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Friday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. Start the day with a refreshing selection of music.

3 hours

Last on

Fri 14 Jan 2011 07:00

Music Played

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Overture to HMS Pinafore

    Performer: D鈥橭yly Carte Opera Orchestra Performer: John Owen Edwards (conductor)

    • Ter 1259.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto for 2 violins in A major, TWV 52:a2

    Performer: Rainer Kussmaul + Rudiger Liebermann (violins) Performer: Berlin Baroque Soloists

    • DG 477592.
  • William Byrd

    Laudibus in sanctis from Cantiones Sacrae

    Performer: Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge Performer: Richard Marlow (conductor)

    • Chandos 0733.
  • Iosif Ivanovici

    Danube Waves

    Performer: Philadelphia Orchestra Performer: Eugene Ormandy (conductor)

    • Sony 47283.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann

    Performer: Anna Netrebko (soprano - Giulietta) Performer: Elina Garanca (mezzo-soprano - Nickolaus) Performer: Prague Philharmonic Choir Performer: Prague Philharmonia Performer: Emmanuel Villaume (conductor)

    • DG 477763.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Night on Bare Mountain

    Arranger: Stokowski) Performer: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Performer: James Sedares (conductor)

    • Koch 373442.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Fireworks Music Overture

    Performer: English Concert Performer: Trevor Pinnock (conductor)

    • Archive 423149.
  • Robert Schumann

    Schlummerlied and Warum

    Arranger: Grutzmacher Performer: Francesco Dillon (cello) Performer: Emanuele (piano)

    • Brilliant 94060.
  • Paul Schoenfield

    Fughetta from Peccadilloes

    Performer: James Tocco (piano)

    • Naxos 559380.
  • Johann Strauss II - Emperor Waltz

    Performer: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Performer: Ferenc Fricsay (conductor)

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Adelaide

    Performer: John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Performer: Iain Burnside (piano)

    • signum 145.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Luisa Miller Overture

    Performer: New Philharmonia Orchestra Performer: Igor Markevitch (conductor)

    • Philips 426078.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Waltz from Sleeping Beauty

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Andre Previn (conductor)

    • EMI 69044.
  • Ferruccio Busoni

    Sonatina No. 6: Chamber Fantasy on Bizet's Carmen

    Performer: Wolf Harden (piano)

    • Naxos 8572422.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Armatae face et anguibus from Juditha Triumphans

    Performer: Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano) Performer: Venice Baroque Orchestra Performer: Andrea Marcon (condcuctor)

    • Archiv 477809.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Noon Witch

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

    • Teldec 24487.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ave Verum

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

    • Teldec 89828.
  • Paul Hindemith

    Trauermusik

    Performer: Lawrence Power (viola) Performer: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra Performer: David Atherton (conductor)

    • Hyperion 67774.
  • Gustav Holst

    Jupiter from The Planets

    Performer: Halle Orchestra Performer: Mark Elder (conductor)

    • hyperion 55350.
  • Francesco Geminiani

    Concert a 9 in A

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

    • Harmonia Mundi 7262.
  • Robert Schumann

    Geschwindmarsch from Bunte Blatter Op 99 No. 14

    Performer: Louis Lortie (piano)

    • Chandos 9289.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Midsummer Night's Dream Overture

    Performer: Chamber Orchestra of Europe Performer: Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

    • Teldec 74882.
  • Franz Schubert

    Sing-Ubungen D619 & Selma and Selmar

    Performer: Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano) Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Performer: Gerald Moore (piano)

    • Brilliant 94082.

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