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Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents great pieces, great performers and a few surprises, including a Haydn Piano Sonata at 9.00am.

The complete Breakfast playlist is posted online after the programme has been broadcast.

7:03

SIBELIUS
Karelia: Overture
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
RCA CML 077 T5

7:12

CHOPIN
Impromptu No.2 in F Sharp Op.36
Peter Frankl (piano)
ASV CD DCA 781 T4

7:19

TALLIS
Audivi vocem
Taverner Consort & Choir
Andrew Parrott (conductor)
EMI CDC7 49555-2 T3

7:23

MARTUCCI
Tarantella Op. 44 No.6 (arranged for orchestra)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma
Francesco La Vecchia (conductor)
NAXOS 8.570930 T7

7:31

VIVALDI
Violin Concerto in G op.4 (La Stravaganza) No.3
Arte dei Suonatori
Rachel Podger (violin / director)
CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS 19598 D1 T7 芒聙聯 9

7:40

SULLIVAN
Farewell my love + Then away we Go (Act One Finale - The Gondoliers)
Elsie Morrison (sop)
Marjorie Thomas (con)
Richard Lewis (ten)
John Cameron (bar)
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
Pro Arte Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent (conductor)
CFP 50999 2 13428 2 D1 T23 (In at 0.38) +T24

7:46

MOZART
Overture - Don Giovanni
Norwegian National Opera Orchestra
Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
NAIVE OP 30479

7:53

RACHMANINOV
Tarantella (Suite No.2 for 2 pianos)
Vladimir Ashkenazy & Andr脙漏 Previn (pianos)
DECCA 444 845-2 D1 T8

8:04

OFFENBACH
Overture: Orpheus in the Underworld
Philharmonia Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DISKY DC 700192 T4

8:14

BARTOK
3 Folksongs from the Csik District
Piotr Anderszewski (piano - live at Carnegie Hall 3.12.08)
VIRGIN 50999 267291 2 D2 T8

8:18

Johanna JUHOLA
Irti tangosta
Johanna Juhola (accordion), Milla Viljamaa (piano)
FINLANDIA 2564-60268-2 T11

8:25

BERNSTEIN
Some Other Time (On the Town)
Frederic von Stade, Tyne Daly, Kurt Ollman & David Garrison
London Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
DG 437 516-2 T22

8:32

LULLY
Chaconne in G (Phaeton)
Musica Antique K脙露ln
Reinhard Goebel (director)
ARCHIV 453 418-2 T1

8:37

GOUNOD
D'un coeur qui t'aime
Felicity Lott (soprano)
Ann Murray (mezzo)
Graham Johnson (piano)
EMI CDC7 49930-2 T15

8:43

MOERAN
Whythorne's Shadow
English Chamber Orchestra
Jeffrey Tate (conductor)
EMI CDC7 47945-2 T5

8:51

ALBINONI
Sonata (Sinfonia) Op.2 No.6 in G Minor
Ensemble 415
Chiara Banchini (violin / director)
ZIG-ZAG TERRITOIRES ZZT 090202 T5 芒聙聯 8

9:00

LENNON & MCCARTNEY arr. Takemitsu
Michelle
Xue Fei-Yang (guitar)
EMI 0946 3 70714 2 T5

9:04

HAYDN
Piano Sonata No.42 in G Major Hob. XVI: 27
John McCabe (piano)
DECCA 443 785-2 D7 T1 芒聙聯 3

9:18

GABRIEL-MARIE
Tambourines and Oranges
The Palm Court Orchestra
DAL SEGNO CSPRCD400 T7

9:22

BARBER
Dover Beach
Thomas Allen (baritone), Endellion String Quartet
VIRGIN VC5 45033-2 T1

9:32

MARTINU
The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca (3rd movement)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
EMI 50999 2 64350 2 D1 T10

9:39

DEBUSSY
Jeux
South-West German Radio Orchestra, Baden-Baden
Michael Gielen (conductor)
Intercord INT 860.918 T2

9:58

SCARLATTI
Sonata in G K146
Fernando Valenti (harpsichord)
CONCERT HALL LP

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Last on

Mon 6 Jul 2009 07:00

Broadcast

  • Mon 6 Jul 2009 07:00

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