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Sean Rafferty is joined by star pianist Junyan Chen, who won second prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition this year, playing live in the studio.

Sean Rafferty is joined by star pianist Junyan Chen, who won second prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition this year; she plays live in the studio. Plus conductor Owen Rees talks to Sean about his new disc with Britten Sinfonia and the Choir of the Queen's College, Oxford, featuring rarely heard pieces by Kenneth Leighton and Ralph Vaughan Williams, with narration by Rowan Atkinson.

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Music Played

  • Malcolm Arnold

    4 English dances - set 2 Op.33 (no.1)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Arnold.
    • Malcolm Arnold: English, Irish, Scottish & Cornish Dances: LPO/Arnold.
    • Lyrita.
    • 5.

  • William Byrd

    Vigilate

    Choir: Gesualdo Six. Conductor: Owain Park.
    • Hyperion.

  • Richard M. Sherman

    Feed the Birds (Mary Poppins) in the style of Brahms

    Composer: Donald Fraser. Ensemble: The Shanghai Quartet. Ensemble: The Shanghai Quartet.
    • Heigh-Ho! Mozart - Favorite Disney Tunes in the Style of Great Classical Compose.
    • Delos.
    • 1201.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie fantastique Op.14 (Un bal)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 11.

  • Anonymous

    Nobody's Jig; Mr Lane's Maggot; Black and Grey

    Ensemble: Les Witches.
    • Nobody's Jig.
    • Alpha.
    • 1.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Piano Sonata in A major H.186 3rd mvt

    Performer: Junyan Chen.

  • Harrison Birtwistle

    Oockooing Bird

    Performer: Junyan Chen.

  • Hubert Parry

    Entry of the Birds (The Birds of Aristophanes)

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Neeme JΓ€rvi. Conductor: Neeme JΓ€rvi.
    • Parry: Works for Chorus and Orchestra.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia - suite Op 11: Intermezzo

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Okko Kamu.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quartet no. 3 in D major Op.44`1 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Navarra String Quartet.
    • Champs Hill Records.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata no 28 in A major op 101 1st mvt

    Performer: Junyan Chen.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon per sonar a 4 [1608]

    Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • DECCA.

  • Ludwig Minkus

    Pas de deux (Don Quixote)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • The Art of the Prima Ballerina.
    • Australian Eloquence.
    • 9.

  • Kenneth Leighton

    Veris gratia Op 6; Aubade

    Choir: Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Owen Rees.
    • Signum Classics.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in G major K.525 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Mozart: Night music: The English Concert/Manze.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.

  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: Air: di Rigori Armata Il Seno

    Ensemble: La Risonanza. Singer: Emanuela Galli. Director: Fabio Bonizzoni.
    • Glossa.

  • Percy Grainger

    Molly on the Shore

    Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble.
    • CHANDOS.

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