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Breakfast on Radio 3 with Rob Cowan. Great pieces, great performances - and a few surprises!

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Wed 10 Feb 2010 07:00

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Antonio Salieri

Overture to 'Falstaff, ossia Le tre burle' (Falstaff, or the 3 jokes)

Performer: London Mozart Players Performer: Matthias Bamert (conductor)
- CHANDOS CHAN 9877.
Edvard Grieg

Lyric Pieces book 4, Op.47; No.3: Melody

Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
- EMI Classics 0094639439928.
Johann Pachelbel

Motet: Der Herr ist König

Performer: Cantus Cölln Performer: Konrad Junghänel (director)
- DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 05472 77305 2.
Carl Maria von Weber

Andante e Rondo ungarese in C minor Op.35 for bassoon and string quartet

Performer: (originally for bassoon and orchestra, transcribed Michael Rot) Performer: Milan Turković (bassoon) Performer: Vienna Philharmonic Quartet
- CAMERATA CM-15036~7.
Franz Schubert

Nacht und träume, D.827

Performer: Antoine Tamestit (viola) Performer: Markus Hadulla (piano)
- NAÏVE V 5219.
George Gershwin

Overture to 'Girl Crazy'

Performer: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
- SONY CLASSICAL SMK 60028.
Sergey Rachmaninov

Élégie in E flat minor from Morceaux de fantasie, Op.3

Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
- DECCA 475 6198.
Georg Philipp Telemann

Concerto for 2 violins, viola and basso continuo (TWV.43:A4) in A major]

Performer: usica Alta Ripa
- MDG 309 1450-2.
Giuseppe Verdi

Scherzo Fuga from Quartet for strings in E minor

Performer: Delmé String Quartet
- HYPERION CDA66317.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Rondo Concertante in B flat major

Performer: Scottish Chamber Orchestra Performer: Alexander Janiczek (violin/director)
- LINN CKD 287.
Gabriel Fauré

Le Papillon et la Fleur (the butterfly and the flower)

Performer: Véronique Gens (soprano) Performer: Roger Vignoles (piano)
- VIRGIN CLASSICS 5 45360 2.
Johannes Brahms

Academic Festival Overture, Op.80

Performer: New York Philharmonic Performer: Kurt Masur (conductor)
- WARNER CLASSICS 2564 62768-2.
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Gloria in Excelsis Deo & Laudamus Te (Missa S. Emidio)

Performer: Veronica Cangemi (soprano) Performer: Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera Performer: Orchestra Mozart Performer: Claudio Abbado (conductor)
- ARCHIV 477 8463.
Johann Sebastian Bach

Air and Gigue from French Suite no.4 in E flat major, BWV.815

Performer: Sviatoslav Richter (pianoforte)
- STRADIVARIUS STR 33335].
Arthur Benjamin

Cotillon Suite

Performer: London Pops Orchestra Performer: Frederick Fennell (conductor)
- MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 434 356-2.
Gustav Mahler

Hans und Grete (from Lieder und Gesänge)

Performer: Stephan Genz (baritone) Performer: Roger Vignoles (piano)
- HYPERION CDA67392.
Modest Mussorgsky

Solemn March from Khovanschina (Act 4 Scene 2, Red Square)

Performer: State Symphony Orchestra of Russia
- RCA RED SEAL 09026 68406 2.
York Bowen

Scherzo: Allegro molto from Piano concerto no.1 in E flat, Op.11

Performer: Michael Dussek (piano) Performer: BBC Concerto Orchestra Performer: Vernon Handley (conductor)
- DUTTON LABORATORIES CDLX 7169.
Giuseppe Tartini

Violin Concerto in B flat major, Op.1 No.12

Performer: Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin) Performer: The Raglan Baroque Players Performer: Nicholas Kraemer (conductor)
- HYPERION CDA67345.
Antonín Dvořák

Song to the Moon from Rusalka

Performer: Kate Royal (soprano) Performer: Orchestra of English National Opera Performer: Edward Gardner (conductor)
- EMI CLASSICS 2 68192 2.
Sergey Rachmaninov

'Youth' Symphony in D minor

Performer: Concertgebouw Orchestra Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
- DECCA 476 7692.
Felix Mendelssohn

Albumleaf, Op.117

Performer: Daniel Barenboim (piano)
- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 453 061-2.
Franz Schubert

Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D.965

Performer: Sandrine Piau (soprano) Performer: Antoine Tamestit (viola) Performer: Markus Hadulla (piano)
- NAÏVE V 5219.
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

Ruslan and Ludmila (Overture)
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
- DECCA 460 977-2.
George Gershwin

My Man's Gone Now (Porgy & Bess)

Performer: Leontyne Price (soprano) Performer: RCA Victor Orchestra Performer: Skitch Henderson (conductor)
- RCA RED SEAL 09026 63312 2.