Performance on 3 - City of London Festival 2010, Gulbenkian Choir

Presented by Martin Handley. Recorded at St Bartholomew-the-Great, Cloth Fair, in the heart of the capital, a recital from the City of London Festival, which this year celebrates music and culture from the Portuguese-speaking world. The programme features Brazilian sacred polyphony of the 18th & 19th centuries, as well as Creole villancicos - Christmas songs - from 17th-Century Africa, performed by the Gulbenkian Choir and a continuo ensemble of period instruments, led by Jorge Matta. City of London Festival Gulbenkian Choir Period continuo instrumentalists Jorge Matta, conductor Mahler: Piano Quartet in A minor (single movement) Domus EMI 6 08986 2 Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 Renaud Capucon (violin) Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor) VIRGIN CLASSICS – 694589 0 3 A Jewish Odyssey: The Burning Bush (Rad Halaila) Klezroym (Fel Shara) Zohar (Shabbat Medley) Ofra Haza (Rachamim) Putumayo Records PUT 182-2 Trs 2-5 Mahler: Ich atmet' einen linden Duft Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) Wiener Philharmoniker Bruno Walter (conductor)