Classical Collection - Tuesday - Sarah Walker

Classical Collection with Sarah Walker: this week music with Polish connections, concert overtures and recordings by the violinist Nigel Kennedy. Today our highlights include Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave overture, Wranitzky's Symphony in D major, Op.36, a group of three Mazurkas from Debussy, Villa-Lobos and Delibes and a recording of Ravel's Sonata for Violin and Cello from our artist of the week Nigel Kennedy and the cellist Lynn Harrell. 10.00 Mendelssohn Fingal's Cave, overture for orchestra, op.26 London Symphony Orchestra Antal Dorati (conductor) Mercury 434 363-2 10.11 Lutoslawski Paganini Variations for piano and orchestra Peter Jablonski (piano) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Vladimir Ashkenazy Decca 436 239-2 10.20 Beethoven 12 Variations on a Russian Dance from Das Waldmadchen for piano, WoO71 Olli Mustonen (piano) Decca 436 834-2 10.32 Wranitzky Symphony in D, op.36 London Mozart Players Matthias Bamert (conductor) Chandos CHAN 9916 Today's Group of 3 features Mazurkas, but not from Poland. 10.54 Debussy Mazurka Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) Decca 460 247-2 10.57 Villa-Lobos Mazurka-Choro for solo guitar (from Suite populaire Bresilienne) Benjamin Bunch (guitar) Etcetera KTC 1241 11.01 Delibes Mazurka from Act 1 of Coppelia Orchestre de l'Opera National de Paris Jean-Baptiste Mari (conductor) EMI 67723 11.06 Dvorak Slavonic Dance op.72 no.1 in B major Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Artur Rodzinski (conductor) DG 471 202-2 11.11 Ravel Sonata for violin and cello Nigel Kennedy (violin) Lynn Harrell (cello) EMI 5 56963 2 11.33 Panufnik Sinfonia Rustica Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Lukasz Borowicz (conductor) CPO 777 496-2.