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Thursday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. Music by Bax, Tchaikovsky and Couperin, plus a few of your suggestions for the Nation's Favourite Aria.

3 hours

Last on

Thu 20 May 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • Georges Bizet

    Entr'acte to Act IV of Carmen

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

    • DG 423 201.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Old Time Dance from Lachian Dances

    Performer: Brno Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Jakub Hrusa (conductor)

    • Supraphon 3923-2.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Overture from Nabucco

    Performer: New Philharmonia Orchestra Performer: Riccardo Muti

    • EMI 7472742.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Sonata in A minor for recorder and bassoon RV 86

    Performer: Pamela Thorby (recorder) Performer: Petyer Whelan (bassoon) Performer: La Serenissima

    • Avie 2201.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Military March in Bb major

    Performer: 大象传媒 Philharmonic Performer: Matthias Bamert

    • Chandos 10433.
  • James Rhodes

    Rondes de Printemps from Images

    Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Performer: Bernard Haitink

    • Philips 438742.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Duo for violin and viola in G K 423: Allegro (1st mvt)

    Performer: Igor Oistrakh (violin) Performer: David Oistrakh (viola)

    • Decca 470258.
  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Una furtiva lagrima from L'Elisir d'Amore

    Performer: Placido Domingo (Nemorino, tenor) Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Georg Solti (conductor)

    • RCA 84265.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in G sharp minor Op 32 No. 12

    Performer: Boris Berezovsky (piano)

    • Mirare 004.
  • Samuel Barber

    Overture to The School for Scandal

    Performer: St Louis Symphony Orchestra Performer: Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

    • EMI 49463.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor BWV 1003: Allegro (last mvt)

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova (violin)

    • Onyx4040.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix from Samson et Dalilah

    Performer: Olga Borodina (Dalilah, mezzo-soprano) Performer: Jose Cura (Samson, tenor) Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Colin Davis

    • Erato 24756.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Paraphrase on Sleeping Beauty

    Arranger: Pabst Performer: Earl Wild (piano)

    • Ivory 70907.
  • Silvestre Revueltas

    Snsemaya

    Performer: Los Angeles Philharmonic Performer: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    • Sony 60676.
  • Charles Ancliffe

    Nights of Gladness: waltz

    Performer: Southern Festival Orchestra Performer: Robin White (director)

    • Chandos 9110.
  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    L'Audacieuse from 23rd Ordre

    Performer: Christophe Rousset (harpsichord)

    • Harmonia Mundi 44546.
  • Fascinating Rhythm

    Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra

    Performer: Mickey Rooney (piano)

    • Turner Entertainment 72732.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Dove sono from The Marriage of Figaro

    Performer: Margaret Price (Countess, soprano) Performer: English Chamber Orchestra Performer: James Lockhart (conductor)

    • RCA 61635.
  • Arnold Bax

    Tintagel

    Performer: 大象传媒 Philharmonic Performer: Edward Downes (conductor)

    • Radio classics 91592.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Jeu de Carte: First Deal

    Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra Performer: Robert Craft (conductor)

    • Naxos 8.557506.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Abenddammerung

    Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Performer: Tamas Vasary (piano)

    • Audite 95635.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Capriccio Italien

    Performer: St Louis Symphony Orchestra Performer: Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

    • Sony BMG 60433.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata No. 202 "Wedding Cantata": Weichet nur, betruebte Schatten

    Performer: Elly Ameling (soprano) Performer: Collegium Aureum Performer: Reinhard Peters (conductor)

    • DHM 70046.

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