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Today Classical Collection features one of the great funeral marches: Siegfried's Funeral March from Wagner's opera The Twilight of the Gods. It depicts a mighty hero being carried dead from the stage: a scene which had come into Wagner's mind well before he thought about composing his Ring Cycle.

This week Marches & recordings by our Artists of the Week The Nash Ensemble

10.00
Debussy
Marche ecosaisse
ORTF National Orchestra
Jean Martinon (conductor)
EMI 575526-2

10.07
Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle
Sonata in E flat, Op 81a (Les Adieux)
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
DG 459 634-2

10.24
Haydn
Symphony No 45 in F sharp minor
Orchestras of the Age of the Enlightenment & of the 18th Century
Frans Bruggen (conductor)
PHILIPS 473 020-2

10.49
Artists of the Week
Dvorak
Serenade in D minor, Op 22
The Nash Ensemble
CRD 3410

11.15
Wagner
Siegfried's Funeral March (Gotterdammerung)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)
HMV 572169-2

11.24
Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream (excerpts)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Litton (conductor)
CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE 575142-2.