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Monday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan shares his musical enthusiasms, and dips into his rucksack for a surprise or two, including ballet music by Minkus, Eric Coates's London Suite, a Vivaldi Concerto and Faure's Pavane for choir and orchestra.

3 hours

Last on

Mon 17 Jan 2011 07:00

Music Played

  • Henry Purcell

    Sound the Trumpet

    Performer: Andreas Scholl and Christophe Dumaux (countertenors) Performer: Accademia Bizantina

    • Decca 4782262.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Pavane, Op 50

    Performer: Tanglewood Festival Chorus Performer: Boston Symphony Orchestra Performer: Seiji Ozawa (conductor)

    • DG 449 846-2.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in G minor, Op 46 No 8

    Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra Performer: Andrew Davis (conductor)

    • CBS MDK46504.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Si dolce e il tormento (1624)

    Performer: Magdalena Kozena (mezzo) Performer: Private Musicke Performer: Pierre Pitzl (director)

    • DG 4778764.
  • Bill Withers

    Ain't No Sunshine

    Performer: Thomas Quasthoff (vocals) Performer: Bruno Muller (guitar) Performer: Frank Chastenier (piano and keyboard) Performer: Dieter Ilg (bass) Performer: Wolfgang Haffner (drums)

    • DG 4778614.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Contrapunctus II (Art of Fugue)

    Performer: Calefax Reed Quintet

    • MDG 6190989-2.
  • Trad. spiritual

    In That Great Getting Up Morning

    Arranger: Marsh / Russ Performer: Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman (sopranos) Performer: Chorus and Orchestra Performer: James Levine (conductor)

    • DG 4779377.
  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D

    Arranger: William Mcvicker Performer: Gillian Weir (organ of Royal Albert Hall)

    • Priory PRCD859.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in A minor, RV397

    Performer: Europa Galante Performer: Fabio Biondi (director)

    • 3951462.
  • Edward MacDowell

    To a Wild Rose

    Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) Performer: John Lenehan (piano)

    • EMI 3594882.
  • John Foulds - La Belle Pierrette: Intermezzo Impromptu

    Performer: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra Performer: Ronald Corp (conductor)

  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    Legend of the Birds

    Performer: Krasnoyarsk Symphony Orchestra Performer: Ivan Shipller (conductor)

    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS 94077.
  • Frédéric Chopin - Waltz in C sharp minor, Op 64 No 2

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky (piano)

  • Carl Loewe

    Weh' mir, wohin soll ich entfliehn? (Das Suhnopfer des neuen Bundes – Passion Oratorio)

    Performer: Henk Neven (bass / Judas) Performer: Ensemble Instrumental des Heures Romantiques Performer: Udo Reinemann (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.557635.
  • Pugnani/Kreisler

    Prelude and Allegro

    Performer: Yan Pascal Tortelier (violin) Performer: Ulster Orchestra

    • CHANDOS CHAN 8792.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del gracioso

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

    • EMI 4769602.
  • Hoagy Carmichael

    Stardust

    Arranger: Louis Merkur Performer: Goldstone and Clemmow (piano duo)

    • DIVINE ART DDA25089.
  • Ruggero Leoncavallo

    Recitar!.... Vesti la giubba (Pagliacci)

    Performer: Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) Performer: Orchestra dell’Accademica Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome Performer: Antonio Pappano (conductor)

    • DECCA 4782258.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Something's Coming (West Side Story)

    Performer: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble

    • DECCA 417354-2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and fugue from The Well-Tempered Clavier, bk.1 no. 1 (BWV.846) in C major

    Performer: Bob van Asperen (harpsichord)

    • VIRGIN VERITAS 3499632.
  • Ludwig Minkus

    Don Quixote

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Robert Irving (conductor)

    • EMI 6486352.
  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Concerto No 1 in F

    Performer: Insieme Strumentale di Roma Performer: Giorgio Sasso (director)

    • STRADIVARIUS STR33519.
  • Brian Easdale

    The Red Shoes Ballet

    Performer: St Louis Symphony Orchestra Performer: Vladimir Golschmann (conductor)

    • CBS MDK45746.
  • Eric Coates

    London Suite

    Performer: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Performer: Charles Groves (conductor)

    • EMI CDCFPD4456.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Where'er you walk (Semele)

    Performer: Ian Bostridge (tenor) Performer: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Performer: Harry Bicket (conductor)

    • EMI 3822432.
  • Samuel Barber

    Adagio for strings

    Performer: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Performer: David Zinman (conductor)

    • ARGO 436 238-2.
  • Carlo Monza

    Sinfonia detta "La tempesta di mare"

    Performer: Europa Galante

    • Fabio Biondi (violin).
  • Edvard Grieg

    Morning (Peer Gynt Suite No. 1)

    Performer: Norwegian Radio Orchestra Performer: Ari Rasilainen (conductor)

    • APEX 0927 455102.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in A flat, Op 72 No 8

    Performer: Alfons and Aloys Kontarsky (piano, four hands)

    • DG 4495502.

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