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27/10/2008

With Rob Cowan. Including Beethoven: Egmont (excerpts). Viadana: La Veneziana. Smetana: From Bohemia's Woods and Fields (Ma vlast). Milhaud: Le printemps. Beethoven: Elegy, Op 118.

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07:03

BEETHOVEN
Egmont - Overture & Die Trommel gerühret
Birgit Nilsson (soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Otto Klemperer (conductor)
EMI CDM5 67335-2 Tr 7 & 8

07:15

CHOPIN
Mazurka in C Major Op.24 No.2
Ivan Moravec (piano)
SUPRAPHON SU 3583-2 Tr 8

07:18

SCHUTZ
Jubilate Deo omnis terra
Harry van der Kamp (bass)
Concerto Palatino
ACCENT ACC 9178 CD1 Tr 7

07:24

BRITTEN
Night Mail (Closing sequence)
Nigel Hawthorne (Narrator)
The Nash Ensemble
Lionel Friend (conductor)
HYPERION CDA 66845 Tr 28

07:31

HANDEL
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon)
Taverner Players
Andrew Parrott (conductor)
VIRGIN 0946 391340-2 Tr 1

07:34

RAVEL
Trois Chansons
Accentus
Laurence Equilbey (conductor)
DISQUES PIERRE VERANY PV 794042 Tr 25-27

07:42

Lodovico da VIADANA
La Venetiana & La Milanese
Symposium Musicum Pragense
Ladislav Vachulka (director)
KOCH 3-1620-2 Tr 3 & 4

07:47

MAHLER arr. Meinders
Zu Strassburg auf der Schantz
Frédéric Meinders (piano)
DANACORD DACOCD 671 Tr 26

07:52

SIBELIUS
Lemminkainen's Return (Legends)
Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
EMI CDM5 65176-2 Tr 4

08:03

DELIBES
Czardas - Hungarian Dance (Coppelia)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Mark Ermler (conductor)
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE ROH 006 Tr 6

08:07

PAGANINI
Caprice No.9
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)
EMI CDC7 47644 Tr 9

08:10

LUTOSLAWSKI
Variations on a Theme of Paganini (for 2 pianos)
Martha Argerich & Nelson Freire (pianos)
PHILIPS 411 034-2 Tr 6

08:16

SMETANA
From Bohemia's Woods & Fields (Ma Vlast)
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Valek (conductor)
CLARTON CQ 0006-2 031 Tr 4

08:31

SOR
Study No.9
Jacob Lindberg (Baroque Guitar)
BIS BIS-CD-293 Tr 5

08:35

BACH
Herrscher des Himmels
(Christmas Oratorio, Part 3)
Amsterdam Baroque Choir & Orchetra
Ton Koopman (conductor)
ERATO 0630 14635-2 CD1 Tr 36

08:38

Robin HOLLOWAY
A Brief History of Austro-German Music in Triple Time
(from Guilded Goldbergs for two pianos)
The Micallef-Inanga Piano Duo
HYPERION CDA 67360 CD2 Tr 4

08:39

BUXTEHUDE
Jesu, meine Freude
Suzie Leblanc & Emma Kirkby (sopranos)
Peter Harvey (bass)
The Purcell Quartet
CHANDOS CHAN 0691 Tr 43 – 49

08:52

MOZART
Rondo for Piano & Orchestra K386
Maria Joao Pires (piano)
Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra of Lisbon
Theodore Guschlbauer (conductor)
WARNER APEX 2564-61911-2 Tr 7

09:01

MILHAUD
Le Printemps
Gidon Kremer (violin)
Elena Bashkirova (piano)
PHILIPS 426 387-2 Tr 20

09:04

BYRD
Sing joyfully unto God
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Philips (conductor)
GIMELL CDGIM 208 CD2 Tr 13

09:07

GLAZUNOV
Concerto for Alto Saxophone & strings
Eugene Rousseau (saxophone)
Paul Kuentz Chamber Orchestra
Paul Kuentz (conductor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 453 991-2 Tr3

09:22

Trad. arr. BRITTEN
Down by the Salley Gardens
Kenneth McKellar (tenor)
Clifton Helliwell (piano)
DECCA 466 415-2 CD2 Tr 3

09:25

PROKOFIEV
3 pieces from Eugene Onegin
Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Järvi (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 10484 Tr 20-22

09:38

BEETHOVEN
Elegy Op. 118
Chicago Symphony Chorus & Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
CHICAGO SYMPHONY CSO CD05-2 CD2 Tr 6

09:46

GERSHWIN
Ambulatory Suite
Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra
VERVE MG VS-6082-5 CD10 Tr 1

09:53

LISZT
Valse Oublié No.1
Sarah Park (piano)
Recorded at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3 Pianothon in Glasgow

09:57

Christopher NORTON
New Day
Kye Bonar (piano)
Recorded at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3 Pianothon in Glasgow

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