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Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Hommage à Rameau (Images - set 1)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Debussy – Rameau.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 28.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 104 in D major, 'London' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Haydn: The London Symphonies: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Davis.
    • Philips.
    • 10.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Little tree

    Performer: Leslie De'Ath. Choir: Elora Festival Singers. Conductor: Noel Edison.
    • Eric Whitacre, Choral Music: Elora Festival Singers.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Flute Sonata in B minor, BWV 1030 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: James Galway. Performer: Phillip Moll. Performer: Sarah Cunningham.
    • J.S. Bach Flute Sonatas James Galway Phillip Moll Sarah Cunningham.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 2.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 5 in C minor, Op 67 (2nd mvt, Andante con moto)

    Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Performer: Iván Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.
  • Benjamin Britten

    A Shepherd's Carol

    Choir: Holst Singers. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.
  • William Grant Still

    African Dancer (Suite for violin and piano)

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Zhu Wang.
    • Roots.
    • Decca.
    • 9.
  • Emma Johnson

    I sing of a maiden

    Performer: Emma Johnson. Choir: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • A Pembroke Christmas.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 6.
  • 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.
  • Anon.

    Santa Lucia

    Performer: Markus Leoson. Performer: Svante Henryson. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter.
    • DG.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Wedding Cake Op.76

    Performer: Romain Descharmes. Orchestra: Malmö SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: Marc Soustrot.
    • Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos, Vol. 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.
  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Menuet in G major (Pièces de clavecin, 1707)

    Performer: Karen Flint.
    • Jacquet de la Guerre: Complete Works for Harpsichord.
    • Plectra.
    • 13.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Ma mère l'oye (Le jardin féerique)

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Yannick Nezet-Seguin Ravel Rotterdam Phiharmonic Orchestra.
    • EMI.
    • 17.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Ging heut' morgen uber's Feld (Songs of a Wayfarer, No 2)

    Singer: Huw Montague Rendall. Orchestra: Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen Normandie. Conductor: Ben Glassberg.
    • Contemplation.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in E minor, Op 72 No 2

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Performer: Steven Osborne.
  • Arturo Márquez

    Danzón no.2

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Richard Strauss

    Weihnachtslied, TrV. 2

    Performer: Roger Vignoles. Singer: Ruby Hughes.
    • Hyperion.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in F minor, RV 297, 'Winter' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Director: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Orchestra: TrondheimSolistene.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Mutter, Trondheim Soloists.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 12.
  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Una furtiva lagrima (L'elisir d'amore)

    Singer: Joseph Calleja. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Carlo Rizzi.
    • Decca.
  • Jules Massenet

    La Vierge: La dernier sommeil de la Virge

    Orchestra: Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • ERATO.
  • Max Steiner

    Casablanca

    Performer: William Tritt. Orchestra: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Erich Kunzel.
    • Selections from Victory at Sea, War and Remembrance, Casablanca and other favour.
    • TELARC.
    • 7.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    December (The Year)

    Performer: Lauma Skride.
    • SONY BMG.
  • Piers Kennedy

    Coventry Carol

    Choir: 鶹Լ Singers. Conductor: Toby Ward. Singer: Jessica Gillingwater. Singer: Peter Davoren. Singer: Jamie W. Hall.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scheherazade, Op 35 (The Young Prince and Princess)

    Performer: Maria Larionoff. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz. Orchestra: Seattle Symphony.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Paul Williams

    The Muppet Christmas Carol "Suite"

    Performer: The Muppets. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • The Muppets Christmas Carol.
    • EMI Gold.
    • 1.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Octet in E flat major Op.20 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Gringolts Quartet. Ensemble: Meta4.
    • Felix Mendelssohn & Enescu: Octets.
    • BIS.
    • 102.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Whither must I wander (Songs of Travel)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Iain Burnside.
    • Naxos.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Variation 8

    Ensemble: WDR Big Band Köln.
    • Ariabesques - WDR Big Band Plays Bach (The Goldberg Variations).
    • Jazzline.

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