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Chi-chi Nwanoku introduces this week's selection of listeners' requests, including scenes from Rameau's last opera, 'Les Boreades', music from 'The Eton Choirbook' with Harry Christophers and The Sixteen, and Charles Ives' Symphony no. 2. Plus, this week's guest, 大象传媒 Two's 'Classical Star' winner, pianist Sophie Cashell, chooses a favourite Piano trio by Brahms.

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Rameau
Les Bor茅ades, Act I Sc IV
Contredanse en rondeau
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Erato 4509 99763-2, CD1 track 8

Rameau
Les Bor茅ades, Act IV Sc IV
Entr茅e; 鈥淐ommandez aux tenders Z茅phirs鈥�; Gavottes pour les Heures et
Les Z茅phirs
Polymnie 鈥� Edwige Bourdy (soprano),
The Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists,
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Erato 4509 99763-2, CD3 tracks 2-4

Tveitt
A Hundred Hardanger Tunes Op 151, suite 1
No1 V茅lkomme med aera (Welcome with Honour); No 2 Flyteljod (flute Air); No 9 Langeleikl氓t (Langeleik tune); No 15 Siste Farvel (The Last Farewell)
The Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor)
BIS CD 987, tracks 1, 2, 9 + 15

Anonymous
This day, day dawes (Eton Choirbook vol 1)
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (Director)
Coro COR16026, track 5

Borodin
In the Steppes of Central Asia
Kirov Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
Philips 470 840-2, track 5

Glazunov
Autumn (The Seasons)
Minnesota Orchestra, Edo de Waart (conductor)
Telarc CD-80347, track 4

Bizet
The Pearl Fishers, Act I
Duet 鈥楾hen from the holy shrine鈥�
Nadir 鈥� Barry Banks (tenor), Zurga 鈥� Simon Keenlyside (baritone),
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Brad Cohen (conductor)
Chandos CHAN3156, track 6

Ives
Symphony no 2
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
Sony SK 46440, tracks 1-3

Brahms
Piano Trio in B major Op 8, mvt 1
Florestan Piano Trio
Hyperion CDA672512, track 1

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