
Rob Cowan
Rob Cowan presents three hours of great music, featuring the best recordings from the archive and the present day. Today with music by Haydn, Pisendel and Prokofiev. Plus a challenge for your innocent ear.
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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Kamarinskaya
Performers: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg (conductor)
- EMI CDM 65204, track 4.
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Franz Schubert
Die schöne Müllerin: Ungeduld
Performers: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano) [1951 recording]
- Regis RRC1383, track 7.
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Frédéric Chopin
Etudes, Op. 25 – Nos. 11 & 12
Performer: Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
- Praga PR 54056, tracks 6-7.
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Igor Stravinsky
Three Pieces for String Quartet (1914)
Performers: Alban Berg Quartet
- EMI CDC 7 54347 2, tracks 1-3.
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Antonín Dvořák
Rondo in G minor, Op. 94
Performers: Angelica May (cello), Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Václav Neumann (conductor)
- Supraphon 11 1544-2 031, track 5.
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Johann Georg Pisendel
Sonata a violino solo senza basso
Performers: Amandine Beyer (violin)
- Zig-Zag ZZT110902, disc 2, tracks 15-18.
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Conlon Nancarrow
Study No. 21 for player piano
Performer: Wolfgang Heisig (phonola)
- MDG 626 1716-2, track 27.
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Giacomo Puccini
La bohème: O soave fanciulla
Performers: Pierrette Alarie (soprano), Léopold Simoneau (tenor), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lee Shaenen (conductor)
- DG 457 752-2, track 3.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 78 in C minor
Performers: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
- DG 429 218-2, tracks 1-4.
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Zdenek Fibich
Impressions, Part Two: Nos. 86-89
Performer: Marián Lapsansky (piano)
- Supraphon SU 0190-2 131, tracks 1-4.
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Benjamin Britten
Rhapsody for string quartet
Performers: Endellion String Quartet
- EMI 2 17526 2, Disc 9, track 1.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, Op. 74: The Revolution; The Vi
Performers: Ivan Petrov (reciter), Chorus of the Russian Republic, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Kyrill Kondrashin (conductor)
- LYS 568-573, Disc 4, tracks 8-11.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Canzona in D minor BWV 588
Performer: Karl Richter (organ)
- Belart 461 3832, track 5.
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Léo Delibes
Lakmé: Bell Song
Performers: Gianna d’Angelo (soprano), Ernest Blanc (baritone), Chorus and Orchestra of the National Theatre of the Opéra-Comique, Georges Prêtre (
- EMI 5 73089 2, Disc 7, track 7.
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François Couperin
Air & Chaconne (Concert for two cellos)
Arranger: Paul Bazelaire Performers: Paul and Maud Tortelier (cellos)
- 6 88627 2, CD 20, track 2.
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Baldassare Galuppi
Sonata No. 5 in C
Performers: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)
- Decca 417 772-2, tracks 3-5.
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Julius Harrison - Troubadour Suite
Performers: BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
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Alexander Glazunov
String Quartet No. 4 in A minor Op. 64: ii Andante
Performers: The Utrecht String Quartet
- MDG MDG 603 1237-2, track 7.
Broadcast
- Sun 18 Mar 201209:00BBC Radio 3
