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Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Wake up to music, news and the occasional surprise.

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

7.03

GRIEG
Rigaudon from From Holberg's Time Suite Op.40
Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 419 474 2 Tr 13

7.07

CPE BACH
Fantasia and fugue in C minor
Maire-Claire Alain (organ)
ERATO 0630 17073 2, Tr 1

7.15

BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No.1, third movement - Rondo
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Vienna Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta (conductor)
DECCA 411 900 2, Tr 3

7.24

MENDELSSOHN
String Quartet in E flat major Op.12 - third movement
Juilliard String Quartet
SONY SK 60579, Tr 3

7.32

HANDEL
Concerto Grosso Op.3 No.6
Handel & Haydn Society
Christopher Hogwood (director)
OISEAU LYRE 421 729 2, Trs 22-24

7.40

BARTOK
Concerto for Orchestra, fourth movement - Interrupted Intermezzo
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Ji脜聶脙颅 B脛聸lohl脙隆vek (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 9462, Tr 4

7.46

MOZART
String Quartet in C major K 157
American String Quartet
NIMBUS NI 2508-10 CD1, Trs 9-11

7.04

STANFORD
The Blue Bird
Recorded at St Paul's Knightsbridge, London, in April 2009
主播大秀 Singers/David Hill

8.08

J STRAUSS
Die Fledermaus - Act 2 Finale II: Ballett: Marianka, komm und tanz mit mir
Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
TELDEC 2564 69125-6, CD2 Tr 4

08.16

RAVEL
Daphnis & Chloe - excerpt from complete ballet
Bryaxis orders Chloe to be brought forward and to dance;
Chloe's dance of supplication
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Munch (conductor)
RCA 09026 618 462, Trs 14-15

08.22

JS BACH
Keyboard Concerto No.2 in E major
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Murray Perahia (piano and conductor)
SONY CLASSICAL SK89245, Tr 6

08.31

DVORAK
Slavonic Dance Op.46 No.5
Cleveland Orchestra
Christoph Dohn脙隆nyi (conductor)
DECCA 430 171 2, Tr 5

08.35

SCHEIN
Musical Banquet, 1617
No.16 Suite a 5 in A minor
Hesp脙篓rion XX
Jordi Savall (director)
VERITAS 562 028 2 CD1, Trs 1-4

08.47

DEBUSSY
Nuages from Nocturnes
Boston Symphony Orchestra/Pierre Monteux
RCA 09026 61900 2, Tr 7

08.46

SCHUBERT
Scherzo D 593 No.2
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
DG 435 072 2, Tr 9

08.52

SAINT-SAENS
Havanaise Op.83
Itzhak Perlman (violin)
New York Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta (conductor)
DG 423 063 2, Tr 7

09.12

IRELAND
Greenway Suite: The Palm and May from Lyric Pieces for piano
Mark Bebbington (piano)
SOMM NEW HORIZONS SOMMCD 088 Tr 11

09.16

SCARLATTI
Salve Regina
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto)
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
Jeanne Lamon (director)
ANALEKTA FL 2 3171, Trs 4-10

09.29

SHEARING: Medley
George Shearing (piano)
主播大秀 主播大秀J 7005-2, Tr 8

09.35

MUSSORGSKY
Night on the Bare Mountain
Orchestre symphonique de Montreal
Charles Dutoit
DECCA 417 299 2, Tr 2

09.49

SCHUMANN
Das Paradies und die Peri
No.10 With timid steps the Peri then/Hope of heav'nly bliss a heart/Approached the pearly gates of Eden...
Christoph Pr脙漏gardien (tenor)
Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano)
Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre R脙漏volutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
ARCHIV 457 660 2 CD2, Tr 1

09.52

HINDEMITH
Sonata Op.25 No.4 - third movement, Finale
Lawrence Power (viola)
Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)
HYPERION CDA 67721, Tr 10

09.57

SIMONS/MARKS
Teddy Wilson (piano)
Gene Ramey (bass)
Jo Jones (drums)
ESSENTIAL EJC 55408 CD1, Tr 15.

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Wed 22 Jul 2009 07:00

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