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26/11/2008

Featuring singers Placido Domingo in Donizetti and Janet Baker in Brahms. Plus Nikolaus Harnoncourt directing Handel and Gunter Wand conducting Schubert's Rosamunde.

The complete Breakfast playlist is posted on this site after the programme has been broadcast.

07:03

RAVEL
Menuet antique
Jacques Rouvier (piano)
CALLIOPE CAL 9824.5 CD2 Tr 12

07:09

GRIEG
Arabian Dance (Peer Gynt Suite No.2, Op.55)
Malmo Symphony Orchestra
Bjarte Engeset (conductor)
NAXOS 8.570236 Tr 6

07:15

VERDELOT
Chi non fa prove, amore and Piove da li occhi
Alamire
OBSIDIAN CD703 Tr 13 & 10

07:18

HANDEL
Concerto in F major
Concentus Musicus Wien
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
ELATUS 2564 60328-2 Tr 17-20

07:31

DONIZETTI
Una furtive lagrima (L’elisir d’amore)
Placido Domingo (tenor)
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 447 6613 Tr 1

07:37

BEETHOVEN
Thema Andante con Variazion (Septet, Op.20)
Amphion
HMC 905264 Tr 9

07:46

RACHMANINOV
Scherzo for Orchestra
USSR Academic Symphony Orchestra
Yevgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
OLYMPIA OCD 249 Tr 8

07:52

SAINT-SAENS
Fantaisie in E-flat major (1857)
Andrew-John Smith (organ of La Madeleine Paris)
HYPERION CDA 67713 Tr 12

08:03

SCHUMANN
Overture: Die Braut von Messina, Op.100
NDR Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)
RCA 74321 61820-2 CD1 Tr 9

08:12

SATIE
La belle excentrique (Fantaisie serieuse)
Anne Queffelec (piano)
VIRGIN 522050-2 CD1 Tr 34-37

08:20

HOTTETERRE
Fanfare et les Dieux pour 3 flute traverseres
Barthold kuijken, Oswald van Olmen & Frans Bruggen (transverse flutes)
SEON SB2K 62942 CD2 Tr 9

08:28

BRAHMS
Hungarian Dances Nos 1 & 3
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Marek Janowski (conductor)
PENTATONE PTC 5186 309 Tr 5-65:20

08:31

MOZART
Fantasy for a musical clock in F minor, K.608
Quintet Chantily
HANSSLER PH09002 Tr 6

08:41

SCHUBERT
Rosamunde (suite)
Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra
Gunter Wand (conductor)
RCA 74321 846072 CD2 Tr 9-11

09:02

STRAUSS I
Wiener Gemuths-Walzer Op.116
Alban Berg Quartet
EMI 397629-2 CD5 Tr 6

09:10

Bechara el-Khoury
Serenade for String Orchestra No.1, Op.10 "Autumn Leaves" (1980)
Orchestre Colonne
Conducted by Pierre Dervaux
NAXOS 8.557692 Tr 7

09:14

BACH
Toccata in C minor, BWV.911
Angela Hewitt (piano)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 442 9446 Tr 4

09:27

TCHAIKOVSKY
Romeo and Juliet ‘Fantasy Overture’ (original 1869 version)
Russian National Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
PENTATONE PTC 5186 330 Tr 18

09:44

COUPERIN
Le Dodo
Ralph Kirkpatrick (harpsichord)
EMI 351836-2 CD2 Tr 7

09:47

BRAHMS
Alto Rhapsody, Op.53
Janet Baker (mezzo soprano)
Male Voices of the John Alldis Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Adrian Boult (conductor)
EMI 3652292 CD1 Tr 8

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