Radio 3 Requests - 05/10/2008
Actress Kate O'Mara is this week's guest requester. Listener choices include George Gershwin's Summertime (in a mesmerising performance by saxophonist Kenneth Radnofsky), stirring military music by Beethoven and Richard Rodgers, Mendelssohn's ambitious choral work Lauda Sion, and a tribute to the late pianist Clifford Benson. Presented by Chi-chi Nwanoku. ADDRESS: Radio 3 Requests, BBC Wales, Cardiff CF5 2YQ Phone: 03700 100 300. email: [email protected] Vivaldi: Concerto for violin and orchestra (RV293) in F major “Autumn†Antonio de Secondi (violin), Luca Peverini (cello), Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini (Director) Naïve Records OP30363, track 7 Gershwin: Summertime (Porgy and Bess) Kenneth Radnofsky (saxophone) Continuum CCD 1015, track 2 Richard Rodgers, arr Robert Russell Bennett: Five Selections from the NBC-TV series “Victory at Sea†Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel (conductor) Telarc CD-80175, tracks 1-5 Howard Ferguson: Five Bagatelles, Op 9 Clifford Benson (piano) Hyperion CDA66192, tracks 5-9 Mendelssohn: Lauda Sion, Op 73 Evelyn Brunner (soprano), Naoko Ihara (contralto), Alejandro Ramirez (tenor), Philippe Huttenlocher (bass), Lisbon Gulbenkian Foundation Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, Michel Corboz (conductor) Erato 4509943592, tracks 9-15 Beethoven: Wellington’s Victory or the Battle of Victoria Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner (conductor) Philips 4262392, tracks 5-6 Vaughan Williams: Concerto Grosso for string orchestra London Symphony Orchestra, Bryden Thomson (conductor) Chandos CHAN8629, tracks 5-9