Fauré's Requiem in Building a Library with Samir Savant and Andrew McGregor

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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. 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 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." Top choice: Stephan Genz (baritone) Johannette Zomer (soprano) La Chapelle Royale Collegium Vocale Gent Orchestre des Champs-Elysees Philippe Herreweghe (conductor) Harmonia Mundi HMC901771 c3.50pm Record of the Week. Andrew's top pick of this week's new releases.