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Tuesday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. Music by Monteverdi, Handel, Delius and Prokofiev, plus a look at some of the highlights from this week's Specialist Classical Chart.

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Tue 18 May 201007:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Largo from Xerxes

    Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Roland Wurtz (conductor)

    • Trax Music Ltd TRX CD 132.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Scherzo for Four Bassoons, Op 12-bis

    Performer: Martin Catt (bassoon) Performer: Meyrick Alexander (bassoon) Performer: Melbon Mackie (bassoon) Performer: John Orford (bassoon) Performer: Mark Stephenson (conductor)

    • Conifer CDCF 173.

  • Frédéric Chopin - Grande Valse Brillante in E flat Op 18

    Performer: Ingrid Fliter (piano) Performer: EMI Classics

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Gira il nemico insidioso (from Madrigali guerrieri, et amorosi….Libro ottavo – 1638)

    Performer: I Fagiolini Performer: Robert Hollingworth (director) Performer: Chaconne Digital

    • CHAN 0760.

  • Béla Bartók - Microcosmos, Danse Paysanne/ Burlesque rustique/ Secondes majeures, plaque

    Performer: Huguette Dreyfus (harpsichord) Performer: Harmonia Mundi

  • Johannes Brahms

    Variations on a Hungarian Song in D major, Op 21 No. 2

    Performer: Tamas Vasary (piano)

    • Deutsche Grammophon 002894778240.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Masquerade: Waltz and Galop

    Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra Performer: Efrem Kurtz (conductor)

    • EMI Classics 2175102.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Gianni Schicchi: O mio babbino caro

    Performer: Maria Callas (soprano) Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra Performer: Tullio Serafin (conductor)

    • EMI 724356646322.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane pour une infante defunte

    Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Performer: Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)

    • Sony Classical SK66832.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude and fugue for piano in B flat major Op 87 No. 21

    Performer: Alexander Melnikov (piano)

    • Harmonia Mundi HMC 90201920.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 31 in D major "Paris" K 318: Allegro assai (1st mvt)

    Performer: Scottish Chamber Orchestra Performer: Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)

    • Linn CKD 350.

  • Ruggero Leoncavallo

    I Medici: E nel papa un nemico tu supponi?

    Performer: Placido Domingo (tenor) Performer: Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Performer: Alberto Veronesi

    • Deutsche Grammophon 4777456.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in C minor: 3rd Mvt

    Performer: Steven Osborne (piano) Performer: Hyperion

    • CDA67662.

  • Howard Goodall

    The Lord is My Shepherd/pascit me – Psalm 23

    Performer: Enchanted Voices

    • Decca CFMD7.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures at an Exhibition: The Great Gate of Kiev

    Performer: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Mariss Jansons (conductor)

    • EMI Classics 094635082425.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G minor, BWV 1058

    Performer: Michael Beroff (piano) Performer: Ensemble Orchestral de Paris

    • EMI Classics 724355505927.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Bolero

    Arranger: Uakti Mapa Performer: Uakti Mapa

    • Point Music 4329652.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo (Allegretto), Eine kleine Nachtmusik K 525

    Performer: I Musici

    • Philips 4222692.

  • Henry Purcell

    Dido and Aeneas: When I am Laid in Earth

    Performer: Sarah Conolly (soprano) Performer: Orchestra of the Age of Englightenment Performer: John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    • Chandos CHAN 0757.

  • Franz Schubert

    Quintet in C D 956: Scherzo and Trio

    Performer: Alban Berg Quartett Performer: Henrich Schiff (cello)

    • EMI Classics 724356689022.

  • Percy Grainger

    Molly on the Shore

    Performer: Daniel Adni (piano)

    • EMI 5099996895023.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Triumphal Symphony: III Scherzo, Allegro vivo

    Performer: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Zdenek Kosler (conductor)

    • Supraphon Records LC 0358.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Tosca: E lucevan le stelle

    Performer: Nicolai Gedda (tenor) Performer: Royal Opera House Orchesta Performer: Guiseppe Patane (conductor)

    • EMI Classics 724356568525.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    The Nightmare concerto in G Minor, RV 439

    Performer: Red Priest: Piers Adams (recorder); Julia Bishop (violin); Angela East (cello); Howard Beach (harpsichord)

    • Dorian Recordings DOR-90305.

  • Abkhazian Music

    Achsa iashva (Song of the horse Riders)

    Performer: Meaovn

    • MEL CD 30 0 01643.

  • Frederick Delius

    Over the Hills and Far Away (ed. Beecham)

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor)

    • EMI CDS 7475098.

Broadcast

  • Tue 18 May 201007:00
    BBC Radio 3