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Monday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan's selection includes Smetana's Overture to The Bartered Bride, a selection from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and Schubert's Overture in C.

Rob Cowan with music to begin the day. Music includes Smetana's Overture to The Bartered Bride, a selection from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Dietrich Fischer Dieskau and Gerald Moore perform Schubert, and the Berlin Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta perform Richard Strauss's Waltz Sequence from Der Rosenkavalier.

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Mon 14 Feb 2011 07:00

Music Played

  • Jean Sibelius

    Alla marcia from Karelia Suite

    Performer: Philharmonia orchestra Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)

    • DECCA 466 2412.
  • Franz Schubert

    Seligkeit

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

    • Deutsche Grammophon 431 0852.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso Op 6 No. 12 in B minor

    Performer: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Performer: Iona Brown (conductor)

    • Hanssler 98902.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Furiant and Goblin's Dance from Poetic Tone Pictures

    Performer: Radoslav Kvapil (piano)

    • Altoalc60011.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    The Bartered Bride (Overture)

    Orchestra: Pro Arte Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.

    Performer: Cleveland Orchestra Performer: George Szell (conductor)

    • Sony 517495.
  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Praeludium in G minor BUXWV 149

    Performer: Rene Saorgin (organ of St Lawerence鈥檚 Church in Alkmaar, Holland)

    • Harmonia Mundi 2901484.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Trio for violin horn and piano Op 40: Scherzo

    Performer: Radovan Vlatkovic (horn) Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Performer: Hans Maile (violin)

    • Decca 433850.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Gigue BWV 550

    Performer: Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet

    • Newton Classics 8802044.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Verdi prati from Alcina

    Performer: James Bowman (counter-tenor - Ruggiero) Performer: The King鈥檚 Consort Performer: Robert King (conductor)

    • Hyperion 66483.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake Act 4: Dance of the Swans and Final Scene

    Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Performer: Anatole Fistoulari (conductor)

    • Decca 442903.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Waltz in Eb

    Performer: Marco Sollini (piano)

    • Chandos 10387.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for 4 guitars in D, RV 93

    Performer: Los Romeros (guitars)

    • Philips 426076.
  • Percy Grainger

    Molly on the Shore

    Performer: 大象传媒 Philharmonic Performer: Richard Hickox (conductor)

    • Chandos 9584.
  • Enrique Granados

    Goyescas: The Maiden and the Nightingale

    Performer: Artur Pizarro (piano)

    • Linn 355.
  • Franz Schubert

    Overture in C Major D591

    Performer: San Francisco Symphony Performer: Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

    • DECCA 436 5982.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in Eb Hob XV:10

    Performer: Isaac Stern (violin) Performer: Leonard Rose (cello) Performer: Eugene Istomin (piano)

    • Sony 64516.
  • Johann Strauss II - Fledermaus Overture

    Performer: Vienna Symphony Performer: Willi Boskovsky (conductor)

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    La Laborde from Concert no 2 in G major

    Performer: London Baroque

    • BIS 1385.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Coloredo Serenade K203: Prestissimo

    Performer: Scottish Chamber Orchestra Performer: Alexander Janiczek (director/violin)

    • Linn 320.
  • Edward Elgar

    Concert Allegro Op 41

    Arranger: Iain Farrington Performer: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Performer: Iain Farrington (piano) Performer: George Vass (conductor)

    • Dutton 7259.
  • Amy Beach

    3 Shakespeare Songs

    Performer: Emma Kirkby (soprano) Performer: James Lisney (piano)

    • BIS 1245.
  • Richard Strauss

    Der Rosenkavalier: Waltz Sequence

    Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Zubin Mehta (conductor)

    • Sony 47197.
  • Robert Schumann

    Traumes-wirren from Fantasiestuecke Op 12

    Performer: Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

    • Alto1136.

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