Breakfast - 05/09/2008

Rob Cowan delights early risers with the eccentric and brilliant Glenn Gould in Bach, and gilded Stravinsky in King's College Chapel, Cambridge. Just after 8.30am will be today's Free Thought. 07.03 J.C. BACH Sinfonia No.3 in E Flat Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, David Zinman PHILIPS 442 2752 CD1 tracks 7-9 07.11 GABRIEL FAURÉ Les Berceaux, Op.23, No.1 (arr. for cello) 03’04” Mischa Maisky (cello), Daria Hovora (piano) DG 457 657-2 Track 4 07.14 ELGAR Harmony Music No.1 Athena Ensemble CHANDOS CHAN241-33 CD1 track 10 07.19 STRAVINKSY Credo Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury EMI 5564392 track 6 07.22 BACH Concerto in C Major BWV 595 Simon Preston (organ of LŰbeck Dom) DG 423 0872 track 15 07.26 CHOPIN Prelude Op.28 No. 17 Allegretto Dame Moura Lympany (piano) APEX 2564 601582 Track 29 07.31 RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN There’s nothing like a dame (South Pacific) Bryn Terfel (baritone) , chorus of Opera North, English Northern Philharmonia, Paul Daniel (conductor) DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 449 1632 track 15 07.35 Boris TCHAIkOVSKY 6 Etudes for Strings & Organ 1976 No.5 Andante Moderato Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra, Ludmila Golub (organ) Alexander Rudin (conductor ) HYPERION CDA67413 Track 15 07.42 G. GABRIELI Sonata XIII; & Hodie complete sunt Canadian Brass, Elmer Iseler (conductor) PHILIPS 438 3922 tracks 15 & 16 07.50 SCHUMANN Fantasiestucke, Op.12 (Des Abends; Aufschwung) Friedrich Gulda (piano) PHILIPS 0289 470 666 2 Tracks 1 & 2 08.03 MEYERBEER Galop from Le Prophète Radio Philharmonie Hannover des NDR, Michail Jurowski (conductor) CPO 999 336-2 track 16 08.08 BACH Concerto for Piano & Orchestra No.7 in G Minor BWV 1058 Glenn Gould (piano) Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Golschmann (conductor) SONY SM2K 52591 CD2 Tracks 7-9 08.22 JOSEF LANNER: Die Werber Waltz 7’08” The Boskovsky Ensemble, Willi Boskovsky (violin & director) VANGUARD CLASSICS 08801571 track 13 DAVID POPPER Study in G. Op. 73 No. 22 Janos Starker (solo cello) PARNASSUS PACD 97-008, tr 21 08.35 DELIBES Sylvia – Les Chasseresses London Symphony Orchestra Anatole Fistoulari (conductor) MERCURY 434 313 2 CD1, track 4 08.39 Frank MARTIN Pavane Couleurs du Temps Die Kammermusiker Zurich JECKLIN DISCO JD6462 Track 5 08.48 COPLAND Saga of the Prairies The Pacific SO, Keith Clark (conductor) TROY 064 Track 3 09.00 HANDEL Dopo notte from Ariodante Dame Janet Baker (mezzo) English Chamber Orchestra Raymond Leppard (conductor) DECCA 478 0320 CD1 track 13 09.07 SCHUMANN Papillons, Op.2 Murray Perahia (piano) SONY SX4K63380 CD1 Tracks 6-18 09.23 LEVY The Whirlwind Polka The Wallace Collection NIMBUS NI 5470 Track 4 09.29 RACHMANINOV Three Russian Songs, Op.41 Chorus of the Concertgebouw & Orchestra Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor) DECCA 436 4822 Tracks 5-7 09.44 WASSENAER Concerto in F Minor Camerata Bern, Thomas Furi (director) ARCHIV 427 138 2 Tracks 13-16 09.53 MULET Carillon Sortie John Scott Whiteley (organ of York Minster) PRIORY PRCD 5003 track 13