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2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Frédéric Chopin

    24 Preludes Op.28 (no.13 in F sharp major)

    Performer: Eric Lu.
    • Warner.
  • Marie Jaëll

    Cello Concerto in F Major: III. Andantino sostenuto

    Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Anna Rakitina.
    • Cello Concerto in F Major/III. Andantino sostenuto.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Tu es Petrus, a 6

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • DECCA.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto no.2 in F major, BWV.1047

    Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • Naive.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in E flat major D.899 no.2

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Schubert: Impromptus: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Philips.
    • 2.
  • Leokadiya Kashperova

    Symphony in B Minor, Op. 4: II. Allegretto scherzando, presto

    Conductor: Anna Skryleva. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.
    • Kashperova: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 2 & Symphony in B Minor, Op. 4.
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 105.
  • James Oswald

    The Tulip (Airs for the Spring)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Hesperi.
    • A Gift for your Garden.
    • BIS.
    • 21-23.
  • Isobel Waller-Bridge

    The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse

    Performer: Isobel Waller-Bridge. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Alexander.
    • The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse.
    • SONY.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 299: II. Andantino

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Anneleen Lenaerts. Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Conductor: François Leleux.
    • Mozart & Flute in Paris - Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 299: II. Andantino.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131: V. Presto

    Ensemble: Calidore String Quartet.
    • Beethoven Quartets, Vol. 1: Late String Quartets.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 309.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Ancient Suite

    Music Arranger: Jonas Forssell. Performer: Martin Fröst. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Choir: Adolf Fredriks Girls Choir.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Franz Liszt

    Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke [Mephisto Waltz no.1]

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Kazuki Yamada.
    • German Dances.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 2.
  • Graham Fitkin

    Yellow on Yellow

    Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
    • BIS.
  • Reinhold Moritzevich Glière

    The Red Poppy Suite - V: Valse

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Edward Downes.
    • CHANDOS.
  • André Previn

    Like Blue

    Performer: André Previn. Performer: Shelly Manne. Performer: Red Mitchell.
    • The Subterraneans.
    • Sony.
    • 11.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Largo al factotum (The Barber of Seville)

    Singer: Michael Spyres. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg. Conductor: Marko Letonja.
    • Baritenor.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Triple Violin Concerto in F Major, TWV 53:F1

    Performer: Asako Takeuchi. Performer: Naomi Burrill. Conductor: Elizabeth Wallfisch. Orchestra: The Wallfisch Band.
    • Telemann: Complete Violin Concertos, Vol. 8.
    • CPO.
    • 502.
  • Clara Schumann

    Romance in B flat major, Op.22 no.3

    Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Lisa Batiashvili plays Brahms & C. Schumann.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • Kodály Zoltán

    Viennese Musical Clock (Hary Janos Suite)

    Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Kodály: Háry János Suite, Summer Evening & Symphony in C Major.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • Cristóbal de Morales

    Jubilate Deo omnis terra

    Conductor: Harry Christophers. Ensemble: The Sixteen.
    • Morales: Jubilate Deo omnis terra.
    • CORO.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    La Clemenza di Tito - opera in 2 acts K.621: Overture

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • DG.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations BWV.988: Variations 10-12

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Var. 21.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73: IV. Allegro con spirito

    • Brahms: The Symphonies.
    • Linn Records.
    • 8.

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