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With Rob Cowan. Featuring rousing music by Miklos Rozsa, Boccherini and Bach.

The complete Breakfast playlist is posted on this site after the programme has been broadcast.

07:03

MASSENET
Le Cid: Castillane
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Louis Fremaux, conductor
EMI 7630242 Tr 1

07:07

TELEMANN
Sonata in D TWV 44:1
Thomas Reiner, trumpet
Southwest German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim
Sebastian Tewinkel, conductor
NAXOS 8570501 Tr 27-29

07:16

MUSSORGSKY
Khovanshchina: Dawn on the Moscow river
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Paavo Jarvi, conductor
TELARC 80705 Tr 17

07:22

DEBUSSY
Preludes Book 2: Ondine + Monsieur Pickwick
Russell Sherman, piano
AVIE 2164 Tr 14-15

07:31

Johann STRAUSS II
Die Fledermaus Overture
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Willi Boskowsky, conductor
EMI 3556912 CD1 Tr 1

07:40

MONTEVERDI
Se vittorie si belle
Nigel Rogers + Ian Partridge, tenors
Various musicians conducted by Jurgen Jurgens
ARCHIV 437075 Tr 1

07:43

SCHUMANN
Andante and Variations in Bb
Anthony and Joseph Paratore, piano
KOCH 316272 Tr 14-18

07:55

CAVALLI
La Calisto: Amara servitu
Janet Baker, mezzo
Glyndebourne Orchestra
Raymond Lepard, conductor
DECCA 476217 Tr 10

08:03

ELGAR
Pomp and Circumstance March in D No 1
Philharmonia Orchestra
John Barbirolli, conductor
EMI 5663232 Tr 3

08:10

MAHLER
Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt
Stephan Genz, baritone
Roger Vigmoles, piano
HYPERION 67645 Tr 8

08:15

ROZSA
Danza from 3 Hungarian Sketches
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba, conductor
CHANDOS CHAN 10488 Tr 4

08:24

BACH
Chorale: Vor deinen Thron BWV 668
Choir of the Theatre of Early Music
BMG 90312 Tr 8

08:31

RACHMANINOV
Etude-tableau in F sharp minor Op 39/3
Nikolai Demidenko, piano
HYPERION 55239 Tr 17

08:34

FREE THOUGHT
Neil Macgregor - Why we prefer myths to reality

08:42

HANDEL
Arianna in Creta: Oh Patria + Salda quercia
Angelika Kirchschlager, mezzo
Basel Chamber Orchestra
Laurence Cummings, conductor
SONY 6889522 Tr 9-10

08:43

PROKOFIEV (arr. for 2 pianos by Pletnev)
Cinderella: The Quarrel
Martha Argerich + Mikhail Pletnev, piano duet
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 474868 Tr 2

08:47

BOCCHERINI
Concerto No 6 in D, G479
Anner Bylsma, cello
Concerto Amsterdam
Jaap Schroder, conductor
APEX 49805 Tr 4-6

09:02

BRAHMS (arr. Fischer)
Hungarian Dance in D minor
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fischer, conductor
PHILIPS 462589 Tr 2

09:07

JANACEK
Theme with variations
Rudolf Firkusny, piano
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 449764 CD1 Tr 1

09:16

MOZART
Magic Flute Overture
Dresden Staatskapelle
Colin Davis, conductor
RCA 56698 Tr 16

09:35

JS BACH
Liebster Gott, wann werd Ich sterben, BWV 8
Julianne Baird, soprano
Allan Fast, countertenor
Frank Kelley, tenor
Jan Opalach, bass
The Bach Ensemble
Joshua Rifkin, conductor
L’OISEAU LYRE 455706 CD1 Tr 19-24

09:54

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Flight of the Bumble Bee
Harry James, trumpet
Harry James and his Orchetsra
ASV 5339 Tr 13

09:55

RAWSTHORNE
The Creel Suite
Fiona and Rebecca Tan, piano
Recorded at the Radio 3 Pianothon in London

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Last on

Tue 28 Oct 200807:00

Broadcast

  • Tue 28 Oct 200807:00