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Music Played

  • Maurice Ravel

    Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57, Pt. 1: Nocturne. Danse lente et mystérieuse des Nymphes

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé & Pavane pour une infante défunte.
    • BIS.
    • 107.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in D flat major, Op 27 No 2

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • In the Night.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.

  • John Dowland

    Fortune my Foe

    Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • Dowland: The Art of Melancholy – Lute Songs.
    • Hyperion.
    • 18.

  • Henry Purcell

    Music for a While (Oedipus)

    Music Arranger: Sebastien Dubé. Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Sebastien Dubé.
    • SONY.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ach schläfrige Seele, wie? (Cantata No 115)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • J.S. Bach, Cantatas Vol 12: Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 13.

  • Percy Grainger

    Handel in the Strand

    Performer: Geoffrey Tozer. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Grainger Edition Vol. 5 Works for Chorus and Orchestra 2.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 016.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Nonet in E flat major, Op.38 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • Farrenc: Nonet & Clarinet Trio.
    • DIVOX.
    • 3.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 56 in C Major, Hob. I:56: I. Allegro di molto

    Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Haydn 2032, Vol. 18: Il maestro di scuola.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K488: II. Adagio

    Performer: Imogen Cooper. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 23 & 9 'Jeunehomme'.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 2.

  • Mel Bonis

    Salomé, Op. 100/2

    Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Joseph Bastian.
    • Bonis: Orchestral Works.
    • CPO.
    • 103.

  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    La Giuditta: Dormi, o fulmine di guerra (Nutrice)

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Ensemble: Ensemble Artaserse.
    • La vanità del mondo.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19: II. Allegro scherzando

    Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Rachmaninoff & Brahms.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Ottorino Respighi

    La colomba (The Birds)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon)

    Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Archiv.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Dance a Cachucha (The Gondoliers)

    Librettist: William Gilbert. Ensemble: The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company. Orchestra: New Symphony Orchestra of London. Conductor: John Pryce‐Jones.
    • The Gondoliers.
    • That’s Entertainment.
    • 5.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Deep river (24 Folk melodies Op.59)

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Summertime.
    • Decca.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto, Op. 8 No. 5 in E flat major, RV253 'La tempesta di mare'

    Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • What's Next Vivaldi?.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 1.

  • Edward Elgar

    Sea Pictures, Op. 37: IV. Where Corals Lie

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Martin Yates.
    • Elgar, Gurney & Hurd: Sea Pictures & Pageant of Empire.
    • Dutton Epoch.
    • 13.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Trad.

    Danza morisca

    Orchestra: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Granada Eterna.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 9.

  • Richard Strauss

    Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 8: III. Rondo. Prestissimo

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker. Conductor: Petr Popelka.
    • Richard Strauss.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Clara Schumann

    Romance No 1, Op 22

    Performer: Alexandra Dariescu. Performer: Tomo Keller.
    • A Child's Dream.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 109.

  • Robert Schumann

    Fast zu ernst (Kinderszenen, Op 15)

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Kinderszenen / Kreisleriana.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, "Resurrection": IV. "Urlicht"

    Singer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • SFS Media.

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  • Sat 2 May 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3