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Monday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan shares his musical enthusiasms, including choral music by Monteverdi and Byrd, a trumpet concerto written by Mozart's father and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.

Rob Cowan shares his musical enthusiasms, including a trumpet concerto written by Mozart's father, Leopold, James Levine plays and directs Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, choral music by Monteverdi and Byrd, and Bernard Haitink conducts the Concertgebouw Orchestra in a performance of Wagner's Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin.

3 hours

Last on

Mon 7 Feb 2011 07:00

Music Played

  • Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

    Islamey

    Orchestrator: Lyapunov Performer: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Performer: Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 412 552-2.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin concerto (RV.357) (Op. 4 No. 4) in A minor

    Performer: La Stavaganza, Cologne Performer: Andrew Manze (violin/director)

    • DAL SEGNO DSPRCD058.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin - Scherzo for piano no. 3 (Op 39) in C sharp minor

    Performer: Stephen Hough (piano)

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Non m'e grave'l morire for 5 voices

    Performer: Concerto Italiano Performer: Rinaldo Alessandrini (director)

    • OPUS 111 OPS 30-111.
  • Leopold Mozart

    Trumpet concerto in D major

    Performer: Maurice Andre (trumpet) Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Performer: Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

    • EMI CLASSICS 9 65943 2.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Apres un reve (Op 7 No. 1)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti (violin) Performer: Alexi Grynyuk (piano)

    • DG 476 3399.
  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Pieces de clavecin - ordre no. 15 - L' Evaporee; Musete de Choisi; Musete de Taverni

    Performer: Rafael Puyana & Christopher Hogwood (harpsichords)

    • PHILIPS 426 087-2.
  • Manuel de Falla

    El Amor brujo - Ritual fire dance

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

    • DECCA 425 084-2.
  • Franz Schubert

    Allegro for piano duet (D.947) in A minor "Lebenssturme"

    Performer: Paul Badura-Skoda & Jorg Demus (pianos)

    • DG 453 675-2.
  • Johann Heinrich Schmelzer

    Sonata a tre "Pastorale"

    Performer: Musica Fiata Performer: Roland Wilson (director)

    • CPO 999 878-2.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Khovanshchina - Prelude

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Artur Rodzinski (conductor)

    • IMG 5 75959 2.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in A minor Op116 No. 2

    Performer: Emanuel Ax (piano)

    • SONY CLASSICAL SK 69284.
  • George Gershwin

    Rhapsody in blue

    Performer: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Performer: James Levine (conductor)

    • DG 477 9175.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Nocturne

    Performer: Jascha Heifetz (violin)

    • SONY CLASSICAL 88697700502.
  • Claude Debussy

    Le Triomphe de Bacchus

    Performer: Orchestre National de Lyon Performer: Jun Markl (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.572568.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Sinfonietta - Allegretto (Sokol Fanfare)

    Performer: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Charles Mackerras (conductor)

    • SUPRAPHON SU 3739-2 032.
  • William Byrd

    Mass for 5 voices - Credo

    Performer: Choir of King's College, Cambridge Performer: David Willcocks (conductor)

    • NEWTON 8802020.
  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    Mazurka (Choro) from Suite populaire bresilienne

    Arranger: Harvey Performer: London Brass

    • WARNER 2564 68617-2.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Allegro Brillante

    Performer: Peter Donohoe (piano) Performer: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Performer: Rudolf Barshai (conductor)

    • EMI CLASSICS 6 48625 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations: Aria; Variations 1 - 2

    Performer: Teodoro Anzellotti (accordion)

    • WINTER & WINTER 910 170-2.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu D899 No. 2

    Performer: Byron Janis (piano)

    • PHILIPS 456 848-2.
  • Richard Wagner - Lohengrin - Act 1 Prelude

    Performer: Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam Performer: Bernard Haitink (conductor)

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  • Mon 7 Feb 2011 07:00

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