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
...and these new things from 2pm, with guest reviewer Allyson Devenish @mapleivory ...and award-winning Chopin from my Record of the Week. Come and join us live at 1400 @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds
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The poster for the 1902 Paris premiere of Debussy's only opera Pelléas et Mélisande. A strange, sensuous soundworld, full of mystery &menace. Jeremy Sams thinks it's made of light, shade & water, and he's comparing 80 years of recordings in Building a Library from 3pm @BBCRadio3
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Paganini wanted a concerto for his new viola, so Berlioz wrote him Harold in Italy, a Byronesque symphony...viola players ever since have been more grateful than Paganini! Some excellent recordings compared in Building a Library at 3pm. These new things from 2 o'clock @BBCRadio3
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*Very* special gig next Thurs here in Glasgow City Halls & live @BBCRadio3 : the @BBCSSO 90th birthday concert, Stephen @houghhough plays Grieg Concerto, Tippett’s A Child of Our Time, and premiere of Bacchanale by Ayanna Witter-Johnson to get the party started. Come if you can!
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Presenting a fab gig in Glasgow City Halls this evening…@BBCSSO debut of Delyana Lazarova as new Principal Guest Conductor, she’s picked Jessie Montgomery, Barber’s Medea, Debussy La Mer & Rach 3rd Concerto with Isata K-M. Come along and get out of the rain 1930 @BBCRadio3 7 Jan
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...and these new things from 2pm, with guest reviewer Nicholas Kenyon, and one of them is my Record of the Week. Come and join us live @BBCRadio3
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The mysterious, unsettling opening of Beethoven's penultimate string quartet in A minor Op. 132, the one with a prayer of thanksgiving at its heart. But which recordinsg deserve a place in the Library? Katy Hamilton compares some outstanding recordings from 3pm @BBCRadio3 ...
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Don’t miss this! Irrepressibly brilliant percussionist James Blades celebrated in an innovative project broadcast in this week’s Sunday Feature: ‘Pandemonium of the One-Man Band’… @BBCRadio3 1915 23rd Nov.
theguardian.com
He played china mugs, bells, rattles and car horns for everyone from Alfred Hitchcock to Benjamin Britten – and once got Laurence Olivier to bang a broomstick. We go behind the scenes of a Radio 3...
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This lunchtime fab Finns Meta4 guide us through Robert Schumann’s marvellous A minor Quartet Op 41/1, and composer Sally Beamish reverses us through Schumann’s themes and ideas in her Nine Fragments. Great programme, and Sally’s here, so join us live 1pm @BBCRadio3 @wigmore_hall
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Come and join me and pianist Joanna MacGregor comparing recordings of Bartok's thrilling and eerily beautiful 2nd Piano Concerto; pianist Andrew Mattehws-Owen is my guest reviewer, and there'll be Janacek and centenary Charles Mackerras! Record Review live from 2pm @BBCRadio3
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Just across from BBC Broadcasting House, this is where Bela Bartók gave the UK premiere of his 2nd Piano Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra & Sir Adrian Boult in 1933, broadcast live on the Third Programme. Recordings compared in Building a Library at 3pm @BBCRadio3
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We're on a walking tour of 1920s Paris at 3pm... Gershwin's An American in Paris heads for the Library, with brilliant classic and modern recs picked by conductor @GernonBen Guest reviewer Kate Kennedy on new Walton from Sinfonia of London, and luscious Scriabin mmmm @BBCRadio3
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Rachmaninov's Etudes-tableaux head for the Library today - study-pictures for solo piano, part virtuosic exercise, part mini tone poem, all Rach...Keelan Carew brings his shortlist to the studio to compare live at 3pm. New things from 2pm, guest reviewer @tasminlittle @BBCRadio3
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One of the greatest romantic symphonies heads for the Library today: Brahms's 4th, evolving from Beethoven, looking back to Bach. It's been lucky on record...classic accounts compared to some of the latest at 3pm. And these new things from 2pm 👇 Come and join us @BBCRadio3
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150th birthday Ravel: his G major Piano Concerto heads for the Library at 3pm, both hands required in some seriously classy recordings. Guest reviewer is conductor @GernonBen with Divas and Lang Lang, highlights from @GramophoneMag Awards, and these new things from 2pm @BBCRadio3
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The genius of Henry Purcell in Building a Library today: his Verse (and other) Anthems, miniature masterpieces, such variety, and sooo good to sing. Nicholas Kenyon compares recordings from 3pm...and these new things from 2 o'clock, one of them is my Record of the Week @BBCRadio3
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Here it is: Thorvaldsdottir & Ligeti, leading to John Luther Adams’ Become Ocean @BBCSO @BBCRadio3
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I was at an extraordinarily immersive gig last night…brilliant programming, no interval, superb playing. Read about it below, listen @BBCSounds @BBCSO @BBCRadio3
theguardian.com
A brilliantly thought-through sequence of music by Thorvaldsdottir, Ligeti and John Luther Adams made for a powerful and immersive experience
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Oooh…more Purcell! Can’t wait… The Essay @BBCRadio3 Friday 24th October 2145
theguardian.com
Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk
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