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Tuesday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan shares his musical enthusiasms - a Beethoven overture, a Handel Concerto Grosso, a Brahms song and a look at this week's Specialist Classical Chart.

3 hours

Last on

Tue 3 Aug 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • Frédéric Chopin - Grande Valse brillante in E flat major Op 18

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott (piano)

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto for 4 violins without continuo

    Performer: Musica Antique Koln Performer: Reinhard Goebel (conductor)

    • DG 439 444-2.
  • Zoltán Kodály

    Dances of Marosszek

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

    • DECCA 444 322 2.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Name Day Overture Op 115

    Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Performer: Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

    • DG 427 256 2.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Dance Intermezzo Op 45 No. 2

    Performer: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Performer: Neeme Järvi (conductor)

    • BIS CD610 BIS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso Op 6 No. 12 in B minor

    Performer: Academy of Ancient Music Performer: Andrew Manze (conductor)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 90822829.
  • Ma Shui-Long

    Bamboo flute concerto, last movement

    Performer: Michala Petri (flute) Performer: Copenhagen Philharmonic Performer: Lan Shui (conductor)

    • OUR RECORDINGS 6.220603.
  • Franz Schubert

    Das Wandern from Die Schone Mullerin D795

    Performer: Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) Performer: Helmut Deutsch (piano)

    • DECCA 478 1528.
  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No. 3 in E flat major Op 97 "Rhenish", last movement

    Performer: Los Angeles Philharmonic Performer: Carlo Maruia Giulini (conductor)

    • DG 477 8840.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Tu es petrus

    Performer: The Choir of Westminster Abbey Performer: James O’Donnell (conductor)

    • HYPERION CDA 67770.
  • Wilhelm Taubert

    Piano Concerto in E major Op 18, first movement

    Performer: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Performer: Howard Shelley (piano & conductor)

    • HYPERION CDA 67765.
  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen: Pres des remparts de Seville … Tais-toir

    Performer: Andrea Bocelli (Don Jose) Performer: Marina Domashenko (Carmen) Performer: Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

    • DECCA 475 9143.
  • Jean Françaix

    5 Exotic Dances

    Performer: Christian Forshaw (saxophone); Stephen de Pledge (piano)

    • INTEGRA RECORDS ING1002.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    Fantasia in 6 parts

    Performer: Fretwork

    • VIRGIN VC5451442.
  • Franz Schubert

    Magnificat

    Performer: Arnold Schoenberg Choir Performer: Concentus musicus Wien Performer: Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

    • TELDEC 3984260942.
  • François Couperin

    La Muse Plantine

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud (piano)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901956.
  • Carl Orff

    Carmina Burana

    Performer: Bavarian Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra Performer: Daniel Harding (conductor)

    • DG 477 8778.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending

    Performer: Tasmin Little (violin) Performer: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra Performer: Andrew Davis (conductor)

    • TELDEC 9031 73127 2.
  • Enrique Granados

    El fandango de candil from Goyescas

    Performer: Alicia de Larrocha (piano)

    • RCA 82876 60863 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Lobet den Harrn alle Heiden BWV 230

    Performer: Augsburger Domsingknaben Chamber Choir Performer: Reinhard Kammler (conductor)

    • DHM RD77031.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Von ewiger Liebe Op 43 No. 1 "Eternal Love"

    Performer: Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano) Performer: Graham Johnson (piano)

    • HYPERION CDJ33121.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier - Joyeuse marche

    Performer: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic Performer: Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

  • Joseph Haydn

    Trio Hob 15:17 in F

    Performer: Beaux Arts Trio

    • PHILIPS 454 104-2.
  • Louis Andriessen

    Dances (extract)

    Performer: Claron McFadden (soprano) Performer: Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra Performer: Gunther Schuller (conductor)

    • UNKNOWN PUBLIC UP08.

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