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Radio 3 Requests

Music: Classical

Weekly pick of music requests from Radio 3 listeners

Radio 3 Requests features a wide breadth of classical works requested by the station's listeners.

The final edition of Radio 3 Requests was broadcast on 1st May 2011.  We can no longer accept new requests.

Radio 3 Requests: America

America

04/07/2010

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Requests, America

Fiona Talkington presents listeners' requests with an American theme.

Fiona Talkington presents listeners' requests with an American theme, including a quintet by a homesick Bohemian, a modern British lullaby and a great 20th century symphony.

Fiona Talkington introduces listeners' requests with an American theme, including a quintet by a homesick Bohemian, a modern British lullaby, and one of the greatest symphonies of the 20th century, conducted by Leonard Bernstein. This week's guest requester is the writer and comedienne Sue Perkins.

Toldra - Canco De Grumet
Victoria De Los Angeles (soprano)
Patronato Orquesta Ciudad de Barcelona / Antonio Ros-Marba
EMI CMS5650612 - Disc 2, Track 17

Beethoven - Missa Solemnis (excerpt)
Leontyne Price (soprano), Christa Ludwig (alto), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Nicola Zaccaria (bass), Franz Sauer (organ), Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Wien, Vienna Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
EMI CMS5668762 - Disc 2, Tracks 1-3

Scriabin - Piano Sonata No 8
Vladimir Stoupel (piano)
AUDITE21402 - Disc 3, Track 1

Fiona's Request:
Dvorak - String Quintet, Op 97 [excerpt]
I. Allegro Non Tanto
Members of Vienna String Sextet
EMI CDC7545432 - Track 11

GUEST REQUEST: Sue Perkins 
Stravinsky: The Firebird [excerpt]
Dance of Kaschei's retinue
Infernal Dance of Kaschei and retinue
Lullaby
Kashchei awakes
Death of Kaschei
Deepest gloom
Disappearance of the palace... conclusion
London Philharmonic / Franz Welser-Moest
EMI 7243 5 72103, CD 2- Tracks 16-24


Pierre de la Rue - Salutaris Hostia
Jan Garbarek (alto saxophone)
Hilliard Ensemble
ECM 4453992 - Track 5

Mark-Anthony Turnage - Lullaby (from "Sleep On", for cello and piano)
Alexander Baillie (cello)
Andrew Ball (piano)
NMC NMCD019 - Track 8

Copland - Symphony No 3
New York Philharmonic / Leonard Bernstein
SONY CLASSICAL SMK61355 - Tracks 1-4.

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