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Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite (Air)

    Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sebastian Lang-Lessing.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites, Holberg Suite & Wedding Day At Troldhaugen.
    • ABC Classics.
    • 12.

  • John Field

    Nocturne No. 16 in C Major, H.60

    Performer: Elizabeth Joy Roe.
    • Field: Complete Nocturnes.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 16.

  • Ermanno Wolf‐Ferrari

    School for Fathers: Prelude

    Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Wolf-Ferrari: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 105.

  • Ermanno Wolf‐Ferrari

    School for Fathers: Intermezzo

    Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Wolf-Ferrari: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 106.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Motet BWV230 'Lobet den Herrn alle Heiden'

    Ensemble: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart. Director: Hans-Christoph Rademann.
    • Johann Sebastian Bach: The Motets, BWV 225-230.
    • Accentus Music.

  • Ole Bull

    Saeterjantans Sondag [Herd girl's Sunday]

    Music Arranger: Øyvind Westby. Performer: Ole Edvard Antonsen. Ensemble: Kongelige norske marines musikkorps. Conductor: Ingar Bergby.
    • BIS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Für Elise

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade no.2 in A major, Op.16 (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • LSO Live.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Cantique de Jean Racine, Op 11

    Choir: VOCES8 Foundation Choir. Orchestra: VOCES8 Foundation Orchestra. Conductor: Barnaby Smith.
    • Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 (Arr. Davis for Choir & Orchestra).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 25 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Director: Neville Marriner.
    • Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos Nos. 1&2: Perahia.
    • CBS.
    • 1.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

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

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Director: Neville Marriner.
    • Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos Nos. 1&2: Perahia.
    • CBS.
    • 2.

  • Domenico Zipoli

    Elevazione

    Performer: Julia Girdwood. Performer: Robert Truman. Ensemble: Consort of London. Conductor: Robert Haydon Clark.
    • Collins Classics.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Mother Goose Suite: The Fairy Garden

    Performer: Martha Argerich.

  • Zoe Yost

    Hymn to Awe (Three Hymns for Wind Quintet)

    Performer: Jihyun Choi. Performer: Katie Rusalov. Performer: Meli Everson. Performer: Jaxson Padgett. Performer: Ben Wehtje.
    • SPACES.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 9.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Intermezzo (Manon Lescaut)

    Orchestra: ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Famous Italian Overtures - Chailly.
    • Decca.
    • 6.

  • George Gershwin

    Walking the Dog (Shall we Dance)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Performer: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Gershwin: The 1920s & 1930s: Tilson Thomas.
    • CBS Masterworks.
    • 8.

  • Aldo Romano

    Camino

    Performer: Ballaké Sissoko. Performer: Vincent Peirani. Performer: Vincent Ségal.
    • Sou kora.
    • No Format!.
    • 2.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 1 (1st mvt)

    Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth. Orchestra: Les Siècles.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan" (Hamburg-Weimar 1893-94 Version).
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 101.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Soave sia il vento (Cosi Fan Tutte)

    Singer: Simone Kermes. Singer: Malena Ernman. Singer: Konstantin Wolff. Ensemble: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • SONY.

  • Anna Bon di Venezia

    Sonata No 5 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Fabian Grosch. Performer: Vladimir Soares.
    • Anna Bon: Sonatas para Flauta Op. 1.
    • Tratore.
    • 15.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No 2 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3.
    • BIS.
    • 102.

  • Henry Purcell

    Your hay it is mow'd (King Arthur)

    Singer: Paul Elliott. Singer: Ashley Stafford. Singer: Stephen Varcoe. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Erato.

  • Charles‐Valentin Alkan

    Cello Sonata in E major, Op.47 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Chopin: Cello Sonatas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

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