMANOWSKI: Kniaź Patiomkim (Prince Potemkin), Op.51 (1925)
(c/w Harnasie (Ballet Pantomime), Op.55 (1923-31); Mandragora (Pantomime), Op.43 (1920))
Wieslaw Ochman – tenor
Alexander Pinderak – tenor
Ewa Marciniec – mezzo soprano
Ewa Marczyk – violin solo
Kazimierz Koślacz – cello solo
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir (Chorus Master Henryk Wojnarowski)
Antoni Wit (conductor)
NAXOS 8.570723 (CD)
Multiple prize-winner and Grammy award nominee for several of his Naxos recordings, Antoni Wit is one of today’s most highly regarded Polish conductors, an ideal interpreter of the exotic, colourfully scored music of Karol Szymanowski, described by Sir Simon Rattle as ”one of the greatest composers of this century”. The ballet-pantomime Harnasie and the incidental music for Prince Potemkin both draw on the folk-music of the people of the Tatra Mountains, while the ballet Mandragora was composed for a production of Molière’s comedy Le bourgeois gentilhomme.
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Andrew McGregor introduces Radio 3's weekly programme devoted to all that's new in the world of recorded music, including some of the latest releases requested by listeners.
