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Classical Collection with Sarah Walker. This week - music of a rustic character, and recordings by Simon Rattle. Today's highlights include Grainger's Country Gardens, Bach's Peasant Cantata and Milhaud's Scaramouche from our Friday Virtuoso, clarinettist Michael Collins. Bernard Haitink conducts Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe: Suite No.2 and there's Grainger's The Warriors conducted by our artist of the week Sir Simon Rattle.

Playlist

10.00
Grainger
Country Gardens
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 5 56412 2

10.03
Friday Virtuoso
Milhaud
Scaramouche, op.165d
Michael Collins (clarinet)
Piers Lane (piano)
CHANDOS CHAN 10615

10.13
Farina
Capricio Stravagante
The Purcell Quartet
Robert Woolley (harpsichord)
CHANDOS CHAN 0651

10.30
Bach
Peasant Cantata, BWV 212
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
David Thomas (bass)
The Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
L’OISEAU LYRE 417621

10.58
Grainger
The Warriors – music to an imaginary ballet for orchestra
Malcolm Wilson, Roderick Elms, Wayne Marshall (pianos)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)
Stephen Frost (assistant conductor)
EMI 5 56412 2

11.17
Playford
4 numbers from The English Dancing Master:
‘Pell Mell’
‘Ham House / Half Hannikin’
‘The Waits’
‘Indian Queen / Of noble race was Shinkin’
The Dufay Collective
CHANDOS CHAN 9446

11.26
Ravel
Daphnis and Chloe: Suite no.2
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)
DECCA 438 742-2

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