Breakfast - 30/06/2008

Rob Cowan presents music including a song by 15th-century English composer John Bedyngham, plus Shlomo Mintz directing the Israel Chamber Orchestra and Virgil Thomson's suite Plow that Broke the Plains. Including: Bedyngham: Durer ne puis (Rondeau) The Medieval Ensemble of London Peter Davies, Timothy Davies (directors) Beethoven: Sonata No 24 in F sharp, Op 78 (a Therese) Andras Schiff (piano) Vivaldi: Concerto in E, Rv 271 Israel Chamber Orchestra Shlomo Mintz (violin/director) Virgil Thomson: Suite (The Plow that Broke the Plains) Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra Leonard Slatkin (conductor) Arthur Sullivan: The sun, whose rays are all ablaze (The Mikado, Act 2 No 2) Elsie Morison (soprano) Pro Arte Orchestra Malcolm Sargent (conductor) Haydn: Symphony No 46 in B Polish Chamber Orchestra Jerzy Maksymiuk (conductor).