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Music Played

  • Arvo Pärt

    Summa

    Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. Director: Renaud Capuçon.
    • Pärt: Tabula Rasa.
    • Erato.
    • 4.

  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de Lune (Suite Bergamasque)

    Performer: Behzod Abduraimov.
    • Inferno.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 5.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 36 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Osmo Vänskä. Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra.
    • Beethoven: The Symphonies: Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska.
    • BIS.
    • 2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Lute Suite No. 1 in E Minor, BWV 996 (I. Prelude and VI. Gigue)

    Performer: Craig Ogden.
    • Craig Ogden in Concert.
    • Chandos.
    • 901.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 21 in C major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart Momentum - 1785.
    • Sony.
    • 5.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Dum complerentur

    Choir: I Fagiolini. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.
    • Benevoli: Missae Angelus Domini & Dum complerentur.
    • CORO.
    • 7.

  • Doreen Carwithen

    String Quartet no. 1 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
    • Music for String Quartet.
    • Somm Recordings.
    • 6.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83: II. Adagio assai

    Performer: Francesco Piemontesi. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Jonathan Nott.
    • Schoenberg, Messiaen & Ravel: Orchestral Works.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 102.

  • Ignace Joseph Pleyel

    Clarinet Concerto in B flat major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Paul Meyer. Orchestra: Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jean‐Pierre Rampal.
    • DENON.

  • Edward Elgar

    Serenade for String Orchestra

    Director: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Zurcher Chamber Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky / Elgar / Mozart: Serenades.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice)

    Music Arranger: Giovanni Sgambati. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Fantasia.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Spanish Dance no.1 (La Vida Breve)

    Music Arranger: Nemanja Radulović. Music Arranger: Aleksandar Sedlar. Orchestra: Double Sens. Conductor: Nemanja Radulović.
    • Roots.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.

  • Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Sonata No 5 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Ramón Ortega Quero. Performer: Ángel Luis Sánchez Moreno. Performer: Marc Trénel. Performer: Wies de Boevé. Performer: Alfonso Sebastián Alegre.
    • Zelenka: 6 Sonatas, ZWV 181.
    • Genuin.
    • 119.

  • Robert Schumann

    Cello Concerto (3rd mvt)

    • Schumann.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 13.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony no.2 in D major Op.43 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic. Conductor: Klaus Mäkelä.
    • DECCA.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Libertango

    Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Piazzolla Reflections.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 15.

  • George Gershwin

    Summertime

    Performer: Andrew Bird. Performer: Jools Holland.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Carnival Overture Op.92

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

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