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Chi-chi Nwanoku introduces this week's selection of listeners' requests, including music for Remembrance Sunday with Haydn's 'Paukenmesse' and Finzi's 'Farewell to Arms'. Plus, the 'Hebrides' overture by Mendelssohn, Beethoven in a light mood with his Variations on Mozart's 'La ci darem la mano', and this week's guest, Head of Music at the Southbank Centre, Marshall Marcus, chooses a legendary performance of Duke Ellington's 'Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue'.

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Cavalli
L’Ormindo Act 1 Scene 5
Auree trecce inanellate (Golden tresses, waving, winding)
Erisbe – Anne Howells (mezzo-soprano), Miranda - Jane Berbié (mezzo-soprano),
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Raymond Leppard (conductor)
Decca 444 529-2, CD1 track 11

Beethoven
Variations on La ci darem la mano from Mozart’s Don Giovanni for two oboes and cor anglais
Members of London Baroque Ensemble: Michael Dobson, Edward Selwyn (oboes), Natalie James (cor anglais)
EMI Classics CDM764 135 2, tracks 18-27

Haydn
Missa in tempore belli ‘Paukenmesse’
Soloists: Nancy Argenta (soprano), Catherine Denley (mezzo-soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone),
Collegium Musicum 90, Richard Hickox (conductor)
Chandos CHAN 0734(8) CD4 tracks 2-12

Mendelssohn
Overture: The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave)
London Symphony Orchestra, Gabriel Chumra (conductor)
DG 423 025-2 track 1

Debussy
Preludes Book 1 no 12: Minstrels
Sophie Cashell (piano)
UCJ 476 6459 track 11

Vanhal
Concerto in F major for two bassoons and orchestra
Annika Wallin, Arne Nilsson (Bassoons),
The Umea Sinfonietta, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
BIS CD288, tracks 1-3

Ellington
Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
(Recorded in performance at the American Jazz Festival at Newport, Rhode Island on 7 July 1956)
CBS 450986 2, track 3

Gerald Finzi (words by Ralph Knevet and George Peele)
Farewell to Arms : Introduction and aria for tenor and strings
Martin Hill (tenor), City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox (conductor)
Virgin Classics VC7 90718-2, tracks 6+7

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