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Thursday - Rob Cowan

Breakfast

Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. Overtures by Borodin and Glinka, waltzes by Tchaikovsky and Lanner, and a polka by Smetana are included this morning.

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Thu 12 Aug 2010 07:00

BBC Radio 3

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Bedrich Smetana

Polka from The Bartered bride

Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Performer: Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
- DG 415 856-2.
Heinrich Schütz

Die Himmel erzahlen die Ehre Gottes SWV 386

Performer: The Monteverdi Choir Performer: The English Baroque Soloists Performer: John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
- SDG 165.
Joseph Haydn

Fantasia for piano H 17 4 in C major

Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)
- BIS-SACD-1788.
Hector Berlioz

Reverie et caprice for violin and orchestra Op 8

Performer: James Ehnes (violin) Performer: Quebec Symphony Orchestra Performer: Yoav Talmi (conductor)
- ANALEKTA FL 2 3151.
Johann Sebastian Bach

Fantasia (from Fantasia and fugue BWV 906 in C minor)

Performer: Richard Egarr (harpsichord)
- HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907329.
Alexander Borodin

Prince Igor - Overture

Performer: Boston Pops Orchestra Performer: Arthur Fiedler (conductor)
- RCA RED LABEL 82876 716182.
John Dowland

I saw my lady weep

Performer: Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor) Performer: Andreas Martin (lute)
- HARMONIA MUNDI HMC901603.
Antonín Dvořák

Piano pieces Op 52 Nos. 5&6

Performer: Radoslav Kvapil (piano)
- SUPRAPHON SU 4018-2.
Modest Mussorgsky

Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade - The Old Castle

Orchestrator: Ravel Performer: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Performer: Georg Solti (conductor)
- DECCA 430 446-2.
George Frideric Handel

Zadok the priest

Performer: Choir of New College Oxford Performer: Academy of Ancient Music Performer: Edward Higginbottom (conductor)
- DECCA 470 226-2.
James Rhodes

Syrinx

Performer: William Bennett (flute)
- CALA CACD1017.
François Couperin

Les Cherubins (from book 20 of his Pieces for Keyboard)

Performer: Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
- HARMONIA MUNDI HMC901956.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 4: 3rd movement; Scherzo (Pizzicato ostinato)

Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra Performer: Ivan Fischer (conductor) Performer: Channel Classics Ccs Sa 21704
- Tr. 3.
Leos Janáček

Sinfonietta: 1st movement; Allegretto (Sokol Fanfare)

Performer: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Charles Mackerras (conductor)
- SUPRAPHON SU 3739-2 032.
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

Ruslan and Ludmila (Overture)
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
Performer: Bavarian State Orchestra Performer: Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)
- EMI CDD 7 63893 2.
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

Battalia

Performer: Musica Antiqua Koln Performer: Reinhard Goebel (director)
- ARCHIV 429 230-2.
Josef Lanner

Die Werber – waltz, Op 103

Performer: Biedermeier Ensemble Wien
- DENON CO-72587.
Maurice Ravel

Daphnis & Chloe [3rd part]

Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Performer: Simon Rattle (conductor)
- EMI CLASSICS CDC 7543032.
Giovanni Gabrieli

Sonata a 22 (No. 20)

Performer: Gabrieli Consort & Players Performer: Paul McCreesh (director)
- ARCHIV 449 180-2.
Pablo de Sarasate

Caprice basque for violin and piano Op 24

Performer: Maxin Vengerov (violin) Performer: Itamar Golan (piano)
- TELDEC 9031-77351-2.
Claudio Monteverdi

Cruda Amarilli

Performer: Concerto Italiano Performer: Rinaldo Alessandrini (director)
- OPUS111 OPS-30-166.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Waltz from Swan Lake

Performer: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra Performer: Fritz Reiner (conductor)
- Pristine Classical PASC 235 AS.
Luigi Boccherini

Symphony No. 21 in C major: Allegro con moto

Performer: London Mozart Players Performer: Matthias Bamert (conductor)
- CHANDOS CHAN10604.
John Ward

My true love hath my heart

Performer: The Consort of Musicke Performer: Anthony Rooley (director)
- DECCA 480 1816.
Clarinet Factory

What's Up?

Performer: Clarinet Factory
- SUPRAPHON SU 4023-2.