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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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