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Bach's Cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben BWV147 in Building a Library with Jeremy Summerly and Andrew McGregor

Choral conductor Jeremy Summerly chooses his favourite recording of Bach's Cantata 147 and Yshani Perinpanayagam picks some of the week's best new classical releases.

Andrew McGregor presents some of the week's best new classical releases.

2.10pm
Pianist, Composer & Music Director Yshani Perinpanayagam joins Andrew to discuss four new releases, out this week.

3pm
Building a Library. Choral conductor & musicologist Jeremy Summerly chooses his favourite recording of Bach's Cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben BWV 147. Composed originally in 1716 in Weimar, Cantata 147 was revised by Bach during his Leipzig years, and premiered in an expanded version in 1723 for the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This is the feast which commemorates the visitation of Mary to her cousin Elizabeth, who would become the mother of John the Baptist.
Recommended recording:
Gaechinger Cantorey
Hans-Christoph Rademann (conductor)
Carus CAR83522

3.45pm
Record of the Week. Andrew picks the new recording that has most impressed him this week.

1 hour, 59 minutes

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Sat 24 Jan 2026 14:00
麻豆社 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben Variation (after Cantata BWV.147)

    Music Arranger: Jan-Peter Kl枚pfel. Performer: Eldbj酶rg Hemsing. Performer: Tim Allhoff. Ensemble: Norwegian String Quartet.
    • Colors of Bach.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.

  • Edward MacDowell

    Piano Concerto no. 2 in D minor Op.23 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • MacDowell: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 104.

  • Clara Schumann

    Liebst du um Sch枚nheit (3 Songs Op.12)

    Music Arranger: Amy Harman. Performer: Amy Harman. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • The Bassoonist鈥檚 Songbook.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.

  • Clara Schumann

    Er ist gekommen (3 Songs Op.12)

    Music Arranger: Amy Harman. Performer: Amy Harman. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • The Bassoonist鈥檚 Songbook.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

  • Manuel Rodrigues Coelho

    Tento do 1潞 tom por de la sol re

    Performer: Maria Bayley.
    • Inventa Records.

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Hungarian Peasant Songs Sz.71 (nos 7-15)

    Performer: D茅nes V谩rjon.
    • Avi Music.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde (Das Lied von der Erde)

    Singer: Andrew Staples. Ensemble: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Kurt Weill

    Concerto Op.12 for violin and wind ensemble (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Benjamin Herzl. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: HK Gruber.
    • Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins.
    • BIS.
    • 113.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Ave maris stella

    Choir: The King鈥檚 Singers.
    • Head Space: Candlelight.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 113.

  • Piers Hellawell

    Narwhal joust

    Performer: Markus Maskuniitty. Performer: Martin Sturf盲lt.
    • Northern Horizons.
    • BIS.
    • 102.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.9 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Vladimir Jurowski conducts Mahler Symphony No. 9.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 102.

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  • Sat 24 Jan 2026 14:00
    麻豆社 Radio 3

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