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Tuesday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. Music includes the Intermezzo from Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, Tavener's The Lamb, excerpts from Copland's Billy the Kid, and a look at this week's Specialist Classical Chart.

3 hours

Last on

Tue 8 Mar 2011 07:00

Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Samson: Let the bright seraphim

    Performer: Sandrine Piau (soprano) Performer: Accademia Bizantina Performer: Stefano Montanari (director)

    • Naïve OP 30484.
  • Ruggero Leoncavallo

    Pagliacci: Intermezzo

    Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Performer: Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

    • Decca 4673862.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Art of Fugue: Contrapunctus IX

    Performer: Diana Boyle (piano)

    • Elective Solitude Recordings.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F minor: III Rondo

    Performer: Karl Leister (clarinet) Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Performer: Rafael Kubelik (conductor)

    • DG 4539902.
  • César Franck

    Panis angelicus

    Performer: Lynda barrett (soprano) Performer: Organist not credited

    • Priory PRCD1043.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Skocna – Slavonic Dances Op 46 No. 5

    Performer: Chamber Orchestra of Europe Performer: Nicholaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

    • Telarc 8573810382.
  • John Tavener

    The Lamb

    Performer: The Choir Performer: James Whitbourn (conductor)

    • Opus Arte OACD 9007 D.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sehnsucht nach dem Fruhlinge K 596

    Performer: Barbara Bonney (soprano) Performer: Geoffrey Parsons (piano)

    • Elatus 0927467382.
  • Alan Hovhaness

    Bagatelles Op 30 Nos. 1 & 2

    Performer: Shanghai String Quartet

    • DELOS DE 3700.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Tale of Tsar Saltan: The Three Wonders

    Performer: Seattle Symphony Performer: Gerard Schwarz (conductor)

    • Naxos 572693.
  • Specialist Classical Chart

    • George Gershwin

      Catfish Row: II - Porgy Sings

      Performer: Gewandhausorchester Performer: Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

      • Decca 4782739.
    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Clarinet Quintet K 581: III - Minuetto

      Performer: Thea King (clarinet) Performer: Gabrieli String Quartet

      • Hyperion CDA30010.
    • Josef Suk

      Pohadka (Fairy Tale) Op.16: II. Intermezzo – Folk Dance: The game of swans and peacocks

      Performer: Buffalo Philharmonic Performer: JoAnn Falletta (conductor)

      • Naxos 8572323.
    • Anon

      Alleluia: Oportebat pati Christum

      Performer: The Benedictine Nuns of Notre-Dame de L’Annonciation

      • Decca 2748264.
    • Anton Bruckner

      Symphony No. 8 in C minor: IV - Finale

      Performer: Orchestra de la Suisse Romande Performer: Marek Janowski (conductor)

      • Pentatone PTC5186371.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D K.492

    Performer: Virginia Black (harpsichord)

    • United 88005.
  • Frederick Delius

    Florida Suite: II By the River

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Thomas Beecham (conductor)

    • EMI 5757882.
  • Franz Schubert

    Standchen D957 No. 4

    Performer: Bryn Terfel (baritone) Performer: Malcolm Martineau (piano)

    • DG 4776385.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Trio Sonata No. 1 in E flat BWV525: I Allegro moderato

    Performer: John Butt (organ)

    • Harmonia Mundi HXC 3957055.
  • Aaron Copland

    Billy the Kid – excerpts

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

    • Mercury 4343012.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    A Musical Joke: IV Presto

    Performer: The English Concert Performer: Andrew Manze (conductor)

    • Harmonia Mundi HMX2907280.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Pirates of Penzance – overture

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Isidore Godfrey (conductor)

    • Decca Eloquence 480 1285.
  • Henry Purcell

    Rejoice in the Lord alway

    Performer: Kai Wessel (alto) Performer: Paul Agnew, William Kendall (tenor) Performer: Peter Kooy (bass) Performer: Collegium Vocale Performer: Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)

    • Harmonia Mundi HMC901462.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Waltz Op 54 No. 1

    Performer: Skampa Quartet

    • Supraphon SU01622131.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No. 1 in C: II Largo

    Performer: Ronald Brautigam (piano) Performer: Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra Performer: Andrew Parrott (conductor)

    • BIS SACD1692.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesfreud (Old Viennese Dance No. 1)

    Performer: Oscar Shumsky (violin) Performer: Milton Kaye (piano)

    • Nimbus NI2529-32.
  • Georges Bizet

    L'Arlesienne: Menuet and Farandole

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • DG 4234722.
  • Frederick Delius

    On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Thomas Beecham (conductor)

    • EMI 9099152.

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  • Tue 8 Mar 2011 07:00

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