Monday, August 20

An extramusical detour:

Broccoli
While not exacolly
Comes within an inach
Of being spinach.

Immortal words of Ogden Nash. In the 1 o'clock hour, hear Nash's equally punny rhymes for The Carnival of the Animals.

11 AM

• Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3. Royal Phil Orch, Levine (Telarc 80454)
• Verdi: Brindisi. Joseph Alessi, Warren Jones (Naxos 8.570232)

12 N

• Korngold: Military March in B-flat. BBC Phil, Bamert (Naxos 8.570232)
• Ravel: String Quartet in F major. Leipzig String Quartet (MDG 307 1359)
• Medtner: Skazki, Op. 35. Hamish Milne (Hyperion 67491/2)
• Telemann: Orchestral Suite in C minor. Berlin Baroque Soloists, Kussmaul (DG 5761)

1 PM

• Godard: Allegretto. Paula Robison, Charleston Sym, Stahl (Pergola 1032)
• Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor. Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis (DG 289 457 619)
• Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals, with poetry by Ogden Nash. Perlman, Katia and Marielle Labeque, Israel Phil, Mehta (EMI 57067)