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Friday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Including the slow movement from Mozart's Clarinet Concerto and Bernstein's Prelude, Fugue and Riffs.

Rob Cowan presents Breakfast, including the slow movement from Mozart's Clarinet Concerto performed on the Basset Horn by Sabine Meyer with the Staatskapelle Dresden conducted by Hans Vonk, Kimon Parry is the clarinet soloist with the Royal Academy of Music Symphonic Brass conducted by James Watson in a performance of Bernstein's Prelude, Fugue and Riffs, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under David Zinman perform Paul Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

3 hours

Last on

Fri 3 Jun 2011 07:00

Music Played

  • William Walton

    Popular Song from Facade Suite No. 1

    Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Jan Latham-Koening, conductor

    • CHANDOS CHAN 9148.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Salvator Mundi, salva nos

    Performer: The Sixteen Performer: Harry Christophers (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAC 02.
  • Vítezslav Novák

    Dymak from Valachian Dances Op. 34 No. 2

    Performer: Radoslav Kvapil (piano)

    • ALTO ALC 1113.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    2nd movement from Clarinet Concerto in A major KV 622 (Reconstruction for basset clarinet)

    Performer: Sabine Meyer (basset clarinet) Performer: Staatskapelle Dresden Performer: Hans Vonk (conductor)

    • EMI CLASSICS 5 55155 2.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No.66 in B flat major: Finale

    Performer: Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra Performer: Dennis Russell Davies (conductor)

    • SONY CLASSICAL 88607443312-22.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Final Dance – Jota from The Three-Cornered Hat

    Performer: Boston Symphony Orchestra Performer: Seijii Ozawa (conductor)

    • DG 457 878-2.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Finale (Allegro moderato) from Piano Quintet in C minor

    Performer: Walter Panhofer (piano) Performer: Vienna Octet

    • DECCA 480 2397.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Aida: Celeste Aida

    Performer: Placido Domingo (tenor) Performer: New Philharmonia Orchestra Performer: Riccardo Mutti (conductor)

    • EMI CLASSICS 6 27920 2.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Adios Nonino

    Performer: Aquiles Delle-Vigne (piano)

    • NAXOS 8.572331.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Dance of the goblets from Swan Lake

    Performer: The New London Orchestra Performer: David-Lloyd Jones (conductor)

    • TELDEC 0630 -16451-2.
  • Henry Purcell

    I was glad

    Performer: The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford Performer: Geoffrey Webber (organ) Performer: John Harper (director)

    • ALPHA CDCA 912.
  • Frederic d'Erlanger

    Poeme in D major

    Performer: Philippe Graffin (violin) Performer: ´óÏó´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales Performer: David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)

    • HYPERION CDA67838.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Messiah: Comfort ye my people; Every valley shall be exalted

    Performer: Kenneth McKellar (tenor) Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)

    • DECCA 480 4924.
  • Franz Schubert

    Scherzo from String Quartet No.14 in D minor "Death and the Maiden"

    Performer: Takacs Quartet

    • DECCA 436 843-2.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Prelude, Fuge and Riffs

    Performer: Kimon Parry (clarinet) Performer: Academy Symphonic Brass Performer: James Watson (conductor)

    • RAM Records RAM 042.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Symphonic Dance No. 2 Op.64

    Performer: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Performer: Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)

    • Hanssler Classic CD 98.128.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita for solo violin no.3 BWV 1006: Menuet I; Menuet II

    Performer: Isabelle Faust (violin)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 902059.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Orpheus in the Underworld Overture

    Arranger: Carl Binder Performer: Sadler’s Wells Opera Orchestra Performer: Alexander Faris (conductor)

    • EMI CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE 5 75999 2.
  • Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer

    Concerto Armonico No. 4 in G

    Performer: I Musici

    • NEWTON CLASSICS 8802023.
  • Paul Dukas

    The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    Performer: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: David Zinman (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 454 127-2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Et Misericordia from Magnificat in D major BWV243

    Performer: Michael Chance (counter tenor) Performer: John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Performer: Collegium Musicum 90 Performer: Richard Hickox (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAC 02.
  • Béla Bartók

    Comodo and Finale from Dance Suite

    Performer: Philharmonia Hungarica Performer: Antal Dorati (conductor)

    • Philips 426 661-2.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor

    Performer: Ingrid Fliter (piano)

    • EMI CLASSICS 6 27920 2.
  • Richard Rodgers

    Slaughter on Tenth Avenue

    Performer: Boston Pops Orchestra Performer: Arthur Fiedler (conductor)

    • RCA VICTOR 09026 68550.

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  • Fri 3 Jun 2011 07:00

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