Narrratives: Iain Burnside focuses on narratives in music and is joined by novelist Patrick Gale to explore works by Prokofiev, Liszt, Elgar and Ravel that use musical means to cast a narrative spell Faure Berceuse/Dolly Suite Kathryn Stott/Martin Roscoe (piano) Hyperion CDA 669114 cd4 Tr 1 Dur: 2m40s Dittersdorf: The Rescue of Andromeda by Perseus (Sinfonia No 4 in F - 1st mvt) Laszlo Parkanyi (oboe) Failoni Orchestra Budapest Hanspeter Gmur (conductor) Naxos 8553369 Tr 1 Dur: 8m57s Sheldon Harnick: The Ballad of the shape of things Blossom Dearie Redial 558 683 2 Tr 9 Dur: 2m42s Schumann: Novellette No 8 in F sharp Sviatoslav Richter Olympia OCD 287 Tr 3 Dur: 11m37s Couperin: Le Parnasse ou L'Apotheose de Corelli London Baroque BIS-CD 1275 Trs 1 and 2 Dur: 4m30s Schubert: Erlkonig Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) Malcolm Martineau (piano) DG 445 294 2 Tr 11 Dur: 4m25s Janacek: String Quartet No 1 (Kreutzer Sonata) Alban Berg Quartet EMI CDC 555 457 2 Tr 1 Dur: 3m55s Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf (excerpt) Sting (narrator) Chamber Orchestra of Europe Claudio Abbado (conductor) DG 429 396 2 Tr 11 Dur: 1m33s Britten: I accept their verdict (Billy Budd - Act 3) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Halle Orchestra Kent Nagano (conductor) ERATO 39842 16312 Cd2 Tr 11 Dur: 4m10s Bach: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit 'Actus Tragicus, BWV106' (excerpt) Jan Kobow (tenor) Stephan Macleod (bass) Carlos Mena Ricercar Consort Philippe Pierlot (director) Mirare MIR 002 Tr 8 Dur: 7m05s Liszt: Les Preludes (No 3) Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Kurt Masur (conductor) EMI CDM 769 022 2 Trs 1 and 6 Dur: 15m05s Chopin: Ballade No 1, Op 23 Krystian Zimerman (piano) DG 423 090 2 Tr 1 Dur: 9m33s Kuhnau: First Biblical Sonata (2nd mvt) John Butt (keyboard) Harmonia Mundi HMU 907 133 Tr 2 Strauss: Don Juan, Op 20 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Fritz Reiner (conductor) RCA 85408 Tr 2 Dur: 16m15s.