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Monday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. Included this morning is music encompassing A Short Ride in a Fast Machine to a Meditation, and more of your suggestions for the Nation's Favourite Aria.

3 hours

Last on

Mon 24 May 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • Emmanuel Chabrier - Joyeuse Marche

    Performer: Toulouse Capitole Orchestra Performer: Michel Plasson (Conductor)

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Rigoletto: paraphrase de concert

    Arranger: Liszt Performer: Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)

    • Decca 436 736 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Zaide: Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben

    Performer: Diana Damrau (soprano: Zaide) Performer: Concentus Musicus Wien Performer: Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Conductor)

    • DHM 82876 84996 2.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in F major, RV.99

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico.

    Performer: La Serenissima Performer: Adrian Chandler (Director)

    • AVIE AV 2128.
  • Wilhelm Emilius Hartmann

    Serenade in B flat: Scherzo

    Performer: Consortium Classicum

    • MD&G L3416.
  • Jules Massenet

    Thais: Meditation

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti (violin) Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Daniel Harding (Conductor)

    • DG 476 3399.
  • John Adams

    Short Ride in a Fast Machine

    Performer: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Performer: Marin Alsop (Conductor)

    • Naxos 8.559031.
  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    Impromptu Op 6

    Performer: Olga Solovieva (piano) Performer: Toccata Classics

    • TOCC 0082.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La Traviata: E strano … Ah, forse'e lui … Follie, follie … Sempre libera

    Performer: Renata Scotto (soprano: Violetta) Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra Performer: Manno Wolf-Ferrari (Conductor)

    • EMI CDE5747662.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Moment musical in C Op 16 No. 6

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

    • Decca 475 619 8.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Samson: Let the bright seraphim

    Performer: The Sixteen Performer: Harry Christophers (Conductor)

    • CORO COR16703.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker Op 71: Valse des fleurs

    Performer: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Vasily Petrenko (Conductor)

    • AVIE AV2139.
  • James Rhodes

    Minstrels (from Preludes, Book I)

    Performer: Jacques Rouvier (piano)

    • Dal Segno DSPRCD043.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Anniversary Overture Op 99

    Performer: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Philharmonic Performer: Rumon Gamba (Conductor)

    • CHAN 10293.
  • Henryk Wieniawski

    Scherzo-Tarantelle Op 16

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

    • CBC MVCD 1168.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in A flat Op 72 No. 8

    Performer: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Performer: Kurt Masur (Conductor)

    • Philips 446 583 2.
  • Percy Grainger

    Molly on the Shore

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

    • CHAN 9549.
  • Henry Purcell

    Chaconne (The Fairy Queen)

    Performer: Red Priest

    • DORIAN DOR-90305.
  • Frédéric Chopin - Ballade No. 1 in G minor Op 23

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud (piano)

  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Eugene Onegin, Act II: Kuda, kuda vy udalilis

    Performer: Nicolai Gedda (tenor) Performer: Belgrad Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Gika Zdravkovitch (Conductor)

    • EMI 5 65685 2.
  • Mahler/Uri Caine

    Only Love Beauty (Ruckert Lieder)

    Performer: Uri Caine Ensemble

    • Winter & Winter 910 095-2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F BWV 1047

    Performer: Brandenburg Consort Performer: Roy Goodman (Director)

    • Hyperion CDA66611.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Barcarolle & Galop

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

    • MMG MWCD7119.
  • Franz Schubert

    Auf dem Wasser zu singen D 774

    Performer: Nils Monkemeyer (viola) Performer: Nicholas Rimmer (piano)

    • Sony Classical 88697563992.
  • Richard Wagner - Die Walkure: Wotan's Farewell

    Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Performer: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Performer: Conductor Rafael Kubelik

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata in D, Op 12 No 1: 3rd movement: Rondo.Allegro

    Performer: Isabelle Faust (violin) Performer: Alexander Melnikov (piano)

    • Harmonia Mundi HMC 902025.27.
  • Eric Coates

    Overture: The Merrymakers

    Performer: Pro Arte Orchestra Performer: Gilbert Vinter (Conductor)

    • EMI 2 28285 2.

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