Classical Collection - Friday - Sarah Walker

Classical Collection with Sarah Walker. Great performances, classic recordings and a collection of works based around the Sea. Sarah Walker concludes the exploration of music inspired by the Sea with Malcolm Arnold's Sea Shanties and an extract from Bizet's The Pearl Fishers. Plus a classic chamber music recording: Beethoven's Septet in E flat performed by members of the Vienna Octet. 10:00 Sullivan Overture to HMS Pinafore Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera Charles Mackerras (conductor) Telarc CD-80374 10:04 Bizet The Pearl Fishers: excerpt from Act 1 Nadir: Alain Vanzo (tenor) Nourabad: Roger Soyer (bass) Leila: Ileana Cotrubas (soprano) Chorus and Orchestra of the Paris Opera Georges Pretre (conductor) EMI CD-CFPD4721 10:16 Hakim Vexilla Regis prodeunt Wayne Marshall (organ) Virgin Classics VC545320-2 10:26 Beethoven Septet in E flat Members of the Vienna Octet Decca 421 093-2 11:08 Arnold Sea Shanties for Wind Quintet, Op.4 East Winds Naxos 8.570294 11:15 Bartok Piano Concerto No. 2 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) BBC Philharmonic Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) BBC Recording to be released on CHANDOS CHAN10610 on 1st September.