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Wednesday - Rob Cowan

Breakfast on Radio 3 with Rob Cowan. Elgar to Ellington, Mozart to Makeba - wide-ranging music to begin the day.

3 hours

Last on

Wed 17 Mar 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite for cello solo No. 6 BWV 1012 in D major: Gigue

    Performer: Beate Altenburg (cello)

    • ARTE NOVA 82876 58142 2.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Lamentations, Wipe away my sins

    Performer: Chapelle du Roi Performer: Alastair Dixon (director)

    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS 93955.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    The Bartered bride - opera B 143: Dance of the Comedians

    Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Performer: Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

    • DG 423 207-2.
  • Trad - She Moved Through the Fair

    Performer: Robert White (tenor) Performer: National Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Charles Gerhardt (conductor)

  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Sonata in F sharp minor Op 11: Aria

    Performer: Angela Hewitt (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA 67618.
  • Georges Bizet

    L'Arlesienne: Tempo di minuetto

    Performer: Kammerorchester Basel Performer: Christopher Hogwood (conductor)

    • ARTE NOVA 82876 611032.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in D major "Serenata notturna" K 239: Rondeau (Allegretto)

    Performer: Camerata Salzburg Performer: Sandor Vegh (director)

    • CAPRICCIO 10 185.
  • Muzio Clementi

    Sonata in C major Op 33 No. 3: Presto

    Performer: Howard Shelley (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA67738.
  • Ernest Bloch

    Concerto Grosso No. 1: Rustic Dances

    Performer: Francis Grier (piano obligato) Performer: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Performer: Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)

    • EMI 50999 456319 2 4.
  • Henry Purcell

    O solitude, my sweetest choice for voice and continuo Z 406

    Performer: Anne Sofie Von Otter (mezzo-soprano) Performer: Musica Antiqua Koln

    • DG 477 8418.
  • George Gershwin

    Rhapsody in Blue

    Performer: Larry Adler (harmonica) Performer: George Gershwin (player piano)

    • DECCA 466 133-2.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin - Mazurka in F Sharp Minor Op 59 No. 3

    Performer: Martha Argerich (piano)

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures at an Exhibiton: The Hut on Hens' Legs; The Great Gate of Kiev

    Orchestrator: Ravel Performer: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Performer: Sir Georg Solti (conductor)

    • DECCA 430 446-2.
  • Louis Couperin

    Pieces de violes (Suite) for 2 gambas or gamba and continuo No. 2 in A minor "La Chemise b

    Performer: Wieland Kuijken (viola da gamba) Performer: Kaori Uemura (viola da gamba) Performer: Robert Kohnen (harpsichord)

    • ACCENT ACC 9288 D.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'

    Performer: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Performer: James Judd (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.556835.
  • Trad

    Molly on the Shore

    Arranger: Kreisler Performer: Oscar Shumsky (violin) Performer: William Wolfram (piano)

    • NIMBUS NI 2529-32.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for violin and orchestra RV 269 (Op 8 No. 1) in E major "La Primavera"

    Performer: Andrew Manze (violin) Performer: The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra Performer: Ton Koopman (conductor)

    • ERATO 4509-94811-2.
  • John Adams

    Tromba Lontana

    Performer: Jonathan Holland and Wesley Warren (trumpets) Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Performer: Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

    • EMI 50999 5 03403 2 3.
  • Franz Liszt

    Etudes d'execution transcendante for piano (S 139): VIII Wilde Jagd

    Performer: Jorge Bolet (piano)

    • ENSAYO ENY-CD-9711.
  • Henri Duparc

    笔丑颈诲测濒茅

    Performer: Measha Brueggergosman (soprano) Performer: Justus Zeyen (piano)

    • DG 477 8101.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade No. 2 Op 16 in A major: V Rondo

    Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Performer: Bernard Haitink (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 432 510-2.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Sonata No 10 in F major

    Performer: The Locatelli Trio - Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin), Richard Tunnicliffe (cello), Paul Nicholson (harpsichord)

    • HYPERION CDA 66382.
  • Alexander Arutiunian

    Trumpet Concerto

    Performer: Philippe Schartz (trumpet) Performer: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales Performer: Jac van Steen (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10562.
  • [unknown]

    Danny Boy

    Arranger: Weatherly Performer: Stuart Burrows (tenor) Performer: John Constable (piano)

    • DECCA 430 090-2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No.1: Corrente

    Performer: O Duo

    • SONY 8869 7027202.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Pohjola's Daughter

    Performer: New York Philharmonic Performer: Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

    • SONY SX10K 89750.
  • Antonio Mart铆n y Coll

    Diferencias sobre las Folias

    Performer: Hesperion XX Performer: Jordi Savall (director)

    • EMI 50999 4 57503 2 8.

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