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Weber, Bellini, Scriabin

Chi-chi Nwanoku presents listeners' requests, including Emma Johnson playing Weber, tenor Andrea Bocelli in Bellini and the first Symphony by Scriabin.

With Chi-chi Nwanoku. Emma Johnson playing Weber, tenor Andrea Bocelli singing an aria from I Puritani by Bellini, and the beautiful first Symphony by Scriabin are amongst this week's selection. Plus, the overture to The Bartered Bride, and John Eliot Gardiner directing the Monteverdi Choir in part of Campra's Requiem.

2 hours

Last on

Sun 6 Feb 2011 14:00

Music Played

  • Bedrich Smetana

    The Bartered Bride (Overture)

    Orchestra: Pro Arte Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.

    Performer: The Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)

    • DECCA 4448672.
    • 6.
  • Joseph Haydn

    The Creation: Recit. "And the heavenly host the third day proclaimed" – Chorus "Awake the

    Performer: Mark Padmore (tenor), Chetham’s Chamber Choir, Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh (director)

    • ARCHIV 4777361.
    • 10 & 11.
  • Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

    Fantasia on Glinka's A Life for the Tsar

    Performer: Nicholas Walker (piano)

    • ASV CDDCA940.
    • 11.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Concerto No.1 in F minor Op.73

    Performer: Emma Johnson (clarinet), English Chamber Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

    • ASV CDDCA747.
    • 1 to 3.
  • André Campra

    Requiem : Sanctus

    Performer: Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (director)

    • ERATO 4509997142.
    • 5.
  • Knox

    Malor me bat

    Performer: Garth Knox (viola d’amore), Agnès Vesterman (cello)

    • ECM 4766369.
    • 1.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pulcinella : Overture – Serenata

    Performer: John Fryatt (tenor), Northern Sinfonia, Simon Rattle (conductor)

    • HMV 5735512.
    • 1 & 2.
  • Vincenzo Bellini

    I Puritani: A te, o cara

    Performer: Andrea Bocelli (tenor), Florence Maggio Musicale Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 4620332.
    • 7.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Symphony No.1 in E major Op. 26

    Performer: Berlin Radio Choir, the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)

    • DECCA 4719712 CD1.
    • 1 to 6.

Broadcast

  • Sun 6 Feb 2011 14:00