Radio 3 Requests - Chi-chi Nwanoku

Chi-chi Nwanoku introduces listeners' choices, which include a Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody arranged for piano and harmonium, Gounod's celebrated Ave Maria and the Bach prelude on which it was based, plus performances by the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle, Angela Hewitt and Leontyne Price. American composer John Adams is the guest requester. Radio 3 Requests TX: 21st September 2008, 1400-1600, BBC Radio 3 Presenter: Chi-chi Nwanoku Producer: Simon Jordan BA: Sian Grace Recording: 30A/B, Broadcasting House, Friday 29th August 2008, 1000-1200 Programme number: 08CM5425CB0 Tape number: PCF835/08CM5425 Elgar Chanson de matin Lydia Mordkovitch (violin), Julian Milford (piano) Chandos CHAN 9624, track 8 Debussy La Mer Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor) EMI 5 580452, tracks 2-4 Bach Prelude no 1 in C (Well-tempered clavier book 1) Angela Hewitt (piano) Hyperion CDS44291, CD 1 track 1 Gounod arr. Sabatini Meditation sur le 1er prelude de Bach (Ave Maria) Leontyne Price (soprano), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (conductor) Decca 421103-2, track 12 John Adams Kumudha's Prayer (A Flowering Tree) Jessica Rivera (soprano), Eric Owens (baritone and storyteller), Schola Cantorum Caracas, London Symphony Orchestra, John Adams (conductor) Nonesuch 327100 CD1 track 3 (Released Monday 22/09/08) Roy Harris Symphony No 3 Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop (conductor) Naxos 8.559227, track 1 Liszt, arr Jonathan Scott Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 Scott Brothers Duo Scott Brothers SBDRCD001, track 10 Johan Halvorsen Suite Ancienne Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor) NKF NKFCD500321, tracks 1-4 Strauss Don Juan Dresden Staatskapelle, Rudolf Kempe (conductor) EMI CDC7478652, track 1