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Tuesday - Rob Cowan

Breakfast

Rob Cowan presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Including Gershwin's Three Preludes for piano, Rossini's Thieving Magpie overture, and Waldteufel's Skater's Waltz.

Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. Pianist Michel Legrand performs Gershwin's Three Preludes, the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado perform Rossini's overture to The Thieving Magpie, and Waldteufel's Skater's Waltz is performed by the Orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper conducted by Franz Bauer-Theussel.

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Tue 24 May 2011 07:00

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Georges Bizet

Farandole from L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2

Performer: Philadelphia Orchestra Performer: Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
- SONY CLASSICAL SBK 48 159.
George Gershwin

Three Preludes

Performer: Michel Legrand, piano
- ERATO 8573-84518-2.
William Byrd

Laudate pueri Dominum

Performer: The Cardinall’s Musick Performer: Andrew Carwood, director
- ASV CD GAU 197.
Nicolò Paganini

Rondo – "La campanella" from Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor Op. 6

Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (violin) Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Alberto Erede (conductor)
- EMI CLASSICS 9 07154 2.
George Frideric Handel

Suite for Harpsichord in E minor HWV 438: Allemande

Performer: Gilbert Rowland (harpsichord)
- Divine Art DDA21219.
Gioachino Rossini

The Thieving Magpie

Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Claudio Abbado (conductor)
- DG 419 869-2.
Jan Dismas Zelenka

Opening Allegro from Concerto a 8 concertanti in G major

Performer: Camerata Bern Performer: Alexander van Wijnkoop, director
- DG ELOQUENCE 469 754-2.
Johann Sebastian Bach

Wer Sunde tut (Cantata BWV 54)

Performer: James Bowman (counter-tenor) Performer: The Kings Consort Performer: Robert King (director)
- MERIDIAN CDE 84138.
Maurice Ravel

Pavane pour une infante defunte

Performer: John Zirbel (horn) Performer: Orchestre symphonique de Montreal Performer: Charles Dutoit (conductor)
- DECCA 410 254-2.
Specialist Classical Chart
- George Frideric Handel
  
  Tu preparati a morire from Ariodante
  
  Performer: Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) Performer: Il Complesso Barocco Performer: Alan Curtis (conductor)
  
  VIRGIN CLASSICS 50999 07084423.
- Gustav Mahler
  
  Extract from Rondo – Finale, Symphony No. 5
  
  Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Valery Gergiev (conductor)
  
  LSO LIVE LSO0664.
- John Rutter
  
  Et misericordia from Magnificiat
  
  Performer: Elizabeth Cragg (soprano) Performer: The Choir of St. Albans Cathedral Performer: Ensemble DeChorum Performer: Andrew Lucas (conductor)
  
  NAXOS 8.572653.
- Pérotin
  
  Alleluia Nativitas
  
  Performer: Hilliard Ensemble Performer: Jan Garbarek (soprano saxophone)
  
  ECM 476 3855.
- Francisco Tárrega
  
  Adelita
  
  Performer: Milos Karadaglic (guitar)
  
  DG 477 9693.
Émile Waldteufel

The Skaters' Waltz

Performer: Orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper Performer: Franz Bauer-Theussl (conductor)
- PHILIPS 400 012 2.
Felix Mendelssohn

Psalm 98, op.91 – Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied

Performer: Gulbenkian Choir and Orchestra Performer: Michel Corboz (conductor)
- APEX 2564 61692-2.
Johannes Brahms

Romance (No. 5 from Piano Pieces Op.118)

Performer: Dejan Lazic (piano)
- CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS SA 27609.
William Walton

Fanfare and March from Macbeth

Performer: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Performer: Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
- CHANDOS CHAN 10435 X.
Alexander Borodin

Prince Igor Overture

Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
- DECCA 467 482.
Franz Liszt

Der du von dem Himmel bist

Performer: Susan Bullock (soprano) Performer: Malcolm Martineau (piano)
- BBC Recording.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Rondeau: Allegro (Finale) - Concerto for flute, harp and orchestra in C major K.299

Performer: Robert Wolf (flute) Performer: Naoko Yoshino (harp) Performer: Concentus Musicus Wien Performer: Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
- TELDEC 3984 21476 2.
Johann Sebastian Bach

Jesu, lass durch Wohl und Weh from Cantata No. 182

Performer: Richard Lewis (tenor) Performer: Bernard Greenhouse (cello) Performer: Yehudi Wyner (organ)
- VOX BOX CDX 5127.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Sextet for two horns and strings in E flat major Op.81b

Performer: Swiss Chamber Players
- ERATO ECD 75544.