Breakfast - 04/09/2008

With Rob Cowan. Rob Cowan breakfasts with one of Handel's most exhilirating choruses, and a Smetana piano work inspired by the lapping sea waters off Sweden. Just after 8.30am will be today's Free Thought. Including: 07.03 MOZART Die entfuhrung aus dem Serail Overture & Aria “Hier soll ich dich denn sehen, Konstanze!” Peter Schreier (tenor) Mozart-Orchester des Opernhauses Zurich Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) TELDEC 8.43924 tracks 1 & 2 07.10 SCHUBERT Allegro moderato in C Major Yaara Tal & Andreas Groethuysen (piano) SONY SK68243 Track 9 07.14 BACH Sonata No.1 in G Minor for Solo Violin BWV 1001: (Last movement) Presto Leonidas Kavakos (violin) ECM 472 7672 Tracks 23 07.18 ALFVÉN Suite from the music for the film Synnǿve Solbakken (Movement 2: Young Love – Synnǿve on the Mountain Pasture) Norrköping SO, Niklas Willén (conductor) Track 2 NAXOS 8.557828 07.30 HANDEL (Athalia) “The Clouded scene begins to clear” Choir of New College, Oxford Academy of Ancient Music Christopher Hogwood (conductor) L’OISEAU LYRE 417 1272 CD2 track 8 07.34 FAURÉ Impromptu No.2, Op.31 Vlado Perlemuter (piano) NIMBUS NI 5165 Track 14 07.39 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Scherzo (1906) for String Quintet Members of the Nash Ensemble HYPERION CDA67381/2 CD2 track 9 07.45 HAYDN Acide e Galatea – “Tergi I vezzosi rai” Dietrich Fiescher-Dieskau (baritone) Wiener Haydn-Orchester Reinhard Peters (conductor) Track 3 DECCA 475 7169 07.54 GRIEG Intermezzo in A Minor Truls Mork (cello) Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) VIRGIN 5622032 Track 4 08.03 VIVALDI Concerto in A Major RV159 Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini (director) OPUS 11 OP30377 08.08 DELIUS Intermezzo from Fennimore & Garda 05’27” Academy of Ancient Music, Neville Marriner (conductor) LONDON 421 3902 track 4 08.14 TESSIER Bransle de Lorraine Le Poeme Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre ALPHA 100 Track 5 08.16 SMETANA On the Sea Shore – A Memory Katryn Stott (piano) CHANDOS 10430 Track 9 08.22 IRELAND Sea Fever Jonathan Lemalu (baritone) Roger Vignoles (piano) EMI 5752032 Track 16 08.25 DVORAK Slavonic Dance Op.46 No.2 in E Minor Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) SUPRAPHON SU3422-2 Track 2 08.32 RACHMANINOV Etude tableau, Op. 39 No. 4 in B minor John Ogdon (piano) Testament SBT 1295 Track 12 08.37 MARIN MARAIS Prelude from Suite in E Minor Quadro Hotteterre TELDEC 9031 776172 CD2 track 1 08.40 MONTSALVATGE Cinco canciones negras Victoria de los Angeles (soprano) Orchestre de la Sociéte des Concerts du Conservatoire Rafael Frűbeck de Burgos (conductor) Tracks 2-6 EMI 5629042 08.52 BARTOK Romanian Folk Dances 5’41” Eudice Shapiro (violin) Ralph Berkowitz (piano) VANGUARD CLASSICS 085042 71 Tracks 13-18 08.58 BRUCKNER Pange Lingua Polyphony Stephen Layton (conductor) HYPERION CDA 67629 Track 13 09.03 JOHANN STRAUSS II Tales from the Vienna Woods, Op.325 London Philharmonic Orchestra, Antal Dorati (conductor) DECCA 476 7864 Track 2 09.19 MAHLER Symphony No.2: 4th movement Aafje Heynis (mezzo) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor) PHILIPS 442 0502 CD2 Track 3 09.25. CHICK COREA Children’s Songs No.6 The Sky; No.8 Pixieland Rag Colin Currie (percussion), Robin Michael (piano) EMI 5722672 Tracks 2-3 09.31 LISZT Piano Concerto No.2 Jorge Bolet (piano) Rochester Symphony Orchestra David Zinman (conductor) Tracks 5-10 ALTO ALC 1011 09.52 SCHUBERT Heidenroslein D257, Das Lied im Grunen D917 Rita Streich (soprano) Gunther Weissenborn (piano) DG 437 6802 CD 2 Tracks 1 & 9