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Thursday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. A Strauss fanfare, a Rameau overture, contemporary choral music by Sisask and Dvorak's Song to the Moon are all included in this morning's programme.

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Thu 3 Jun 201007:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Richard Strauss

    Fanfare for the Vienna Philharmonic

    Performer: Royal Academy of Music Symphonic Brass

    • James Watson (conductor).

  • Johann Strauss II - Annen-Polka

    Performer: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

  • André Previn

    Vocalise

    Performer: Sylvia McNair (soprano) Performer: Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Performer: Andre Previn (piano)

    • SONY SK 62004.

  • Antonio Salieri

    Overture: La fiera di Venezia

    Performer: English Chamber Orchestra Performer: Richard Bonynge (conductor)

    • DECCA 466 434 2.

  • Niccolò Paganini

    Allegro from Duetto No. 1

    Performer: Rudens Turku (violin) Performer: Wen-Sinn Yang (cello)

    • AVIE AV 2124.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Os justi

    Performer: W.U.Choir Vienna Performer: Johannes Kobald (conductor)

    • KOBALD RECORDS PR 91168.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Contrapunctus XIII (Art of Fugue)

    Arranger: Calefax Performer: Members of Calefax Reed Quintet

    • MDG 619 0989 2.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Spring Song, Op 16

    Performer: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Leif Segerstam (conductor)

    • ONDINE 1112 2.

  • Urmas Sisask

    Gloria in excelsis Deo

    Performer: Orpheus Vokalensemble Performer: Gary Graden (conductor)

    • Carus 83.454.

  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Valse Scherzo, Op 34

    Performer: David Oistrakh (violin) Performer: Vladimir Yampolsky (piano)

    • EMI 9 67007 2.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Dardanus - Overture

    Performer: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Performer: Nicholas McGegan (conductor)

    • DHM 74321 935802.

  • Witold Lutosławski

    Variations on a theme of Paganini

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Nelson Freire.

    Performer: Martha Argerich, Mauricio Vallina (piano)

    • EMI 5 18333 2 DISC 3.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Overture: The Magic Flute

    Performer: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Georg Solti (conductor)

    • DECCA 433 210 2.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (excerpts): Cha-Cha; Meeting Scene; Cool; Fugue; Ru

    Performer: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Performer: Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

    • WARNERS 2564 69816-5.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Prague waltzes

    Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra Performer: Ivan Fischer (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 476 2179.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Venite, sitientes ad aquas

    Performer: The Gonzaga Band

    • CHANDOS CHAN 0761.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Menuetto from String Quintet in C minor, Op 104

    Performer: Fine Arts Quartet with Gil Sharon (2nd viola)

    • NAXOS 8.572221.

  • Frédéric Chopin - Ballade No. 4 Op 52

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz (piano)

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

    Performer: Renee Fleming (soprano) Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Georg Solti (conductor)

    • DECCA 455 760 2.

  • Edward Elgar

    Violin Sonata in E minor, Op 82, last movement (Allegro non troppo)

    Performer: Tasmin Little (violin) Performer: Martin Roscoe (piano)

    • Dal Segno DSPRCD047.

  • Léon Boëllmann

    Toccata (Suite Gothique)

    Performer: Gerard Brookes (organ of St Ouen, Rouen)

    • PRIORY PRCD 5032.

  • James Rhodes

    Le Cathedrale engloutie

    Orchestrator: Stokowski Performer: Philadelphia Orchestra Performer: Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)

    • EMI 5 85072 2.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Variations on "Rule Britannia" from Arne's masque "Alfred"

    Performer: Gianluca Cascioli (piano)

    • DG 457 613 2.

  • Arnold Bax

    The Garden of Fand

    Performer: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Performer: Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

    • CSO 90/12.

Broadcast

  • Thu 3 Jun 201007:00
    BBC Radio 3