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Start the day on the right note with classical music

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Laudate dominum (Vespers K339)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson. Music Arranger: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Daphnis and Chloé, Suite Ii: I. Lever du jour

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Ravel: Five O'Clock Foxtrot, Boléro, Pavane for a Dead Princess, La valse.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 107.

  • Niel Gow

    Coilsfield House - Drunk at Night, Dry in the Morning

    Composer: Nathaniel Gow. Music Arranger: Maxwell String Quartet. Music Arranger: Maxwell String Quartet. Ensemble: Maxwell String Quartet. Ensemble: Maxwell String Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Op. 74 - Folk Music from Scotland.
    • Linn Records.
    • 2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Concerto in G minor, BWV 1056R

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • JS Bach: Violin Concertos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10-12.

  • Edward Elgar

    La Capricieuse, Op. 17

    • An English Violin.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 6.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Romance in E Major, Op. 67

    • Berlin Classics.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61: I. Scherzo (Transcr. Rachmaninof

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Music Arranger: Sergey Rachmaninov.
    • Mendelssohn.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 4.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Concerto for Violin and Harpsichord in F major, Hob. XVIII:6 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Riccardo Minasi. Performer: Maxim Emelyanychev. Ensemble: Il Pomo d’Oro.
    • WARNER.

  • Roman Hoffstetter

    String Quartet in F major (2nd mvt, Serenade)

    Ensemble: Modigliani Quartet.
    • Portraits.
    • Mirare.
    • 111.

  • Frank Bridge

    The Sea: No. 1, Seascape

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • The Sea in Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Plínio Fernandes. Performer: Samuele Telari. Performer: Thomas Carroll. Music Arranger: Paul Campbell.
    • Violin Cafe.
    • Decca.
    • 3.

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