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Music Played

  • Ethel Smyth

    Piano Piece in E major

    Performer: Liana Șerbescu.
    • Ethel Smyth - Complete Piano Works.
    • CPO.
    • 004.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade No. 7 in D Major, K. 250 "Haffner": II. Andante

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Münchener Kammerorchester. Conductor: Enrico Onofri.
    • Mozart: Serenata (Eine kleine Nachtmusik - Posthorn - Haffner).
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 3.

  • Claude Debussy

    Marche écossaise

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • DG.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata 147 (Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring)

    Performer: Peter Hurford.
    • Organ Favourites.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 2.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Symphony No 8 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Irish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jörg Widmann.
    • Invitation.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 7.

  • Amanda Röntgen-Maier

    Violin Sonata in B Minor: III. Allegro molto vivace

    Ensemble: Duo Codax.
    • 1878.
    • Genuin.
    • 103.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia - suite Op.11 (Alla marcia)

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.

  • Giles Swayne

    Magnificat I, Op. 33

    Conductor: Nigel Short. Ensemble: Tenebrae.
    • Mother and Child.
    • Signum Records.
    • 3.

  • Edward Elgar

    Helcia (Music for the Powick Asylum)

    Ensemble: Innovation Chamber Ensemble. Conductor: Barry Collett.
    • Elgar: Music for Powick Asylum.
    • Somm.
    • 33.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Folk Songs from Somerset (English Folk Song Suite)

    Ensemble: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • British Wind Band Classics.
    • Chandos.
    • 116.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Piano Trio No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 21, B. 51: III. Allegretto scherzando

    Performer: Boris Giltburg. Performer: Peter Jarůšek. Performer: Veronika Jarůšková.
    • Dvorak: The Complete Piano Trios.
    • SUPRAPHON a.s..
    • 3.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Symphony No. 1 in E Major, Op. 5 "Slavyanskaya": I. Allegro

    Conductor: José Serebrier. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • Glazunov: Complete Symphonies & Concertos.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 10.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Concertino for flute, piano and chamber orchestra (4th mvt)

    Performer: Anthony Robb. Performer: Diana Ambache. Ensemble: Ambache Chamber Ensemble.
    • Liberte, Egalite, Sororite.
    • Ambache.
    • 18.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Rondeau (Les biches)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Paris 1920.
    • Philips.
    • 2.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Soirées musicales [after Rossini]

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Britten: Young Person's Guide etc..
    • Decca.
    • 9-11.

  • Franz Schubert

    Die Forelle

    Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Ian Bostridge.
    • Schubert: Lieder: Bostridge, Drake.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Two Pushkin Waltzes, Op. 120, "Pushkiniana": No. 1 in F Major

    Conductor: Neeme Järvi. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • Prokofiev: Waltz Suite, Pushkin Waltzes, Scene and Waltzes from The Stone Flower.
    • Chandos.
    • 107.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in A minor 'con due violini obligati', RV 522

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Johannes Pramsohler. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.

  • Jorge Cardoso

    Milonga

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić.
    • Miloš Karadaglić - Latino Gold.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.

  • Aaron Copland

    Morning on the Ranch (The Red Pony)

    Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Copland: Music For Films.
    • RCA.
    • 1.

  • Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor

    Four African Dances, Op. 58: III. African Dance

    Performer: Charlie Lovell-Jones. Performer: Julian Chan.
    • Piercing Silence: Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series.
    • Linn Records.
    • 8.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Belkis, Queen of Sheba (The Dance of Belkis at Dawn)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Respighi: Belkis Queen of Sheba and Metamorphoseon.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    William Tell (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Rossini: William Tell: Antonio Pappano.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Polonaise in A major 'Military' (2 Polonaises Op.40)

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Chopin: Polonaises: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Russischer Marsch

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.
    • Strauss: Waltzes, Polkas and Marches.
    • Decca.
    • 9.

  • Alice Mary Smith

    Sonata for A Clarinet and Piano: Allegro

    Performer: Luigi Magistrelli. Performer: Claudia Bracco.
    • Clarinet Repertoire of Women Composers.
    • VDE-GALLO.
    • 1.

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