Radio 3 Requests - Tasmin Little

Violinist Tasmin Little presents a selection of Radio 3 listeners' requests, including two doses of Spanish sun courtesy of Enrique Granados and Padre Antonio Soler. There's also a scene from Handel's Solomon and a rare chance to hear Saint-Saens' Piano Concerto No 2 in the Gramophone Award-winning recording by Stephen Hough. Cellist Paul Watkins is in the studio to explain why he thinks no one can surpass the Quartetto Italiano when it comes to playing Beethoven. Leo: Sinfonia ‘Il Demetrio’ Ensemble Turicum, Luiz Alves da Silva & Mathias Weibel (director) K617 K617159 t10-12 Granados: Goyescas (Quejas, o la maja y el ruiseñor) Christina Ortiz (piano) COLLINS 11362 t4 Tartini: Devil’s Trill – 3rd mvt Andrew Manze (violin) HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907213 t3 Suk: Fantastic Scherzo Op.25 Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) DECCA 466 443-2 t6 Handel: Solomon (excerpt) Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor – Solomon), Alison Hagley (mezzo-soprano – 1st Harlot), Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano – 2nd Harlot), Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh (director) ARCHIV 4596882 CD2 t8-11 Beethoven: ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet Op.59 no. 1: finale Quartetto Italiano PHILIPS PHI 4540622 Strauss: Four Last Songs Soile Isokoski (soprano), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra ONDINEDOE9822 t12 Senaillé: Allegro Spirituoso Laurence Perkins (bassoon), New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor) HYPERION CDA67453 t3 Soler: Sonata in D minor SR15 Sonata in F SR89 Alicia de Larrocha (piano) DECCA 433 920-2 t1,6 Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto no.2 Stephen Hough (piano), CBSO, Sakari Oramo (conductor) HYPERION CDA67331/2 CD1 t4-6