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Friday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. Included this morning is Bach from Stuttgart, Vaughan Williams from New York, Rossini from Chicago and Andreas Staier playing Schubert on a fortepiano.

3 hours

Last on

Fri 4 Jun 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Der Schauspieldirektor - singspiel in 1 act K 486: Overture

    Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Performer: Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

    • TELDEC 4509-95523-2.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Vespers of 1610: Nisi Dominus

    Performer: Rodolfus Choir Performer: Southern Sinfonia Performer: Ralph Allwood (director)

    • SIGNUM SIGCD111.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Quartet for strings Op 59 No. 2 in E minor "Rasumovsky": IV Finale Presto

    Performer: Brodsky Quartet

    • BRODSKY RECORDS BRD 3502.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue in G minor BWV 542

    Performer: Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra Performer: Karl Münchinger (conductor)

    • DECCA 458 319-2.
  • James Rhodes

    Clair de lune

    Arranger: Stokowki Performer: Philadelphia Orchestra Performer: Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)

    • EMI 50999 4 57555 2 1.
  • François Couperin

    Les Baricades Mysterieuses from Pieces de clavecin

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)

    • ARCHIV 413 591-2.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Sonata for flute and piano: III Presto giocoso

    Performer: Emily Beynon (flute) Performer: Andrew West (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA67204.
  • Ferde Grofé

    Mississippi Suit: IV Mardi Gras

    Performer: Eastman-Rochester Orchestra Performer: Howard Hanson (conductor)

    • MERCURY 434 355-2.
  • Frédéric Chopin - Polonaise for piano (Op.posth.) in G sharp minor

    Performer: Nikolai Demidenko (piano)

  • Jean Sibelius

    Menuetto [1894] for orchestra

    Performer: Lahti Symphony Orchestra Performer: Osmo Vänskä (conductor)

    • BIS CD 1921/23.
  • Heusen, Babcock, Burke

    Like Someone in Love

    Performer: Blossom Dearie (vocals/piano) Performer: Ray Brown (bass) Performer: Jo Jones (drums)

    • VERVE 517 067-2.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song Without Words, Op 53 No. 1 Andante con moto

    Performer: Andras Schiff (piano)

    • DECCA 421 119-2.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on "Greensleeves"

    Performer: David Nadien (solo violin) Performer: New York Philharmonic Performer: Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

    • SONY SMK 47638.
  • Pavel Josef Vejvanovský

    Sonata Sancti Spiritus

    Performer: Les Sacqueboutiers

    • AMBROISIE AMB 9948.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Spring

    Arranger: Montero Performer: Gabriela Montero (piano)

    • EMI 50999 5 14838 2 1.
  • Reinhold Moritzevich Glière - The Red Poppy, Russian Sailors' Dance

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

  • Guillaume Dufay

    Agnus Dei from Missa Se la face ay pale for 4 voices

    Performer: The Hilliard Ensemble

    • CORO COR16055.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Barber of Seville – Overture

    Performer: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Performer: Fritz Reiner (conductor)

    • RCA GD60387.
  • John Dowland

    Solus cum sola, P.10

    Performer: Nigel North (lute)

    • NAXOS 8.556840.
  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen: Entr'acte to Act III

    Performer: French National Orchestra Performer: Seiji Ozawa (conductor)

    • EMI 50999 4 57555 2 1.
  • Franz Schubert

    6 Moments musicaux for piano D 780 No. 3 in F minor

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim (piano)

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 415 118-2.
  • William Walton

    Crown Imperial: A Coronation March

    Performer: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Sir Charles Groves (conductor)

    • EMI CDM 7 63369 2.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Humoresque Op 101 No. 7 in G flat major

    Performer: Dame Maura Lympany (piano)

    • EMI 50999 4 57555 2 1.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Orfeo ed Euridice: Che faro senza Euridice?

    Performer: Kathleen Ferrier (Orfeo) Performer: Southern Festival Orchestra Performer: Fritz Stiedry (conductor)

    • DECCA 475 6060.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Jazz Suite No. 1

    Performer: Ronald Brautigam (piano) Performer: Peter Masseurs (trumpet) Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Performer: Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

    • DECCA 433 702-2.
  • Franz Schubert

    Klavierstuke D 946 No. 1: Allegro assai

    Performer: Andreas Staier (fortepiano)

    • TELDEC 0630-11084-2.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Sonata for recorder, harpsichord and continuo in B flat major

    Performer: Ensemble Florilegium Performer: Ashley Solomon (recorder) Performer: Daniel Yeadon (cello) Performer: Neal Peres Da Costa (harpsichord) Performer: William Carter (theorbo) Performer: Elisabeth Kenny (archlute)

    • CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS 5093.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Die tote Stadt: Gluck, das mir verblieb

    Performer: Kiri te Kanawa (soprano) Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra Performer: Julius Rudel (conductor)

    • EMI 7243 5 85111 2 3.
  • Shigeaki Saegusa

    Yamato Takeru

    Performer: tbc

    • TOSHIBA TOCZ-9047.
  • Béla Bartók - Rhapsody No. 1 for violin and orchestra

    Performer: Roman Totenberg (violin) Performer: Vienna State Opera Orchestra Performer: Vladimir Golschmann (conductor)

  • Teddy Wilson

    Sunny Morning

    Performer: Teddy Wilson (piano) Performer: Arvell Shaw (bass) Performer: Bert Dahlander (drums)

    • COLLECTABLES COL-CD-6680.

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