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Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Danse Profane

    Performer: Marie‐Pierre Langlamet. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Indésens Records.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major, K. 361 "Gran partita": III. Adagio

    Performer: Mark Simpson. Performer: Fraser Langton. Performer: Fraser Langton. Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Emma Fielding. Performer: Amy Harman. Performer: Dom Tyler. Performer: Angela Barnes. Performer: David Stark. Performer: Ben Goldscheider. Performer: James Pillai. Performer: Fabian van de Geest.
    • Mark Simpson: Geysir - Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major, K. 361 "Gran par.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 203.

  • Robert Schumann

    Bilder aus Osten, Op. 66 - VI. Reuig andächtig

    Performer: Beatrice Rana. Performer: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata no. 6 in G major BWV.530

    Performer: Antoine Torunczyk. Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen. Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
    • Berlin Classics.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in E minor Op.72 no.2

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • DECCA.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio in E flat major D.929: III - Scherzando and trio

    Ensemble: Gould Piano Trio.
    • Resonus Classics.

  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Stabat Mater dolorosa

    Lyricist: Jacopone da Todi. Singer: Giulia Semenzato. Singer: Lucile Richardot. Orchestra: Ensemble Resonanz. Conductor: Riccardo Minasi.
    • Pergolesi: Stabat Mater - Rossell: Salve Regina.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1.

  • Valborg Aulin

    Valse élégiaque

    Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • DB Productions.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • New Year Concert 2012.
    • Sony.
    • 5.

  • Reynaldo Hahn

    Piano Quartet in G Major: IV. Allegro assai

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Hahn: Piano Quintet, Songs, Piano Quartet.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 12.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony no.3 in A minor Op.56 'Scottish' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • Felix Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5.
    • Linn Records.
    • 2.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 5: (5th mvt. Adagietto)

    Orchestra: Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Gielen.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor.
    • SWR Classic.
    • 4.

  • Tomás Méndez

    Cucurrucucú paloma

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Performer: Toby Carr. Lyricist: Tomás Méndez. Singer: Nicholas Mulroy.
    • De Pasión Mortal: Songs from Two Golden Ages.
    • Linn Records.
    • 2.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite Op.40 (Prelude & Rigaudon)

    Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Director: Richard Tognetti.
    • BIS.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Bassoon Concerto in C major RV.467

    Performer: Peter Whelan. Orchestra: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • Avie.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    On Wenlock Edge: No. 5, Bredon Hill

    Performer: Julien Dieudegard. Performer: Émeline Concé. Performer: Louise Desjardins. Performer: Louis Rodde. Performer: Anne Le Bozec. Singer: Cyrille Dubois.
    • NoMadMusic.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 1 in C major, Op 15 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Lars Vogt. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1 & 2: Vogt, Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.

  • Herman Bellstedt

    Napoli

    Performer: Roger Webster. Performer: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Nicholas J Childs.
    • Essential Dyke Vol. III: Black Dyke Band, Nicholas J Childs.
    • Doyen.
    • 3.

  • Earl Wild

    Wild: Grand Fantasy on Porgy and Bess: Summertime (After Gershwin)

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Summertime.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    L'usignuolo (The Birds)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.

  • Édouard Lalo

    Namouna, Suite No. 1 - IV. Parades de foire. Allegro vivace

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth - au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

Broadcast

  • Sat 24 Jan 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3