麻豆约拍

With Sarah Walker.

10.00am
Janacek: From the House of the Dead (Act 1, opening)
Luka ...... Jiri Zahradnicek (tenor)
Tall Prisoner ...... Vladimir Krejcik (tenor)
Short Prisoner ...... Richard Novak (bass)
Commandant ...... Antonin Svorc (bass)
Goryanchikov ...... Dalibor Jedlicka (bass)
Old Prisoner ...... Beno Blachut (tenor)
Vienna State Opera Chorus
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Mackerras (conductor)
DECCA 430 375-2 (2 CDs)

10.17am
Purcell: Music for a while
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Jory Vinikour (harpsichord)
ARCHIV 477 511-4

10.21am
Rossini: The Thieving Magpie (Act 1, Sc 2)
Fabrizio ...... Jeremy White (bass)
Lucia ...... Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
Giannetto ...... Barry Banks (tenor)
Ninetta ...... Majella Cullagh (soprano)
Mayor ...... Christopher Purves (baritone)
Isacco ...... John Graham-Hall (tenor)
Magpie ...... Prunella Scales
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Philharmonia Orchestra
David Parry (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 30972 (2 CDs)

10.43am
Ibert: The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra
Jan Latham-Koenig (conductor)
AVIE AV 0008

11.10am
Haydn: Sonata in B minor, H XVI 32
Alfred Brendel (piano)
PHILIPS 416 643-2 (2 CDs)

11.27am
Cowell: The Banshee
Henry Cowell (piano)
SMITHSONIAN SF 40801

11.30am
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
The Building a Library recommendation.