Radio 3 Requests - Fiona Talkington
Fiona Talkington presents a selection of BBC Radio 3 listeners' requests, which include a leading pianist trying his hand at composition and a piano concerto from a non-pianist composer. Plus an oblique take on Mozart for winds, haunting sounds for the traditional Armenian duduk and cellist Steven Isserlis on the music an international soloist turns to for recuperation. Playlist: Smetana: Polka in A major Andras Schiff (piano) Teldec 3984 21261 2 t8 Handel: Susanna - Crystal Streams in murmurs flowing Lorraine Hunt (Susanna - soprano) Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Nicholas McGegan (director) Harmonia Mundi 907030.32 CD2 t4 Rimsky-Korsakov: Piano Concerto Op.30 Geoffrey Tozer (piano) Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Dmitri Kitajenko (conductor) Chandos CHAN7029 CD2 t7 Francaix: Mozart new-look Blaser Ensemble Mainz Klaus Rainer Schöll (director) Wergo WER 6014350 t2 Berlioz: Ballet des ombres Choeur de Chambre de L'Orchestre National de Lyon Noel Lee (piano) Bernard Tétu (conductor) Harmonia Mundi HMA1951293 t1 Saint-Saëns: Une Nuit a Lisbonne Ensemble Orchestral de Paris Kean-Jacques Kantorow (conductor) EMI CDC7549132 t11 Fauré: Maria Mater Gratiae Westminster Cathedral Choir Iain Simcock (organ) James O'Donnell (conductor) Hyperion CDA66669 t9 Tchaikovsky: Overture from The Nutcracker Calefax Reed Quintet MDG 6191043 2 t1 . Duke Ellington/Ben Webster: Jump for Joy MDG 6191043 2 t12 Reinecke: Serenade in G minor - Marcia; Arioso Chamber Orchestra Kremlin Misha Rachlevsky (conductor) Claves CD502107 t1-2 Mendelssohn: Symphony No 1 in C minor Op 11 Leipzig Chamber Orchestra Morten-Shuldt Jensen (conductor) Thorofon CTH2496 t7 Armand Amar: Hovern ' engan / The Winds have Dropped Lévon Minassian (duduk) Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra Deyan Pavlov (conductor) Long Distance (distributed by Harmonia Mundi) t1 Wagner: The Flying Dutchman: Senta's aria 'Spinning Song' Hildegard Behrens (Senta) Vienna State Opera Chorus Vienna Philharmonic Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor) Decca 436 419-2 CD1 t11 Pletnev: Fantasia elvetica (2006) Martha Argerich, Alexander Mogilevsky (pianos) Orchestre della Svizzera Italiana Mikhail Pletnev (conductor) EMI 2670512 CD3 t9-12.