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Tuesday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. Music by Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Barber and Reich, and a look at this week's Specialist Classical Chart.

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Tue 21 Sep 2010 07:00
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Music Played

  • Jacques Ibert

    Hommage a Mozart

    Performer: Montreal Symphony Orchestra Performer: Charles Dutoit (conductor)

    • DECCA 440 332 2.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Rondo No.2 in D minor Wq 61

    Performer: Gabor Antalffy (harpsichord)

    • CPO 999100 2.

  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Hopak from Mazeppa, Act 1

    Performer: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Performer: Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

    • DG 439 907-2.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto RV 129 "Concerto madrigalesco"

    Performer: Collegium Musicum 90 Performer: Simon Standage (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 0687.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Symphony No.2 – third movement

    Performer: Orchestra National de l’ORTF Performer: Jean Martinon (conductor)

    • EMI 631 804 2.

  • Edward Elgar

    Serenade lyrique

    Performer: Northern Sinfonia Orchestra Performer: Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)

    • EMI CDM 565 593 2.

  • Dmitri Kabalevsky

    The Comedians – Suite

    Performer: Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra Performer: Alfred Newman (conductor)

    • EMI 65922.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Sono liete, fortunate

    Performer: Gillian Fisher (soprano) Performer: James Bowman (countertenor) Performer: The King’s Consort Performer: Robert King (director)

    • HYPERION CDA66440.

  • Frédéric Chopin - Waltz in A flat major KK 4a No. 13

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott (piano)

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Otono Porteno

    Performer: Lara St John (violin) Performer: Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra Performer: Eduardo Marturet (conductor)

    • ANCALAGON ANC 134.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt Suite No.1

    Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: David Parry (conductor)

    • Download only.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Die Zauberflote: "Der Vogelfanger bin ich ja" ("Yes I'm the birdcatcher")

    Performer: Daniel Schmitzhard (baritone - Papageno) Performer: Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin Performer: Rene Jacobs (conductor)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 902068.70.

  • Arvo Pärt

    Symphony No. 4: first movement (excerpt)

    Performer: Los Angeles Philharmonic Performer: Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)

    • ECM 476 3957.

  • Richard Strauss

    Ariadne on Naxos: "There is a land, a world untainted"

    Performer: Christine Brewer (soprano - Ariadne) Performer: Scottish Chamber Orchestra Performer: Sir Richard Armstrong (conductor)

    • CHANDOS 3168.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No. 4: third movement

    Performer: Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique Performer: John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    • SDG SDG705.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    La clemenza di Tito: Parto, parto, ma tu, ben mio

    Performer: Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano) Performer: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Performer: Henry Lewis (conductor)

    • DECCA 475 395-2.

  • Friedrich Burgmüller

    Symphony No. 2 in D Op 11: Scherzo

    Performer: Hofkapelle Stuttgart Performer: Frieder Bernius (conductor)

    • CARUS 83.226.

  • Samuel Barber

    Adagio for strings Op 11

    Performer: Detroit Symphony Orchestra Performer: Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 9684.

  • Sergei Prokofiev

    Sonata No. 7: third movement

    Performer: Cyprien Katsaris (piano)

    • PIANO 21 P21 020-A.

  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen Suite No. 2

    Performer: Lamoureux Concert Orchestra Performer: Igor Markevitch (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 420 863-2.

  • Steve Reich

    Nagoya Marimbas

    Performer: Colin Currie & Sam Walton (marimbas)

    • EMI CDZ 572 267 2.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Creatures of Prometheus - overture

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

    • PHILIPS 426 630 2.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Psyche

    Performer: Victoria de los Angeles (mezzo-soprano) Performer: Orquestra de Cambra Teatre Lliure Performer: Josep Pons (conductor)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901 432.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto in A major BWV 1055

    Performer: Andras Schiff (piano) Performer: English Chamber Orchestra Performer: George Malcolm (conductor)

    • DAL SEGNO DSPRCD042.

  • Jose de San Juan

    Una noche que los reyes

    Performer: Al Ayre Espanol

    • RCA 74321 845 862.

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