Presented by Sean Rafferty. Sean talks to to Australian conductor Simone Young live from Edinburgh as she brings the Hamburg State Opera to the Festival for a performance of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman. Main news headlines today at 5.45 E-mail: [email protected] 17.50 SMETANA Prague carnival BBC Philharmonic Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) CHANDOS CHAN 10413 Track 6 6’10 17.57 MAZZOCHI Lauda Jerusalem Cantus Cölln Concerto Palatino Konrad Junghänel (director) HARMONIA MUNDI HMC902001 Track 9 5’40 18.03 WAGNER Rheingold!, Rheingold! Reines Gold! (from Das Rheingold) Ha Young Lee (Woglinde) Gabriele Rossmanith (Wellgune) Ann-Beth Solvang (Flosshilde) Falk Struckmann (Wotan) Peter Galliard (Loge) Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra Simone Young (conductor) OEHMS CLASSICS OC 925 CD 2 Track 23 3’39 18.13 WAGNER Traume (Wesendonck Lieder, Op.91) John Harding (violin) West Australian Symphony Orchestra Simone Young (conductor) ABC CLASSICS ABC 4766811 Track 6 5’20 18.27 BRUCKNER Symphony no.8: Scherzo (2nd half of the movement) Hamburg Philharmonic Simone Young (conductor) OEHMS CLASSICS OC 638 CD 1, Track 2 5’13 18.34 JC BACH Sonata in B flat, Op.5 no.1 Sophie Yates (harpsichord) CHANDOS CHAN 0762 Tracks 1- 2 8’25 18.45 TRADITIONAL Giralda de Sevilla Paco Pena (guitar) & his group DECCA 443 902 2 Track 3 3’00 18.48 THOMAS Connais-tu le pays (Mignon) Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano) Mahler Chamber Orchestra Marc Minkowski (conductor) DG 474 214 2 Track 10 5’19 18.54 KREISLER Shön Rasmarin Itzhak Perlman (violin) The Abbey Road Ensemble Lawrence Foster (conductor) EMI CDC5554752 Track 11 1’46 18.57 MOERAN Bank Holiday Eric Parkin (piano) J MARTIN STAFFORD JMSCD2 Track 18 2’12