Radio 3 Requests - Chi-chi Nwanoku

Chi-chi Nwanoku presents an unusually alliterative selection of Radio 3 listeners' requests. Mosolov, Maxwell Davies, Mussorgsky and Mendelssohn vie with Britten and Boccherini (as well as a brass band), while the programme concludes with a rare performance of three famous Dvorak overtures in sequence, as the composer intended: In Nature's Realm, Carnival and Othello. Playlist: Alexander Mosolov: Zavod (The Iron Foundry) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Riccardo Chailly (conductor) DECCA 4366402 - Tr 1 Mendelssohn: Piano Sonata in B flat, Op 106 (excerpt) Frederic Chiu (piano) HARMONIA MUNDI HMU907117 Chabrier arr Gordon Langford: Espana Black Dyke Band Geoffrey Brand (conductor) CHANDOS CHAN6539 - Tr 10 Boccherini: Quintet for two cellos, viola and two violins, Op 10 No 1 (excerpts) La Magnifica Comunita BRILLIANT 92503 - Trs 1 and 2 Britten: Diversions for left-hand piano and orchestra Peter Donohoe (piano) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Simon Rattle (conductor) EMI CZS5739832 - CD 1, Trs 5 to 16 Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition (excerpts) James Crabb, Geir Draugsvoll (accordions) EMI CDZ5697052 - Trs 6 - 14 Peter Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs For A Mad King (excerpt) Julius Eastman (baritone) The Fires Of London Peter Maxwell Davies (conductor) UNICORN DKPCD9052 - Tr 2 Dvorak: Three Concert Overtures (Nature, Life And Love) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra John Farrer (conductor) ASV CDDCA794 - Trs 1 - 3.