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Friday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents the Radio 3 Breakfast Show, with music from Prokofiev, Mendelssohn and Bach, the latest from the morning papers, and contributions from Breakfast listeners.

3 hours

Last on

Fri 16 Apr 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Overture to Tancredi

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

    • RCA VICTROLA VD87814.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue no.14 in F sharp minor BWV.883, from the Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2

    Performer: Tatiana Nikolayeva (piano)

    • MEZHDUNARODNAYA KNIGA MK 418043.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Madrigal: Io mi son giovinetta (I am young)

    Performer: Delitiae Musicae Performer: Marco Longhini (director)

    • NAXOS 8.555310.
  • Franz Liszt

    Valse Oubliée No. 1

    Performer: Clifford Curzon (piano)

    • DECCA 452 306-2.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Procession of the Nobles from Mlada

    Performer: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra Performer: Erich Kunzel (conductor)

    • TELARC CD-80115.
  • Robert Schumann

    Toccata in C major Op 7

    Performer: Howard Shelley (piano)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 8814.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Justitiae Domini – motet

    Performer: The Choir of Christ’s College, Cambridge Performer: David Rowland (director)

    • REGENT REGCD283.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Overture to Athalie Op 74

    Performer: Vienna Philharmonic Performer: Christoph Von Dohnányi (conductor)

    • DECCA 460 239-2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio for violin and orchestra in E major K 261

    Performer: Philippe Graffin (violin/conductor) Performer: The Brabant Orchestra

    • AVIE AV2127.
  • Moritz Moszkowski

    Guitarre for violin & piano

    Arranger: Sarasate Performer: James Ehnes (violin) Performer: Eduard Laurel (piano)

    • ONYX CLASSICS ONYX 4038.
  • Carlos Guastavino

    La Rosa y el Sauce (The rose and the willow)

    Performer: Anna Netrebko (soprano) Performer: Prague Philharmonia Performer: Emmanuel Villaume (conductor)

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 477 7639.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet quintet in B flat major (vers. for string orchestra): Rondo (Allegro giocoso)

    Performer: Sabine Meyer (clarinet) Performer: Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn Performer: Jörg Faerber (conductor)

    • EMI CLASSICS 5 67988 2.
  • Louis Couperin

    La Couperin

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud (piano)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901956.
  • Albert Ketèlbey

    In a Persian Market

    Performer: The New Symphony Orchestra of London Performer: Robert Sharples (conductor)

    • DECCA 452 987-2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata for piano in A major K 331: Alla turca (Allegretto)

    Performer: András Schiff (piano)

    • DECCA 433 222-2.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Autumnal

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)

    • DECCA 448 273-2.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Maiglöckchen und die Blümelein (Lily-of-the-valley and all the little flowers) Op 63 No. 6

    Performer: Sophie Danemann (soprano) Performer: Nathan Berg (baritone) Performer: Eugene Asti (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA66906.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Altdeutsches Frühlingslied (Old German Spring song) Op 86 No. 6

    Performer: Nathan Berg (baritone) Performer: Eugene Asti (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA66906.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Sleeping Beauty – ballet Act I: Waltz

    Performer: Kirov Opera Orchestra Performer: Valery Gergiev (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 442 775-2.
  • Hector Berlioz

    La Damnation de Faust: Hungarian March

    Performer: Paris Conservatoire Orchestra Performer: Jean Martinon (conductor)

    • DECCA 448 571-2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Samson: Oratorio - Air and Chorus Let the Bright Seraphim

    Performer: Lynne Dawson (soprano: Israelite woman) Performer: The Sixteen Performer: The Symphony of Harmony and Invention Performer: Harry Christophers (conductor)

    • COLLINS CLASSICS 70382.
  • Déodat de Séverac

    Sevillanas

    Arranger: Paco PeÑa Performer: Paco Peña (guitar) Performer: Guillermo Basilisco (guitar) Performer: Ely ‘La Gambita’ (castanets) Performer: Antonio Gomez Perete (handclapping)

    • DECCA 475 6151.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    From Bohemia's Woods and Fields (Má Vlast)

    Performer: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice Performer: Antoni Wit (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.550931.
  • James Dring

    Blow, blow thou Winter wind (3 Shakespeare Songs)

    Performer: Robert Tear (tenor) Performer: Philip Ledger (piano)

    • MERIDIAN CDE 84386.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Sonata for clarinet and Orchestra in F minor: Vivace (last mvt)

    Performer: Fausto Ghiazza (clarinet) Performer: Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi Performer: Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

    • DECCA 476 2830.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata for obbligato harpsichord & violin in G major, BWV 1019a

    Performer: Manfredo Kraemer (violin) Performer: Skip Sempé (harpsichord)

    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 05472 77314 2.
  • Johann Strauss II - Liebeslieder-Walzer Op 114

    Performer: Boskovsky Ensemble Performer: Willi Boskovsky (conductor)

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