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Monday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents Radio 3's classical beakfast show. With Smetana's Dance of the Comedians, Gershwin's overture to Girl Crazy, and Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on Greensleeves.

Rob Cowan presents Breakfast, including Smetana's Dance of the Comedians from his opera The Bartered Bride played by the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Christoph von Dohnanyi, the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra perform Gershwin's overture to Girl Crazy, and the London Symphony Orchestra under Adrian Boult perform Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on "Greensleeves".

3 hours

Last on

Mon 30 May 2011 07:00

Music Played

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Ballade No 2 in F, Op 38

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini (piano)

    • DG 477 7626.
  • Claude Debussy

    Danse sacree et danse profane

    Performer: Lily Laskine (harp) Performer: Jean-Francois Paillard Chamber Orchestra Performer: Jean-Pierre Rampal (Conductor)

    • Erato 4509-97410-2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in F, K213

    Performer: Philadelphia Wind Quintet

    • Sony Classical SBK 62 651.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Dance of the Comedians (The Bartered Bride)

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

    • Decca 444 867 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in F minor, BWV1056

    Performer: Richard Egarr (harpsichord) Performer: Academy of Ancient Music Performer: Andrew Manze (Director)

    • Harmonia Mundi HMU 907283.84.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Dein blaues Ange, Op 59 No 8

    Performer: Hermann Prey (baritone) Performer: Gunther Weiβenborn (piano)

    • Hannsler Classic CD 93.713.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Waltz (Eugene Onegin)

    Performer: Kirov Orchestra Performer: Valery Gergiev (Conductor)

    • Philips 442 775-2.
  • George Gershwin

    Overture: Girl Crazy

    Performer: Aalborg Symphony Performer: Wayne Marshall (Conductor)

    • Virgin Classics 5620562.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    12 Variations on 'See the conqu'ring hero comes' by Handel for cello and piano, WoO 45

    Performer: Raphael Wallfisch (piano) Performer: John York (piano)

    • EMI CDEMXD2506.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No 8 in G, Op 88 (3rd movement: Allegretto grazioso – Molto vivace)

    Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Performer: Rafael Kubelik (Conductor)

    • DG 00289 477 8168 GB 6.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Battalia

    Performer: Vienna Concentus Musicus Performer: Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Conductor)

    • Teldec 8.43779 ZS.
  • Georges Bizet

    Marche (Petite Suite)

    Performer: Bamberg Symphony Performer: Georges Pretre (Conductor)

    • Eurodisc 610332.
  • Richard Strauss

    Wiegenlied, Op 41 No 1

    Performer: Renee Fleming (soprano) Performer: Houston Symphony Orchestra Performer: Conductor Christoph Eschenbach

    • RCA 82876 59408 2.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Sonata in D, H.16.37

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)

    • CHAN 10668.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on "Greensleeves"

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

    • EMI CDC 7 47218 2.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Spem in alium

    Performer: Wim Becu (sackbut) Performer: Paul Nicholson & Alan Wilson (organs) Performer: Taverner Choir Performer: Andrew Parrott (Director)

    • EMI 6 88592 2.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    O, Cease Thy Singing, Op 4 No 4 (trans. Earl Wild)

    Performer: Earl Wild (piano)

    • Ivory Classics 74001.
  • Franz Liszt

    Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in D minor

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Antal Dorati (Conductor)

    • Mercury 432 015-2.
  • Bach-Malloch

    Allegro molto

    Performer: Ensemble of 40 Los Angeles strings, woodwind & percussion players Performer: Lukas Foss (Conductor)

    • Sheffield lab SLS-502.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo, Op 116 No 5

    Performer: Shai Wosner (piano)

    • ONYX 4055.
  • Robert Schumann

    Konzertstuck in F for 4 horns, Op 86

    Performer: Roger Montgomery, Gavin Edwards, Susan Dent & Robert Maskell (horns) Performer: Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique Performer: John Eliot Gardiner (Conductor)

    • Archiv 457591 2.

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  • Mon 30 May 2011 07:00

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