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Monday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents the Radio 3 breakfast show, including music for Easter Monday by Bach, Handel and Biber, and Prokofiev's suite from The Love for Three Oranges.

Rob Cowan presents the Radio 3 Breakfast show, including music for Easter Monday by Bach, Handel and Biber, and Prokofiev's suite from The Love for Three Oranges. Herbert von Karajan was born this day in 1908, and he can be heard at the helm of the Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic, and there are a couple of familiar melodies in their original forms from Hermann Prey and Enrico Caruso.

3 hours

Last on

Mon 5 Apr 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Overture to La Resurrezione

    Performer: Le Concert d’Astrée Performer: Emanuelle Haïm (director)

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS 6 94567 0 1.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Jeux D'eau

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud (piano)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901811.12.
  • Franz Schubert

    Chorus of Shepherds from Rosamunde

    Performer: German Radio Choir Köln Performer: German Radio Orchestra Köln Performer: Helmuth Froschauer (conductor)

    • CAPRICCIO 67 137.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Symphonic Dance no.1: Allegro moderato e marcato (Op.64 No.1)

    Performer: Norwegian Radio Orchestra Performer: Ari Rasilainen (conductor)

    • FINLANDIA 8573-87777-2.
  • Enrique Granados

    Spanish Dance no.5 'Andaluza' arr. H Becker

    Arranger: Hugo Becker Performer: Heinrich Schiff (cello) Performer: Samuel Sanders (piano)

    • PHIILIPS 442 409-2.
  • Roman Hoffstetter

    Andante cantabile 'Serenade' from String quartet in F major

    Attributed to Haydn. Performer: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 437 782-2.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in A major (Op.118 No.2)

    Performer: Stephen Kovacevich (piano)

    • PHILIPS 442 589-2.
  • Johann Strauss II - Ballet Music from Die Fledermaus

    Performer: Vienna Philharmonic Performer: Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Opening Chorus: from Cantata no.66: Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen (Rejoice, all ye hearts) for

    Performer: Daniel Taylor (alto: Fear) Performer: James Gilchrist (tenor: Hope) Performer: The Monteverdi Choir Performer: The English Baroque Soloists Performer: John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    • SDG 128.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Hungarian March from La Damnation de Faust

    Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Performer: Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

    • EMI CDM 7 63527 2.
  • Richard Strauss

    Wiegenliedchen (A little lullaby) Op.49 No.3

    Performer: Anne Schwanewilms (soprano) Performer: Roger Vignoles (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA67588.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Mystery (Rosary) Sonata no.11 – The Resurrection

    Performer: Andrew Manze (violin) Performer: Richard Egarr (organ)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907321.22.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo (finale) from Piano concerto no.22 in E flat major

    Performer: Annie Fischer (piano) Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra Performer: Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)

    • SERAPHIM 5 68529 2.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto ripieno for string orchestra in A major RV.158

    Performer: Lucerne Festival Strings Performer: Rudolf Baumgartner (conductor)

    • DECCA 433 169-2.
  • Michael William Balfe

    Come into the garden, Maud

    Performer: Robert Tear (tenor) Performer: André Previn (piano)

    • HMV 7 67808 2.
  • Padre Antonio Soler

    Concerto for 2 organs no.4 in F major

    Performer: Peter Hurford (epistle organ) Performer: Thomas Trotter (gospel organ) Performer: Rec. Salamanca Cathedral, Spain

    • DECCA 436 115-2.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Adagio from String quartet no.9 in D minor

    Performer: Panocha Quartet

    • SUPRAPHON 11 1456-2 131.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and fugue no.5 in D major from the Well-tempered Clavier book 1

    Performer: Vladimir Feltsman (piano)

    • MUSIC MASTERS CLASSICS 67105-2.
  • Charles Gounod

    Wine or Beer (Faust, Act 2 Scene 1)

    Performer: Victor Autran (baritone: Wagner) Performer: Orchestra and Chorus of the Paris Opéra Performer: André Cluytens (conductor)

    • EMI EMINENCE 7 64804 2.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    Andante pausato con variazioni from Quintet for guitar, 2 violins, viola & cello G.449

    Performer: David Starobin (guitar) Performer: Pina Carmirelli (violin) Performer: Joseph Genualdi (violin) Performer: Philipp Naegele (viola) Performer: Marcy Rosen (cello)

    • SONY CLASSICAL SMK 47298.
  • George M. Cohan

    Over There

    Performer: Enrico Caruso (tenor)

    • NAXOS HISTORICAL 8.110752.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Suite from the Love for Three Oranges, Op.33a

    Performer: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Yuri Temirkanov (conductor)

    • RCA RED SEAL 82876 50475 2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from Solomon

    Performer: Brian Slawson (percussion)

    • CBS MASTERWORKS MK 39704.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt (Anthony of Padua's sermon to the fishes) from Das Kna

    Performer: Stephan Genz (baritone) Performer: Roger Vignoles (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA67645.
  • Albert Roussel

    Divertissement for wind quintet and piano, Op.6

    Performer: Paul Verhey (flute) Performer: Hans Roerade (oboe) Performer: Frank van den Brink (clarinet) Performer: Herman Jeurissen (horn) Performer: Jos de Lange (bassoon) Performer: Jet Röling (piano)

    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS 8413.
  • Traditional German Folk Song

    Muss i denn

    Performer: Hermann Prey (baritone) Performer: Soloists of the Graunke Symphony Orchestra Performer: Willy Mattes (conductor)

    • EMI CLASSICS 5 66973 2.

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