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Thursday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents Breakfast.

3 hours

Last on

Thu 5 May 2011 07:00

Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Where'er you walk (Semele, Act III)

    Performer: Mark Padmore (tenor) Performer: English Concert Performer: Andrew Manze (Director)

    • Harmonia Mundi HMU 907422.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    English Folk Song Suite

    Arranger: Jacob Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Adrian Boult (Conductor)

    • EMI CDM 7 64022 2.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Rondo capriccioso, Op 14

    Performer: Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)

    • Decca 468 600-2.
  • Giovanni Battista Fontana

    Sonata No 15

    Performer: Ensemble Sonnerie

    • Virgin Veritas 3 87002 2.
  • Johann Strauss II - Overture: Die Fledermaus

    Performer: Bavarian State Orchestra Performer: Carlos Kleiber (Conductor)

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Valse (5 Novelettes, Op 15)

    Performer: Vertavo Quartet

    • Simax PSC1178.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Kobold, Op 71 No 3

    Performer: Emil Gilels (piano)

    • DG 419 749 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in E flat, K113

    Performer: Scottish Chamber Orchestra Performer: Alexander Janiczsek (Director)

    • Linn CKD 287.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in A flat, Op 34 No 1

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini (piano)

    • DG 4777626.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Vltava (Die Moldau)

    Performer: Cleveland Orchestra Performer: Christoph von Dohnanyi (Conductor)

    • Decca 444 867 2.
  • Thomas Arne

    Where the bee sucks (The Tempest)

    Performer: Emma Kirkby (soprano) Performer: Academy of Ancient Music Performer: Christopher Hogwood (Conductor)

    • Decca 470 372-2.
  • Franz Krommer

    Concerto for two clarinets in E flat, Op 91 (3rd movement: Alla Polacca)

    Performer: Sabine Meyer & Julian Bliss (clarinets) Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Performer: Kenneth Sillito (Director)

    • EMI 3 79786 2.
  • William Kroll

    Banjo & Fiddle

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos (violin) Performer: Peter Nagy (piano)

    • Delos DE 3116.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Introduction & Can-Can No 1 (Gaite Parisienne)

    Performer: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra Performer: Erich Kunzel (Conductor)

    • MMG MWCD7119.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ouverture (Suite No 1 in C, BWV1066)

    Performer: Concerto Koln

    • Berlin Classics 0300061BC.
  • Charles Ives

    They are there! (A War Song March)

    Performer: Gregg Smith Singers Performer: Ithaca College Concert Choir Performer: American Symphony Orchestra Performer: Leopold Stokowski (Conductor)

    • Masterworks Potrait MPK 46 726.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Petite Suite: No 7 – Finale

    Orchestrator: Glazunov Performer: USSR State Symphony Orchestra Performer: Evgeny Svetlanov (Conductor)

    • MEL CD 10 01745.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Fugue (Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra)

    Performer: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Libor Pesek (Conductor)

    • Virgin Classics 5 61782 2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Hallelujah (Messiah)

    Performer: The Sixteen Performer: Harry Christophers (Director)

    • CORO COR16073.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Intermezzo (Karelia Suite, Op 11)

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Alexander Gibson (Conductor)

    • Collins Classics RETR0003.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sextet in E flat, Op 81b

    Performer: Vienna Octet

    • Decca 480 2403.
  • Franz Liszt

    Rigoletto: Paraphrase de concert (after Verdi)

    Performer: Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)

    • Decca 436 736 2.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del gracioso

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

    • CHAN 102514X.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Nacqui all'affanno… Non piu mesta (La Cenerentola, Act II)

    Performer: Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) Performer: Arnold Schoenberg Choir Performer: Konzertvereinigung Wiener Volksopernorchester Performer: Giuseppe Patane (Conductor)

    • Decca 478 2663.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in E flat, Op 9 No 2

    Performer: Alban Gerhardt (cello) Performer: Cecile Licad (piano)

    • Hyperion CDA67831.

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