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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Trio, K 442 (2nd mvt)

    Composer: Robert Levin. Performer: Hilary Hahn. Performer: Robert Levin. Performer: Alain Meunier.
    • Mozart: Trio K. 496 & Trio K. 442 (Completed by Robert Levin).
    • Le Palais des Dégustateurs.
    • 2.

  • Henriette Renié

    Harp Concerto in C minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Emmanuel Ceysson. Orchestra: Orchestre national Avignon-Provence. Conductor: Samuel Jean.
    • Belle Epoque.
    • Naive.
    • 2.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in A flat major, D935 no.2

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Schubert: Impromptus D935.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata No 198 'Laß, Fürstin, laß noch einen Strahl': Opening chorus

    Lyricist: Johann Christoph Gottsched. Ensemble: La Chapelle Royale. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Bach: Trauerode, BWV 198.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty: Panorama

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu‐Matias Rouvali.
    • Santtu Conducts Sleeping Beauty.
    • Signum Records.
    • 6.

  • Joseph Bologne

    Quartet concertant No 6 in B flat major

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Azica Records.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Concerto No 1, Op 25 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Ingrid Fliter. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Antonio Méndez.
    • Schumann & Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos.
    • Linn Records.
    • 2.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    La belle Hélène (Act 2: Entr'acte & Chorus 'O Reine, en ce jour')

    Singer: Felicity Lott. Singer: Hjördis Thébault. Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Offenbach - La Belle Hélène.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.

  • Robert Schumann

    Fantasiestücke Op 73, No 1

    Performer: Christian-Pierre La Marca. Performer: Jean-Frédéric Neuburger.
    • Naïve.

  • Baldassare Galuppi

    L'uomo femina (Act I: Sinfonia)

    Ensemble: Le Poème Harmonique. Conductor: Vincent Dumestre.
    • Château de Versailles Spectacles.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Osculetur me (Song of Songs)

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Palestrina: Song of Songs.
    • CORO.
    • 1.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works.
    • Onyx.
    • 04.

  • Hoagy Carmichael

    Skylark

    Performer: Courtney Pine. Performer: Ellis Marsalis.
    • After Midnight Late Night Jazz For Lovers.
    • Antilles.
    • 6.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Silent woods

    Performer: Marc Coppey. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • AUDITE.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major H.7e.1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.
    • Tine Thing Helseth.
    • SIMAX CLASSICS.
    • 3.

  • Clara Schumann

    Romance, Op.22 no.3

    Performer: Jennifer Pike. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • Brahms/Schumann: Jennifer Pike/Tom Poster.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.

  • Alvorada

    Doce do Lobo

    Ensemble: Alvorada.
    • ARC Music.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Prelude (Le tombeau de Couperin)

    Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Herbert Howells

    Three dances for violin and orchestra, Op 7 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Malcolm Stewart. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Herbert Howells: Piano concerto no.2, Concerto for strings, Three Dances.
    • Hyperion.
    • 005.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in A minor RV.356, Op.3`6

    Performer: Avi Avital. Performer: Venice Baroque Orchestra.
    • Avi Avital: Vivaldi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1-3.

  • Cecilia McDowall

    A Tree is a Song

    Choir: The Rodolfus Choir. Conductor: Ralph Allwood.
    • Cecilia McDowall: A Tree is a Song.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    String quintet in E major Op.11 no.5 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Irène Duval. Performer: Jonian Ilias Kadesha. Performer: Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad. Performer: Tim Posner. Performer: Steven Isserlis.
    • Boccherini: String Quintet in E Major, Op. 11/5, G. 275: III. Minuetto – Trio –.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade No 2 (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Brahms: Serenades.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon noni toni à 12, C183

    Music Arranger: Eric Crees. Performer: London Symphony Brass. Conductor: Eric Crees.
    • Cathedral Brass: London Symphony Brass/Crees.
    • Collins Classics.
    • 9.

  • Scott Joplin

    The Entertainer

    Music Arranger: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: André Previn.
    • Scott Joplin: The Easy Winners: Previn, Perlman.
    • EMI.
    • 6.

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