Chi-chi Nwanoku

Synopsis

Chi-chi Nwanoku introduces a selection of listeners' requests, including A Musical Joke by Mozart and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra with Claudio Abbado in a performance of the last movement of Mahler's Symphony No 2. Composer of the Week Jonathan Harvey chooses jazz by Bud Powell.

Rodgers/Hough
Carousel Waltz
Stephen Hough (piano)
Hyperion CDA67043 track 13

Paisiello
Concerto for mandolin in E flat major
Ugo Orlandi (mandolin), I Solisti Veneti, Claudio Scimone (conductor)
Erato ECD88165 tracks 1-3

Lauridsen
Sure on this Shining Night
Polyphony, Stephen Layton (conductor)
Hyperion CDA67580 track 16

Brahms
Piano Quartet Op 26
2nd movement: Poco Adagio
Emanuel Ax (piano), Isaac Stern (violin), Jaime Laredo (viola),
Yo-yo Ma (cello)
Sony Classical S2K45846 CD2 track 2

Refice
Cecilia
Grazie Sorelle (La morte di Cecilia)
Renata Tebaldi (soprano), Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra Rome, Alberto Erede (conductor)
Decca 430 481 2 CD1 track 11

Mozart
Ein Musikalischer Spass K522 (A Musical Joke)
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Deutsche Grammophon 429 783 2 tracks 1-4

Bud Powell
All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm
Tea for Two
Properbox 22 CD3 track 12 and CD4 track 17

Mahler
Symphony no 2 “Resurrection”
5. Im Tempo des Scherzo. Wild herausfahrend “Die Auferstehung”
Eteri Gvazava (soprano), Anna Larsson (contralto), Orfeón Donostiarra,
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Deutsche Grammophon 477 508 2 CD2 track 4

Broadcast

1. Sun 12 Jul 2009
   14:00
   BBC Radio 3