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Wednesday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan shares his musical enthusiasms - and dips into his rucksack for a surprise or two. Music includes Britten's 'Simple Symphony', Falla's 'Neighbours Dance' from 'The Three-Cornered Hat', a dance from Praetorius's 'Terpsichore' and a Ballade by Faure.

3 hours

Last on

Wed 15 Sep 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Overture - Marriage of Figaro

    Performer: Vienna Philharmonic Performer: Riccardo Muti (conductor)

    • EMI 50999 457524 2 1.
  • James Rhodes

    La Puerta del Vino (Preludes Book 2)

    Performer: Stephen Osborne (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA67530.
  • Gustav Holst

    Venus, the bringer of peace (The Planets)

    Performer: Montreal Symphony Orchestra Performer: Charles Dutoit (onductor)

    • DECCA 460 606-2.
  • Maurice Ravel

    String Quartet: 2nd movement

    Performer: Ebene Quartet

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS 50999 519045 2 4.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Sonata for violin and continuo (Op 5 No. 4) in F major

    Performer: Monica Huggett (violin) Performer: Sonnerie

    • VIRGIN VERITAS 7243 5 62236 2 2.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Allegro alla burla (4 Humoresks for piano Op 6)

    Performer: Hakon Austbo (piano)

    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS 94046.
  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Konigskinder - concert overture

    Performer: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra Performer: Karl Anton Rickenbacher (conductor)

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS 50999 628584 2 7.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite No. 4: Sarabande

    Performer: Mario Brunello (cello)

    • BRUNELLO SERIES EGEA SCA 156.
  • Edward Elgar

    Nimrod from Enigma Variations

    Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Paul Daniel (conductor)

    • SONY CLASSICAL 88697642942.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Italian Concerto

    Performer: Murray Perahia (piano)

    • SONY CLASSICAL SK 87326.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Adios nonino

    Performer: 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic

    • EMI 50999 6 88582 2 3.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Laudate Dominum

    Performer: Rossana Bertini (soprano) Performer: Concerto Italiano Performer: Rinaldo Alessandrini (director)

    • OPUS 111 OPS 30-150.
  • B茅la Bart贸k - Petite Suite: Danse tournoyante & Quasi pizzicato

    Performer: Gyorgy Sandor (piano)

  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Romanza andaluza Op 22 No. 1

    Orchestrator: Hohn Performer: Gil Shaham (violin) Performer: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    • DG 449 923-2.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Simple Symphony

    Performer: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra Performer: Iona Brown (conductor)

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS 7243 5 45121 2 4.
  • Franz Schubert

    Standchen (Schwanengesang D957)

    Performer: James Gilchrist (tenor) Performer: Anna Tilbrook (piano)

    • ORCHID CLASSICS ORC100013.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Adagio from Spartacus

    Performer: Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre Performer: Valery Gergiev (conductor)

    • DECCA 478 2122.
  • Hieronymus Praetorius

    Bransle de Village-Ballet des Coqs from Terpsichore

    Performer: London Brass

    • WCJ 2564 68617-2.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Hora est for chorus and organ

    Performer: Gachinger Choir Stuttgart Performer: Bach Collegium Stuttgart Performer: Helmuth Rilling (conductor)

    • HANSSLER CD 98.307.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for flute, violin, bassoon & basso continuo in F RV100

    Performer: La Serenissima

    • AVIE AV 2178.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Ballade (Op 19)

    Performer: Robert Casadesus (piano) Performer: New York Philharmonic Performer: Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

    • SONY CLASSICAL SMK 47 548.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Pelleas et Melisande - incidental music (Op 46): No. 2 Melisande & No. 4 A Spring in the p

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Thomas Beecham (conductor) Performer: Emi 50999 5 09692 2 7

    • Tr. 2-3.
  • Manuel de Falla

    The Neighbour's dance (Seguidillas) from The Three-Cornered Hat

    Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra Performer: Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos (conductor)

    • EMI 50999 2 37595 2 7.

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