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Schumann, Beethoven, Gershwin

Chi-chi Nwanoku presents listeners' requests, including chamber music by Schumann and Beethoven, songs from gifted baritone Benjamin Luxon and Gershwin's An American in Paris.

With its terrifying backdrop of falling guillotine blades, the end of Poulenc's 'Dialogues des carm茅lites' is a musical experience like no other. Soprano Rosemary Joshua shares her memories of this operatic horror show. Plus, listeners' picks of chamber music by Schumann and Beethoven, songs from the gifted baritone Benjamin Luxon, and the vocational highlight of any car horn virtuoso: Gershwin's 'An American in Paris'. With Chi-chi Nwanoku.

2 hours

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Boxing Day 2010 14:00

Music Played

  • Moritz Moszkowski

    Fantaisie 'Hommage 脿 Schumann' Op.5

    Performer: Seta Tanyel (piano)

    • HELIOS CDH55143.
    • 1.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Prince of the Pagodas: Act III (conclusion)

    Performer: London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen (conductor)

    • VIRGIN 0777 7595782 2 CD2.
    • 12 to 16.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Vivo in te (Tamerlano)

    Performer: Rosemary Joshua (soprano), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), English Concert, Harry Bickett (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN0767.
    • 9.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Dialogue des Carmelites 鈥 Salve Regina (closing scene)

    Performer: Denise Duval (Blanche), Liliane Berton (Constance), Chorus and Orchestra of the Paris National Opera, Pierre Dervaux (conductor)

    • EMI CMS5671352.
  • Robert Schumann

    Violin Sonata no.1 Op.105 鈥 Allegretto

    Performer: Anthony Marwood (violin), Susan Tomes (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA 67180.
    • 2.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Hammerklavier Sonata 鈥 3rd movement

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim (piano)

    • DG 4294852.
    • 3.
  • Gabriel Jackson

    In Nomine Domini (from the 2010 Proms)

    Performer: Endymion Ensemble; Arditti String Quartet; 大象传媒 Singers; David Hill (conductor)

    • 大象传媒 LIVE RECORDING.
  • George Butterworth

    A Shropshire Lad 鈥 The Lads in their hundreds, When I was One and Twenty, Think on More La

    Performer: Benjamin Luxon (baritone), David Willinson (piano)

    • DECCA 461 4912.
  • Charles鈥怣arie Widor

    Symphonie no.6 Op.42 no.2 鈥 1st movement (Allegro)

    Performer: Wayne Marshall (organ)

    • VIRGIN 5453202.
    • 1.
  • George Gershwin

    An American in Paris

    Performer: New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

    • SONY SMK47529.
    • 12.

Broadcast

  • Boxing Day 2010 14:00