Classical Collection - 31/10/2007

With Sarah Walker. 10.00am Weber: Der Freischütz (Wolf's Glen Scene, Act 2) Kaspar ...... Theo Adam (bass) Voice of Kaspar and Voice of Samiel ...... Gerhard Paul (speaker) Max ...... Peter Schreier (tenor) Leipzig Radio Choir Staatskapelle Dresden Carlos Kleiber (conductor) DG 415 432 2 (2 CDs) 10.19am Rachmaninov: Sonata in G minor for cello and piano, Op 19 Steven Isserlis (cello) Stephen Hough (piano) HYPERION CDA 67376 10.53am Sibelius: Rakastava (The Lover) Pia Freund (soprano) Antti Suhonen (baritone) Tapiola Choir Kari Ala-Pöllänen (conductor) FINLANDIA 0630 19054 2/A (2 CDs) 11.01am Montague: Chorale for a Millenium Sunset; Dagger Dance; A Crippled Ghost at Halloween; Headless Horseman (Southern Lament) Philip Mead (piano) Stephen Montague (electronics/recorded sounds) NMC D118 11.11am Purcell: In guilty night (Saul and the Witch of Endor) Claire Debono (soprano) Paul Agnew (tenor) Konstantin Wolff (bass) Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo) Anne-Marie Lasla (viola da gamba) William Christie (harpsichord/director) VIRGIN CLASSICS 395 144 2 11.22am Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin Budapest Festival Orchestra Hungarian Radio Chorus Ivan Fischer (conductor) PHILIPS 454 430 2 11.56am Sibelius: Oi toivo, toivo, sä lietomieli (O hope, thy blithe spirit) Pia Freund (soprano) Tapiola Choir Kari Ala-Pöllänen (conductor) FINLANDIA 0630 19054 2/A (2 CDs).