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Music Played

  • Anton Bruckner

    Vexilla regis, WAB 51

    Conductor: Sigvards Kļava. Choir: Latvian Radio Choir.
    • Bruckner: Latin Motets.
    • Ondine.
    • 15.

  • Edward Elgar

    Minuet Op. 21

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Zürcher Kammerorchester.
    • Dance!.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 36.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Pierrette - Air de ballet, Op. 41

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's New Piano Album: Encores by Schubert, Chaminade, Tchaikovsky, Ri.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    "Bringet dem Herrn Ehre seines Namens" BWV 148

    Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Choir: Amsterdam Baroque Choir. Conductor: Ton Koopman.
    • J.S. Bach: Cantatas Vol. 7.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 52.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Concerto no.1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Elim Chan.
    • DECCA.

  • François Dufaut

    Pieces in D Minor: No. 3, La superbe courante & No. 4, Sarabande

    Performer: Eduardo Egüez.
    • note one.

  • Grace Williams

    Sea Sketches for String Orchestra: V. Calm Sea in Summer

    Conductor: John Andrews. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Grace Williams: Orchestral Works.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 14.

  • Darius Milhaud

    Caramel mou

    Ensemble: Paris Brass Band.
    • Les Cuivres sur le toit.
    • Klarthe.
    • 119.

  • Joseph Haydn

    The heavens are telling (The Creation)

    Performer: Anna Lucia Richter. Performer: Maximillian Schmitt. Performer: Florian Boesch. Choir: Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Alpha.

  • Richard Strauss

    Der Rosenkavalier - Concert Suite for Orchestra - 3. Tempo di valse

    Conductor: Andris Nelsons. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.
    • Strauss.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quartet No. 2, Op. 13, MWV R22: 3rd mvmt Intermezzo

    Ensemble: Opus13.
    • Mendelssohn & Grieg: String Quartets.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 3.

  • Claude Debussy

    12 Etudes, Deuxieme Livre, L. 136: VIII. Pour les agrements

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein.
    • Debussy / Komitas: Music in Time of War.
    • Myrios.
    • 8.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Don Giovanni, K.527; Act 1 No. 7; La ci darem la mano

    Singer: Sir Thomas Allen. Singer: Elizabeth Gale. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • William Walton

    5 Bagatelles (no.4)

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Delphian.

  • Niccolò Paganini

    Moto perpetuo

    Music Arranger: Mikhail Nakariakov. Performer: Sergei Nakariakov. Performer: Alexander Markovich.
    • Carmen Fantasy - Virtuoso Music for Trumpet.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.

  • Henriette Renié

    Harp Concerto in C Minor: II. Adagio

    Performer: Emmanuel Ceysson. Orchestra: Orchestre national Avignon-Provence. Conductor: Samuel Jean.
    • Believe International.

  • Göran Fröst

    Klezmer Dance no.2

    Performer: Martin Fröst. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Sony 88875065292.
    • Sony.
    • 3.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Sonata da chiesa a tre in A Major, Op. 1 No. 3

    Performer: Pavlo Beznosiuk. Ensemble: Avison Ensemble.
    • Corelli: Church Sonatas, Opus 1 & 3.
    • Linn Records.
    • 10.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan and Ludmila: Overture

    Conductor: Ivan Repušić. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra.
    • Famous Opera Choruses.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 1.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Juliet - the young girl (Romeo and Juliet - suite no. 2)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Prokofiev: The Symphonies.
    • BIS.
    • 501.

  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Concerto in A minor Op.7 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Holly Mathieson.
    • Decca.

  • Don Macdonald

    When the Earth Stands Still

    Choir: Lyyra.
    • When the Earth Stands Still.
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude in B Minor, BWV 855a

    Music Arranger: Alexander Siloti. Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Autograph.
    • Erato.
    • 1.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Playful Pizzicato (Simple Symphony)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • Britten: The Young Person's Guide etc: LSO/ECO/Britten.
    • Decca.

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  • Sat 19 Sep 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3