Classical Collection - Wednesday - Sarah Walker

Classical Collection with Sarah Walker: this week a selection of music inspired by the warming sun, Handel Oratorios; recordings by Vernon Handley. Today's highlights include Vernon Handley conducting Bantock, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson singing Handel, Brahms' Clarinet Quintet and Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream overture. 10.00 Grieg Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Op.46 Berlin Philharmonic Herbert von Karajan (conductor) DG 474 269-2 10:14 Bach arr. Montero Two-Part Invention in D minor, BWV775 Gabriela Montero (piano) EMI 367359-2 10.19 Bantock The Third Day (The Song of Songs) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Vernon Handley (conductor) HYPERION CDA 67395 10.25 Handel Ah! Whither should we fly... As with rosy steps the morn (Theodora) Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Harry Bicket (conductor) AVIE AV0030 10.35 Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115 Berlin Soloists WARNER APEX 0927 44350-2 11.10 Anon Jota (improvisation on a theme from the Saldivar codice) Hesperion XXI Jordi Savall (director) Alia Vox AV 9834 11.14 Handel Theodora: Part 2, scene 2 Susan Gritton (soprano) Gabrieli Consort and Players Paul McCreesh (director) ARCHIV 469 061-2 11.24 Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture Op.21 London Symphony Orchestra Claudio Abbado (conductor) DG 423 104-2 11.37 The Wednesday Award-winner Faure Fantaisie, Op.111 Alicia de Larrocha (piano) London Philharmonic Orchestra Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos (conductor) DECCA 417 583-2.