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Thursday - Rob Cowan

Breakfast on Radio 3 with Rob Cowan. Great pieces, great performances - and a few surprises!

3 hours

Last on

Thu 4 Mar 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • James Rhodes

    Estampes: Jardins sous la Pluie

    Performer: Alexis Weissenberg (piano)

    • DG 415 510-2.
  • Scottish TRAD

    Ca' the yowes

    Arranger: Claire Liddell Performer: Marie McLaughlin (soprano) Performer: Malcolm Martineau (piano)

    • Hyperion CDA67106.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No. 5, K219: Rondeau

    Performer: Christian Tetzlaff (violin/director) Performer: Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie

    • Virgin VM 5 61841 2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Sonata in A minor for recorder and basso continuo: Allegro

    Performer: Frans Brüggen (recorder) Performer: Anner Bylsma (cello) Performer: Bob van Asperen (harpsichord)

    • Sony SB2K 60100.
  • Edward Elgar

    The Crown of India March

    Performer: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic Performer: Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus Performer: Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)

    • CHAN 10570(2).
  • Francis Poulenc

    Flute Sonata: Final mvt. – Presto giocoso

    Performer: Members of the Nash Ensemble: Performer: Philippa Davies (flute) Performer: Ian Brown (piano)

    • Hyperion CDA67255/6.
  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    The Enchanted Lake

    Performer: Russian National Orchestra Performer: Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)

    • DG 447 084-2.
  • Niccolò Paganini

    Caprices No. 5 in A minor and No. 6 in G minor

    Arranger: William Zinn Performer: Wihan Quartet

    • NIMBUS NI 6113.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Christmas Oratorio: Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf preiset die Tage

    Performer: The Monteverdi Choir Performer: The English Baroque Soloists Performer: John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    • Archiv 469 769-2.
  • Henry Litolff

    Concerto Symphonique No. 4 in D minor: Scherzo, Presto

    Performer: Peter Donohoe (piano) Performer: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Performer: Andrew Litton (conductor)

    • Hyperion CDA66889.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vocalise

    Performer: Sylvia McNair (soprano) Performer: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Performer: David Zinman (conductor)

    • Telarc CD-80312.
  • Frédéric Chopin - Preludes 19-24 Op. 28

    Performer: Martha Argerich (piano)

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

    Two Polish Dances

    Performer: John Bell Young (piano)

    • Newport Classics NPD 85513.
  • Vivian Ellis

    Coronation Scott

    Performer: The New London Orchestra Performer: Ronald Corp (conductor)

    • Hyperion CDA66868.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Geistliches Lied

    Performer: Corydon Singers Performer: John Scott (organ) Performer: Matthew Best (conductor)

    • Hyperion CDA66389.
  • Emil Hartmann

    Piano trio in B major Op. 10: Scherzo

    Performer: Hyperion Trio

    • Thorofon CTH 2561.
  • Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

    Islamey

    Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra Performer: Sir Eugene Goossens

    • Medici MM009-2.
  • Edvard Grieg

    To the Spring

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

    • Virgin VC 7 59300 2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Dixit Dominus: Opening Chorus

    Performer: Taverner Choir Performer: Taverner Players Performer: Andrew Parrott (conductor)

    • EMI CDS 7 49749 2.
  • Franz Waxman

    Carmen Fantasy

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov (violin) Performer: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Zubin Mehta (conductor)

    • Warner 2564 63780-2.
  • Josquin des Prez

    O Virgo virginum

    Performer: Orlando Consort

    • Brilliant 93939.
  • Béla Bartók - Rumanian Dance No. 1 for Orchestra

    Performer: Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Zoltán Kocsis (conductor)

  • William Walton

    Spitfire Music and Battle in the air

    Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Performer: Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)

    • CHAN 8870.
  • Joaquín Rodrigo - Concierto Andaluz

    Performer: Los Romeros Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Performer: Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)

  • Ivor Gurney

    Four Elizabethan Songs

    Performer: Christopher Maltman (baritone) Performer: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra Performer: Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

    • Hyperion CDA67065.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Etudes Tableau Op. 39 No. 5 in E flat minor

    Performer: John Lill (piano)

    • Nimbus NI 5439.

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