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Thursday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents music to discover, rediscover and lift the spirits.

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Thu 28 Jan 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • Hans Christian Lumbye

    St. Petersburg Champagne Galop

    Performer: Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Performer: Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 9209.
  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Suonata (sic) Op.1 No.7 in E Minor

    Performer: The Purcell Quartet

    • CHANDOS CHAN 0766.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Cow-Call & Peasant Dance (Nordic Melody op.63 No.2)

    Performer: Strings of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Performer: Neeme J盲rvi (conductor)

    • DG 471 747-2.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude Op.32 No.5 in G Major

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

    • DECCA 443 841-2.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Overture: La Cambiale di matrimonio

    Performer: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    • DG 415 363-2.
  • William Walton

    Crown Imperial

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.

    Performer: English Northern Philharmonia Performer: Paul Daniel (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.570573 (D1).
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude & Fugue in E Flat Major (Well-Tempered Klavier Book 1)

    Performer: Till Fellner (piano)

    • ECM 1853 (D1).
  • Amilcare Ponchielli

    Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda)

    Performer: NBC Symphony Orchestra Performer: Arturo Toscanini (conductor)

    • RCA GD 60308.
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Sonata No.12 in E major

    Performer: Nathan Milstein (violin) Performer: Carlos Bussotti (piano)

    • EMI CDM 7243 66873 2.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Can Can (La Boutique Fantasque)

    Arranger: Respighi Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Robert Irving (conductor)

    • EMI 50999 2 06777 2.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Humoresque

    Arranger: Parhamovsky Performer: Maxim Vengerov & Virtuosi

    • EMI CDC5 57164-2.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin - Scherzo No.1 in B Minor

    Performer: Stephen Hough (piano)

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Balcony Scene / Romeo's Variation / Love Dance (Romeo & Juliet)

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Valery Gergiev (conductor)

    • LSO Live LSO0682.
  • G Pierne

    Overture: Ramuntcho

    Performer: Paris Opera Orchestra Performer: Jean-Baptiste Mari (conductor)

    • EMI CDM7 64278-2.
  • Franz Schubert

    'Notturno' for Piano Trio D897

    Performer: Rudolf Koeckert (violin) Performer: Josef Merz (cello) Performer: Christoph Eschenbach (piano)

    • DG 53 667-2.
  • Sullivan

    When the Foeman Bears his Steel

    Performer: Owen Brannigan (Sergeant of Police) Performer: Elsie Morison (Mabel) Performer: Heather Harper (Ruth) Performer: George Baker (Major-General Stanley) Performer: Glyndebourne Festival Chorus Performer: Pro Arte Orchestra Performer: Sir Malcolm Sargeant (conductor)

    • CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE 50999 2 13454 2.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Scherzo (Symphony No.3)

    Performer: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Performer: Neeme J盲rvi (conductor)

    • DG 435 757-2.
  • Ives

    Variations on 'Jerusalem the Golden'

    Arranger: Keith Brion Performer: 'The President's Own' United States Marine Band Performer: Col. Timothy W Foley (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.570559.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata in A Major Op.12 No.2

    Performer: Oleg Kagan (violin) Performer: Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

    • LIVE CLASSICS LCL 145.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Credo from Coronation Mass K317

    Performer: Netherlands Chamber Choir Performer: Orchestra of the 18th Century Performer: Frans Br眉ggen (director)

    • PHILIPS 434 799 2.
  • Franz Berwald - Elfenspiel (Fairy Dance)

    Performer: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Performer: Sixten Ehrling (conductor)

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    King Stephen Overture Op.117

    Performer: Cleveland Orchestra Performer: George Szell (conductor)

    • SONY SBK 63062.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Rondo alla zingarese (Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor)

    Orchestrator: Schoenberg Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Performer: Simon Rattle (conductor)

    • CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE 50999 2 28363 2.

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