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Thursday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. A Hungarian Rhapsody by Liszt, Prokofiev's Montagues and Capulets, Delius's Song before Sunrise plus some more of your aria nominations are included in this morning's programme.

3 hours

Last on

Thu 27 May 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu D899 No. 4

    Performer: Imogen Cooper (piano)

    • OTTAVO OTRC 78923.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Vesperae solennes de confessore K 339: Laudate Dominum

    Performer: Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) Performer: Coro e Orchestrea dell鈥橝ccademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Performer: Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

    • DG 477 5016.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    March of the Students' Legion

    Performer: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Vaclav Neumann (conductor)

    • ORFEO C180891.
  • Robert Schumann

    Tr盲umerei from Kinderszenen

    Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) Performer: English Chamber Orchestra Performer: Nicholas Cleobury (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 412 231-2.
  • Frederick Delius

    A Song before Sunrise

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Thomas Beecham (conductor)

    • EMI CDS 747 509 8.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Creatures of Prometheus - overture

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

    • DG 477 8005.
  • Franz Liszt

    Hungarian Thapsody No. 15 (Rakoczy March)

    Performer: Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

    • OLYMPIA OCD 172.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Introduction and Rondo capriccioso Op 28

    Performer: Ruggiero Ricci (violin) Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Pierino Gamba (conductor)

    • BELART 461 3692.
  • Georges Bizet

    Flower Song from Carmen

    Performer: Franco Corelli (tenor) Performer: Vienna Philharmonic Performer: Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

    • RCA 09026 61580 2.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2: Montagues and Capulets

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • DECCA 425 027-2.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Habanera from Rapsodie espagnole

    Performer: Martha Argerich & Nelson Freire (pianos) Performer: Peter Sadlo & Edgar Guggeis (percussion)

    • DG 439 867 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata No. 196 "Der Herr denket an uns" BWV 196

    Performer: Bach Collegium Japan Performer: Masaki Suzuki (conductor)

    • BIS CD 751.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    Quintet in B flat G 337 鈥 second movement

    Performer: La Magnifica Comunita

    • BRILLIANT 94002.
  • Manuel de Falla

    La Vida Breva

    Performer: Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Performer: Antal Dorati (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 432 829-2.
  • Carlo Gesualdo

    O vos omnes from Three Motets

    Performer: Sarum Voices Performer: Ben Lamb (conductor)

    • VIF RECORDS VRCD040.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 46 in B major

    Performer: Symphony Orchestra of Radio Zagreb Performer: Antonio Janigro (conductor)

    • VANGUARD CLASSICS 08 2015 72.
  • Richard Wagner - Mild und leise (Liebestod) from Tristan und Isolde

    Performer: Helga Dernesch (soprano) Performer: Berlin Philharmonic/Herbert von Karajan

  • George Frideric Handel

    Organ Concerto No. 6 in B flat major HWV 294

    Performer: Accademia Bizantina Performer: Ottavio Dantone (organ and director)

    • L鈥橭ISEAU LYRE 478 1465.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Valse from Suite No. 2

    Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra Performer: Michael Tilson-Thomas (conductor)

    • CBS CD46503.
  • Charles Gounod

    Salut demeure, chaste et pure from Faust

    Performer: Nicolai Gedda (Faust) Performer: Paris Opera Orchestra Performer: Andr茅 Cluytens (conductor)

    • EMI 565 256 2.
  • William Walton

    Partita for orchestra

    Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra Performer: William Walton (conductor)

    • EMI 968 944 2.
  • Franz Liszt

    Un Sospiro (3 Concert studies)

    Performer: Jorge Bolet.

    Performer: Andre Watts (piano)

    • EMI 457 540.

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