Radio 3 Requests - Chi-chi Nwanoku

Chi-chi Nwanoku presents Radio 3 listeners' requests, including excerpts from Mozart's 'Great' Mass in C minor, Beethoven's Violin Sonata No 9 in A, the Kreutzer and D'Indy's Symphony No 2. There's also music from Grainger, Hahn and Hummel and soprano Josephine Barstow sings opera by Verdi. The guest is cellist and composer Philip Sheppard and he introduces a work by Sir Michael Tippett that influenced his life and career - the Fantasia concertante on a Theme of Corelli. Trad. (Cornish): Sweet Nightingale Alfred Deller (countertenor) Desmond Dupre (guitar) Vanguard Classics 08506471Tr 4 Grainger: Dreamery BBC Philharmonic Richard Hickox (conductor) Chandos CHAN 9584 Tr 13 Mozart: Gloria; Qui tollis; Quoniam; Jesu Christe; Cum Sancto Spiritu (Mass in C minor - Great) Arleen Auger (soprano) Lynne Dawson (soprano) John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Winchester Cathedral Choir Academy of Ancient Music Christopher Hogwood (conductor) L'Oiseau Lyre 425 528-2 Trs 6-8 Tippett: Fantasia concertante on a Theme of Corelli Yehudi Menuhin, Robert Masters (violins) Derek Simpson (cello) Bath Festival Orchestra Sir Michael Tippett (conductor) EMI Classics CMS 7 63522 2 Tr 1 Hahn: A Chloris Susan Graham (mezzo) Roger Vignoles (piano) Sony Classical SK 60168 Tr 1 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 9 in A, Op 47 (Kreutzer) Itzhak Perlman (violin) Martha Argerich (piano) EMI CDC 556815 2 Trs 1-3 Verdi: Morro, ma prima in grazia (Un ballo in maschera, Act 3, Sc 1) Amelia ...... Josephine Barstow (soprano) Vienna Philharmonic Herbert von Karajan (conductor) Deutsche Grammophon 449 590-2, CD 2 Tr 5 Hummel: Piano Concerto in B minor, Op 89 (Larghetto) Stephen Hough (piano) English Chamber Orchestra Brydon Thomson (conductor) Chandos CHAN8507 Tr 5 D'Indy: Symphony No 2 (4th mvt) Iceland Symphony Orchestra Rumon Gamba (conductor) Chandos CHAN 10514 Tr 4.