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Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan's musical selection features Sullivan encountering Shakespeare and Finzi in elegaic mood.

With Rob Cowan.

Rob's musical selection features Sullivan encountering Shakespeare and Finzi in elegaic mood. With Free Thought.
07:03

TRABACI
Galliard III (based on La Mantoana)
The King's Noyse
David Douglass (director)
HARMONIA MUNDI HCX3957159 Tr 1

07:06

RAVEL
Pavane pour une infante defunte
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor)
RCA 74321 886 922 CD1 Tr 5

07:13

MOZART
Tutto e disposto - Aprite un po (Marriage of Figaro)
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
DG 00289 477 5886 Tr 19

07:17

NOVAK
In the Church + Among the Children (Moravian-Slovak Suite)
Brno State Philharmonic Orchestra
Karel Sejna (conductor)
SUPRAPHON 110682-2 Tr 3 & 4

07:17

VIVALDI
Overture: L'Olimpiade
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Thomas Henglebrock (conductor)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 05472 77289-2 Tr 1

07:37

SCHUBERT
4 Ländler D814
Christoph Eschenbach & Justus Frantz (piano duet)
EMI 0946 3 65326-2 CD1 Tr 1-4

07:41

FINZI
The Fall of the Leaf
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
David Hill (conductor)
NAXOS 8.570417 Tr 7

07:51

BERNSTEIN
Simple Song (Mass)
Bruce Hubbard (baritone)
Orchestra of St. Luke's
Dennis Russell Davies (conductor)
EMI CDC7 49928-2 Tr 12

07:56

COUPERIN arr. Söllscher
Les Baricades mistérieuses
Göran Söllscher (guitar)
DG 474 815-2 Tr 16

08:03

BACH arr. Palladian Ensemble
Chorale prelude Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645
Palladian Ensemble
LINN CKD CD2 Tr 5

08:07

Nils LINDBERG
Shall I Compare Thee
Malena Ernman (mezzo-soprano)
Mats Bergström (guitar)
BIS NL CD 5020 Tr 18

08:10

SULLIVAN
The Merchant of Venice Suite
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sir Vivian Dunn (conductor)
CFP 50999 2 13459 2 CD2 Tr 11 – 14

08:25

SULLIVAN
The Dicky-Bird and the Owl
Robert Tear (tenor)
Benjamin Luxon (baritone)
André Previn (piano)
HMV CLASSICS HMV7 67808-2 Tr 1

08:31

SCRIABIN
Etude in B Major Op.18 No.4
Piers Lane (piano)
HYPERION CDA 66607 Tr 5

08:33

FREE THOUGHT
John Mcgrath - Why the audience is a work of art

08:35

PUCCINI
Tosca (excerpt from Act 2)
Franco Corelli (tenor)
Orchestra of the Teatro Regio, Parma
Giuseppe Morelli (conductor)
MYTO 032.277 CD1 Tr 23

08:39

Biagio MARINI
Odes 1-5 (Le lagrime d'Erminia)
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Nigel Rogers (tenor)
The Consorte of Musicke
Anthony Rooley (director)
OISEAU-LYRE 478 0020 Tr 4 – 8

08:47

DVORAK
Serenade for Wind Instruments Op.44
Oslo Philharmonic Wind Soloists
NAXOS 8.554173 Tr 1-4

09:11

BACH
Contrapunctus 11 (Art of Fugue)
Grigory Sokolov (piano)
OPUS 111 OP 30346 CD1 Tr 11

09:19

COPLAND
Waltz (Billy the Kid)
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Hugh Wolff (conductor)
TELDEC 9031-77310-2 Tr 20

09:23

LISZT
Hungarian Rhapsody No.1
Vienna State Opera Orchestra
Anatole Fistoulari (conductor)
VANGUARD CLASSICS SVC-75 Tr 1

09:35

RAMEAU
Les tendres plaintes (Piece de Clavecin 1724)
Christoph Rousset (harpsichord)
OISEAU-LYRE 425 886-2 CD1 Tr 20

09:38

SCHUBERT
String Trio in B Flat D581
Gidon Kremer (violin)
Nobuko Imai (viola)
Mischa Maisky (cello)
PHILIPS 434 033-2 CD2 Tr 12 - 15

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