Classical Collection - 12/11/2007

With Sarah Walker. 10.00am Janacek: From the House of the Dead (Act 1, opening) Luka ...... Jiri Zahradnicek (tenor) Tall Prisoner ...... Vladimir Krejcik (tenor) Short Prisoner ...... Richard Novak (bass) Commandant ...... Antonin Svorc (bass) Goryanchikov ...... Dalibor Jedlicka (bass) Old Prisoner ...... Beno Blachut (tenor) Vienna State Opera Chorus Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Charles Mackerras (conductor) DECCA 430 375-2 (2 CDs) 10.17am Purcell: Music for a while Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) Jory Vinikour (harpsichord) ARCHIV 477 511-4 10.21am Rossini: The Thieving Magpie (Act 1, Sc 2) Fabrizio ...... Jeremy White (bass) Lucia ...... Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) Giannetto ...... Barry Banks (tenor) Ninetta ...... Majella Cullagh (soprano) Mayor ...... Christopher Purves (baritone) Isacco ...... John Graham-Hall (tenor) Magpie ...... Prunella Scales Geoffrey Mitchell Choir Philharmonia Orchestra David Parry (conductor) CHANDOS CHAN 30972 (2 CDs) 10.43am Ibert: The Ballad of Reading Gaol Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra Jan Latham-Koenig (conductor) AVIE AV 0008 11.10am Haydn: Sonata in B minor, H XVI 32 Alfred Brendel (piano) PHILIPS 416 643-2 (2 CDs) 11.27am Cowell: The Banshee Henry Cowell (piano) SMITHSONIAN SF 40801 11.30am Monteverdi: L'Orfeo The Building a Library recommendation.