Radio 3 Requests - 10/08/2008

In today's hour-long edition of requests from Radio 3 listeners, a disastrous spell is cast in Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice and there's a nearly-discarded quartet movement from the sixteen year old Mozart. Violist Lawrence Power also shares a favourite recording of two songs by Brahms for alto, viola and piano. Chi-chi Nwanoku presents. Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, James Levine (conductor) Deutsche Grammophon 419 617-2, track 5 Mozart: String Quartet in G major, K. 156 (Adagio, original second movement) Éder Quartet Naxos 8.550542, track 14 Morley: Madrigals: Arise, awake; Fire and Lightning; No, no, no, no Nigella The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director) L’Oiseau Lyre 436 962-2, tracks 1, 8 & 3 Eduard Tubin: Ballade Arvo Leibur (violin), Vardo Ramussen (piano) BIS-CD-541/542, CD 1 track 6 Brahms: Two songs for alto, viola obbligato and piano Op. 91 Marian Anderson (contralto), William Primrose (viola), Franz Rupp (piano) Biddulph Lab 150, tracks 8-9 Tchaikovsky: Waltz of the Flowers (Nutcracker Suite) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert Von Karajan Deutsche Grammophon 419 175-2, track19