Mozart's Horn Concertos in Building a Library with Andrew McGregor and Nicholas Kenyon
Andrew McGregor with a look at the week's classical music releases and recommendations from Sarah Walker.
Andrew McGregor with the best new classical releases.
c2.10pm The pianist and presenter Sarah Walker joins Andrew to review the latest new releases that have caught her ear.
3pm Building a Library: The writer and former Director of the BBC Proms and the Barbican Centre, Sir Nicholas Kenyon joins Andrew to survey recordings of Mozart's Horn Concertos, and make a top recommendation.
Mozart's four horn concertos are amongst his best-loved works. Made popular by a famous recording by the legendary Dennis Brain, aswell as a rendition by Flanders and Swann, the discography includes performances on natural as well as modern horns. The concertos were written for his friend, the cheese merchant Joseph Ignaz Leutgeb and Mozart littered the manuscripts with jokes and insults at his friend's' expense. Despite this, the two seem to have remained friends for life and it indeed Leutgeb who helped Mozart's wife, Constanze to organise Mozart’s manuscripts after his untimely death.
c3.45pm Record of the Week: the new release that has most impressed Andrew this week.
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