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Music Played

  • Alice Mary Smith

    Andante

    Performer: Angela Malsbury. Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • Alice Mary Smith: Symphonies: Malsbury, LMP, Shelley.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.

  • Thomas Lupo

    Fantasia for 3 Viols, VdGS 24: No. 15

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Lupo: Fantasia.
    • Signum Records.
    • 2.

  • Thomas Lupo

    Fantasia for 5 Viols, VdGS 11: No. 1

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Lupo: Fantasia.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.

  • Arvo Pärt

    Spiegel im Spiegel

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Guillaume Bellom.
    • Pärt: Tabula Rasa.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 7.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Peasant Cantata, BWV 212 (Aria: Klein-zschocher musse)

    Ensemble: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Jeanne Lamon. Singer: Suzie LeBlanc.
    • Bach: Coffee Cantata, Peasant Cantata.
    • Analekta.
    • 24.

  • Claude Debussy

    Marche ecossaise sur un theme populaire orch. composer [orig. pf]

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.

  • Margaret Bonds

    Montgomery Variations: 2. Prayer Meeting

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Kellen Gray.
    • African American Voices II.
    • Linn Records.
    • 02.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Piano Concerto in C sharp minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Poulenc: Piano Concerto, Organ Concerto & Stabat Mater.
    • LPO.
    • 2.

  • Joe Hisaishi

    My Neighbour Totoro Suite

    Ensemble: Mēla Guitar Quartet.
    • TRPTK.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus

    Conductor: Andrew Manze. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Vaughan Williams: Orchestral works.
    • PM Classics Ltd..
    • 2.

  • Henryk Górecki

    5 Kurpian Songs, No. 2, Dark is the Night, How Dark

    Composer: Träd. Ensemble: Silesian String Quartet.
    • Gorecki: Complete Works for String Quartet.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 7.

  • Henryk Górecki

    5 Kurpian Songs, No. 4, I am a Farm-Hand fr

    Composer: Träd. Ensemble: Silesian String Quartet.
    • Gorecki: Complete Works for String Quartet.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 9.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Introduction and rondo capriccioso

    Performer: María Dueñas. Performer: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Mihhail Gerts.
    • Paganini: 24 Caprices — Caprices by Berlioz, Cervelló, Kreisler, Ortiz, Saint-Sa.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 35.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Perpetuum mobile Op.257

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Arabesque for clarinet in B flat and piano

    Performer: Davide Bandieri. Performer: Guillaume Hersperger.
    • L'Esprit des Six.
    • CLAVES RECORDS.
    • 16.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 4 in G Major: II. In gemächlicher Bewegung, ohne Hast

    Conductor: Semyon Bychkov. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 102.

  • Franz Schubert

    Moments musicaux, D. 780: No. 1 in C Major

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Schubert: Piano Sonata & Moments musicaux.
    • Hyperion.

  • Louis Spohr

    Clarinet Concerto no. 4 in E minor WoO.20 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Robin O’Neill.
    • Spohr - Clarinet Concertos 3 and 4.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.

  • Louise Héritte-Viardot

    Piano Quartet No. 1 in A Major, "Im Sommer": I. Morning in the Woods

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. 2.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 1.

  • Aaron Copland

    Down a Country Lane

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Aaron Copland.
    • A Copland Celebration/Vol.1/Famous Orchestra and Chamber Works.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 16.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata No. 7 in C Minor, Op. 30 No. 2: 1st movement

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Performer: Alasdair Beatson.
    • Beethoven: Violin Sonatas 4, 5 & 7.
    • Signum Records.
    • 8.

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