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Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan explores music inspired by literature from writers as varied as Tolstoy, Goethe and Kipling, in the hands of composers including Janacek, Schubert and Koechlin; and plays Malcolm Arnold's Overture "Beckus the Dandipratt".

2 hours, 57 minutes

Last on

Sun 2 Aug 2015 09:00

Music Played

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    King Lear, Op. 58a: Fanfares

    Orchestra: Ленинградский Камерный Оркестр. Conductor: Eduard Serov.
    • The Shostakovich CD.
    • Olympia.
  • anon.

    Sweet Evelina

    Performer: Anonymous 4. Music Arranger: Marsha Genensky.
    • 1865.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Overture 'Beckus, the Dandipratt' Op. 5

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Arnold.
    • The Malcolm Arnold Edition - Orchestral Brass and Piano Music.
    • Decca.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Wipe away my sins

    Orchestra: The Cardinall’s Musick. Conductor: Andrew Carwood.
    • Tallis: Ave, rosa sine spinis, etc..
    • Hyperion.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto in E flat Kv 370b/371

    Performer: Felix Klieser. Orchestra: Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn. Conductor: Ruben Gazarian.
    • Joseph & Michael Haydn Horn Concertos, etc..
    • Berlin Classics.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Pelleas et Melisande: Prelude, Fileuse

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Faure: PAvane, Pelleas et Melisande, etc..
    • Philips.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in B minor for transverse flute, strings and basso continuo

    Orchestra: Camerata Köln.
    • Concertos for Woodwind Instruments.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
  • Leos Janáček

    String Quartet No. 1 'Kreutzer Sonata'

    Ensemble: The Lindsays.
    • Works by Janacek and Dvorak.
    • Regis.
  • Franz Schubert

    Lied der Mignon, D. 877

    Performer: Hans Rosbaud. Singer: Teresa Stich-Randall.
    • Teresa Stich-Randall - Recital de Lieder.
    • Preiser.
  • César Franck

    Les djinns

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Stéphane Denève.
    • Works by Cesar Franck.
    • Naive.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    The Kreutzer Sonata (Five Satires Op. 109)

    Singer: Irina Bogocheva. Orchestra: State Symphony Orchestra of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR. Conductor: Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky.
    • The Shostakovich CD.
    • Olympia.
  • Charles Koechlin

    The Jungle Book: Les Bandar-Log

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • The Jungle Book.
    • RCA.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento for violin, viola and cello in E flat, K 563

    Ensemble: Grumiaux Trio.
    • Works by Beethoven, Mozart.
    • Hannsler Classic.
  • Béla Bartók

    Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs

    Performer: György Sándor.
    • Bartok: Complete Solo Piano Music.
    • Vox.
  • Jules Massenet

    Manon: Adieu, Notre Petite Table

    Singer: Bidu Sayão. Orchestra: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Fausto Cleva.
    • Sony/BMG.

Broadcast

  • Sun 2 Aug 2015 09:00