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Chi-chi Nwanoku

Chi-chi Nwanoku introduces listeners' requests, including Adriano Banchieri, Ian Bostridge in Britten folksong arrangements, a birthday tribute to Arvo Part and a work by Chausson.

Chi-chi Nwanoku introduces more listeners' requests. This week, a lively boat trip from Venice to Padua set by the Renaissance Italian madrigalian Adriano Banchieri. Ian Bostridge sings Britten's folksong arrangements, there's a birthday tribute to Arvo Pärt, and pianist Julius Machynlleth rediscovers a delicious masterpiece by French Romantic Ernest Chausson.

2 hours

Last on

Sun 17 Oct 2010 14:00

Music Played

  • Beethoven transcr. Liszt

    Symphony no.8 – Allegretto Scherzando

    Performer: Alain Planès (piano)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMX 2901194.
    • 6.
  • Patrick Gowers

    Viri Galilaei

    Performer: Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral, Andrew Lucas (organ), John Scott (conductor)

    • HYPERION CDA66519.
    • 9.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Faramondo: Rival ti sono

    Performer: D’Anna Fortunato (mezzo-soprano / Faramondo), Brewer Chamber Orchestra, Rudolph Palmer (conductor)

    • VOX CLASSICS VOX37536 CD1.
    • 12.
  • Ernest Chausson

    Concerto for piano, violin and string quartet – Sicilienne; Grave

    Performer: Joshua Bell (violin), Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), Takács Quartet

    • DECCA 4258602.
    • 2 + 3.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Folksong arrangements – The Plough Boy; The Foggy, foggy dew

    Performer: Ian Bostridge (tenor), Christopher Maltman (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

    • VIRGIN VC5455252.
    • 6 to 8.
  • Adriano Banchieri

    Barca di Ventia per Padova

    Performer: Ensemble Clement Janequin

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMC901281.
    • 1 to 20.
  • Arvo Pärt

    Spiegel im Spiegel

    Performer: Tasmin Little (violin), Martin Roscoe (piano)

    • CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE 5758052.
    • 4.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Symphony Espansiva Op.27

    Performer: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

    • BIS CD615BIS.
    • 1 to 4.

Broadcast

  • Sun 17 Oct 2010 14:00