Radio 3 Requests - Chi-Chi Nwanoku

Chi-chi Nwanoku presents a selection of Radio 3 listeners' requests. The eclectic line-up includes a bluesy violin concerto movement by Khachaturian, a cheeky French chanson by Jean Sablon, an enigmatic Schubert request and Nielsen's great Sinfonia Espansiva. Address: Radio 3 Requests, BBC Wales, Cardiff CF5 2YQ email: [email protected] Playlist: Khachaturian Violin Concerto in D: II. Andante Sostenuto David Oistrakh (violin), USSR Radio and Television Large Symphony Orchestra, Aram Khachaturian (conductor) Russian Disc RDCD11012, track 2 Schubert String Quartet no.15 in G Major, D887: mvt 4 Lindsay String Quartet ASV CDDCA661, track 4 Patric Standford Celestial Fire Prologue; Waltz; March; Doll's Dance; Finale Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Barry Wordsworth (conductor) ASV CD WHL 2128 - tracks 20 to 24 Jean Sablon Le Fiacre (The Cab) DRG CDXP606, track 23 Duphly - La Pothouin Daquin - Le Cou Cou Sophie Yates (harpsichord) CHANDOS CHAN0598 - Tracks 4 and 12 Varese Arcana Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Jean Martinon (conductor) RCA 09026633152, track 5 Grieg Solveig's Song, from Peer Gynt Camilla Tilling (soprano), Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi (conductor) VIRGIN CLASSICS 5457222, track 14 Nielsen Symphony no.3 (Sinfonia Espansiva) Nancy Wait Kromm (soprano), Kevin McMillian (baritone), San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor) DECCA 4302802 - tracks 5 to 8.