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Monday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show.

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Mon 15 Aug 2011 07:00
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Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    Gypsy rondo from Trio for keyboard and strings (H.15.25) in G major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Martha Argerich (piano) Performer: Renaud Capucon (violin) Performer: Gautier Capucon (cello)

    • EMI Classics 5 62970 2.

  • Eric Coates

    Fresh Morning from Springtime Suite

    Performer: BBC Concert Orchestra Performer: John Wilson (conductor)

    • ASV CDWHL2112.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Andantino from Sonata, Op.166

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel (oboe) Performer: Julius Drake (piano)

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS CUV5611412.

  • Georges Bizet

    Finale from Symphony in C major

    Performer: City of London Sinfonia Performer: Richard Hickox (conductor)

    • EMI CLASSICS 2 06777 2.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Neujahrslied, Op.88,1

    Performer: Mit der Freude zieht der Schmerz Performer: Rundfunkchor Leipzig Performer: Horst Neumann (director)

    • BERLIN CLASSICS 0300155BC.

  • Jules Massenet

    Thais – Meditation

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov (violin) Performer: I Virtuosi Performer: Vag Papian (piano)

    • EMI 557164 2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sinfonia (Cantata BWV35)

    Performer: Concerto Copenhagen Performer: Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)

    • ARCHIV 4777467.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Allegretto from Concerto No.24

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim (piano / director) Performer: English Chamber Orchestra

    • EMI CLASSICS 648 338 2.

  • George Gershwin

    It ain't necessarily so (Porgy)

    Performer: The 48 Violas (Academy of St Martin in the Fields/BBC Symphony Orchestra/London Philharmonic/Orchestra of the English National Opera)

    • CALA CACD0106.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Candide – Overture

    Performer: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 477 8168.

  • Robert Schumann

    Traumerei (Kinderszenen, op.15)

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz (piano)

    • SONY CLASSICAL SMK90441.

  • Heinrich Schütz

    Es ist erschienendie heilsame Gnade (Now there appeareth the grace of the Lord) from Geist

    Performer: Dresden Chamber Choir Performer: Hans-Christoph Rademann (director)

    • CARUS 83.232.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Allegretto grazioso (3rd mvt) from Symphony No.8 in G major, Op.88

    Performer: The Philadelphia Orchestra Performer: Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)

    • EMI CMS7648122.

  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Melodie (Op.42, no.3) from Souvenir d'un lieu cher

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman (violin) Performer: Samuel Sanders (piano)

    • EMI CLASSICS 4 76957 2.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Deh calma, o ciel, nel sonno (Otello)

    Performer: Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) Performer: Orchestra e Coro dell’ Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Roma Performer: Edoardo Muller (conductor)

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS 50999 6945790 6.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    The Padstow Lifeboat

    Performer: Grimethorpe Colliery Band Performer: Sir Malcolm Arnold (conductor)

    • DECCA 476 5348.

  • Johannes Brahms

    4th movement from Sonata in F minor (for viola and piano)

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov (viola) Performer: Katya Apekisheva (piano)

    • ONYX 4033.

  • Richard Strauss

    The Dinner from Le bourgeois gentilhomme (Suite, op.60)

    Performer: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Performer: Fritz Reiner (conductor)

    • BMG CLASSICS 09026 68637 2.

  • Antonio de Cabezón

    Tiento III. Primer tono

    Performer: Hesperion XX Performer: Jordi Savall (director)

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS 50999 648801 2.

  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Valse from Swan Lake (Act I)

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Andre Previn (conductor)

    • EMI CLASSICS EMI CMS7648372.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Ballade No.1 in G minor

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud (piano)

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS 50999 457845 2 1.

  • William Russo

    4th movement from Street Music A Blues Concerto

    Performer: Corky Siegel (harmonica) Performer: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Performer: Seiji Ozawa (conductor)

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 463 665 2.

  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    Congratulamini mihi a 6

    Performer: The Sixteen Performer: Harry Christophers (conductor)

    • CORO COR16088.

  • Chris Walla

    Close of the Day

    Performer: Stjepan Hauser (cello) Performer: Yoko Misumi (piano)

    • MUSICAL CONCEPTS MC 142.

  • Claude Debussy

    Petite Suite

    Performer: L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Performer: Ernest Ansermet (conductor)

    • DECCA 475 313-2.

  • François Couperin

    Le Trophee (Airs pour la Suite du Trophee)

    Performer: Christophe Rousset (harpsichord)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI 901445.46.

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