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Wednesday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan's selection includes a Suite in D by Matteis, Stravinsky's Fireworks, and Schumann's Konzertstuck for four horns and orchestra.

Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. Music includes a performance of Suite in D by Matteis by The Parley of Instruments, Stravinsky's Fireworks performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pierre Boulez, and Hans Vonk conducts soloists and the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra in Schumann's Konzertstuck for four horns and orchestra.

3 hours

Last on

Wed 16 Feb 2011 07:00

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Gigue from Suite No. 4 in F major BWV 809

    Performer: Murray Perahia (piano)

    • SONY CLASSICAL SK60277.
  • Francesco Cilea

    Intermezzo from Adriana Lecouvreur

    Performer: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Performer: Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

    • DG 429 494 2.
  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and Circumstance March No. 2

    Performer: Scottish National Orchestra Performer: Sir Alexander Gibson (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 8429.
  • Nicola Matteis

    Suite in D minor

    Performer: The Parley of Instruments

    • CHANDOS CHAN 0776.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No. 3: Third movement

    Performer: SWF Symphony Orchestra Performer: Vaclav Neuman (conductor)

    • ARTE NOVE 74321 27801 2.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Performer: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century Performer: Franz Bruggen (director)

    • GLOSSA GCD921101.
  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    A Lenda do Caboclo (The Legend of the Coboclo)

    Performer: Sonia Rubinsky (piano)

    • NAXOS 8.554827.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Magnificat Warb E22

    Performer: Joanne Lunn (soprano) Performer: Elena Biscuola (alto) Performer: Georg Poplutz (tenor) Performer: Thomas E.Bauer (bass) Performer: South German Chamber Choir Performer: Concerto Koln Performer: Gerhard Jenemann (conductor)

    • CARUS 83.347.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Rondo in G minor for cello and orchestra Op.94

    Performer: Tomas Jamnik (cello) Performer: Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra Performer: Tomas Netopil (conductor)

    • SUPRAPHON SU 4034-2.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Fireworks

    Performer: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Performer: Pierre Boulez (conductor)

    • DG 437 850 2.
  • 脡mile Waldteufel

    Les Patineurs

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

    • PHILIPS 422 050 2.
  • Josef Suk

    Meditation on the old Czech hymn "St Wenceslas"

    Performer: Talich Quartet

    • ALTO ALC 1079.
  • George Gershwin

    Rialto Ripples

    Performer: Stefano Bollani (piano) Performer: Gewandhaus Orchestra Performer: Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

    • DECCA 478 2739.
  • Henry Purcell

    Welcome, welcome glorious morn

    Performer: Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor) Performer: Choir of the King鈥檚 Consort Performer: King鈥檚 Consort Performer: Robert King (conductor)

    • HYPERION KING2.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu D899 No. 4

    Performer: Andrea Lucchesini (piano)

    • AVIE AV2179.
  • Aaron Copland

    Buckaroo Holiday from Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo

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

    • DECCA 414 273 2.
  • Iiro Rantala

    Waltz for Bill (For Bill Evans)

    Performer: Irro Rantala (piano)

    • ACT 9504-2.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Le Corsaire 鈥 overture

    Performer: Boston Symphony Orchestra Performer: Charles Munch (conductor)

    • RCA 09026 610 002.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Canto de los remeros del Volga

    Performer: Cristina Ortiz (piano)

    • BRILLIANT 95076.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Let thy hand be strengthened HWV 259

    Performer: Choir of Westminster Aabbey Performer: The English Concert Performer: Simon Preston (conductor)

    • ARCHIV 410 030 2.
  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    Intermezzo

    Performer: Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Stephen Gunzenhauser (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.555242.
  • Josef Rheinberger

    Organ Concerto No.2 Op177: Third movement

    Performer: Stefan Johannes Bleicher (organ) Performer: Musikkollegium Winterthur Performer: Douglas Boyd (conductor)

    • MDG 901 1643-6.
  • Robert Schumann

    Konzertstuck for four horns in F Op 86

    Performer: Andrew Joy, Kathleen Putnam, Rainer Jurkiewicz, Joachim Poltl (horns) Performer: Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra Performer: Hans Vonk (conductor)

    • EMI 609 037 2.
  • William Walton

    String Quartet: Second movement

    Performer: Doric String Quartet

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10661.

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  • Wed 16 Feb 2011 07:00

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