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Thursday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. Wide-ranging music from Gabrieli to Glinka and Purcell to Porter is included in the programme.

3 hours

Last on

Thu 16 Sep 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla

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

    • RCA 63942.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Heute noch, lieber Vater from the "Coffee Cantata" BWV 211

    Performer: Barbara Bonney (soprano) Performer: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Performer: Gustav Leonhardt (conductor)

    • Philips 442779.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Serenade in D minor, Op.44 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Bl盲serensemble Sabine Meyer.

    Performer: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Performer: Neville Marriner

    • Philips 4000202.
  • Cole Porter

    Kiss Me, Kate Overture

    Performer: london sinfonietta Performer: john mcglinn

    • EMI 98335.
  • Franz Schubert

    Ganymed

    Performer: Arleen Auger (soprano) Performer: Lambert Orkis (piano)

    • Virgin 628598.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    La Scala di Seta

    Performer: National Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

    • Decca 417797.
  • Robert Schumann

    Adagio and Allegro in Ab, Op 70

    Performer: Neill Sanders (horn) Performer: Lamar Crowson (piano)

    • Decca 480215.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker

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

    • Sony 63162.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Marriage of Figaro: Non piu andrai

    Arranger: Johann Went Performer: Mozart Ensemble of the Vienna Volksoper

    • Nimbus 5805.
  • Georges Bizet

    La Patrie Overture

    Performer: Detroit Symphony Orchestra Performer: Paul Paray (conductor)

    • Mercury 434321.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    O Rex gloriae

    Performer: Choir of Westminster Cathedral Performer: James o鈥橠onnell (conductor)

    • Hyperion 55335.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in Eb Op 117 No. 1

    Performer: Clifford Curzon (piano)

    • Decca 475087.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Overture to Ruy Blas

    Performer: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra Performer: Claus Peter Flor (conductor)

    • RCA 87905.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Andante from Piano Concerto No. 2

    Performer: Dmitri Alexeev (piano) Performer: English Chamber Orchestra Performer: Jerzy Maksymiuk (conductor)

    • EMI 57547.
  • George Frideric Handel

    K眉nft' ger Zeiten eitler Kummer

    Performer: Carolyn Sampson (soprano) Performer: Stephanie-Marie Degand (violin) Performer: The King鈥檚 Consort Performer: Robert King (director)

    • Hyperion 67627.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pulcinella Ballet: Extract - Tarantella to the end

    Performer: Jennifer Larmore (mezzo-soprano) Performer: John Aler (tenor) Performer: Jan Opalach (bass) Performer: St Paul Chamber Orchestra Performer: Hugh Wolff (conductor)

    • Teldec 4509 94548.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Scherzo from Piano Trio No. 1 in F

    Performer: Beaux Arts Trio

    • Philips 434071.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Jubilate Deo

    Performer: La Nuova Musica Performer: John Rutter (conductor)

    • Collegium 134.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    L'Ascension (Transports de joie)

    Performer: Simon Preston.

    Performer: Timothy Byram-Wigfield (organ of St George鈥檚 Chapel, Windsor Castle)

    • Delphian 34078.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Song of the Veil from Don Carlos

    Performer: Shirley Verrett (mezzo-soprano 鈥 Eboli) Performer: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Performer: Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)

    • EMI 4575312.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op 13 "Pathetique"

    Performer: Rudolf Serkin (piano)

    • Sony 47666.
  • Henry Purcell

    A Suite of Theatre Music

    Performer: Taverner Players Performer: Andrew Parrott (director)

    • EMI 769853.

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