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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic.
    • Kennedy plays Bach with the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • EMI.
    • 7.

  • Ethel Smyth

    Serenade in D (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Odaline de la Martínez.
    • Chandos.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures from an exhibition for piano: Promenade, The Old Castle, Promenade III, Tuileries Garden

    Performer: Thomas Kelly. Performer: John Frederick Hudson.

  • Percy Grainger

    Shepherd's Hey

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Roy Newsome.
    • Christmas Fantasy.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 9.

  • Eduardo Falú

    Zapateo

    Performer: Carlos Martinez.
    • Acqua.

  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Zapateado (Spanish Dances Op.23)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Eduard Laurel.
    • Wieniawski, Sarasate: James Ehnes, Eduard Laurel.
    • CBC Records.
    • 11.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No.5 in E minor, Op.64: II. Andante Cantabile

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Otto Klemperer.

  • John Frederick Hudson

    Outside the Lines

    Performer: Thomas Kelly. Performer: John Frederick Hudson.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Zefiro torna

    Choir: I Fagiolini. Director: Robert Hollingworth.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 4 in B flat major, Op 60 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • The Beethoven Symphonies: Live from the Edinburgh Festival.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.

  • Frederick Loewe

    Overture (My Fair Lady)

    Conductor: André Previn. Orchestra: The Warner Bros. Studio Orchestra.
    • My Fair Lady.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Alan Jay Lerner

    The Heather on the Hill (from 'Brigadoon')

    Composer: Frederick Loewe. Performer: Sam Jewison.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Scherzo-valse (Suite pastorale)

    Ensemble: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Bizet/Chabrier: Les Siecles/Francois-Xavier Roth.
    • Mirare.
    • 8.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Cello Sonata, FP 143: II. Cavatine

    Ensemble: Daniel Müller‐Schott. Performer: Robert Kulek.
    • Debussy/Poulenc/Franck/Ravel:Music for Cello & Piano.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No 5 in B flat major, D 485 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Henri Vieuxtemps

    Viola Sonata in B flat major Op.36 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Ke Ma.
    • Champs Hill.

  • Thomas Tallis

    If Ye Love me

    Choir: Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • DELPHIAN.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Scherzo (Octet in E flat major Op.20)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

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