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Thursday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents Breakfast - wide-ranging music to begin the day.

3 hours

Last on

Thu 28 Oct 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Silken Ladder Overture

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

    • RCA 68012.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Andante and 5 Variations in G K501

    Performer: Christoph Eschenbach and Justus Franz (pianos)

    • DG 459475.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Quadro in Bb

    Performer: Academy of Ancient Music Performer: Christopher Hogwood (director)

    • l鈥橭iseau Lyre 478 0022.
  • Franz Schubert

    Der Erlk枚nig

    Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Performer: Gerald Moore (piano)

    • EMI 56367.
  • William Boyce

    Symphony in Bb

    Performer: The English Concert Performer: Trevor Pinnock (conductor)

    • Archiv 437088.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Zumnamensfeier Overture

    Performer: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Performer: Kurt Masur (conductor)

    • Philips 426630.
  • Franz Schubert

    Ganymed

    Performer: Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) Performer: Cord Garben (piano)

    • Sony SK 53104.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    "Air on a G string" from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D BWV 1068

    Performer: Lucerne Festival Strings Performer: Rudolf Baumgartner (conductor)

    • DG 4775464.
  • Richard Wagner - Prelude to Lohengrin Act 3

    Performer: Dresden State Orchestra Performer: Silvio Varsivo (conductor)

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet in A, KV 464: Allgro non troppo (Last mvt)

    Performer: Hagen Quartet

    • DG 471025.
  • Aaron Copland

    2 mvts from Music for the Theatre: Prologue and Dance

    Performer: St Paul Chamber Orchestra Performer: Hugh Wolff (conductor)

    • Teldec 28169-2.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Manon Lescaut: Intermezzo

    Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra Performer: Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

    • EMI 120772.
  • James Rhodes

    Etude No. 1: Pour les cing doigts

    Performer: Joanna Macgregor (piano)

    • Collins 14042.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Organ Concerto Op 4 No. 2 in Bb

    Performer: Bob van Asperen (organ) Performer: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

    • Virgin 5451742.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Don Giovanni: notte e giorno faticar (arranged for winds)

    Performer: Ensemble Philidor

    • Supraphon 2131.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del Gracioso

    Performer: Orchestre de Paris Performer: Jean Martinon (conductor)

    • EMI 76960.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Variations on an aria from Mozarts The Magic Flute, Op 66

    Performer: Daniel Muller-Schott (cello) Performer: Angela Hewitt (piano)

    • Hyperion 67755.
  • Johannes Brahms

    German Requiem: Ihr habt nun traurigkeit

    Performer: Gundula Janowitz (soprano) Performer: Vienna Singverein Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

    • DG 289477.
  • Richard Strauss

    Don Juan

    Performer: Dresden Staatskapelle Performer: Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

    • Dal Segno 050.
  • Franz Schubert

    Gott ist mein Hirt

    Performer: The Boys of Kings College, Cambridge Performer: Ashley Grote (organ) Performer: Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

    • EMI 404432.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Eugene Onegin: Entr'acte and Waltz

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

    • BIS 1468.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet No. 13 in Bb Op 130: Cavatina

    Performer: Juilliard String Quartet

    • Sony 62792.
  • Benjamin Britten

    A Ceremony of Carols: That yonge child; Balulalow

    Performer: Choir of Kings College, Cambridge Performer: Sir David Willcocks (conductor)

    • EMI 17526.

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