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Boost your morning with classical music

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Music Played

  • William Byrd

    Ave Verum Corpus

    Choir: Kantos Chamber Choir.
    • Delphian.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No 8 "Pathétique" (Adagio cantabile)

    Performer: Stephen Kovacevich.
    • Beethoven: Popular Piano Sonatas.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op.114 (Adagio)

    Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Torleif Thedéen. Performer: Roland Pöntinen.
    • BIS.

  • 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.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice)

    Ensemble: La Nuova Musica. Conductor: David Bates.
    • Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 27.

  • Robert Schumann

    Trio No 1, Op.63 (3rd mvt, Andante Expressive)

    Performer: Antje Weithaas. Performer: Marie-Elisabeth Hecker. Performer: Dénes Várjon.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Clémence de Grandval

    Lamento (Andante con moto)

    Performer: Lajos Lencsés. Ensemble: Budapest Strings.
    • Hanssler Classics.

  • Paul Dukas

    The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    Conductor: John Wilson. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London.
    • French Orchestral Favourites.
    • Chandos.
    • 101.

  • Charlotte Sohy

    Méditations, Op 18 No 1 (Paix)

    Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Performer: Jâms Coleman.
    • Lumière.
    • Chandos.
    • 101.

  • Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

    Symphony No. 2 in D Minor (3rd mvt, Romanza)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Balakirev: Symphony No. 2, Piano Concerto & Tamara.
    • Chandos.
    • 103.

  • Ferdinand Ries

    Sextet in G Minor (3rd mvt, Rondo)

    Performer: Richard Hosford. Performer: Richard Watkins. Performer: Ursula Leveaux. Performer: Hugh Webb. Performer: Benjamin Frith. Performer: Graham Mitchell. Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Ries: Piano Trio & Sextets.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.

  • Robert Schumann

    Album for the Young, Op 68 (Vintage Song)

    Performer: Luba Edlina.
    • Autumn Classics by Chandos.
    • Chandos Records.
    • 128.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    E lucevan le stelle (Tosca)

    Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nicola Rescigno.
    • DECCA.

  • Camille Saint-Saëns

    Danse Macabre

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Saint-Saëns: Symphonic Poems - Le Carnaval des animaux - L'Assassinat du duc de.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 4.

  • Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor

    Sea Drift

    Choir: London Choral Sinfonia. Conductor: Michael Waldron.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Choral Works.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 201.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Flute Concerto in G minor, RV 104 'La notte'

    Performer: Katy Bircher. Orchestra: La Serenissima. Conductor: Adrian Chandler.
    • Vivaldi: The French Connection 2 (Concertos for Flute, Oboe, Violin, Bassoon & S.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 20.

  • Rita Strohl

    Great Dramatic Sonata "Titus et Bérénice" (2nd mvt, vivace)

    Performer: Edgar Moreau. Performer: David Kadouch.
    • Franck, Poulenc & Strohl: Cello Sonatas.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    La Danza (Soirees musicales)

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Music Arranger: Gordon Langford. Conductor: Major Peter Parkes.
    • Black Dyke Mills Band play Rossini.
    • Chandos.
    • 103.

  • Franz Liszt

    The Young Nun (from 12-lieder after Schubert, D. 828)

    Performer: Leslie Howard.
    • Liszt: Complete Piano Music 33 – The Schubert Transcriptions III.
    • Hyperion.

  • Dónal Lunny

    Sail Away Ladies/Walking in the Parlour

    • The Transatlantic Sessions: Series 3, Vol. 2.
    • Whirlie.
    • 11.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Songe d'une nuit du Sabbat (Symphonie fantastique)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Charles Munch.
    • Altus.

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