Nielsen's Symphony No. 2 in Building a Library with Mark Lowther and Andrew McGregor
Andrew McGregor with the week's best new classical releases, joined by Flora Willson to assess a new Wagner Ring cycle from Dallas, and Mark Lowther on Nielsen's Symphony No. 2.
Andrew McGregor with the week's best new classical releases, joined by Flora Willson to assess a new Wagner Ring cycle from Dallas, and Mark Lowther on Nielsen's Symphony No. 2.
c. 2.10pm
Andrew is joined by opera expert Flora Willson to discuss the recent recordings of Wagner's complete Ring cycle from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under its Music Director Fabio Luisi.
c.3pm
Building a Library
Andrew is joined by Mark Lowther to survey recordings of Nielsen's Symphony No. 2, "The Four Temperaments", and pick an overall recommendation.
Danish composer Carl Nielsen wrote his second symphony in 1901–1902. As its subtitle, The Four Temperaments, indicates, each of the work's four movements is a musical sketch of a humour of the four temperaments: choleric, phlegmatic, melancholic, and sanguine.
c3.45pm
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