Radio 3 Requests - Handel Week - Chi-chi Nwanoku

A Lenten oratorio which scandalised London is just one of the choices included in Chi-chi Nwanoku's selection of Radio 3 listeners' favourite Handel moments. Playlist: Handel: Solomon (Act 3; Symfony (Arrival of the Queen of Sheba) Gabrieli Consort and Players Paul McCreesh (director) Archiv 4596882, CD3, Tr 1 Handel: Where'er you walk (Semele) Richard Lewis (tenor) London Symphony Orchestra Malcolm Sargent (conductor) Dutton Laboratories, CDCLP4003, Tr 3 Handel arr Leonard Rosenman: Saraband (Keyboard Suite in D minor, HWV437) City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra Paul Bateman (conductor) Silva Screen FILMCD303, Tr 5 Handel: O thou brightest sun - with darkness deep (Theodora); Melissa's aria Destero dall'empia Dite (Amadigi di Gaula) Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano) Venice Baroque Andrea Marcon (director) Archiv 477 6547, Trs 7 and 8 Handel: Concerto grosso, Op 6 No 6 Il Giardino Armonico Giovanni Antonini (director) L'Oiseau-Lyre 478 0319, CD2, Trs 1-5 Handel: Alcina (excerpt from Act 1) Eiddwen Harrhy (soprano) City of London Baroque Sinfonia Richard Hickox (conductor) EMI CDS 749771 2, CD1, Trs 1-3 Handel: Chandos Anthem No 10 (The Lord is my light) Lynne Dawson (soprano) Ian Partridge (tenor) The Sixteen Harry Christophers (director) Chandos, CHAN05547, CD4, Trs 1-9 Handel: Gentle Morpheus (Alceste) Emma Kirkby (soprano) The Academy of Ancient Music Christopher Hogwood (director) L'Oiseau-Lyre 4214792, Tr 8 Handel/Halvorsen: Passacaglia (Adaptated from Suite No 7 in G minor) Nigel Kennedy (violin) Lynn Harrell (cello) EMI CDC5569632, Tr 5 Handel: Excerpts from Semele: No 3 (Act 1, Sc 1) Chorus: Lucky Omens No 24 (Act 2, opening) Sinfonia No 70 (Act 3, Sc 8) Chorus: O terror No 74 (Act 3, Sc 9) Sinfonia No 76 (Act 3, Sc 9) Chorus: Happy Happy shall we be Chorus of the Early Opera Company Early Opera Company Christian Curnyn (conductor) Chandos CHAN07453, CD1 Tr 5; CD3, Trs 26, 30, 32.