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Falla's Three-Cornered Hat in Building a Library with Jonathan Cross and Andrew McGregor

Andrew McGregor with the best of the week's new classical releases, joined by Natalie Burch and Jonathan Cross, who surveys recordings of Falla's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat.

Andrew McGregor with the best of the week's new classical releases, joined by guest reviewers Natalie Burch and Jonathan Cross, who surveys recordings of Falla's The Three-Cornered Hat.

2.10pm Pianist Natalie Burch joins Andrew to explore some new releases that have caught her ear.

3pm Building a Library. Jonathan Cross surveys recordings of Manuel de Falla's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat, and makes a top recommendation.
Commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev for his Ballets Russes, Falla's ballet premiered in 1919. The story, based on a novel by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, is about a magistrate infatuated with a miller's faithful wife, whom he attempts to seduce. Falla's deeply evocative music brims with unmistakeably Spanish dance idioms.

Top choice:
Philharmonia Orchestra
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
Chandos CHAN8904

3.45pm Record of the Week. Andrew's top pick of the week's releases.

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Music Played

  • Earl Wild

    Fascinatin' rhythm (7 Virtuoso etudes after Gershwin)

    Performer: Nikolay Medvedev.
    • Fusions.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 507.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony no.9 in E minor Op.95 'From the New World' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • Reference Recordings.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Walzer (Der Freischütz)

    Music Arranger: Karl Flachs. Ensemble: Wolf. Conductor: Jean-Philippe Poncin.
    • Weber: Der Freischütz arrangirt in Harmoniemusik.
    • Ricercar.
    • 4.

  • Günter Neumann

    Ach, wie schön, man singt immer tiefer

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Orchestra: Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin. Conductor: Adam Benzwi.
    • Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! Kabarett und Exil.
    • BIS.
    • 5.

  • Rodion Shchedrin

    Romantic Duets (nos.1 and 2)

    Performer: Ekaterina Zhemaitis. Performer: Polina Kulikova.
    • In Search of Lost Time.
    • Genuin.
    • 1.

  • Robert Schumann

    8 Novelletten Op.21 (no.2 in D major)

    Performer: Adam Laloum.
    • Schumann: Novelletten - Kreisleriana.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 2.

  • Rudy Wiedoeft

    Dans L'Orient

    Composer: Domenico Savino. Performer: Chad Smith. Performer: Lynette Wardle.
    • Saxophobia - Celebrating the Sax Craze of the 1920's.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • Earl Carroll

    Canary Cottage-One Step

    Performer: Chad Smith. Performer: Justin Quinn. Performer: Andy Wood. Performer: Matt Skelton.
    • Saxophobia - Celebrating the Sax Craze of the 1920's.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    La Marais (Pieces de clavecin en concerts no.5)

    Ensemble: Les Timbres.
    • Chateau de versailles.

  • Malcolm Williamson

    Flower-sellers (Travel diaries - volume no.4 'Paris')

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Piano Postcards.
    • Hyperion.
    • 20.

  • Malcolm Williamson

    Broadway [Midnight] (Travel diaries - volume no.5 'New York')

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Piano Postcards.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.

  • William Brygeman

    Salve regina a5

    Composer: Russell Blacker. Ensemble: Selene Consort. Director: Daniel Gilchrist.
    • Earthly Solace: Eton Choirbook Reconstructions II.
    • CRD.
    • 5.

  • Samuel Zyman

    Latin variation on 'America, the beautiful'

    Performer: Min Kwon.
    • America/Beautiful.
    • Delos.
    • 15.

  • Texu Kim

    America the polarized

    Performer: Min Kwon. Performer: Siwoo Kim. Performer: Andy Lin. Performer: Nan-Cheng Chen.
    • America/Beautiful.
    • Delos.
    • 8.

  • Record of the Week

    • Sergey Rachmaninov

      3 Symphonic dances Op.45 (no.2)

      Orchestra: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest. Conductor: Karina Canellakis.
      • Rachmaninoff: The Bells & Symphonic Dances.
      • Pentatone.
      • 106.

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