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Tuesday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan's selection includes Mozart's Concert Rondo in E flat for horn and orchestra, Grainger's The Gum-Sucker's March, and Baerman's Adagio for clarinet and piano.

Rob Cowan shares his musical enthusiasms, including Mozart's Concert Rondo in Eb for horn and orchestra played by Radovan Vlatkovic with the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Jeffrey Tate, Grainger's The Gum-Sucker's March performed by the Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra conducted by Clark Rundell, and Baerman's Adagio for clarinet & piano played by clarinettiss Michael Collins with Michael McHale on the piano.

3 hours

Last on

Tue 15 Mar 2011 07:00

Music Played

  • Frédéric Chopin - Ballade No 3 in A flat, Op 47

    Performer: Murray Perahia (piano)

  • Ambroise Thomas

    Connais-tu le pays (Mignon)

    Performer: Magdalena Kozena (mezzo) Performer: Mahler Chamber Orchestra Performer: Marc Minkowski (Conductor)

    • DG 474 214-2.
  • FrantiÅ¡ek Jiránek

    Sinfonia in F

    Performer: Collegium Marianum Performer: Jana Semeradova (Director)

    • Supraphon SU 4039 2.
  • Philippe Rogier

    Magnificat: Laudate Dominum (Missa Domine Dominus Noster)

    Performer: His Majesty’s Sagbutts & Cornetts Performer: Philip Cave (Director)

    • Linn CKD 348.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concert Rondo in E flat, K371

    Performer: Radovan Vlatkovic (horn) Performer: Engilsh Chamber Orchestra Performer: Jeffrey Tate (Conductor)

    • EMI CDC 7 47453 2.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Melodie (Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op 42)

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov (violin) Performer: Itamar Golan (piano)

    • Teldec 9031-77351-2.
  • Franz Liszt

    Hungarian Rhapsody No 2

    Arranger: Muller Berghaus Performer: Robert Crowley (clarinet) Performer: Montreal Symphony Orchestra Performer: Charles Dutoit (Conductor)

    • Decca 452 482 2.
  • Moritz Moszkowski

    Etude in F, Op 72 No. 6

    Performer: James Rhodes (piano)

    • Warner 5249835832.
  • Percy Grainger

    The Gum-Suckers' March

    Performer: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra Performer: Clark Rundell (Conductor)

    • CHAN 9549.
  • Specialist Classical Chart

    • William Walton

      Symphony No 1: 2nd movement – Scherzo

      Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Colin Davis (Conductor)

      • LSO Live SACD LSO0681.
    • Dmitry Shostakovich

      Lyrical Waltz (Seven Dolls' Dances)

      Performer: Lisa Batiashvili (violin) Performer: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Performer: Esa-Pekka Salonen (Conductor)

      • DG 477 9299.
    • Sergey Rachmaninov

      Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op 43: (Variation 18-end)

      Performer: Yuja Wang (piano) Performer: Mahler Chamber Orchestra Performer: Claudio Abbado (Conductor)

      • DG 477 930 8.
    • Alessandro Striggio

      Missa Ecco si beato giorno: 3rd movement - Credo

      Performer: I Fagiolini Performer: Instrumentalists Performer: Robert Hollingworth (Director)

      • Decca 478 2734.
  • Carl Nielsen

    The Cockerels' Dance (Maskarade)

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

    • DG 447 757-2.
  • Heinrich Baermann

    Adagio

    Performer: Michael Collins (clarinet) Performer: Michael McHale (piano)

    • CHAN 10637.
  • Charles Gounod

    La Valse de Faust (Faust)

    Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Performer: Herbert von Karajan (Conductor)

    • DG 415 856-2.
  • Franz Schubert

    Moment musical in A flat, D780 No 6

    Performer: Stephen Kovacevich (piano)

    • EMI CDC 5 55219 2.
  • Richard Wagner - Overture: Das Liebesverbot

    Performer: Royal Scottish National Orchestra Performer: Neeme Jarvi (Conductor)

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in E flat, Op 33 No 2 "Joke"

    Performer: Borodin Quartet

    • Onyx 4069.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 5 in G minor

    Performer: Concertgebouw Orchestra Performer: Bernard Haitink (Conductor)

    • Philips 422 477 2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    As steals the morn (L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed Il Moderato)

    Performer: Lucy Crowe (soprano) Performer: Mark Padmore (tenor) Performer: English Concert Performer: Andrew Manze (Director)

    • Harmonia Mundi HMU 907422.
  • Kurt Weill

    Blues Potpourri

    Performer: Palast Orchestra Performer: Conductor HK Gruber

    • RCA 09026 63513 2.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Scherzo (Serenade for Strings, Op 22)

    Performer: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    • DG 429 488 2.
  • Robert Schumann

    Adagio & Allegro in A flat, Op 70

    Performer: Gautier Capucon (cello) Performer: Martha Argerich (piano)

    • EMI 50999 0 70836 2 4.

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