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Show more With Andrew McGregor Building a Library features Orff's Carmina Burana; plus the best new releases - including operas by Puccini and Strauss. 9.30am Jeremy Summerly talks to Andrew about the best recordings of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana Carl Orff composed his cantata in 1936, based on 24 poems from the medieval collection Carmina Burana. The poems cover a wide range of subjects, which are just as topical today as they were in the 13th century: the fickleness of fortune and wealth, the ephemeral nature of life, the joy of the return of spring, and the pleasures and pe...

A newly announced grant will bring the new Galesburg Public Library closer to meeting its fundraising goal and go toward the library’s children’s room.

Kate Molleson chooses her favourite recording of Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 5. Throughout his career Bartók was obsessed with folk music, attracted by the invigorating irregularity its rhythms, its modes, often so contrary to conventional scale patterns, its unorthodox harmonic inflections and deep-rooted connection to landscape and people. He spent 40 years of his life collecting, transcribing and studying the indigenous music of central Europe, including his native Hungary. By the time of the First World War, folk music pervasively and profoundly informed Bartók's own music and i...