
Andrew McGregor
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Presenter of BBC Radio 3's Record Review on Saturdays, and Radio 3 In Concert, Wigmore Lunchtime Concerts, Operas etc. My own opinions. 🎻🚴🏼🤺
London, UK
Joined October 2012
The magic of Maurice Ravel at 150 - our Proms Composer on Record Review this afternoon, with Francophile Jeremy Sams revealing his essential Ravel recordings. Plus anniversary Shostakovich from my Record of the Week, and these new things from 2pm. come and join us @BBCRadio3
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Budapest Festival Orchestra, Beethoven 7, Bartók’s Bluebeard, Hungarian singers, conductor Iván Fischer, and a full house, live in 5 @BBCRadio3 @bbcproms @RoyalAlbertHall.
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Sold out today @bbcproms for the visit of Iván Fischer & Budapest Festival Orchestra. Hungarian soloists in Bartók’s dark opera Bluebeard’s Castle, Fischer reading the Prologue (translated for me on his mobile), & their own organ for Door 5! Plus Beethoven 7 live 7:30 @BBCRadio3
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Pierre Boulez would approve of this evening @bbcproms for his centenary! His Rituel for Bruno Maderna, an imaginary ceremony he called ‘large scale chamber music’, and a piece Boulez championed: Mahler’s Song of Lamentation, eerie folktale for huge forces @BBCSO live @BBCRadio3
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Record Review is back at 2! Bela Bartok is our Proms Composer, Marina @frolovawalker brings her essential Bartok to the studio. Our Proms Building a Library Recommendation is Mahler's Song of the Earth, plus these new things 👇, one of which is my Record of the Week @BBCRadio3
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The biggest Proms orchestra this season? Harrison Birtwistle’s elemental Earth Dances with Ryan Wigglesworth @BBCSSO . Seismic upheaval, deep bass from far below, geological time in tectonic layers, live from 7:30 pm @BBCRadio3 @bbcproms .And Beethoven’s Eroica! Massive gig 🌋
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Anticipation @bbcproms …tubas - Wagner and others - resting beneath the bust of Sir Henry Wood, before being unleashed in epic Bruckner. His 7th Symphony with @BBCSSO & Ryan Wigglesworth…after Ryan’s new piece & Mozart piano concerto K466. Join us live at 7:30pm @BBCRadio3
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Back @bbcproms today for Mozart D minor Piano Concerto, epic Bruckner 7 (see Wagner tubas!), and heartfelt celebration of @BBCSSO ‘s late Leader violinist Laura Samuel, in new Bach-inspired piece by Ryan Wigglesworth. Sounding lush in rehearsal, join us live at 1930 @BBCRadio3
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🌟EARLY START ALERT 🌟.Your Saturday Record Review begins at *1pm*, so we can get to The Traitors Prom at 3pm live @bbcproms .Our Proms composer: Arvo Part essential recordings, highlights from these new things as well. come and join us @BBCRadio3 in 15 minutes.
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1st Prom as a civilian this year! Théotime Langlois de Swarte & Le Consort, Proms debut, live @BBCRadio3 right now!! @bbcproms
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Record Review is in summer mode during @bbcproms Our Librarians take a holiday, Rameau is our first Proms Composer, with Joseph McHardy's 5 essential recordings. Proms Building a Library Recommendation is Berlioz Nuits d'ete, and highlights from new things as always @BBCRadio3
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Arcangelo Corelli's Op 6, some of the most famous and influential late 17th century concertos, including his famous Christmas Concerto. The way they're played has evolved in the last 50 years. find out how much in Building a Library at 3pm. And these new things from 2 @BBCRadio3
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. and these new things from 2pm, with guest reviewer Iain Burnside @iainburnside joining me live with his new favourties. Record of the Week? Wonderful Biber. join us for Record Review this Satie-Day afternoon @BBCRadio3
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Ready for some weekend diversion, Erik Satie style? It's 'Satie-Day' afternoon @BBCRadio3 & in Building a Library at 3pm pianist Kathryn Stott compares recordings of Satie's Sports et Divertissements (see The Octopus below), brilliant miniatures with often surreal annotations.
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The Seasons. Haydn's late, great masterpiece, a secular oratorio filled with drama and delight, sunrise and storms, and sounds of nature. But which recording is the one for all seasons? Find out in Building a Library from 3pm. And these new things 👇 from 2pm @BBCRadio3
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A personal tour of the paintings, but sadly not of the wine cellar. I’ll be raising a glass in Alfred’s general direction 🍷 .#AlfredBrendel.
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Alfred Brendel. What a life, what a musician. And a lovely sense of humour…a delightful interview at home with me back in 2014, reminiscing about his career from beginning to end, and how Haydn is still under-rated. One of my favourites @BBCRadio3 .
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In a CD Review exclusive, Andrew McGregor talks to legendary pianist Alfred Brendel.
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It's one of Mozart's great piano concertos, with a slow movement that's had a life of its own in the cinema. which recordings take us to the heart of No. 21 in C major K467? Pianist Joanna MacGregor joins me for Building a Library at 3pm. Plus new things from 2pm 👇 @BBCRadio3
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Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures from 3pm, and join me from 2 o'clock for highlights from these new things, and others 👇 @bbcradio3
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