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Monday - Rob Cowan

Breakfast on Radio 3 with Rob Cowan. Start the day with a refreshing choice of music.

3 hours

Last on

Mon 1 Mar 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • Frédéric Chopin - Grande Valse Brillante in E flat major, Op.18

    Performer: Claudio Arrau (piano)

  • George Frideric Handel

    Hornpipe from Water Music, suite in D major HWV.349

    Performer: Zefiro

    • AMBROISIE AMB 9946.
  • Thomas Tomkins

    Music divine, proceeding from above

    Performer: I Fagiolini

    • CHANDOS CHACONNE CHAN 0680.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Scherzo from Souvenir d'un lieu cher (memory of a good time) Op.42 No.2

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov (violin) Performer: Itamar Golan (piano)

    • TELDEC 9031-77351-2.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Flight of the Bumble-Bee (from The Tale of Tsar Saltan)

    Performer: Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire Performer: André Cluytens (conductor)

    • EMI CDM 7691102.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Le Barde – Symphonic poem for orchestra Op.64

    Performer: Helsinki Radio Symphony Orchestra Performer: Okko Kamu (conductor)

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 447 358-2.
  • Franz Schubert

    Finale: Allegro giusto from Piano quintet in A major, D.667 'The Trout'

    Performer: Members of the Belcea Quartet Performer: Corin Long (double bass) Performer: Thomas Adès (piano)

    • EMI CLASSICS 5 57664 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Zerreisset, zersprenget, zertrümmert die Gruft (Rend, tear apart, shatter the abyss): open

    Performer: RIAS Chamber Choir Performer: Akademie für alte Musik Berlin Performer: René Jacobs (director)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901544.45.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    Menuet from Quintet in E major

    Performer: Europa Galante

    • VIRGIN VERITAS 5 45421 2.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Scherzo (Allegro non troppo) from Serenade no.1 in D major, Op.11

    Performer: Gewandhaus Orchestra Performer: Kurt Masur (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 442 8298.
  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Zigeunerweisen

    Performer: Aaron Rosand (violin) Performer: Southwest German Radio Orchestra, Baden-Baden Performer: Rolf Reinhardt (conductor)

    • VOX ALLEGRETTO ACD 8160.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Frühlingslied (Spring song) Op.19a No.1

    Performer: Nathan Berg (baritone) Performer: Eugene Asti (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA66906.
  • Osvaldo Golijov

    Aria de las lágrimas de Pedro from La Pasión Según San Marcos

    Performer: Jessica Rivera (soprano) Performer: Members of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela Performer: María Guinand (conductor)

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 477 7461.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Frühlingslied (Spring song) Op.71 No.2

    Performer: Sophie Daneman (soprano) Performer: Eugene Asti (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA66906.
  • Elmer Bernstein

    The Great Escape

    Performer: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.

    Performer: London Festival Orchestra Performer: Stanley Black (conductor)

    • DECCA 417 853-2.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Der Gärtner (The gardener) & Gesang aus Fingal (Song from Ossian's 'Fingal') from

    Performer: Gesänge Op.17 Performer: Anthony Halstead (horn) Performer: Christian Rutherford (horn) Performer: Delyth Wynne (harp) Performer: Monteverdi Choir Performer: John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 475 7558.
  • Charles Gounod

    Scherzo from Quasrtet in A minor

    Performer: The Daniel String Quartet

    • DISCOVER INTERNATIONAL DICD 920159.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Infernal dance of Kaschey, Lullaby & Finale from the Firebird – suite

    Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra Performer: Iván Fischer (conductor)

    • HUNGAROTON HCD 31095.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Oboe concerto no.2 in B flat major

    Performer: Lothar Koch (oboe) Performer: Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra Performer: Karl Münchinger (conductor)

    • DECCA 448 227-2.
  • Frédéric Chopin - Étude in C sharp minor; Étude in G flat major 'Black key study'

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky (piano)

  • Traditional - Mil Harddach Wyt

    Arranger: R Bryn Williams Performer: Plethyn

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Agnus Dei I and II from Missa 'de Beata Virgine)

    Performer: Choir of Westminster Cathedral, London Performer: James O’Donnell (master of music)

    • HYPERION CDA66364.
  • Jean-Baptiste Forqueray

    La Bouron from Suite no.2 for harpsichord in G major

    Performer: Christophe Rousset (harpsichord)

    • DECCA 466 976-2.
  • Albert Roussel

    Suite in F, Op.33

    Performer: Orchestre de Paris Performer: Jean-Pierre Jacquillat (conductor)

    • EMI CLASSICS 5 65154 2.
  • Léo Delibes

    La Paix from Coppelia

    Performer: Bruno Pasquier (viola) Performer: Orchestre du Théâtre de l’Opéra de Paris Performer: Jean-Baptiste Mari (conductor)

    • EMI CLASSICS CZS 7 67208 2.
  • James Rhodes

    Danse: Tarantelle styrienne

    Orchestrator: Ravel Performer: Orchestre National de l’ORTF Performer: Jean Martinon (conductor)

    • EMI CLASSICS 5 75526 2.

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