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Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Mendelssohn: You spotted snakes (A Midsummer night's dream). Jean Pullois: Flos de spina. Liszt: Orpheus. Grieg: Six Poetic tone-pictures for piano, Op 3.

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07.03

MENDELSSOHN
You spotted snakes (A Midsummer night's dream) (Op.61) No.3
Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano)
Marion Lowe (soprano)
Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
London Symphony Orchestra
Peter Maag (conductor)
DECCA 466 9902 Tr 7

07.08

VERDI
L鈥橧nverno (Le Quattro Stagioni) (from I Vespri Siciliani)
The Cleveland Orchestra
Lorin Maazel (conductor)
DECCA 425 0522 Tr 9

07.14

SCHUBERT
Moment Musicaux D 780 No.4 in C# minor
Melvyn Tan (fortepiano)
EMI CDC 749793 2 Tr 4

07.19

CORELLI Concerto Op.6 No.12 in F Major
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi
OPUS 111 OPS30-155 Trs 29-33

07.28

HOLST Vedic Hymns, Op.24 鈥楽ong of the Frogs鈥
Christopher Maltman (baritone)
Steuart Bedford (piano)
NAXOS 8.557117 Tr 16

07.32

MOZART
Rondo in D K514 (completed S疟ssmayr)
Anthony Halstead (horn)
Academy of Ancient Music
L鈥橭ISEAU LYRE 443 2162 Tr 13

07.36

STANFORD
Six Irish Fantasies 鈥 Caoine, Op.54 No.1
Paul Barrit (violin)
Catherine Edwards (piano)
HYPERION CDA67024 Tr 4

07.44

Jean PULLOIS
Flos de spina
The Binchois Consort
Andrew Kirkman (director)
HELIOS CDH55288 Tr15

07.50
SAINT-SAENS
Tarentelle (flute, clarinet & Orchestra) Op.6
Clara Novakova (flute)
Richard Vielle (clarinet)
Ensemble Orchestral de Paris
Jean-Jacques Kantorow (conductor)
EMI 7549132 Tr 3

07.57

PICCHI
Ballo detto il Steffanin
Rafael Puyanan (harpsichord)
MERCURY 462 9592 Tr 7

08.03

BACH
Cantata 101 Unser Mund sei voll Lachenes BWV 110
Peter Kooy (bass)
Collegium Vocale
Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901594 Tr7

08.11
Franz LISZT
Orpheus
RPO, Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor)
EMI 4769272 CD2 Tr3

08.23

PIAZZOLLA arr. Jos茅 Bragato
Primavera (from 鈥淟as Cuatro Estaciones Portenas鈥)
Moritzburg Festival Ensemble
SONY 88697328032 tr5

08.27

FRANCAIX
Marche Triomphale for 4 tpts & organ
The London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ)
HYPERION CDA66275 Tr 3

08.33

GRIEG
6 Poetic tone-pictures for piano (Op.3)
Gerhard Oppitz (piano)
RCA 82876 603912 CD4 Trs 1-6

08.43

LUKASZEWSKI
Beatus vir, Sanctus Martinus
Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
Stephen Layton (conductor)
HYPERION CDA67639 Tr3

08.47

J.S. BACH
Concerto for Violin No. 1 (BWV.1041) in A minor
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor)
DG 477 7450 Trs 1-3

09.01

BARTOK
7 Choruses with orchestra Sz.103 鈥 iv.Wandering [2:36]; v.Breadbaking [2:18] vi.Don鈥檛 Leave Me Hear [2:57]
Chamber Chorus of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music
Budapest Symphony Orchestra
Ant谩l Dor谩ti (conductor)
HUNGAROTON HCD 31047 Trs 24-26

09.10

Christopher BALL
Folksong Arrangements (The Star of County Down; The Lark in the Clear Air; Over the Hills and Far Away)
Rachel Attwell (piano)
Katherine Thomas (celtic harp)
Leslie Craven (clarinet)
CLARINET CLASSICS CC0059 Trs 17-19

09.18

RODGERS-HART
You Took Advantage of me
Teddy Wilson (piano)
Jo Jones (drums)
ESSENTIAL JAZZ CLASSICS EJC55408 CD1 Tr3

09.23

STRAVINSKY
Fireworks
London Symphony Orchestra
Antal Dorati (conductor)
MERCURY 432 0122 Tr1

09.27

ALBINONI
Adagio in G Minor
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 429 3902 Tr 2

09.34

SAINT-SAENS
Carnival of the Animals (excerpts)
Noel Coward (narrator) with verses by Ogden Nash
Leonid Hambro & Jascha Zayde (pianists)
Andre Kostelanetz and his orchestra
PHILIPS GBL 5554 (LP)

09.42

SCHUMANN
Overture, scherzo and finale (Op.52)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 477 7932 CD 3 Trs 1-3

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Last on

Wed 18 Feb 2009 07:00

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