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Pianist Danny Driver and conductor David Hill

Danny Driver plays live in the studio.
Plus, David Hill, Musical Director of the Bach Choir, joins Petroc ahead of their annual performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion at London's Royal Festival Hall.

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Music Played

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Scherzo)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite for Orchestra No. 2: Ouverture

    Ensemble: La Petite Bande. Conductor: Sigiswald Kuijken.
  • Trad.

    Lamorna

    Music Arranger: Brenda Wootton. Singer: Brenda Wootton.
    • Way Down To Lamorna.
    • Sentinel.
    • 1.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Cornish Dance No 4

    Performer: Hugh Bean. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • Malcolm Arnold: Dances: Philharmonia, Thomson.
    • Chandos.
    • 16.
  • FrĂ©dĂ©ric Chopin

    'Aeolian Harp' (Études, Op 25 No 1) - Live on In Tune

    Performer: Danny Driver.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Nessun dorma (Turandot)

    Singer: PlĂĄcido Domingo. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • The Essential Domingo: Arias and songs by Verdi, Bizet, Donizetti etc..
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • LĂ©o Delibes

    Waltz (Coppelia)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de l’OpĂ©ra de Lyon. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • Delibes: Coppelia: Orchestre de l'opera de Lyon/Nagano.
    • Erato.
    • 2.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Violin Concerto (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony. Conductor: James Gaffigan.
    • Warner.
  • François Couperin

    Le moucheron

    Performer: Jory Vinikour.
    • L'unique.
    • Cedille.
    • 108.
  • György Ligeti

    Musica Ricercata (No 7, Cantabile, molto legato) - Live on In Tune

    Performer: Danny Driver.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 3, "Eroica" (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Ádåm Fischer.
    • Beethoven: Complete Symphonies.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Muriel Herbert

    Loveliest of trees

    Singer: James Gilchrist. Performer: David Owen Norris.
    • LINN.
  • Maurice Ravel

    String Quartet in F major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Ébùne.
    • Debussy, FaurĂ© & Ravel: String Quartets.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.
  • György Ligeti

    Études for Piano, Book 1 (2nd mvt, Cordes à vide, "Open Strings") - Live on In Tune

    Performer: Danny Driver.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Foxtrot (Suite for Jazz Band no.1)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Shostakovich: The Jazz Album - Brautigam, Masseurs.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Rebecca Clarke

    Viola Sonata (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: James Baillieu.
    • A Lionel Tertis Celebration.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 16.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Requiem: Sanctus

    Performer: Iain Farrington. Performer: Anna Tilbrook. Performer: Philip Scriven. Performer: Peter Fry. Music Arranger: Richard Blackford. Choir: The Bach Choir. Conductor: David Hill.
    • Verdi: Requiem - Richard Blackford's Orchestration for Two Pianos, Organ and Per.
    • Nimbus Alliance.
    • 12.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    O Father, Let Thy Will Be Done (St Matthew Passion)

    Choir: The Bach Choir. Conductor: David Hill.
    • Bach Inspired.
    • Stone Records.
    • 7.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Be Near Me, Lord, When Dying (St Matthew Passion)

    Choir: The Bach Choir. Conductor: David Hill.
    • Bach Inspired.
    • Stone Records.
    • 62.
  • Henry Balfour Gardiner

    Evening Hymn - Te lucis ante terminum

    Orchestrator: Dominic Hill. Choir: Bach Choir. Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: David Hill.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Die Fledermaus (Overture)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.
    • SONY.

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