Breakfast - Rob Cowan

Thursday's breakfast selection with Rob Cowan includes a recording of a Strauss waltz by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Anton Kuerti playing a crystalline Scriabin etude. STRAUSS Wein, Weib und Gesang Op. 333 Vienna Symphony Orchestra Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor PHILIPS 4222772 Tr 3 ELGAR Dream Children, Op. 43 Ashley Wass (piano) NAXOS 8.570166 Tr 3 – 4 PURCELL Welcome, welcome glorious morn (symphony and opening chorus) An Evening Hymn Rogers Cover-Crump (tenor) Eamonn O’Dwyer (treble) The Choir of the King’s Consort The King’s Consort Robert King, conductor HYPERION KING2 Tr 1 & 18 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Quick March – Sea Songs Philharmonia Orchestra Leonard Slatkin, conductor RCA 09026611952 Tr 1 SAINT-SAENS ‘Softly Awakes my Heart’ from Samson and Delilah Grimethorpe Colliary Band Mark Walters, flugel DOYEN DOYCD013 Tr 3 BACH Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied BMV 225 Regensburger Domspatzen Capella Academica Wien Hanns Martin Schneidt, director ARCHIV 427117-2 Tr 1 George SHEARING Medley George Shearing, piano BBC BBCJ7005-2 Tr 8 TELEMANN Concerto in D for 3 trumpets, timpani, 2 oboes, strings and continuo John Wallace (trumpet) English String Orchestra William Boughton, director NIMBUS NI5189 Tr 2 – 5 ROSSINI ‘Resta immobile’ from William Tell Tito Gobbi (baritone) Philharmonia Orchestra Alberto Erede, conductor EMI 7631092 Tr 15 BAERMANN Air Varie for clarinet and piano Victoria Soames (clarinet) Julius Drake (piano) CLARIENT CLASSICS CC0003 Tr2 WAGNER Das Rheingold - Entrance of the gods into Valhalla London Symphony Orchestra Leopold Stokowski, conductor LONDON 4439012 Tr 4 SCRIABIN Etude No. 11 in B flat minor from Twelve Etudes, Op. 8 Anton Kuerti, piano ANALEKTA FL23044 Tr 11 FREE THOUGHT Richard Holloway - Art as creative dissonance JOSQUIN Veni Sanctus The Binchois Consort HYPERION CDA67183 Tr 5 VERDI Overture, La forza del destino West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Daniel Barenboim, conductor WARNER 256462190-5 CD1 Tr 5 RACHMANINOV Two Pieces for Piano and Cello, Op. 2 Alexander Ivashkin (cello) Rustem Hayroudinoff (piano) CHANDOS CHAN10095 Tr 2 & 3 HILLIAM What was the matter with Rachmaninoff? Flotsam and Jetsam VOCALION CDEA6144 Tr 4 RAMEAU Hippolyte et Aricie – Act 3 La Petite Bande Sigiswald Kuijken Deutsche Harmonia Mundi GD77009 Tr 15-20 TCHAIKOVSKY arr. Paul Binkley and John Imholz The Nutcracker Suite, Overture Modern Mandolin Quartet BMG 82376628212 Tr 9 SCHUBERT Auf dem Wasser zu singen D.774, Op. 72 Der Kreuzzug D.932 Hermann Prey, baritone Leonard Hokanson, piano PHILIPS 442692-2 CD1 Tr 6&7 LISZT Tasso – Symphonic Poem Philharmonia Orchestra Constantin Silvestri, conductor TESTAMENT SBT1129 Tr 5 DEBUSSY L’isle Joyeuse Claude Helffer, piano ACCORD 4767931 CD2 Tr 16 MONTI Csardas Sandor Lakatos and his Gipsy Band WHITE LABEL HRC068 Tr 1