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Tuesday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. Included today is the latest on the Specialist Classical Chart, more contenders for the title the Nation's Favourite Aria, and music by Faur脙漏, Mozart, Stravinsky and much more.

3 hours

Last on

Tue 25 May 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • Robert Schumann

    Kinderszenen for piano Op 15 Von Fremden Landern und Menschen

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz (piano)

    • SONY SK 89669.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite for orchestra No. 1 BWV 1066 in C major: Passepied I & II

    Performer: La Petite Bande Performer: Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)

    • EMI CDS 7 47819 8.
  • James Rhodes

    Arabesque No. 1 (Andante con moto)

    Performer: Maria Graf (harp)

    • PHILIPS 432 103-2.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake Op 20, Act 1: Waltz

    Performer: Russian National Orchestra Performer: Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)

    • ONDINE ODE 1167-2D.
  • Franz Schubert

    Quintet for piano, violin, viola, cello & db D 667 in A major "Trout": IV Theme and variat

    Performer: Cleveland Quartet Performer: James van Demark (double bass) Performer: Alfred Brendel (piano)

    • PHILIPS 400 078-2.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Le Rendez-vous de chasse

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

    • CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS SA 27708.
  • Henry Purcell

    Hear my prayer, O Lord Z 15

    Performer: The Choir of Westminster Abbey Performer: James O鈥橠onnell (conductor)

    • HYPERION CDA67792.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Three Movements from Petrouchka, No.1 Danse russe

    Performer: Evgeny Kissin (piano)

    • SONY 88697301102.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Eine kleine Nachtmusik K 525: II Romance: Andante

    Performer: Concentus musicus Wien Performer: Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

    • TELDEC 244 809-2.
  • John Adams

    Doctor Atomic: Act 2, Batter my heart

    Performer: Gerald Finley (baritone) Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Edward Gardner (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 3167.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Scherzo in A flat major

    Performer: Marco Rapetti (piano)

    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS 93894.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Requiem; 4th mvt; Sanctus, Benedictus

    Performer: Coro dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Performer: Orchestra dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia - Rome Performer: Antonio Pappano (conductor)

    • EMI 6989362.
  • Franz Schubert

    Hungarian melody for piano for piano D 817

    Performer: Imogen Cooper (piano)

    • AVIE AV 2158.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Suite in A major (American) Op 98b: III Moderato

    Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra Performer: Iv谩n Fischer (conductor)

    • CHANNEL CLASSICS CCSSA30010.
  • Howard Goodall

    The Seasons; Suite for Strings and Cello; Spring; 1st mvt; Ripening seed

    Performer: Bozidar Vokotic (cello) Performer: Tippett Quartet

    • EMI 6886262.
  • William Byrd

    Haec dies for 5 voices [Gradualia, vol.2]

    Performer: The Sixteen Performer: Harry Christophers (conductor)

    • CORO COR16077.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No. 8 Op 65 in C minor; 3rd mvt; Allegro non troppo

    Performer: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Performer: Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.572392.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 40 in G minor K 550: I Molto allegro

    Performer: Les Musiciens du Louvre Performer: Marc Minkowski (conductor)

    • ARCHIV 00289 477 5798.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Boris Godunov, Varlaam's Song: In The Town of Kazan

    Performer: French National Radio Orchestra Performer: Issay Dobrowen (conductor)

    • REGIS RRC 1196.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Apres un reve Op 7 No. 1 for cello and orchestra

    Arranger: Dubensky Performer: Jules Eskin (cello) Performer: Boston Symphony Orchestra Performer: Seiji Ozawa (conductor)

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 469 268-2.
  • James Rhodes

    L'isle Joyeuse

    Performer: Jacques Rouvier (piano)

    • DENON 33C37-7734.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Idyll for string orchestra: VI Scherzo and trio

    Performer: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: James Conlon (conductor)

    • ERATO ECD 88095.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV 830 Gigue

    Performer: Jean Louis Steuerman (piano)

    • PHILIPS 456 068-2.
  • Richard Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Act 3 sc.5: Morgendlich leuchtend [Walthe

    Performer: Placido Domingo (Walthur) Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Hans Sachs) Performer: Orchestra of German Opera, Berlin

  • 脡douard Lalo

    Symphonie espagnole for violin and orchestra Op 21: III Intermezzo

    Performer: Vadim Repin (violin) Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Kent Nagano (conductor)

    • ERATO 3984-27314-2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso Op 3 No. 6 in D major

    Performer: The Brandenburg Consort Performer: Roy Goodman (conductor)

    • HELIOS CDH55075.
  • George Gershwin

    Cuban Overture

    Performer: Eastman-Rochester Orchestra Performer: Howard Hanson (conductor)

    • MERCURY 434 341-2.
  • Robert Schumann

    8 Novelletten for piano Op 21 No. 1 in F major

    Performer: Byron Janis (piano)

    • MERCURY 432 002-2.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1 Op 46

    Performer: New York Philharmonic Performer: Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

    • SONY SMK 47549.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Don Giovanni, Batti, batti, o bel Masetto

    Performer: Elizabeth Gale (soprano) Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Bernard Haitink (conductor)

    • EMI 50999 4 57531 2 1.

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