Classical Collection - Friday - Sarah Walker

Our Friday virtuoso is the organist Simon Preston playing Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G minor. Also today we've George Butterworth's elegiac Banks of Green Willow, Ravel's Piano Trio in A minor, and we conclude with our final Dvorak Symphonic Poem this week, The Golden Spinning Wheel in a performance by the LSO conducted by Istvan Kertesz. 10.00 Butterworth The Banks of Green Willow English String Orchestra William Boughton (conductor) NIMBUS NI5210/13 10.07 Gurney A Western Playground: Loveliest of Trees; Golden Friends Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Delme Quartet Iain Burnside (piano) HELIOS CDH55187 10.12 Ravel Piano Trio in A minor Nash Ensemble VIRGIN 5450162 10.40 Gounod Faust - Jewel Song Anna Netrebko (soprano) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) DG 4742402 10.47 Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht Norwegian Chamber Orchestra Iona Brown (director) CHANDOS CHAN 9616 11.19 Bach Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV542 Simon Preston (organ) DG 4694202 11.31 Dvorak The Golden Spinning Wheel Op.109 London Symphony Orchestra Istvan Kertesz (conductor) DECCA 4529462.