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Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents music, news - and the occasional surprise, including at 8.00am a Song Without Words by Mendelssohn.

The complete Breakfast playlist is posted online after the programme has been broadcast.

7:03

WEBER
Overture: Silvana
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Antoni Wit (conductor)
NAXOS 8.570296 T7

7:09

HOLST
Psalm 148
The Britten Singers
City of London Sinfonia
Richard Hickox (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 8997 T9

7:16

D SCARLATTI
2 Sonatas in G Major K 283 & 284
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
VIRGIN VBD5 61961-2 D1 T3 & 4

7:23

LEVY
Grand Russian Fantasia
Wynton Marsalis (cornet)
Eastman Wind Ensemble
Donald Hunsberger (conductor)
CBS MK 42137 T4

7:32:00

MOZART
Symphony No.26 in E Flat K184
Le Cercle de l'Harmonie
Jeremie Rhorer (conductor)
VIRGIN 50999 234868-2 T5-7

7:41

BACH
Mache dich, mein Herze, rein (St. Matthew Passion)
Hermann Prey (baritone)
Consortium Musicum
Wolfgang G枚nnenwein (conductor)
EMI 50999 5 00941-2 D3 T21

7:50

MOERAN
Prelude
Mats Lidstr枚m (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano)
HYPERION CDA 67184 T11

7:55

SCHUMANN
Soldier鈥檚 March, The Wild Rider & Knecht Ruprecht (Album for the Young)
Leigh Howard Stevens (marimba)
DELOS DE 3142 T29 - 21

8:03

MENDELSSOHN
Song without Words Op.38 No.2 in C sharp Minor
Melvyn Tan (1835 Broadwood piano)
EMI CDC7 49999-2 T4

8:05

Fanny MENDELSSOHN
Du Bist die Ruh
Susan Gritton (soprano), Eugene Asti (piano)
HYPERION CDA 67110 T19

8:09

HANDEL
Concerto Grosso in D major Op.6 no.5
Academy of Ancient Music
Andrew Manze (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907228 (D1) T1 - 6

8:23

SCHUBERT
Du bist die Ruh
Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Hermann Reutter (piano)
ORFEO C508 011B T5

8:32

HANDEL
Placa l鈥檃lma, quieta il petto! (Alessandro)
Sophie Boulin & Isabelle Poulenard (sopranos)
La Petite Bande,
Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI GD77110 D2 T5

8:35

WALTON
Overture: Portsmouth Point
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
VIRGIN 7423 5 61146-2 T1

8:41

Marc BLITZTEIN
I Wish It So
Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Eric Stern (piano)
ELEKTRA NONESUCH 7559-79345-2 T1

8:44

Paul SIMON arr. Alexander Bellow & Manuel Barrueco
Old Friends
Manuel Barrueco (guitar)
EMI CDC5 55039-2 T1

8:48

POULENC
Suite francaise
Members of the Orchestre National de France
Charles Dutoit (conductor)
DECCA 475 7930 D5 T1-7

9:00

BUXTEHUDE
Prelude in G Minor BuxWV 149
Ton Koopman (organ of the Ludgerkirche, Norden, Germany)
NOVALIS 150 048-2 T12

9:08

MOZART
Piano Sonata in B Flat K281
Alfred Brendel (piano)
PHILIPS 475 6199 T1-3

9:23

BRAHMS
Nachtwache I & II
Consortium
Andrew-John Smith (conductor)
HYPERION CDA 67775 T10 & 11

9:28

STANFORD
Irish Rhapsody No.4 (The Fisherman of Lough Neagh and what he saw)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)
LYRITA SRCD 219 T1

9:47

BACH arr. Lewis
Fugue in D Major (Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1)
John Lewis (piano)
PHILIPS 12002 T6

9:52

笔脛搁罢
Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Paavo J盲rvi (conductor)
CFP 7243 5 85914-2 T16

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Last on

Thu 14 May 2009 07:00

Broadcast

  • Thu 14 May 2009 07:00

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