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Friday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. Music by some well known and some less well known English composers to celebrate St George's Day, as well as music from Vivaldi, Mendelssohn and J S Bach.

3 hours

Last on

Fri 23 Apr 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • Franz Liszt

    Au bord d'une source (Annees de Pelerinage 鈥 1er Annee 鈥 Suisse)

    Performer: Stephen Hough (piano)

    • Hyperion CDA67424.
  • Richard Wagner - Lohengrin: Prelude to Act III

    Performer: Philadelphia Orchestra Performer: Christian Thielemann (Conductor)

  • Richard Strauss

    Suite for 13 wind instruments Op 4: Gavotte

    Performer: Members of the Minnesota Orchestra Performer: Edo de Waart (Conductor)

    • Virgin Classics VC 7 91492 2.
  • Richard Mudge

    Concerto I in D

    Performer: Capriccio Baroque Orchestra Basle

    • Tudor 7173.
  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    Moto Perpetuo

    Performer: David Nadien (violin) Performer: Boris Barere (piano)

    • Cembal d鈥檃mour CD 111.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Overture: Die Zauberflote

    Performer: 大象传媒 So Performer: Colin Davis (Conductor)

    • Philips 422 272 2.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Tarantelle in A minor Op 6

    Performer: Members of the Nash Ensemble: Philippa Davies (flute); Richard Hosford (clarinet); Ian Brown (piano)

    • Hyperion CDA67431/2.
  • Gustav Holst

    Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity (The Planets, Op.32)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.

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

    • Sony Classical SMK 47 567.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia Suite Op.11 (Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Alexander Gibson (Conductor)

    • Decca 468 488 2.
  • Hubert Parry

    Jerusalem

    Performer: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge Performer: Oliver Brett (organ) Performer: Stephen Cleobury (Conductor)

    • EMI 2 28944 0.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Romance No. 1 in G Op 40

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman (violin) Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Performer: Daniel Barenboim (Conductor)

    • EMI CDC 7 49567 2.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Nel profundo, cieco mondo (Orlando Furioso)

    Performer: Magdalena Kozena Performer: Venice Baroque Orchestra Performer: Andrea Marcon (Conductor)

    • Archiv 477 809 6.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata in C minor D 958: 4th movement

    Performer: Radu Lupu (piano)

    • Decca 478 239 9.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Trumpet Overture Op 101

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Claudio Abbado (Conductor)

    • DG 423 104 2.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Mandoline

    Performer: Sanford Sylvan (baritone) Performer: David Breitman (piano)

    • Nonesuch 7559-79371-2.
  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Oboe Concerto in D Op 7 No. 6

    Performer: Heinz Holliger (oboe) Performer: Camerata Bern

    • Archiv 427 111 2.
  • F. Kelly

    Elegy for strings "In Memorian Rupert Brooke"

    Performer: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra Performer: David Lloyd-Jones (Conductor)

    • Dutton CDLX7172.
  • James Rhodes

    Premiere arabesque

    Performer: Livia Rev (piano)

    • Saga Classics SCD9020.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Concert Waltz No. 1 in D Op 47

    Performer: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra Performer: Neeme Jarvi (Conductor)

    • Orfeo C 148 101 A.
  • Georges Bizet

    Le fleur que tu m'avais jetee (Carmen)

    Performer: Placido Domingo (Don Jose) Performer: LA Philharmonic Performer: Carlo Maria Giulini (Conductor)

    • DG 415 366 2.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in G H 16 25: "Gypsy rondo" (3rd movement)

    Performer: Vienna Piano Trio

    • MDG 342 1556-2.
  • George Enescu

    Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A Op 11

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Antal Dorati (Conductor)

    • Mercury 421 015 2.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in F minor Kk 467

    Performer: Christian Zacharias (piano)

    • EMI CMS 7 63940 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Zion hort die Wachter singen (from Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV140)

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

    • Archiv 431 809 2.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Accompagnement

    Performer: Sanford Sylvan (baritone) Performer: David Breitman (piano)

    • Nonesuch 7559-79371-2.
  • Edward Elgar

    Serenade for strings Op 20

    Performer: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Performer: Norman Del Mar (Conductor)

    • EMI 9 68924 2.

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