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Friday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. Includes vocal music by Gershwin, Handel and Vaughan Williams, a Rossini overture and ballet music by Tchaikovsky and Massenet.

3 hours

Last on

Fri 30 Jul 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • Hector Berlioz

    The Damnation of Faust: Hungarian March

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

    • RCA RD 87716.
  • Aaron Copland

    Down a Country Lane

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Aaron Copland (conductor)

    • SONY SM2K89323.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Cypresses No. 2 & 3

    Performer: Emerson String Quartet

    • DG 477 8765.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto No. 2 in F major

    Performer: Ensemble 415 Performer: Chiara Banchini & Jesper Christensen (directors)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90140607.
  • Max Bruch

    Piece for clarinet, viola and piano Op 83 No. 7

    Performer: Paul Meyer (clarinet) Performer: G茅rard Causs茅 (viola) Performer: Francois-Ren茅 Duchable (piano)

    • ERATO 2292 454 832.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Symphony No. 3 in E minor

    Performer: Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam Performer: Lev Markitz (conductor)

    • BIS CD938940.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Valiant-for-truth

    Performer: Richard Hickox Singers Performer: Richard Hickox (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 9666.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Italian Girl in Algiers

    Performer: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    • DG 415 363 2.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Mazurka from Act 3 of Swan Lake

    Performer: Montreal Symphony Orchestra Performer: Charles Dutoit (conductor)

    • DECCA 436 212 2.
  • Paul Dukas

    Sorcerer's Apprentice

    Performer: Boston Symphony Orchestra Performer: Charles Munch (conductor)

    • RCA 09026 689782.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Duet BWV 803 in F major

    Performer: Andras Schiff (piano)

    • DECCA 448 908 2.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Lyric Pieces Op 43 Nos. 1 - 4

    Performer: Mie Miki (accordion)

    • BIS CD 1629.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Fidelio Overture Op 72b

    Performer: Gewandhaus Orchestra Performer: Vaclav Neumann (conductor)

    • TELDEC 8.43410.
  • Maurice Ravel

    String Quartet, second movement

    Performer: Aron Quartet

    • PREISER RECORDS PR 90783.
  • Hammerstein Romberg

    Softly, as in a morning sunrise

    Performer: Modern Jazz Quartet

    • ORIGINAL JAZZ CLASSICS OJC20 002-2.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Das Knaben Wunderhorn: Der Schildwache Nachtlied

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: George Szell (conductor)

    • EMI 5099960898524.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No. 10: 2nd movement

    Performer: Philadelphia Orchestra Performer: Mariss Jansons (conductor)

    • EMI 555232 2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    My Heart is Inditing

    Performer: Choir of King鈥檚 College Cambridge Performer: Academy of Ancient Music Performer: Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

    • EMI 557140 2.
  • Wagner/Doucet

    Isoldina

    Performer: Clement Doucet (piano)

    • EMI 586480 2.
  • Jules Massenet

    Le Cid (ballet music): Catalane, Madril猫ne and Navarraise

    Performer: Israel Philharmonic Orhcestra Performer: Jean Martinon (conductor)

    • DECCA 476 2742.
  • Josef Lanner

    Steyrische Tanze Op 165

    Performer: Biedermeier Ensemble Vienna

    • DENON CO-72587.
  • Henri Duparc

    笔丑颈诲测濒茅

    Performer: Bernadette Greevy (mezzo-soprano) Performer: Ulster Orchestra Performer: Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 8735.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony No.6 in E major

    Performer: English Concert Performer: Trevor Pinnock (conductor)

    • ARCHIV 477 5000.
  • George Gershwin

    Someone to watch over me

    Performer: Sir Thomas Allen. Performer: Stephen Higgins.

    Performer: Marni Nixon (vocal) Performer: Lincoln Mayorga (piano)

    • REFERENCE RECORDINGS RR 19CD.

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