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Music Played

  • Ignace Joseph Pleyel

    Octet in C Major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • CPO.

  • Clara Schumann

    3 Romances Op.11 (no.3 in A flat major)

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Romance – The Piano Music of Clara Schumann.
    • Decca.
    • 6.

  • John Dowland

    The Shoemaker's Wife

    Performer: Paul O’Dette.
    • Dowland: Musicke for the Lute.
    • Astree.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    A Musical Offering, BWV 1079

    Ensemble: Ensemble Diderot. Conductor: Johannes Pramsohler.
    • A Musical Offering.
    • Audax Records.
    • 15.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Morning (Peer Gynt Suite no.1, Op.46)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Berglund.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • James MacMillan

    The Gallant Weaver

    Conductor: Paul McCreesh. Ensemble: Giovanni Gabrieli.
    • Silence & Music.
    • Signum Records.
    • 9.

  • Giovanni Paisiello

    Mandolin Concerto in E Flat Major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Avi Avital. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Concertos.
    • DG.
    • 12.

  • Franz Schubert

    Winterreise (nos 2-5)

    Music Arranger: Hans Zender. Singer: Allan Clayton. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Schubert's Winterreise: A Composed Interpretation.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 105.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Concerto in A major K.622 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Annelien Van Wauwe. Orchestra: Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie. Orchestra: Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie. Conductor: Andrew Manze. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 103.

  • Dora Pejačević

    Piano Quartet, Op. 25: mvmt 4 Rondo

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Erland Cooper

    Solan Goose

    Performer: Erland Cooper.
    • Phases.

  • Thomas Tallis

    Spem in alium

    Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.
    • Decca.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Morceau de concours for flute and piano

    Performer: William Bennett. Performer: Clifford Benson.
    • Encores: William Bennett and Clifford Benson.
    • Bravura.
    • 7.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony in B flat major, Hob.I:108 (Sinfonia 'B'): 1st mvmt

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • ALPHA.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2, M. 57b: I. Lever de jour

    Conductor: Elim Chan. Orchestra: Antwerp Symphony Orchestra.
    • All These Lighted Things.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 1.

  • Eunike Tanzil

    Serenade

    Performer: Ray Chen. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Cristian Măcelaru.
    • Decca.

  • Giuseppe Tartini

    Trumpet Concerto in D major

    Music Arranger: John Wallace. Music Arranger: Simon Wright. Performer: Alison Balsom. Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • EMI.

  • Traditional Paraguayan

    Pajaro Campana (The Bell Bird)

    Performer: Martín Portillo.
    • Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.1 in C major Op.21 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9.
    • Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • 3.

  • Amy Beach

    Piano Concerto in C sharp minor Op.45 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Danny Driver. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.
    • Beach / Chaminade / Howell: Piano Concertos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 003.

  • Johannes Brahms

    String Quartet no.1 in C minor Op.51 no.1 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • EMI.

  • Undine Smith Moore

    We Shall Walk Through The Valley

    Choir: Apollo5.
    • Haven.
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 7.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No. 4 (Op.90) in A major "Italian"; 4th movement 'Saltarello'

    Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • ALPHA CLASSICS.

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