Radio 3 Requests - 30/11/2008

Chi-chi Nwanoku hosts this week's selection of requests, including John Veale's violin concerto, Holst's beautiful Eastern Pictures for choir and harp, and part of Act I from Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart, with the voices of Irmgard Seefried and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Radio 3 presenter Donald Macleod also dips into his record collection and chooses his favourite tracks performed by the group L'Arpeggiata directed by Christina Pluhar. ADDRESS: Radio 3 Requests, BBC Wales, Cardiff CF5 2YQ Phone: 03700 100 300. email: [email protected] ADDRESS: Radio 3 Requests, BBC Wales, Cardiff CF5 2YQ Phone: 03700 100 300. email: [email protected] Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte (overture) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Eugen Jochum (conductor) Deutsche Grammophon 00289 477 5669, CD 1, track 1 Holst: Two Eastern Pictures The Holst Singers, Sioned Williams (harp), Stephen Layton (conductor) Hyperion CDA 66705, tracks 18-21 Dvorak: Slavonic Rhapsody No. 1 Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Bohumil Gregor (conductor) Supraphon SU 3607-2 031, track 1 Galeazzi/Improvisation: Voglio una casa Bertali/Pluhar: Chiacona Pizzica: Luna Lunedda Alpha 512, tracks 1 & 9 and Alpha 503, track 6 L’Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar (director) Veale: Violin Concerto Lydia Mordkovich (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox (conductor) Chandos CHAN 9910, tracks 4-6 Chopin: Preludes Op. 28 (no. 24) Maria João Pires (piano) Deutsche Grammophon 437 817-2 Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutti: Act I (extract) Fiordiligi - Irmgard Seefried (soprano), Dorabella - Nan Merriman (mezzo-soprano), Guglielmo - Hermann Prey (baritone), Ferrado - Ernst Haefliger (tenor), Don Alfonso - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Rias Chamber Choir, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Eugen Jochum (conductor) Deutsche Grammophon 00289 477 5669, CD 1, tracks 2-18 Rachmaninov: Prelude in G minor, Op. 23 no. 5 Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Decca 417 764-2, track 6