Radio 3 Requests - 26/10/2008

Chi-chi Nwanoku introduces this week's selection of listeners' requests, including scenes from Rameau's last opera, 'Les Boreades', music from 'The Eton Choirbook' with Harry Christophers and The Sixteen, and Charles Ives' Symphony no. 2. Plus, this week's guest, BBC Two's 'Classical Star' winner, pianist Sophie Cashell, chooses a favourite Piano trio by Brahms. ADDRESS: Radio 3 Requests, BBC Wales, Cardiff CF5 2YQ Phone: 03700 100 300. email: [email protected] Rameau Les Boréades, Act I Sc IV Contredanse en rondeau English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) Erato 4509 99763-2, CD1 track 8 Rameau Les Boréades, Act IV Sc IV Entrée; “Commandez aux tenders Zéphirs”; Gavottes pour les Heures et Les Zéphirs Polymnie – Edwige Bourdy (soprano), The Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) Erato 4509 99763-2, CD3 tracks 2-4 Tveitt A Hundred Hardanger Tunes Op 151, suite 1 No1 Vélkomme med aera (Welcome with Honour); No 2 Flyteljod (flute Air); No 9 LangeleiklÃ¥t (Langeleik tune); No 15 Siste Farvel (The Last Farewell) The Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor) BIS CD 987, tracks 1, 2, 9 + 15 Anonymous This day, day dawes (Eton Choirbook vol 1) The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (Director) Coro COR16026, track 5 Borodin In the Steppes of Central Asia Kirov Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor) Philips 470 840-2, track 5 Glazunov Autumn (The Seasons) Minnesota Orchestra, Edo de Waart (conductor) Telarc CD-80347, track 4 Bizet The Pearl Fishers, Act I Duet ‘Then from the holy shrine’ Nadir – Barry Banks (tenor), Zurga – Simon Keenlyside (baritone), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Brad Cohen (conductor) Chandos CHAN3156, track 6 Ives Symphony no 2 Concertgebouw Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) Sony SK 46440, tracks 1-3 Brahms Piano Trio in B major Op 8, mvt 1 Florestan Piano Trio Hyperion CDA672512, track 1