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Tuesday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. Music for keyboard by Bach, Liszt and Schumann and a look at this week's Specialist Classical Chart.

3 hours

Last on

Tue 20 Apr 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No. 15

    Orchestrator: Albert Parlow Performer: Vienna Philharmonic Performer: Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • DG 477 822 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio in F major K 580a

    Performer: Netherlands Wind Ensemble

    • CHANDOS CHAN 9284.
  • Louis Couperin

    La Fran莽oise from Les Nations: 1st Order

    Performer: Quadro Amsterdam: Frans Br眉ggen (flute); Jaap Schr枚der (violin); Anner Bylsma (cello); Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)

    • TELDEC 4509 936892 2.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    The Devil and Kate: Predehra

    Performer: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: V谩clav Neumann (conductor)

    • ORFEO C180891.
  • Franz Liszt

    Liebestraum No. 3

    Performer: Clifford Curzon (piano)

    • DECCA 452 306-2.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Sinfonia in F major from Bajazet RV 703

    Performer: L鈥橝rte dell鈥橝rco Performer: Christopher Hogwood (conductor)

    • DHM 05472775012.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude Op 23 No. 10 in G flat

    Performer: Simon Trp膷eski (piano)

    • EMI 5579432.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Te Deum

    Performer: RIAS Chamber Choir; NDR Choir Performer: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Performer: Ferenc Fricsay (conductor)

    • DG 463 612 2.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    War March of the Priests from Athalie Op 74

    Performer: Vienna Philharmonic Performer: Christoph von Dohnanyi (conductor)

    • DECCA 460 239-2.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 8: First movement (opening)

    Performer: Tonhalle or Zurich Performer: David Zinman (conductor)

    • SONY 88697579262.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Midsummer Night's Dream: scherzo

    Performer: Martha Argerich and Cristina Marton (2 pianos)

    • EMI 607 367 2.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Orphee et Eurydice: Dance of the Furies

    Performer: Orchestra of the Teatro Real Performer: Jesus Lopez-Cobos (conductor)

    • DECCA 478 2197.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No. 2: Second movement (excerpt)

    Performer: Simon Trpceski (piano) Performer: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

    • AVIE AV2192.
  • Johann Strauss II - Perpetuum Mobile

    Arranger: Rieu Performer: Johann Strauss Orchestra

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin - Mazurka Op 63 No. 2

    Performer: Stephen Hough (piano)

  • William Babell

    Recorder Concerto in C Op 3 No. 1

    Performer: Michala Petri (recorder) Performer: Academy of St Martin-in-the-fields Performer: Kenneth Sillito (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 411 056 2.
  • Franz Schubert

    Ganymed

    Performer: Jan DeGaetani (mezzo soprano) Performer: Gilbert Kalish (piano)

    • NONESUCH 7559 79263 2.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Andante cantabile

    Performer: USSR Symphony Orchestra Performer: Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)

    • MELODIYA 7432 1170972.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Toccata BWV 911

    Performer: Angela Hewitt (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA 67310.
  • Henryk Miko艂aj G贸recki

    Harpsichord Concerto

    Performer: Elisabeth Chojnacka (harpsichord) Performer: Concerto Avenna Performer: Andrzej Mysinski (conductor)

    • ADDA 581 233.
  • Henry Purcell

    Act 2, Symphony from The Indian Queen

    Performer: English Baroque Soloists Performer: John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    • ERATO 4509 965 512.
  • Gustav Holst

    Scherzo

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Richard Hickox (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 9420.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    "No word from Tom" from The Rake's Progress

    Performer: Sylvia McNair (soprano) Performer: Saito Kinen Orchestra Performer: Seiji Ozawa (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 454 047 2.
  • Robert Schumann

    Konzertst眉ck Op 134

    Performer: Murray Perahia (piano) Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Performer: Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • SONY SK64577.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    String Quartet No. 2: Third movement

    Performer: Miami String Quartet

    • CONIFER 75605 51291 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    March K 335 No. 2 in D major

    Performer: Festival Chamber Orchestra Performer: Antal Dorati (conductor)

    • MERCURY 434 398 2.

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  • Tue 20 Apr 2010 07:00

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