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Thursday - Rob Cowan

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

3 hours

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Thu 11 Mar 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Dardanus

    Performer: Les Talens Lyriques Performer: Christoph Rousset (conductor)

    • OISEAU LYRE 455 293 2.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    The Lark

    Arranger: Balakirev Performer: Evgeny Kissin (piano)

    • RCA 09026 638 842.
  • Franz Schubert

    Four Waltzes & Two Ecossaises

    Performer: Boskovsky Ensemble Performer: Willi Boskovsky (conductor)

    • DECCA 466 908-2.
  • Carlo Gesualdo

    Che fai meco mio cor ("What do you do to me my heart, wretched and alone?")

    Performer: La Venexiana

    • GLOSSA GCD 920907.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier - Suite pastoral: Scherzo-Valse

    Performer: Les Si猫cles Performer: Fran莽ois-Xavier Roth (conductor)

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Pavane

    Performer: Philadelphia Orchestra Performer: Eugene Ormandy (conductor)

    • SONY SBK 62644.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin - 3 Ecossaises

    Performer: Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in B flat major Op.6 No.7

    Performer: Boston Baroque Performer: Martin Pearlman (conductor)

    • TELARC CD 80688.
  • George Gershwin

    Summertime

    Performer: Al Gallodoro (alto saxophone) Performer: Lincoln Mayorga (piano)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907 492.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    The Golden Age: Dance and Suite Op.22a

    Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Performer: Bernard Haitink

    • DECCA 475 7436.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross Op.51: Sonata 6: Lento: "Consummatum est" ("I

    Performer: Amadeus Quartet

    • DG 477 8116.
  • Franz Liszt

    La Campanella

    Performer: Yundi Li (piano)

    • DG 471 585 2.
  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Hansel and Gretel: Overture

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

    • PHILIPS 456 576 2.
  • Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach

    Sinfonia No.10 Wf 1/20: Rondo

    Performer: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Performer: Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor)

    • CARUS 83.306.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    St Paul

    Performer: Chorus 鈥淢ache dich auf, wede Licht!鈥 (鈥淩ise! Up! Rise, and shine!鈥); Chorale 鈥淲achet auf! Ruft uns die Stimme鈥 (鈥淪leepers, wake, a voice is calling鈥) Performer: 大象传媒 National Chorus of Wales Performer: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales Performer: Richard Hickox

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10516.
  • George Gershwin

    Porgy and Bess: Bess, you is my woman now

    Performer: Isaac Stern (violin) Performer: Columbia Symphony Orchestra Performer: Milton Katims (conductor)

    • SONY SMK 64537.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Capriccio in G minor from Fantasien Op.116

    Performer: Nicholas Angelich (piano)

    • VIRGIN 379 302 2.
  • Alberto Ginastera

    Estancia

    Performer: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela Performer: Eduardo Mata (conductor)

    • DORIAN DOR 90211.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No.98: Finale

    Performer: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra Performer: Roger Norrington (conductor)

    • HANSSLER CD 93.252.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    La Colombe from Preludes

    Performer: Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)

    • DG 477 745 2.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Concerto for clarinet and orchestra No.2 in E flat major Op. 74

    Performer: Fabio di C脿sola (clarinet) Performer: Russian Chamber Philharmonic St Petersburgh Performer: Juri Gilbo (conductor)

    • SONY 88697 37632.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Aida: "Se quel guerrier鈥eleste Aida"

    Performer: Carlo Bergonzi (tenor) Performer: Saint Cecilia Academy Rome Orchestra Performer: Gianandrea Gavazzeni (conductor)

    • DECCA 440 417 2.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Mazurek Op.49

    Performer: Franti拧ek Novotn媒 (violin) Performer: Prague Chamber Philharmonic Performer: Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

    • MATOUS MK 0030-2 03.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scheherazade Suite Op.35: Part 4

    Performer: Rafael Druian (violin); Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra

    • MERCURY 462 953-2.
  • Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Miserere in C minor ZWV 57: First movement

    Performer: Balthasar Neumann Choir Performer: Balthasar Neumann Ensemble Performer: Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI 88697526842.

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