16/05/2026
Andrew McGregor with the best of the week's new classical releases.
Andrew McGregor with the best of the week's new classical releases.
c2.10pm
Sarah Walker joins Andrew to showcase a batch of releases that have caught her ear.
3pm
Building a Library. The Chief Executive of St George's Bristol, Samir Savant, surveys recordings of Fauré's Requiem and makes a top recommendation.
The work was first performed in 1888 in La Madeleine in Paris, and of it the composer said "Everything I managed to entertain by way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest."
c3.50pm
Record of the Week. Andrew's top pick of this week's new releases.
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