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Music Played

  • Charles Orr

    A Cotswold Hill Tune

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: David Lloyd‐Jones.
    • English String Miniatures, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Christian Sinding

    The Rustle of Spring (6 Pieces Op.32)

    Performer: Philip Martin.
    • The Maiden's Prayer: Piano Music from the 19th-Century Salon.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Dornroschen - tone-pictures from the opera, no.1: Prelude

    Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ulf Schirmer.
    • CPO.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048

    Orchestra: Apollo’s Fire. Conductor: Jeannette Sorrell.
    • AVIE.

  • Carl Filtsch

    Premières pensées musicales, Op. 3: III. Mazurka

    Performer: Alexandra Dariescu.
    • A Child’s Dream.
    • Signum Records.
    • 18.

  • Thomas Tallis

    Spem in alium

    Choir: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • Spem in alium. Vidi aquam.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 47 in G Major, Hob. I:47: I. [Allegro]

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Haydn 2032, Vol. 2: Il filosofo.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 13.

  • Margaret Bonds

    Troubled Water

    Performer: Martin James Bartlett.
    • Till I Wake.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.

  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Canario (Fantasia para un gentilhombre)

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Milos Karadaglic - Aranjuez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Symphony No 3 in C minor, Op 78, "Organ Symphony" (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals & Symphony No. 3, Op. 78 "Organ Symphony".
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Laudate Dominum (Vesperae solennes de confessore K.339)

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Choir: Accentus. Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Erato.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64: II. The Street Awakens (Arr. for Viola & Piano)

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Frank Dupree.
    • A Poet's Love, Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - Schumann: Dichterliebe.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 2.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La forza del destino: Overture

    Conductor: Andris Nelsons. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Sommernachtskonzert 2024 / Summer Night Concert 2024.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.

  • Wynton Marsalis

    Fiddle Dance Suite - 2. As the Wind goes

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti.
    • Marsalis: Violin Concerto; Fiddle Dance Suite.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

  • Franz Schubert

    Rondo for Piano Four-Hands in A Major, D. 951

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou. Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Schubert: Four Hands.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 7.

  • Jules Massenet

    Suite No. 7 "Scènes alsaciennes": I. Dimanche matin

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jean-Yves Ossonce.
    • Massenet: Orchestral Suites Nos. 4 - 7.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux Aurumque

    Choir: The Elora Singers. Conductor: Noel Edison.
    • Whitacre: Choral Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2: II. Adagio cantabile - Allegro

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Edward MacDowell

    Woodland Sketches, Op. 51: I. To a Wild Rose

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's Piano Postcards.
    • Hyperion.
    • 24.

  • Émile Waldteufel

    The Skaters - waltz

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Les nuits de Paris.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 10.

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