Classical Collection - 14/02/2008

With Sarah Walker. 10.00am Nielsen: Rhapsody Overture: An Imaginary Journey to the Faroe Islands Philadelphia Orchestra Eugene Ormandy (conductor) SONY CLASSICAL SM4K 45 989 10.11am Rimsky-Korsakov: Quintet in B flat for piano and winds Members of Munich Residenz Quintet Wolfgang Sawallisch (piano) CALIG CAL 50 898 10.38am Schubert: Der Konig in Thule, D367 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Gerald Moore (piano) DG 437 215-2 Gounod: Il etait un roi de Thule (Faust, Act 3) Marguerite ...... Bidu Sayao (soprano) Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Fausto Cleva (conductor) SONY MASTERWORKS HERITAGE MHK 62355 Liszt: Der Konig in Thule, G278 Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) DECCA 430 512-2 10.48am Monteverdi: Magnificat (Vespers, 1610) Rodolfus Choir Southern Sinfonia Ralph Allwood (organ/director) SIGNUM SIGCD109 11.08am Bax: Northern Ballad No 1 London Philharmonic Orchestra Adrian Boult (conductor) LYRITA SRCD 231 11.21am Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades (Act 3, excerpt) Liza ...... Yevgeniya Smolenskaya (soprano) Countess ...... Yevgeniya Verbitskaya (contralto) Hermann ...... Georgy Nelepp (tenor) Count Tomsky ...... Alexey Ivanov (baritone) Prince Yeletsky ...... Pavel Lisitsian (baritone) Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre Alexander Melik-Pashayev (conductor) DANTE LYS 459-461.