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Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan shares his personal selection of lively music for the morning. Including the last in a series of Haydn piano sonatas.

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

7:04

TCHAIKOVSKY
Waltz (Eugene Onegin)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor)
EMI CDM7 63412-2 T1

7:10

Andr脙漏 CAMPRA
Salve Regina
Paul Agnew (tenor)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie (organ / director)
VIRGIN 50999 6 93206 2 D2 T1

7:17

DEBUSSY
Etude No.12 'Pour les accords'
Dame Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
PHILIPS 422 412-2 T12

7:22

PROKOFIEV
3 Movements from 'Romeo & Juliet' (Mercutio, Madrigal & Gavotte)
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
RCA 09026 68288-2 T12 芒聙聯 14

7:32

SMETANA
Libuse (Prelude)
大象传媒 Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 10518 T6

7:42

CHOPIN
Ballade No.2 in F Major
Stephen Hough (piano)
HYPERION CDA 67456 T3

7:50

BACH
Preludio (Partita No.3 in E Major)
David Grimal (violin)
AMBROISIE AM 181 D2 T12

7:54

HANDEL
Prelude & Hornpipe (Water Music Suite in D)
Le Concert Spirituel
Herv脙漏 Niquet (conductor)
GLOSSA GCD 921606 T10 & 11

08:04

CHABRIER
Ode a la Musique
Barbara Hendricks (soprano)
Ladies of the Toulouse-Midi-Pyr脙漏n脙漏es Chorus
Toulouse Capitole Orchestra
Michel Plasson (conductor)
EMI CDC7 54004-2 T3

8:14

MUSSORGSKY
Triumphal March (The Capture of Kars)
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
RCA RD 70405 T9

8:21

FARKAS
18th-Century Dances from Old Hungary
Quintett.Wien
NIMBUS NI 5479 T19 芒聙聯 23

8:32

NIELSEN
Prelude (Act 2, Saul & David)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
DA CAPO 6.220518 T9

8:38

Francois COUPERIN arr. S脙露llscher
Les Baricades misterieuses
G脙露ran S脙露llscher (guitar)
DG 474 815-2 T16

8:40

PURCELL
Evening Hymn (Now that the sun hath veiled his light)
Nancy Argenta (soprano)
Paul Nicholson (organ)
Richard Boothby (viola da gamba)
VIRGIN VC7 59324-2 T15

8:47

BIZET
Scenes bohemiennes (La Jolie Fille de Perth)
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit (conductor)
DECCA 475 190-2 D2 T2 芒聙聯 5

9:00

VALENTE
Lo Ballo dell' Intorcia
Gillian Weir (organ of the Ulster Hall, Belfast)
PRIORY PRCD 6000 D1 T5

9:02

HAYDN
Piano Sonata No.62 in E Flat Hob. XVI:52
Alfred Brendel (piano)
PHILIPS 416B643-2 D4 T1 芒聙聯 3

09:25

KORNGOLD
Scene in the Garden & Hornpipe (Much Ado About
Nothing Suite)
Gil Shaham (violin), Andr脙漏 Previn (piano)
DG 439 886-2 T9 & 10

9:33

HANDEL
Incidental Music from Alcina (Sinfonia, Entr脙漏e & Tamburino from Act III + Dream Music)
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner (conductor)
DECCA 480 1388 D1 T16 & 17

9:45

MOZART
Overture: Die Entf脙录hrung aus dem Serail
Norwegian National Opera Orchestra
Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
NAIVE OP 30479 T6

9:51
COUPERIN arr. Bazelaire
La Tromba, Plainte & Air du Diable (Pieces en Concert for cello & strings)
Janos Starker (cello), Lucerne Festival Strings
Rudolf Baumgartner (conductor)
ERMITAGE ERM 147 T11 - 13

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Last on

Fri 17 Jul 2009 07:00

Broadcast

  • Fri 17 Jul 2009 07:00

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