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Jumping for joy
Put a spring into your step with a sequence of classical, alternative and folk music specially made to fill your day with joy.
Including toe-tappers by Shostakovich and Poulenc, a sparkling Azerbaijan love song and Quebecois folk.
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Thu 23 May 201919:00
BBC Radio 3
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Sergey Prokofiev
Symphony no.1 in D major Op.25 'Classical' (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf: Claudio Abbado.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 13.
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Claude Debussy
Passepied (Suite bergamasque)
Music Arranger: Punch Brothers. Performer: Punch Brothers.- The Phosphorescent Blues.
- Nonesuch.
- 3.
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Juan García de Zéspedes
Convidando está la noche
Ensemble: Ex Cathedra Choir. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.- New World Symhonies.
- HYPERION.
- 15.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Jazz Suite No 1 (Polka)
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- DECCA.
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Francis Poulenc
Rondeau (Les biches)
Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.- Paris 1920: Orchestre de Paris/Semyon Bychkov.
- Philips.
- 2.
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Luciano Berio
Azerbaijan Love Song (Folk Songs)
Singer: Cathy Berberian. Ensemble: Julliard Ensemble. Conductor: Luciano Berio.- Berio: Recital I for Cathy, Folk Songs: Cathy Berberian, Luciano Berio.
- RCA.
- 20.
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Violin Concerto, Op 35 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Shelley.- DG.
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Le Vent du Nord
Le Step A Alexis
Ensemble: Le Vent du Nord.- Territoires.
- Borealis.
- 6.
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- Thu 23 May 201919:00BBC Radio 3
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