Radio 3 Requests - Dominic Seldis

Memories of a ballet night at Covent Garden in the 1940s are amongst this week's requests. Plus Dominic Seldis introduces Brahms's Alto Rhapsody in the performance by Kathleen Ferrier alongside choral music from Frank Martin, and exhuberant French conductor Francois-Xavier Roth explains his passion for the music of Lully. Address: Radio 3 Requests, BBC Wales, Cardiff CF5 2YQ email: [email protected] Phone: 03700 100 300 Playlist: Bernstein: Candide – Overture New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein (conductor) SONY SM3K47154 CD2 t1 Eddie South: Black Gypsy Eddy South (violin), David Martin (piano) CLASSICS 737 t5 Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty – Rose Adagio Royal Opera House Orchestra, Ashley Lawrence conductor) LP BBC REP 362 S1 t1 Martin: Mass for Double Choir –Gloria, Credo Choir of Westminster Cathedral, James O’Donnell (conductor) HYPERION CDA67017 t2-3 Lanner: Jubel-Walzer op.100 Ensemble Wien SONY SK52484 t1 Brahms: Alto Rhapsody Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Danish Radio Male Chorus, Danish Radio SO, Fritz Busch (conductor) DANACORD DACOCD 301 t1 Lully: Marche pour la Céremonie des Turcs Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall (director) AUVIDIS VALOIS v4640 t1 Handel: Messiah – Why do the nations? Al Jarreau Big Band Reprise 7599269802 t16 Bax: Folk-tale Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello), Yolande Wrigley (piano) ASV CD DCA869 t4 Randall Thompson: The Peaceable Kingdom (last 3 movements) Schola Cantorum of Oxford, James Burton (conductor) HYPERION CDA67679 t6-8 Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme ‘Enigma’ London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis (conductor) LSO LIVE LSO0109 t1-15 Dastan Ensemble and Shahram Nazeri: Saz Va Avaz ROUGH GUIDES RGNET1165CD t7