Classical Collection - Tuesday - James Jolly

Classical Collection with James Jolly: this week orchestrations and reductions and classic recordings from Frans Bruggen. Today: Pineapple Poll, Sir Charles Mackerras's arrangement of tunes from Sullivan's operas, and George Gershwin's piano-roll performance of the Rhapsody in Blue. Plus, Frans Bruggen conducts the Orchestra of the 18th Century in Beethoven's Eroica symphony. 10.00 Sullivan arr. Mackerras Pineapple Poll: excerpt Philharmonia Orchestra Charles Mackerras (conductor) London 436 810-2 10.05 Verdi/Liszt Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto, S434 Emanuel Ax (piano) SONY SK 48 484 10.13 George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue (original jazz-band version) George Gershwin (1925 piano-roll) Columbia Jazz Band Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) CBS MK 42240 10.27 Bach Concerto no.4 in G minor for harpsichord BWV 975 Olivier Baumont (harpsichord) ERATO 3984-25504-2 10.35 Richard Strauss Horn Concerto no.2 in E flat Barry Tuckwell (horn) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor) DECCA 430 370-2 Today's Group of Three are works written for unusual instruments 10.55 Handel O Ruddier than the Cherry (Acis and Galatea) Nick Bryne (ophecleide) David Miller (piano) MELBA MR301111 10.57 Saint-Saens The Swan, from Carnival of the Animals Clara Rockmore (theremin) Nadia Reisenberg (piano) DELOS D/CD 1014 11.00 Karl Leopold Rollig Commodetto, from Kleine Tonstucke Thomas Bloch NAXOS 8 555295 11.02 Beethoven Symphony no.3 in E flat, op.55 (Eroica) Orchestra of the 18th Century Frans Bruggen (conductor) PHILIPS 442 156-2.