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Classical Collection: Tuesday - James Jolly

Tuesday - James Jolly

05/10/2010

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Collection, Tuesday - James Jolly

James Jolly presents music by Sullivan, Verdi/Liszt, Gershwin, Bach, Strauss, Beethoven.

With James Jolly. Sullivan, arr Mackerras: Pineapple Poll (excerpt). Verdi/Liszt: Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto. Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (original jazz band version).

Classical Collection with James Jolly: this week orchestrations and reductions and classic recordings from Frans Bruggen.

Today: Pineapple Poll, Sir Charles Mackerras's arrangement of tunes from Sullivan's operas, and George Gershwin's piano-roll performance of the Rhapsody in Blue. Plus, Frans Bruggen conducts the Orchestra of the 18th Century in Beethoven's Eroica symphony.

10.00
Sullivan arr. Mackerras
Pineapple Poll: excerpt
Philharmonia Orchestra
Charles Mackerras (conductor)
London 436 810-2 


10.05
Verdi/Liszt
Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto, S434
Emanuel Ax (piano)
SONY SK 48 484

10.13
George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue (original jazz-band version) 
George Gershwin (1925 piano-roll) 
Columbia Jazz Band Michael 
Tilson Thomas (conductor) 
CBS MK 42240

10.27
Bach
Concerto no.4 in G minor for harpsichord BWV 975 
Olivier Baumont (harpsichord) 
ERATO 3984-25504-2

10.35
Richard Strauss
Horn Concerto no.2 in E flat
Barry Tuckwell (horn)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
DECCA 430 370-2


Today's Group of Three are works written for unusual instruments

10.55
Handel
O Ruddier than the Cherry (Acis and Galatea) 
Nick Bryne (ophecleide) 
David Miller (piano) 
MELBA MR301111

10.57
Saint-Saens
The Swan, from Carnival of the Animals
Clara Rockmore (theremin)
Nadia Reisenberg (piano)
DELOS D/CD 1014

11.00
Karl Leopold Rollig
Commodetto, from Kleine Tonstucke
Thomas Bloch
NAXOS 8 555295

11.02
Beethoven
Symphony no.3 in E flat, op.55 (Eroica) 
Orchestra of the 18th Century 
Frans Bruggen (conductor) 
PHILIPS 442 156-2.

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