Radio 3 Requests - Ch-chi Nwanoku

Chi-chi Nwanoku introduces this week's selection of listeners' requests, including music for Remembrance Sunday with Haydn's 'Paukenmesse' and Finzi's 'Farewell to Arms'. Plus, the 'Hebrides' overture by Mendelssohn, Beethoven in a light mood with his Variations on Mozart's 'La ci darem la mano', and this week's guest, Head of Music at the Southbank Centre, Marshall Marcus, chooses a legendary performance of Duke Ellington's 'Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue'. ADDRESS: Radio 3 Requests, BBC Wales, Cardiff CF5 2YQ Phone: 03700 100 300. email: [email protected] Cavalli L’Ormindo Act 1 Scene 5 Auree trecce inanellate (Golden tresses, waving, winding) Erisbe – Anne Howells (mezzo-soprano), Miranda - Jane Berbié (mezzo-soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Raymond Leppard (conductor) Decca 444 529-2, CD1 track 11 Beethoven Variations on La ci darem la mano from Mozart’s Don Giovanni for two oboes and cor anglais Members of London Baroque Ensemble: Michael Dobson, Edward Selwyn (oboes), Natalie James (cor anglais) EMI Classics CDM764 135 2, tracks 18-27 Haydn Missa in tempore belli ‘Paukenmesse’ Soloists: Nancy Argenta (soprano), Catherine Denley (mezzo-soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Collegium Musicum 90, Richard Hickox (conductor) Chandos CHAN 0734(8) CD4 tracks 2-12 Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave) London Symphony Orchestra, Gabriel Chumra (conductor) DG 423 025-2 track 1 Debussy Preludes Book 1 no 12: Minstrels Sophie Cashell (piano) UCJ 476 6459 track 11 Vanhal Concerto in F major for two bassoons and orchestra Annika Wallin, Arne Nilsson (Bassoons), The Umea Sinfonietta, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) BIS CD288, tracks 1-3 Ellington Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue Duke Ellington and his Orchestra (Recorded in performance at the American Jazz Festival at Newport, Rhode Island on 7 July 1956) CBS 450986 2, track 3 Gerald Finzi (words by Ralph Knevet and George Peele) Farewell to Arms : Introduction and aria for tenor and strings Martin Hill (tenor), City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox (conductor) Virgin Classics VC7 90718-2, tracks 6+7