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Classical Collection: Wednesday - James Jolly

Wednesday - James Jolly

01/09/2010

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Collection, Wednesday - James Jolly

James Jolly presents music by Rossini, Salzedo, Rachmaninov, Mozart and Lalo.

With James Jolly. Rossini: Overture (Il Barbiere di Siviglia). Salzedo: Bolero; Rumba; Tango; Seguidilla. Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead. Mozart: Piano Concerto No 5. Anon: Jota.

James Jolly presents Visions of Spain & recordings by Jordi Savall & his Hesperion band.

Highlight's today include Lalo's Rapsodie espagnole performed by Henryk Szeryng, an early Mozart piano concerto from Mitsuko Uchida, and music connected with one of the great renaissance monarchs, Alfonso the Magnanimous of Aragon.

10.00
Rossini
Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Overture
Philharmonia Orchestra
Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)
EMI CDM 769042 2

10.07
Salzedo
Suite of Eight Dances: Bolero, Rumba, Tango, Seguidilla
Yolanda Kondonassis (harp)
TELARC CD-80691

10.16
Rachmaninov
The Isle of the Dead, Op.29
Russian National Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 463 075-2

10.35
Anon.
Adoramus te for 4vv. 
from the Cancionero de Montecassino of Alfons V 
La Capella Reial de Catalunya 
Jordi Savall (director)
ALIAVOX AV9816

10.42
Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 5 in D major, K.175
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
English Chamber Orchestra
Jeffrey Tate (Conductor)
Philips 432 082-2 

11.05
Verdi
"Merce, diletti amici... Come rugiada al cespite... Dell'esiglio nel dolore"
(Ernani, Act I)
Placido Domingo (tenor)
Roger Wagner Chorale
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)
DG 435 419-2

11.10
Foulds
Isles of Greece, Op.48 No.2
(Impressions of Time and Place)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Ronald Corp (conductor)
DUTTON CDLX 7250

11.19
Anon. 
Jota (Improvisation on a theme from the Saldivar codice) 
Montserrat Figueras (soprano) 
Hesperion XXI 
Jordi Savall (director) 
ALIA VOX AV 9834

11.24
Lalo
Symphonie Espagnole in D minor, Op.21
Henrky Szeryng (violin)
National Orchestra of Monte Carlo Opera
Edouard van Remoortel (conductor)
PHILIPS 422 976-2.

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