Radio 3 Requests - 04/01/2009

Double bassist and Maestro judge Dominic Seldis makes his pick of the weekly postbag, including music from Walton's Henry V, ragtime from Scott Joplin, and Chopin played by Maurizio Pollini. Plus violinist Julian Rachlin on Brahms, Bernstein, and an unforgettable encounter with the American composer-conductor. Address: Radio 3 Requests, BBC Wales, Cardiff CF5 2YQ email: [email protected] Phone: 03700 100 300 Including: Havergal Brian: Comedy Overture – The Jolly Miller BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Lionel Friend (conductor) NAXOS 8.557775 Beethoven: Violin Concerto – 3rd movement Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Berlin Philharmonic, Hebert von Karajan (conductor) DG 413 818-2 t3 Quilter: Three Shakespeare Songs Op.6 Teddy Tahu Rhodes (baritone), Sharolyn Kimmorley (piano) ABC 476 7175 t4-6 Eller: Videvik (Twilight) Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi (conductor) CHANDOS CHAN 8525 t6 Bach: Sonata in E major BWV1035 Lisa Beznosiuk (flute), Paul Nicholson (harpsichord), Richard Tunnicliffe (cello) HYPERION CDA67264/5 CD1 t12-end Chopin: Polonaise in A op.40 no.1 Maurizio Pollini (piano) DG 4137952 t3 Brahms: Symphony no.4 -4th mvt Vienna Philharmoni, Leonard Bernstein (conductor) DG 4100842 t3 Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches: In the Mountain Pass USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Fedoseyev (conductor) OLYMPIA OCD 107 t10 Joplin: Wall St Rag Scott Joplin (piano roll) BIOGRAPH BLP1010Q S1 B6 Virgil Thomson: Acadian Songs and Dances from Louisiana Story The New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor) HYPERION CDA66576 t11-17 Walton: Henry V – Agincourt Christopher Plummer (narrator), Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) CHANDOS CHAN8892