Radio 3 Requests - 14/12/2008

Chi-chi Nwanoku presents more of your requests. Including opera from Mussorgsky, Ballet music by Rameau, and a rarely heard major work by Arthur Bliss, his Meditations on a theme of John Blow. ADDRESS: Radio 3 Requests, BBC Wales, Cardiff CF5 2YQ Phone: 03700 100 300. email: [email protected] Including: Rameau: La Princess de Navarre. Act 1, Entrée des guerriers English Baroque Festival singers, Nicholas McGegan (conductor) Erato, 0630129862, track 2 Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina: Prelude, Dawn over the River Moscow Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Claudio Abbado (conductor) DG 4297582, CD1, track 1 Leighton: Elegy for Cello & Piano Op.5 Andrew Fuller (cello), Michael Dussek (piano) Dutton Laboratories CDLX7118 Gigout: Toccata Marie-Claire Alain (organ) Erato 4509948122, track 4 Delius: Sea Drift (extract) Bruce Boyce (baritone), BBC Chorus, royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor) Sony Classical SBK62752, track 12 Rameau: Platée Suite European Union Baroque Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor) Naxos 8557490, tracks 1-7 Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov, Death Scene Boris Christoff (bass), Ana Alexieva (mezzo soprano), John Lanigan (tenor) Chorus of the National Opera of Sophia, Conservatoire Concert Society Orchestra, André Cluytens (conductor) EMI CDS7479938 CD3 Tracks 17-19 Debussy: Hommage à Rameau (Images) Boris Berman (piano) Chandos CHAN9294, track 5 Bliss Meditations on a Theme of John Blow City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Hugo Rignold (conductor) Lyrita SRCD254