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The Cowan Collection

1 August 2004

Sunday 1 August 2004 9:00-12:00 (Radio 3)

Rob Cowan introduces some surprises and treasures from his record collection. Regular features include The Innocent Ear and Rob's recommendation for a Bargain Hunter CD.

Duration:

3 hours

Playlist

KABALEVSKY
Overture ‘Colas Breugnon’
Bavarian RSO/Eugene Ormandy
EMI 5 75127 2

Innocent ear ‘special’ mystery Bolero 1:
RAVEL
Bolero
Morton Gould (piano)
RCA 82876 61386 2

FREDERIC LAMOND
Sword Dance (from ‘Eine Liebe im Schottischen Hochlande’)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins
Hyperion CDA67387

SCHUBERT, realised Goldstone
Polonaise in B flat for piano duo, from the sketches D618a
Goldstone & Clemmow (piano duet)
The Divine Art 25026

GESUALDO
Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday: Eram quasi agnus innocens
The King’s Singers
Signum SIGCD048

BACH
Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord in C minor BWV1017
Josef Suk (violin), Zuzana Ružicková (harpsichord)
Warner Elatus 2564 60498-2

WEBER
Overture ‘Euryanthe’
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Wilhelm Furtwängler
DG 477 006-2


Innocent ear ‘special’ mystery Bolero 2:
RAVEL
Bolero
Nat Shilkret and his Orchestra
RCA 82876 61386 2

MASSENET
Manon, Act I: ‘J’ai marqué l’heure du départ’
Pierrette Alarie (soprano), Léopold Simoneau (tenor), Berlin RSO/Lee
Schaenen
DG 477 022-2

BUXTEHUDE
Prelude in C, BuxWV136
Bine Bryndorf (organ of St Mary’s Church, Elsinore)
DaCapo 8.226008

BORIS BLACHER
Concertante Musik op. 10
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Hans Rosbaud
DG 477 089-2


Innocent Ear
ELGAR
Concert Allegro
John Ogdon (piano)
Classics for Pleasure 5 85908 2 

HANDEL
Solomon Act 1:
Bless’t the Lord, What though I trace each herb and flow’r; Blest the day
John Cameron (baritone), Elsie Morrison (soprano), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/
Sir Thomas Beecham
Somm Beecham 17-2

BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat Op. 19
Dejan Lazic (piano), Classical Philharmonic, Bonn/ Heribert Beissel
Channel Classics CCS SA 19703

RAVEL
Kaddish
Zara Dolukhanova (mezzo-soprano), Nina Svetlanova (piano)
Guild GHCD 2281/84

PART
Festina Lente
Orchestra of the Beethovenhalle Bonn/Dennis Russell Davies
ECM 847 539-2

Innocent ear ‘special’ mystery Bolero 3:
RAVEL
Bolero
Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
RCA 82876 61386 2 

Bargain Hunter Choice
WAGNER
Götterdämmerung: Immolation Scene
Helen Traubel (soprano), NBC Symphony Orchestra/Arturo Toscanini
EMI 5 62939 2




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