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Music Played

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    3 Latin Motets: III. Beati quorum via

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Stanford: 3 Motets & Other Choral Music.
    • Hyperion.

  • Robert Ballard

    Diverses Piesces Mises sur le Luth

    Performer: Toby Carr.
    • Softest Thunder.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 2.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Jane Grey

    Performer: Alex Mitchell. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: John Andrews.
    • Resound: Music by British Composers.
    • Resonus Classics.

  • Georges Bizet

    Chants du Rhin: I. L'aurore

    Performer: Roberto Prosseda.
    • Bizet: Chants du Rhin, WD 52: I. L'aurore.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No 4 in D Major: IV. Menuets I & II

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
    • Bach: Orchestral Suites Nos. 1-4.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 4.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in B flat major K.361 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: LSO Wind Ensemble.
    • MOZART Serenade No 10 for winds Gran Partita.
    • LSO Live.
    • 3.

  • Alexander Tsfasman

    Jazz Suite: II. Lyrical Waltz

    Performer: Karl‐Heinz Steffens. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • naive, a label of Believe Group.

  • Luigi Gatti

    Quartet in F Major: III. Rondo. Allegro

    Performer: Céline Moinet. Performer: Sindy Mohamed. Performer: Mohamed Hiber. Performer: Tim Park.
    • EDEL Music & Entertainment GmbH.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite: III. Gavotte - Musette - Gavotte

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Hanssler.

  • Eric Coates

    I Sing to You (Souvenir)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Eric Coates: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    The Seasons: XI. November. Troika

    Performer: Bruce Liu.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Seasons (Deluxe Edition).
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 11.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Cello Concerto in B Minor: I. Allegro

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • Dvořák.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Nobuo Uematsu

    Frozen Tears (Merregnon: Heart of Ice)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Eckehard Stier.
    • Uematsu: Merregnon: Heart of Ice: Frozen Tears.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Sea Songs

    Performer: Tredegar Band. Conductor: Ian Porthouse.
    • Albion.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 59 in A major, 'Fire' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Haydn 2032, Vol. 13: Horn Signal.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 8.

  • Joseph Bologne

    L'Amant anonyme, Symphony in D Major: First Movement

    Orchestra: Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal. Conductor: Théotime Langlois de Swarte.
    • Le Chevalier de Saint-George - Portrait.
    • Château de Versailles Spectacles.
    • 1.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Hymn to St. Cecilia

    Choir: VOCES8. Conductor: Barnaby Smith.
    • After Silence.
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 31.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    St Paul Op.36 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Mendelssohn: Paulus, Op. 36, Pt. 1: No. 1, Overture.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Septet in E-Flat Major: I. Adagio - Allegro con brio

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Wen Xiao Zheng. Performer: Eric Terwilliger. Performer: Hanno Simons. Performer: Christopher Corbett. Performer: Marco Postinghel. Singer: Heinrich Braun.
    • Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Op. 61, Septet, Op. 20 & Variations on Folk Song.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat Major: III. Rondo

    Performer: Lucienne Renaudin Vary. Orchestra: Luzerner Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: Michael Sanderling.
    • Trumpet Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Suite in E minor: Rigaudons 1 & 2

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson. Music Arranger: Michel Sanvoisin.
    • Debussy – Rameau.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major: II. Scherzo. Sehr mäßig

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Schumann: Complete Symphonies.
    • Platoon.
    • 10.

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