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Thursday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. Music to discover, rediscover and lift the spirits.

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Thu 8 Jul 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    La Capricieuse, Op. 17

    Performer: Sol Gabetta (cello) Performer: Danish National Symphony Orchestra Performer: Mario Venzago (conductor)

    • RCA 88697630812.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio K 411

    Performer: Netherlands Wind Ensemble

    • CHANDOS CHAND 9284.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Chanson russe from Mavra

    Arranger: Stravinsky & Samuel Dushkin Performer: Isabelle van Keulen (violin) Performer: Olli Mustonen (piano)

    • PHILIPS 420 953 2.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Concert en sextour No. 1

    Performer: Les Talens Lyriques Performer: Christoph Rousset (director)

    • DECCA 467 699 2.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin - Study Op 10 No. 5

    Performer: Claudio Arrau (piano)

  • Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek

    Donna Diana, overture

    Performer: Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields Performer: Neville Marriner (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 456 576 2.
  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Jesu, Meine Freude BuxWV 60

    Performer: Gli Angeli Geneve Performer: Stephan Macleod (conductor)

    • SONY 88697627402.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Over hill, over dale; Scherzo from Midsummer Night's Dream

    Performer: Berlin German Symphony Orchestra Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)

    • DECCA 480 1279.
  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and Circumstance March Op 39 No. 2 in A minor

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Sir Arthur Bliss (conductor)

    • DECCA 417 878-2.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    "Quali accenti 鈥 Quai tormenti!" from Lady of the Lake

    Performer: Rockwell Blake (Uberto) Performer: June Anderson (Elena) Performer: Orchestra of Scala Milan Performer: Riccardo Muti (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 438 212-2.
  • Giovanni Bottesini

    Fantasia on themes of Rossini

    Performer: Thomas Martin, Timothy Cobb (double basses) Performer: Christopher Oldfather (piano)

    • NAXOS 8.572284.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah

    Performer: Ambrosian Singers Performer: English Chamber Orchestra Performer: Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)

    • EMI 457 517 2.
  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    Lembran莽as do Sert茫o: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2

    Performer: Sonia Rubinsky (piano)

    • NAXOS 8.570503.
  • Moondog

    Sextet

    Performer: Joanna MacGregor (piano) Performer: Kuljit Bhamra, Seb Rochford and members of Britten Sinfonia (percussion)

    • SOUND CIRCUS SC010.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Capriccio Italien

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

    • MERCURY 434 360-2.
  • Robert Schumann

    Abschied from Waldszenen

    Performer: Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)

    • DACOCD 299.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    "Sei Lob und Preis mit Ehren" from Cantata BWV 167 ("Laud and praise with honour God the f

    Performer: Monteverdi Choir Performer: John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    • SDG 101.
  • Leopold Ko啪eluh

    Symphony in B flat major "L'irresolouto" 鈥 first movement

    Performer: Concerto K枚ln

    • TELDEC 8573 85495 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Non piu andrai from The Marriage of Figaro

    Performer: Cesare Siepi (Figaro) Performer: Vienna Philharmonic Performer: Erich Kleiber (conductor)

    • DECCA 478 1720.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Andantino in C major

    Performer: Torleif Thed茅en (cello) Performer: Folke Gr盲sbeck (piano)

    • BIS CD817.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier - Joyeuse Marche

    Performer: Swiss Romande Orchestra Performer: Ernest Ansermet (conductor)

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Gloria Tibi from Mass

    Performer: Jubilant Sykes (Celebrant) Performer: Peabody Children鈥檚 Chorus Performer: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Performer: Marin Alsop (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.55962223.
  • B茅la Bart贸k - Romanian Folk Dances

    Performer: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Performer: Sir Georg Solti (conductor)

  • Franz Schubert

    Allegro in A minor "Lebensst眉rme" D 947

    Performer: Christoph Eschenbacj & Justus Frantz (piano duet)

    • EMI 569 770 2.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    O Ciechi, ciechi

    Performer: Sch眉tz Consort Performer: Heinrich Sch眉tz Choir Performer: Roger Norrington (conductor)

    • DECCA 470 906-2.
  • Reinhold Moritzevich Gli猫re - Russian Sailor's Dance from The Red Poppy

    Performer: Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra Performer: Felix Slatkin (conductor)

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