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Wednesday - Rob Cowan

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

3 hours

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Wed 27 Oct 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite for cello solo No. 6 BWV 1012 in D major: Gigue

    Performer: Beate Altenburg (cello)

    • ARTE NOVA 82876 58142 2.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Overture: 'The Ruin of Athens' Op 113

    Performer: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Performer: Eugen Jochum (conductor)

    • DG 474 018-2.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    A golden cloud slumbered

    Performer: The Moscow Academy of Choral Singing Performer: Victor Popov (choirmaster)

    • Saison Russe RUS 228156.
  • Nicolò Paganini

    Introduction and Variations on 'Dal tuo stellato soglio' From Rossini's Mose (Editions Zin

    Performer: Vadim Repin (violin) Performer: Alexander Markovich (piano)

    • Erato 3984254872.
  • Zoltán Kodály

    Hary Janos Suite: Intermezzo

    Performer: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra Performer: Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

    • AAM recordings 070106.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Samson: Let the Bright Seraphim

    Performer: Kiri te Kanawa (soprano) Performer: Crispian Steele-Parkin (trumpet) Performer: English Chamber Orchestra Performer: Barry Rose (conductor)

    • DECCA 478 1460.
  • Mateo Flecha

    La Guerra

    Performer: Piffaro, The Renaissance Wind Band Performer: Joan Kimball & Robert Wiemken (directors)

    • Archiv 474 232-2.
  • Hamish MacCunn

    The Dowie Dens o'Yarrow

    Performer: Ö÷²¥´óÐã Scottish Symphony Orchestra Performer: Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

    • Hyperion CDA 66815.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in B Minor: Et Incarnatus est

    Performer: Dunedin Consort & Players

    • John Butt (director).
  • Franz Schubert

    Military March in D flat major, D 733 No .1

    Arranger: Tausig (Originally For Piano Duet) Performer: Vladimir Horowitz (piano)

    • DG 419 217-2.
  • James Rhodes

    Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra

    Performer: Kari Kriikuu (clarinet) Performer: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Performer: Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

    • Ondine ODE 778-2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Te Deum, HWV278, (for the peace of Utrecht, 7th July 1713): We praise thee, O God

    Performer: Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral Performer: The Parley of Instruments Performer: Peter Holman (director) Performer: John Scott (conductor)

    • HELIOS CDH55359.
  • Steve Reich

    Electric Counterpoint: Fast (final movement)

    Performer: Pat Metheny (guitar)

    • Elektra/Nonesuch 979 176-2.
  • William Byrd

    The bagpipe and the drone

    Performer: Elizabeth Farr, Harpsichord

    • Naxos 857013941.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Cosi fan tutte K 588: Overture

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

    • EMI CDC7470142.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Sonata in B flat major, RV46

    Performer: David Watkin (solo cello) Performer: Helen Gough (continuo cello) Performer: David Miller (theorbo, archlute, baroque guitar) Performer: Robert King (chamber organ)

    • Hyperion CDD22065.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude, No. 5 in G minor Op 23

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

    • Decca 414 4172.
  • John Dowland

    Third Book of Songs or Ayres: 'Say Love if ever thou did'st find'

    Performer: Steven Rickards (counter-tenor) Performer: Dorothy Linnell (lute)

    • Naxos 8556840.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat, Op 83: 2nd mvt

    Performer: Stephen Kovacevich (piano) Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

    • Newton classics 8802010.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Aria in F Dur, Kv 577

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer (oboe) Performer: Mahler Chamber Orchestra Performer: Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • DG 4762352.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Romeo and Juliet, Overture – Fantasy

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

    • Mercury 434 353-2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    See what his love can do, from BWV85

    Arranger: Hubert Foss Performer: Jonathan Plowright (piano)

    • Hyperion CDA67767.
  • Eric Whitacre

    A boy and a girl

    Performer: Eric Whitacre Singers Performer: Laudibus

    • Decca 2743209.
  • Aaron Copland

    Prairie Journal (Music for Radio)

    Performer: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra Performer: Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

    • RCA 09026 61699 2.
  • Richard Strauss

    Beim Schlafenegehn (from the Four Last Songs)

    Performer: Kiri te Kanawa (soprano)

    • Decca 4782352.

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