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Monday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan shares his musical enthusiasms, including Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre, Vivaldi's Concerto in D for Guitar and Strings, and arias sung by Juan Diego Florez..

3 hours

Last on

Mon 6 Sep 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dances No. 5 in G minor 鈥 (orchestral versions)

    Performer: Vienna Philharmonic Performer: Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4778222.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Fantasia for Piano in D minor, KV 297

    Performer: Ivo Pogorelich (piano)

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4377632.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Danse Macabre 鈥 Symphonic Poem, Op 40

    Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Performer: Louis Fremaux (conductor)

    • EMI 094638223320.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in E flat, Op 127

    Performer: Artemis Quartet

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS 5099962865951.
  • George Frideric Handel

    The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from Solomon, Act III

    Performer: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4293902.
  • James Rhodes

    Images, Set I 鈥 I: Reflets Dans L'Eau

    Performer: Paul Crossley (piano)

    • SONY CLASSICAL 82876852402.
  • George Gershwin

    "I Got Rhythm" Variations

    Performer: Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) Performer: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Performer: Marin Alsop (conductor)

    • DECCA 4782189.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in D for Guitar and Strings, RV 93

    Performer: Julian Bream (guitar) Performer: The Monteverdi Orchestra Performer: John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    • SONY 82876852442.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Ecossaise from Eugene Onegin

    Performer: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Performer: Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 422 845-2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite anglaise No. 3 BWV 808: Gigue

    Performer: Wilhelm Kempff (piano)

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 439 672-2.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Overture: Ruslan & Ludmilla

    Performer: Leningrad Philharmonic Performer: Yevgeni Mravinsky (conductor)

    • SCRIBENDUM.
  • Richard Strauss

    Wiegenlied

    Performer: Christine Schafer (soprano) Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Performer: Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4800414.
  • Nicol貌 Paganini

    Tarantella in A minor

    Performer: Pekka Kuusisto (violin) Performer: Ismo Eskelinen (guitar)

    • ONDINE ODE 1142-2.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Part Song, Op 42 No 2

    Performer: Choir de Cambre Accentus Performer: Laurence Equilbey (conductor)

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS 3632792.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Mon Prelude Hygienique du Matin (Peches de Vieillesse, Book 6, Album pour les enfants dego

    Performer: Marco Sollini (piano)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10520.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Cosi Fan Tutte: Soave si il vento

    Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano - Fiordiligi) Performer: Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano - Dorabella) Performer: Richard van Allan (bass - Don Alfonso) Performer: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Performer: Colin Davis (conductor)

    • OPUS ARTE OACD9005D.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus

    Performer: Jacques Orchestra Performer: Sir David Willcocks (conductor)

    • EMI Classics 5099962791021.
  • Aaron Copland

    Long Time Ago

    Performer: Nathan Gunn (baritone) Performer: Kevin Murphy (piano)

    • EMI Classics 69522628.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Pines of Rome: The Pines of the Appian Way

    Performer: Dallas Symphony Orchestra Performer: Eduardo Mata (conductor)

    • Dorian DOR-90182.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Iste confessor Domini sacratus II SV279

    Performer: Ian Partridge (tenor) Performer: The Parley of Instruments Performer: Roy Goodman (director)

    • HELIOS CDH55345.
  • William Walton

    Fa莽ade Suite No 2

    Performer: London Philharmonic Performer: Jan Latham-Koenig (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 9148.
  • Mons Leidvin Takle

    Festmusikk

    Performer: Christopher Herrick (organ - Lay Family Concert Organ, Eugene McDermott Concert Hall, Morton H Meyerson Symphony Centre, Dallas

    • HYPERION CDA67577.
  • Johann Joachim Quantz - Concerto in B major

    Performer: Musica Antiqua Koln Performer: Reinhard Goebel (conductor)

  • Edvard Grieg

    Lyric Pieces: Melody; Norwegian Dance, Op 47 Nos 3 and 4

    Performer: Emil Gilels (piano)

    • DG 4497212.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Rigoletto: La donna e mobile

    Performer: Juan Diego Florez (tenor)

    • DECCA 4758418.
  • Gaetano Donizetti

    L'elisir d'amore: Una Furtiva Lagrima

    Performer: Juan Diego Florez (tenor)

    • DECCA 4758418.
  • 笔茅谤辞迟颈苍

    础濒濒别濒耻颈补听狈补迟颈惫颈迟补蝉

    Performer: Jan Garbarek (saxophone) Performer: Hilliard Ensemble

    • ECM tba.
  • Josef Bohuslav Foerster

    Erinnerung for string quartet and harp

    Performer: Stamic Quartet + Jana Bouskova (harp)

    • SUPRAPHON SU40502.

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