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Wednesday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. Music from Smetana's opera "The Bartered Bride", Pierre Monteux conducts Ravel, music by Telemann is performed by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and some more of your nominations for the Nation's Favourite Aria.

3 hours

Last on

Wed 26 May 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Overture to Les Indes Galantes

    Performer: Les Arts Florissants Performer: William Christie (director)

    • HMC 901367-69.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Fantasy in D minor K 397

    Performer: Gottlieb Wallisch (piano)

    • LINN CKD352.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Bartered Bride: Furiant (Act 2 Scene 1); Dance of the Comedians (Act 3 Scene 2)

    Performer: The Cleveland Orchestra Performer: George Szell (conductor)

    • CBS MBK44958.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Pr茅lude from Le Tombeau de Couperin

    Performer: Branford Marsalis (soprano saxophone) Performer: English Chamber Orchestra Performer: Andrew Litton (conductor)

    • SONY MK42122.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Alcina: Tornami a vagheggiar

    Performer: Danielle de Niese (soprano) Performer: Les Arts Florissants Performer: William Christie (conductor)

    • DECCA 4758746.
  • Jeremiah Clarke

    Trumpet Voluntary (Prince of Denmark's March)

    Performer: Maurice Murphy (trumpet) Performer: Consort of London Performer: Robert Haydon Clark (conductor)

    • REGIS RRC1325.
  • Johannes Brahms

    An die Nachtigall Op 46 No. 4

    Performer: Robert Holl (bass) Performer: Andr谩s Schiff (piano)

    • DECCA 4331822.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Sinfonia in F major TWV 50:3

    Performer: Sarah Cunningham (viola di gamba) Performer: Marion Verbruggen (recorder) Performer: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Performer: Monica Huggett (director)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMC907093.
  • Franz Schubert

    Sonata No. 3 in G minor for violin and piano D 408

    Performer: Pinchas Zukerman (violin) Performer: Marc Neikrug (piano)

    • BIDDULPH 80250-2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade K 185: Menuetto-Trio 1-Trio 2

    Performer: Concentus Musicus Wien Performer: Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

    • TELDEC 4509933482.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV 182: Sinfonia and Chorus 'Himmelsk枚nig, sie willkommen'

    Performer: Catherine Latham (recorder) Performer: Maya Homburger (violin) Performer: The English Baroque Soloists Performer: John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    • SDG 114.
  • Muzio Clementi

    Sonatina in C Op 36 No. 3

    Performer: Howard Shelley (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA67814.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    S茅r茅nade m茅lancolique Op 26

    Performer: Leonid Kogan (violin) Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra Performer: Kyril Kondrashin (conductor)

    • TESTAMENT SBT1224.
  • Jules Massenet

    Le Cid: O souverain

    Performer: Ben Heppner (tenor) Performer: Munich Radio Orchestra Performer: Roberto Abbado (conductor)

    • RCA 82876584152.
  • George Gershwin

    Porgy and Bess 鈥 Medley

    Performer: Leonard Pennario (piano) Performer: Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra Performer: Alfred Newman (conductor)

    • ANGEL 724356608627.
  • Castello

    Sonata No. 7 from Book II

    Performer: Apollo & Pan

    • CHACONNE CHAN0756.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin - Introduction and Rondo in E flat Op 16

    Performer: Jan Panenka (piano)

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Die tote Stadt: Gluck das mir verblieb

    Performer: Kate Royal (soprano - Marietta) Performer: Orchestra of English National Opera Performer: Edward Gardner (conductor)

    • EMI 2681922.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Ragtime

    Performer: London Sinfonietta Performer: Esa-Pekke Salonen (conductor)

    • SONY SK45965.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin - Prelude in B minor Op 28 No. 6

    Performer: Pascal Rog茅 (piano)

  • James Rhodes

    La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune

    Performer: Pascal Rog茅 (piano)

    • ONYX 4057.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Trio path茅tique in D minor

    Performer: London Conchord Ensemble

    • ORCHID ORC100003.
  • Maurice Ravel

    La Valse

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Pierre Monteaux (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 4425482.
  • Templeton

    Bach goes to town

    Performer: George Malcolm (harpsichord)

    • DECCA 4761528.
  • Giovanni Paolo Colonna

    O coeli devota

    Performer: Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) Performer: Ensemble Artaserse

    • VIRGIN 6939072.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake: Scene and Dance of the Cygnets

    Performer: Russian National Orchestra Performer: Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)

    • ONDINE ODE1167-2D.

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  • Wed 26 May 2010 07:00

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