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Tuesday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. Music includes Mendelssohn's Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream, part of Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite No.2, Vivaldi's Concerto for two mandolins in G, and a look at this week's Specialist Classical Chart.

3 hours

Last on

Tue 8 Feb 2011 07:00

Music Played

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Scherzo (A Midsummer Night's Dream) (trans. Rachmaninov)

    Performer: Simon Trpceski (piano)

    • EMI 5 56843 2.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    Symphony in D, G500

    Performer: Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss Performer: Johannes Goritzki (Director)

    • CPO 999 178-2.
  • Gustav Holst

    Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda (Op 26 No 3): No 2 - Hymn to the Waters; No 3: Hymn to Vena

    Performer: The Purcell Singers Performer: Ossian Ellis (harp) Performer: Imogen Holst (Conductor)

    • Decca 480 2329.
  • 脡douard Lalo

    Paradies de foire (Namouna: Suite No 1)

    Performer: Detroit Symphony Orchestra Performer: Albert Tipton (flute) Performer: Paul Paray (Conductor)

    • Mercury 434 389 2.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin - Scherzo (Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 65)

    Performer: Andreas Brantelid (cello) Performer: Marianna Shirinyan (piano)

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Sanctus (Requiem, Op 48)

    Performer: Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra Performer: Carlo Maria Giulini (Conductor)

    • DG 469 268 2.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Ballade in G minor, Op 118 No 3

    Performer: Murray Perahia (piano)

    • Sony Classical 88697727252.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No 2 in E flat, K417

    Performer: David Pyatt (horn) Performer: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Performer: Neville Marriner (Conductor)

    • Erato 0630 17074 2.
  • Specialist Classical Chart

    • Richard Strauss

      Cacilie, Op 27 No. 2

      Performer: Diana Damrau (soprano) Performer: Munich Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Christian Thielemann (Conductor)

      • Virgin Classics 6286640.
    • James Rhodes

      Clair de lune (Suite Bergamasque)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      • WCJ 5052498358328.
    • Gustav Holst

      Ceremonial Dance; Dance of the Marionette (Japanese Suite, Op 33)

      Performer: 大象传媒 Philharmonic Performer: Andrew Davis (Conductor)

      • CHANDOS CHSA 5086.
    • Henry Purcell

      When I am laid in Earth (Dido & Aeneas)

      Performer: Andreas Scholl (countertenor) Performer: Accademia Bizantina Performer: Stefano Montanari (Conductor)

      • Decca 4782262.
    • Richard Wagner - Isoldes Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)

      Arranger: Henk De Vlieger Performer: Royal Scottish National Orchestra Performer: Neeme Jarvi (Conductor)

  • Edvard Grieg

    Arabian Dance (Peer Gynt: Suite No 2)

    Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Performer: Sakari Oramo (Conductor)

    • Erato 8573829172.
  • Franz Liszt

    La Campanella (Etudes d'execution transcendante d'apres Paganini)

    Performer: Augustin Anievas (piano)

    • EMI 2 35733 2.
  • Michael Haydn

    Divertimento in G

    Performer: Vienna Octet

    • Decca 480 2378.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Menuet des follets (La Damnation de Faust)

    Performer: Rpo Performer: Thomas Beecham (Conductor)

    • EMI 9 09937 2.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi)

    Performer: Renata Tebaldi (Lauretta) Performer: Orchestra del Magio Musicale Fiorentino Performer: Lamberto Gardelli (Conductor)

    • Decca 478 2200.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Tambourin Chinois Op.3

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Paul Coker.

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov (violin) Performer: Itamar Golan (piano)

    • Teldec 9031-77351-2.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Menuet Antique

    Performer: Concertgebouw Orchestra Performer: Bernard Haitink (Conductor)

    • Philips 438 745 2.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for 2 mandolins in G, RV532

    Performer: James Tyler & Robin Jeffrey (mandolins) Performer: English Concert Performer: Trevor Pinnock (Director)

    • Archiv 4194102.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Valse (5 Novelettes, Op 15)

    Performer: Vertavo Quartet

    • SIMAX PSC 1178.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin - Mazurka in F minor, Op 68 No. 4

    Performer: Byron Janis (piano)

  • Edward Elgar

    In the South (Alassio), Op 50

    Performer: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Performer: Neville Marriner (Conductor)

    • Collins 12962.

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