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04/09/2008

Rob Cowan breakfasts with one of Handel's most exhilirating choruses, and a Smetana piano work inspired by the lapping sea waters off Sweden. Just after 8.30am will be today's Free Thought.

With Rob Cowan.

Rob Cowan breakfasts with one of Handel's most exhilirating choruses, and a Smetana piano work inspired by the lapping sea waters off Sweden. Just after 8.30am will be today's Free Thought.

Including:

07.03

MOZART
Die entfuhrung aus dem Serail
Overture & Aria 鈥淗ier soll ich dich denn sehen, Konstanze!鈥
Peter Schreier (tenor)
Mozart-Orchester des Opernhauses Zurich
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
TELDEC 8.43924 tracks 1 & 2

07.10

SCHUBERT
Allegro moderato in C Major
Yaara Tal & Andreas Groethuysen (piano)
SONY SK68243 Track 9

07.14

BACH
Sonata No.1 in G Minor for Solo Violin BWV 1001:
(Last movement) Presto
Leonidas Kavakos (violin)
ECM 472 7672 Tracks 23

07.18

础尝贵痴脡狈
Suite from the music for the film Synn强ve Solbakken (Movement 2: Young Love 鈥 Synn强ve on the Mountain Pasture)
Norrk枚ping SO, Niklas Will茅n (conductor)
Track 2 NAXOS 8.557828

07.30

HANDEL
(Athalia) 鈥淭he Clouded scene begins to clear鈥
Choir of New College, Oxford
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
L鈥橭ISEAU LYRE 417 1272 CD2 track 8

07.34

贵础鲍搁脡
Impromptu No.2, Op.31
Vlado Perlemuter (piano)
NIMBUS NI 5165 Track 14

07.39

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Scherzo (1906) for String Quintet
Members of the Nash Ensemble
HYPERION CDA67381/2 CD2 track 9

07.45

HAYDN
Acide e Galatea 鈥 鈥淭ergi I vezzosi rai鈥
Dietrich Fiescher-Dieskau (baritone)
Wiener Haydn-Orchester
Reinhard Peters (conductor)
Track 3 DECCA 475 7169

07.54

GRIEG
Intermezzo in A Minor
Truls Mork (cello)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
VIRGIN 5622032 Track 4

08.03

VIVALDI
Concerto in A Major RV159
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini (director)
OPUS 11 OP30377

08.08

DELIUS
Intermezzo from Fennimore & Garda 05鈥27鈥
Academy of Ancient Music, Neville Marriner (conductor)
LONDON 421 3902 track 4

08.14

TESSIER
Bransle de Lorraine
Le Poeme Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre
ALPHA 100 Track 5

08.16

SMETANA
On the Sea Shore 鈥 A Memory
Katryn Stott (piano)
CHANDOS 10430 Track 9

08.22

IRELAND
Sea Fever
Jonathan Lemalu (baritone)
Roger Vignoles (piano)
EMI 5752032 Track 16

08.25

DVORAK
Slavonic Dance Op.46 No.2 in E Minor
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
SUPRAPHON SU3422-2 Track 2

08.32

RACHMANINOV
Etude tableau, Op. 39 No. 4 in B minor
John Ogdon (piano)
Testament SBT 1295 Track 12

08.37

MARIN MARAIS
Prelude from Suite in E Minor
Quadro Hotteterre
TELDEC 9031 776172 CD2 track 1

08.40

MONTSALVATGE
Cinco canciones negras
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano)
Orchestre de la Soci茅te des Concerts du Conservatoire
Rafael Fr疟beck de Burgos (conductor)
Tracks 2-6 EMI 5629042

08.52

BARTOK
Romanian Folk Dances 5鈥41鈥
Eudice Shapiro (violin)
Ralph Berkowitz (piano)
VANGUARD CLASSICS 085042 71 Tracks 13-18

08.58

BRUCKNER
Pange Lingua
Polyphony
Stephen Layton (conductor)
HYPERION CDA 67629 Track 13

09.03

JOHANN STRAUSS II
Tales from the Vienna Woods, Op.325
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Antal Dorati (conductor)
DECCA 476 7864 Track 2

09.19

MAHLER
Symphony No.2: 4th movement
Aafje Heynis (mezzo) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
PHILIPS 442 0502 CD2 Track 3

09.25.

CHICK COREA
Children鈥檚 Songs No.6 The Sky; No.8 Pixieland Rag
Colin Currie (percussion), Robin Michael (piano)
EMI 5722672 Tracks 2-3

09.31

LISZT
Piano Concerto No.2
Jorge Bolet (piano)
Rochester Symphony Orchestra
David Zinman (conductor)
Tracks 5-10 ALTO ALC 1011

09.52

SCHUBERT
Heidenroslein D257, Das Lied im Grunen D917
Rita Streich (soprano)
Gunther Weissenborn (piano)
DG 437 6802 CD 2 Tracks 1 & 9

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