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Tuesday - Rob Cowan

Breakfast on Radio 3 with Rob Cowan. Music to discover, rediscover and lift the spirits.

3 hours

Last on

Tue 9 Feb 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • Tielman Susato

    Basse danse 'Bergeret sans roch' (The Danserye)

    Performer: The Early Music Consort of London Performer: David Munrow (director)

    • TESTAMENT SBT 1080.
  • James Rhodes

    Trois chansons de Charles d'Orl茅ans

    Performer: South-West German Radio Vocal Ensemble Performer: (Monika Bair-Ivenz, contralto soloist in 2nd movement) Performer: Rupert Huber (conductor)

    • H脛NSSLER CLASSIC CD 93.055.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    English Dances (Set 2)

    Performer: Queensland Symphony Orchestra Performer: Andrew Penny (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.553526.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quintet in E Flat (Rondo)

    Performer: Stephen Hough (piano) Performer: Members of the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet

    • BIS CD-1132.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Overture (The Nutcracker)

    Performer: Kirov Orchestra Performer: Valery Gergiev (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 462 114-2.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in D Major for strings

    Performer: Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble

    • BIS CD-1226.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Nocturne (String Quartet No.2)

    Performer: The Borodin Quartet

    • DECCA 444 389-2.
  • Louis Spohr

    Overture: The Fall of Babylon

    Performer: Orchestra of Italian Switzerland Performer: Howard Shelley (conductor)

    • HYPERION CDA 67788.
  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Viennese Musical Clock (Hary Janos)

    Performer: Hungarian State Orchestra Performer: Matyas Antal (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.550142.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mein gl盲ubiges Herze (Cantata BWV 68)

    Performer: Peter Jelosits (Vienna Boy's Choir) Performer: Concentus Musicus of Vienna Performer: Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Violoncello Piccolo / director)

    • TELDEC 2292-42571-2.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin - Nocturne in E Flat Major Op.55 No.2

    Performer: Ivo Pogorelich (piano)

  • Hans Pfitzner

    Overture: Das Christelflein

    Performer: Munich Radio Orchestra Performer: Claus Peter Flor (conductor)

    • CPO 777 155-2.
  • Percy Grainger

    Shepherd's Hey

    Performer: Cleveland Symphonic Winds Performer: Frederic Fennell (conductor)

    • TELARC CD-80099.
  • George Frideric Handel

    S眉sse Stille, sanfte Quelle

    Performer: Emma Kirkby (soprano) Performer: London Baroque (Ingrid Seifert (violin))

    • EMI CC33-3502.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No.3 K216 (Rondo)

    Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra Performer: David Oistrakh (violin / conductor)

    • EMI 0946 3 81487-2.
  • Franz Schreker

    Die Marionetten (The Birthday of the Infanta)

    Performer: Leipzig Gwandhaus Orchestra Performer: Lothar Zagrosek (conductor)

    • DECCA 444 182-2.
  • Louis James Alfred Lef茅bure鈥怶茅ly

    Marche in C

    Performer: David Sanger (organ of Exeter College Chapel, Oxford)

    • MERIDIAN CDE 84296.
  • Aaron Copland

    Quiet City

    Performer: William Lang (trumpet) Performer: Michael Winfield (cor anglais) Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Aaron Copland (conductor)

    • SONY SM3K 46559.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Overture: Leonora III

    Performer: Chamber Orchestra of Europe Performer: Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

    • TELDEC 0630-13140-2.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    4th Concert (Pieces de clavecin en Concert)

    Performer: Sonnerie

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS VBD5 61872-2.
  • Kurt Weill

    Prologue (The Seven Deadly Sins)

    Performer: Teresa Stratas (Soprano) Performer: Orchestra of Lyon Opera Performer: Kent Nagano (conductor)

    • ERATO 0630-1768-2.
  • George Gershwin

    Embraceable You

    Performer: Herbie Hancock (piano)

    • VERVE 557 797-2.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Night Ride and Sunrise

    Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra Performer: Simon Rattle (conductor)

    • EMI CDC7 47006-2.

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