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Rob Cowan

Radio 3's breakfast programme with Rob Cowan. A wide range of music, from Elgar to Ellington, Mozart to Makeba.

7:02

DELIUS
La Calinda
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
Neville Marriner (conductor)
DECCA 452 707-2, CD2 Tr.6

7:07

EAST
Verse Pastorals: Sweet Muses / Aye Me / My peace and my pleasure
Else Torp (soprano)
Clara Sanabras (mezzo-soprano 芒聙聵echo芒聙聶)
Theatre of Voices
Fretwork
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907214, Tr.9

7:12

HAYDN
Menuetto and Allegro assai (last 2 movements) from Symphony no.59 in A major, 芒聙聵Fire芒聙聶
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock (conductor)
ARCHIV PRODUKTION 427 661-2, Tr.15-16

7:20

KREISLER
Praeludium and Allegro in the style of Gaetano Pugnani
Joshua Bell (violin)
Paul Coker (piano)
DECCA 444 409-2, Tr.1

7:26

KOCH
Cantilena for saxophone quartet
Rascher Saxophone Quartet
CALA CACD77003, Tr.5

7:31

TCHAIKOVSKY
S脙漏r脙漏nade m脙漏lancolique, Op.26
Maxim Vengerov (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra
Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor)
EMI CLASSICS 5 56966 2, Tr.8
7:43

SCHUBERT
Impromptu No.2: Allegro, from Impromptus D.899
Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano)
TELDEC 4509-98438-2, Tr.2

7:49

GESUALDO
Deh, se gia fu crudele
Gesualdo Consort
Gerald Place (director)
ASV CD QS 6210, Tr.8

7:51

ELGAR
Triumphal March from Caractacus (Op.35)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)
EMI Classics 5 65584 2, Tr.9

8:03

SHOSTAKOVICH
Presto (3rd movement) from Symphony no.9 in E flat major
Kirov Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
Valery Gergiev (conductor)
PHILIPS 470 651-2, Tr.7

8:06

SALIERI
Renoppia芒聙聶s Aria: Son qual lacera tartana from La secchia rapita
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Adam Fischer (conductor)
DECCA 475 100-2, Tr.1

8:10

SCHUMANN
Variations on a theme by Clara Wieck (芒聙聵Quasi variations芒聙聶)
Byron Janis (piano)
MERCURY 475 6607, Tr.8

8:18

REBEL
L芒聙聶Immortelle in G minor
Ensemble Rebel
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 281822 / 41, Tr.6

8:25

BOULANGER
Hymne au soleil
Jeanette Ager (mezzo-soprano)
New London Chamber Choir
Andrew Ball (piano)
Ian Townsend (piano third hand)
HELIOS CDH55153, Tr.16

8:31

PONCHIELLI
Dance of the Hours from La Gioconda (Act 3 scene II)
Hall脙漏 Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli (conductor)
DUTTON LABORATORIES CDSJB 1006, Tr.3

8:41

D SCARLATTI
Sonata for keyboard (K.454) in G major
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 82876 67375 2, CD1 Tr.4

8:46

CUI
Velichit dusha moya Gospoda, Op.93
Olga Borodina (mezzo-soprano)
St Petersburg Chamber Choir
Nikolai Korniev (conductor)
PHILIPS 473 073-2, CD5 Tr.7

8:59

SIBELIUS
Valse Triste, Op.44
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
WARNER CLASSICS 2564 62190-5, Tr.6

9:05

MOZART
Fantasia in C minor, K.396
Alfred Brendel (piano)
PHILIPS 475 6199, Tr.10

9:19

J E HARTMANN
Menuetto from Symphony no.1 in D major
Concerto Copenhagen
Lars Ulrik Mortensen (director/harpsichord)
CPO 777 060-2, Tr.3

9:25

SCHUBERT arr. REGER
Litaney auf das Fest Aller Seelen
Klaus Mertens (baritone)
Radio-Philharmonie Hannover des NDR
Werner Andreas Albert (conductor)
CPO 999 510-2, Tr.10

9:30

SILVER
The Preacher
Horace Silver (piano)
Kenny Dorham (trumpet)
Hank Mobley (tenor sax)
Doug Watkins (bass)
Art Blakey (drums)
EMI 724357606325, Tr.2

9:35

MASSENET arr. LUCAS
Manon 芒聙聯 ballet, Act 3 Scene III
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Convent Garden
Richard Bonynge (conductor)
DECCA 470 525-2, CD3 Tr.5

9:46

GRIEG
Ave Maris Stella (2 Religious Choruses)
Danish National Radio Choir
Jesper Grove J脙赂rgensen (director)
CHANDOS CHAN 9767, Tr.6

9:50

LEIGH
Romance for 2 violins, viola, cello & piano (Andante molto espressivo)
Locrian Ensemble
DUTTON LABORATORIES CDLX 7143, Tr.1

9:55

SARASATE
Zapateado, Op.23 No.2
Paul Tortelier (cello)
Shuku Iwasaki (piano)
EMI CDM 7 69456 2, Tr.8

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