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Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in F minor Op.20 no.5 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Dudok Quartet Amsterdam.
    • RESONUS.
  • John Field

    Nocturne no.10 in E Major H.54 'Nocturne Pastorale'

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Field: Complete Nocturnes.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.
  • William Lawes

    Royall Consort Suite no.1 in D minor (Aire; Alman; Corant)

    Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • William Lawes: The Royal Consort.
    • LINN.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Seal Lullaby

    Performer: Zoe Hancock. Performer: Black Dyke Band. Music Arranger: Paul Sharman. Conductor: Nicholas Childs.
    • Black Dyke Gold Volume VII.
    • Doyen.
  • Dag Wir茅n

    Marcia (Serenade in C major, Op 11)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Grieg, Sibelius, Nielsen, Wiren: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Marriner.
    • Decca.
    • 15.
  • Johann David Heinichen

    Dresden Concerto in F major, S 232

    Ensemble: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Heinichen: Dresden Concerti.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 11-13.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Classical Hits: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Peter Warlock

    Capriol Suite

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Clio Gould.
    • English String Classics 2: Vaughan Williams/Warlock/Tippet/Elgar etc.
    • Warner Apex.
    • 7.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg concerto no. 4 in G major BWV.1049; III. Presto

    Ensemble: Feinstein Ensemble. Director: Martin Feinstein.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Seascape Op.53

    Orchestra: 麻豆官网首页入口 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Jonathan Bloxham.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Three Botticelli Pictures: I. Spring

    Conductor: Geoffrey Simon. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Respighi: Ballad of the Gnomes, Three Botticelli Pictures, Suite in G major, et.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 102.
  • Amilcare Ponchielli

    Dance of the Hours - conclusion (La Giaconda)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • The Best of The Academy.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in C major, Op 2 No 3 (4th mvt)

    Performer: 脡ric Heidsieck.
    • Beethoven The Collector's Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 8.
  • John Barry

    The Beyondness of Things

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: John Barry.
    • Decca.
  • Amy Beach

    Masked Ball, Op.22

    Orchestra: Moravsk谩 filharmonie Olomouc. Conductor: Hector Valdivia.
    • CENTAUR.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Quartet no.12 in F major, Op.96 'American' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Pavel Haas Quartet.
    • Dvorak String Quartets - Pavel Haas Quartet.
    • Supraphon.
    • 8.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Overture in E flat major Op.24

    Orchestra: 麻豆官网首页入口 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Anja Bihlmaier.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi)

    Singer: Lesley Garrett. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Greenwood.
    • Diva! Lesley Garrett - A Soprano at the Movies.
    • Silva Screen.
    • 7.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

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

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

    St Paul's suite Op.29`2

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Director: Kenneth Sillito.
    • English Music For Strings: ASMF/Kenneth Sillito.
    • Collins.
    • 1.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Libertango

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰. Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Orchestra: European Film Philharmonia Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Christoph Israel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Florence Price

    Symphony No.1 in E Minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Roderick Cox.
    • Florence Price: Piano Concerto in One Movement; Symphony No. 1 in E Minor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 7.
  • Ivo Antognini

    Hope is the thing with feathers

    Lyricist: Emily Dickinson. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Sonate in A-Flat Major, Hob. XVI 46: III. Presto

    • Haydn: Sonates Hob. XVI 49, 46, 20.
    • Zig-Zag Territoires.
    • 9.

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