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Building a Library: a guide to the best recordings of the greatest classical music. Each week an expert and enthusiast brings along a wide range of recordings of a well-known piece. They explore the music and the different ways of performing it, ending with a recommendation for your library
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Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition
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Mozart's Piano Concerto no.21 K.467
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Haydn's The Seasons
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Satie's Sports et divertissements
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Vaughan Williams's Symphony No.5
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Corelli's Concerti grossi
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Strauss's Le bourgeois gentilhomme
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Mozart's Cosi fan tutte
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Purcell's Anthems
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Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major
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Brahms' Symphony no.4
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Rachmaninov's Etudes Tableaux
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Gershwin's An American in Paris
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Bartok's Piano Concerto no. 2
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Beethoven's String Quartet Op.132
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Berlioz's Harold in Italy
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Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande
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Monteverdi's L'Orfeo
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Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.1 'Winter Daydreams'
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Schumann's Kreisleriana
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Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante K.364
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Copland's Symphony no.3
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Elgar's Cello Concerto
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J. S. Bach's Cantata 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben' BWV.147
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Brahms's Paganini Variations
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Sibelius's Symphony no.5
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Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.2
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Weber's Der Freischutz
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Dvorak's String Quintet Op.97
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Handel's Dixit Dominus HWV.232
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Janacek's Sinfonietta
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Vaughan Williams' 'A London Symphony'
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Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata
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Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana
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Haydn's Matin, Midi and Soir Symphonies
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Shostakovich's Symphony no.9
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Respighi's La Boutique Fantasque
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Vivaldi's The Four Seasons
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Liszt's Transcendental Studies
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Fauré's Requiem
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Brahms' Piano Concerto no.2
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Schubert's String Quartet in G major D.887
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Mahler's Symphony no.5
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Verdi's Rigoletto
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Bach's Cello Suites
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Brahms' Op.116-119
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Falla's The Three-Cornered Hat
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Mendelssohn's 'Scottish' Symphony
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Nielsen's Symphony no.2
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Beethoven's 'Spring' Sonata
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Review: Mostly Fine Vaughan Williams Concertos
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Dixit dominus, HWV 232 (Arr. W. Herrmann for Mixed Choir & Orchestra) (Live)
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Music Chat: The World's Most Beautiful Melodies (No. 12) Dvořak Piano Quintet No. 2
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From misery to melody - Ep 20: Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto Number 2
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- Publisher
- BBC Radio 3
- Category
- Music
- Language
- en
- Episodes
- 700
- Format
- episodic
- Website
- www.bbc.co.uk