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Friday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Including one of Reynaldo Hahn's songs, Chopin's Ballade No 3 for piano, and the Adagio from Rachmaninov's Symphony No 2.

Rob Cowan presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, including one of Reynaldo Hahn's songs sung by Sarah Connolly, Nelson Freire plays Chopin's Ballade No. 3 for piano, and the Cincinatti Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Jesus Lopez-Cobos perform the Adagio (3rd mvt) from Rachmaninov's second Symphony.

3 hours

Last on

Fri 9 Sep 2011 07:00

Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no 6 in D major (H.1.6) "Le Matin" 1st movt : Adagio – Allegro

    Performer: Concentus musicus Wien Performer: Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

    • Elatus 0927 49561 2.
  • William Alwyn

    Suite for Oboe and Harp: 1. Minuet; 2. Valse minature; 3. Jig

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel (oboe) Performer: Ieuan Jones (harp)

    • CHAN 9152.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Study after Fr Chopin (Studies for Piano no 1)

    Performer: Fredrik Ullén (piano)

    • BIS CD 1083.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Overture: Orpheus in the Underworld

    Performer: The Philadelphia Orchestra Performer: Eugene Ormandy (conductor)

    • RCA 09026 61211 2.
  • Richard Wagner - Prelude to Act 3 of Logengrin

    Performer: Concert Arts Orchestra Performer: Erich Leinsdorf (conductor)

  • Gioachino Rossini

    La Danza (Soirees musicales)

    Performer: Nicolai Gedda (tenor) Performer: Graunke Symphony Orchestra Performer: Willy Mattes (conductor)

    • HMV 5 4366 2.
  • Frederic Lamond

    Sword Dance from "A life in the Scottish Highlands"

    Performer: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra Performer: Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

    • Hyperion CDA 67387.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Soave sia il vento (Cosi fan tutte)

    Performer: Hillevi Martinpelto(sop) Performer: Alison Hagley (sop) Performer: Thomas Allen (baritone) Performer: Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment Performer: Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

    • EMI 5 86501 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no 41 "Jupiter": Last movt

    Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Performer: Karl Bohm (conductor)

    • DG 289 477 6134.
  • Anon

    Anon - Sirba de la Ruseanca

    Performer: Taraf de Haidouks

  • Franz Lehár

    Hungarian Fantasy, op 45

    Performer: Aaron Rosand (violin) Performer: Orchestra of Radio Luxembourg Performer: Louis de Froemnt (conductor)

    • VoxBox CDX 5102.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    A Chloris

    Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Performer: Eugene Asti.

    Performer: Sarah Connolly Performer: Eugene Asti (piano)

    • SIGCD 072.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Concert Piece no 1 for clarinet, basset horn and orchestra in F minor, op 113

    Performer: Sabine Meyer (clarinet) Performer: Wolfgang Meyer (bassethorn) Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Performer: Kenneth Sillito (conductor)

    • EMI 5 57359 2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso op 3 no 6

    Performer: English Baroque Soloists Performer: Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    • APEX 0927 48682 2.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony no 2 in E minor, op 27 3rd movt : Adagio

    Performer: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Performer: Jesus Lopez-Cobos (conductor)

    • Telarc CD 80543.
  • Isaac Albéniz

    Celebre Serenata Espagnola; Tango op 165.2 (2.29)

    Arranger: Cassado & Marechal Performer: Alban Gerhardt (cello) Performer: Rina Dokshinsky (piano)

    • EMI 5 73164 2.
  • Georges Bizet

    Farandole from L'Arliesienne Suite no 2

    Performer: Detroit Symphony Orchestra Performer: Paul Paray (conductor)

    • Mercury 434 321 2.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Overture : Der Freischutz

    Performer: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin Performer: Marek Janowski (conductor)

    • RCA 09026625382.
  • John Tavener

    The Lamb

    Performer: Choir of New College Oxford Performer: Edward Higginbottom (conductor)

    • Erato 0927 446572.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio op 97 "Archduke" 1st movt : Allegro moderato

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Performer: Itzhak Perlman (violin) Performer: Lynn Harrell (cello)

    • EMI 5 85496 2.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Officer Krupke (West Side Story)

    Arranger: Kenton Performer: Stan Kenton Band

    • Capitol CDP 7243 8 29914 2 7.
  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and Circumstance March no 3

    Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra Performer: Andrew Davis (conductor)

    • Sony SB2K 63247.
  • William Vincent Wallace

    Nabucco de Verdi : Va pensiero

    Performer: Rosemary Tuck (piano)

    • Naxos 8.572774.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Overture : My Home, op 62

    Performer: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Bohumil Gregor (conductor)

    • Supraphon 11 0378 2.

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  • Fri 9 Sep 2011 07:00

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