Lorcan's Pick of the Week | April 17th

All this week on Classic Drive Lorcan will feature music from Aria the new album from violinist Luka Faulisi.

The album Aria presents favourite scenes and arias from some of the greatest Romantic operas, in arrangements for violin and piano by some of Faulisi's most illustrious forbears.

Among the operatic jewels included are Franz Waxman's Carmen Fantasy (as made famous by Jascha Heifetz), Henryk Wieniawski’s Fantasy on Themes from Gounod’s Faust, Leopold Auer’s arrangement of 'Lensky’s Aria’ from Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin and Fausili’s own version of Violetta’s glittering aria ‘Sempre libera’ from Verdi’s La Traviata.

Listen in each day at 5:15 as Lorcan chooses a piece from this new album.