Radio 3 Requests - 24/08/2008

Chi-chi Nwanoku presents a selection of Radio 3 listeners' requests, including husband-and-wife team Natalie Dessay and Laurent Naouri performing The Fly Duet from Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld. Alfred Brendel plays Mozart's Concert Rondo in D, K 382, while harpsichordist Laurence Cummings makes his own request for an aria from Handel's opera Orlando. Offenbach: Fly Duet (Orphee aux enfers) Eurydice ...... Natalie Dessay Jupiter ...... Laurent Naouri Lyon Opera Orchestra Marc Minkowski (conductor) EMI Classics 7243 5 56725 2, CD 2 - Tr 8 Mozart: Concerto Rondo, KV 382 Alfred Brendel (piano) Academy of St Martin in the fields Neville Marriner (conductor) Philips 420 906-2 - Trs 4-6 Anon: Mother Watkins' Ale Catherine Bott (soprano) New London Consort Philip Pickett (director) LINN Records CKD 011 - Tr 18 Damase: Seventeen Variations for wind quintet Reykjavik Wind Quintet Chandos CHAN 9362 - Tr 15 Handel: Verdi piante (Orlando) Angelica ...... Rosemary Joshua Les Arts Florissants Williams Christie (conductor) Erato 0630-14636-2, CD 2 - Tr 10 Berwald: Finale: Allegro con spirito (Septet in B flat) The Gaudier Ensemble Hyperion CDA 66834 - Tr 10 Beethoven: Sehnsucht, WoO 146 Dietrich Fisher-Dieskau (baritone) Jorg Demus (piano) Deutsche Grammophon 453 782-2, CD 2 - Tr 3.