Radio 3 Requests - Chi-chi Nwanoku

Chi-chi Nwanoku presents a selection of Radio 3 listeners' requests, featuring a quartet by a critic-turned-composer, a piano concerto from a composer-turned-Prime Minister, an interstellar call...and two very different depictions of Spring. Address: Radio 3 Requests, BBC Wales, Cardiff CF5 2YQ email: [email protected] Playlist: Bliss: A Colour Symphony (II - Red) BBC National Orchestra of Wales Richard Hickox (conductor) CHANDOS CHAN10380, Tr 2 Adrian Jack: String Quartet No 3 (1996) Arditti String Quartet DEUX ELLES DXL1116, Trs 1 to 4 Pergolesi: Grave; Stabat Mater Dolorosa (Stabat Mater) Emma Kirkby (soprano) James Bowman (countertenor) The Academy of Ancient Music Christopher Hogwood (conductor) OISEAU LYRE 4256922, Tr 1 Shostakovich: Prelude and Fugue No 16 in B flat minor Tatiana Nikolaeva (piano) MELODIYA 74321198492, Disc 2, Tr 6 Vivaldi: Spring (The Four Seasons) English Chamber Orchestra Nigel Kennedy (violin/director) EMI 5562352, Trs 1 to 3 Piazzolla: Primavera Portena/Spring in Buenos Aires (The Four Seasons) Astor Piazzolla (bandoneon) Piazzolla Band BELLA MUSICA BMCD317031, Tr 9 EJ Moeran: Fantasy Quartet for oboe, violin, viola and cello Members of the Vanburgh Quartet Nicholas Daniel (oboe) ASV CDDCA1045, Tr 6 Messiaen: Appel Interstellaire (Interstellar Call) Jean-Jacques Justafre (horn) DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4716172, Disc 1, Tr 6 Paderewski: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 17 Janina Fialkowska (piano) National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Antoni Wit (conductor) NAXOS 8554020, Trs 1 to 3.