
Suzy Klein with Essential Quintets, Daniel Kidane and Mozart's Soave sia il vento from Così fan tutte
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Franz Liszt
Transcendental Study in B flat major S.139 no.5
Performer: Alice Sara Ott.- 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
- Deutshe Grammophon.
- 5.
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Cyril Scott
3 Symphonic Dances (no.1)
Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.- CHANDOS CHAN.
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Camille Saint‐Saëns
Violin Sonata no.1 in D minor Op.75 (4th mvt)
Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Jeremy Denk.- French Impressions.
- Sony.
- 4.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Soave sia il vento (Cosi fan tutte K.588)
Singer: Sandrine Piau. Singer: Lea Desandre. Singer: Florian Sempey. Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.- Erato.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto in D major RV.208 'Il Grosso Mogul' (3rd mvt)
Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico.- ALPHA.
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Manuel de Falla
Ritual Fire Dance (El Amor Brujo)
Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.- Harmonia mundi.
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Duke Ellington
Solitude
Music Arranger: Morton Gould. Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- Chandos.
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Andrea Falconiero
Ciaccona
Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Lorenza Borrani. Performer: Jonathan Cohen. Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout. Performer: Stefan Maass. Performer: Stefan Rath. Performer: Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen.- 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 1.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 49 (4th mvt)
Performer: Emanuel Ax. Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma.- Mendelssohn: Piano Trios, Opp. 49 & 66: Perlman : Ma : Ax.
- Sony Classical.
- 4.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Heute noch, heute noch (Cantata no.211 "Kaffee-Kantata")
Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.- J.S. Bach: Secular Cantatas: Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki.
- BIS.
- 18.
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Joseph Haydn
Sinfonia concertante in B flat major H.1.105 (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.- Hyperion.
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Gary Carpenter
SET (No Hiding Place)
Performer: Iain Ballamy. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.- Nimbus.
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Frédéric Chopin
Rondo in C major B.27, Op.73
Performer: Daniil Trifonov. Performer: Sergei Babayan.- Chopin Evocations.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 16.
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Kodály Zoltán
Intermezzo (Hary Janos Suite, Op.35a)
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.- Zoltan Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite: Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer.
- Philips.
- 15.
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Richard Strauss
Hab' mir's gelobt (Der Rosenkavalier)
Singer: Diana Damrau. Singer: Adrianne Pieczonka. Singer: Elīna Garanča. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Fabio Luisi.- 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 9.
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Michael Tippett
Deep River (5 Spirituals from 'A Child of our Time')
Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.- Collins Classics.
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Leonard Bernstein
Some other time (On The Town)
Singer: Frederica von Stade. Singer: Tyne Daly. Singer: David Garrison. Singer: Kurt Ollmann. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.- DG.
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Jan Dismas Zelenka
Trio Sonata no.5 in F major (Allegro)
Ensemble: Collegium 1704. Performer: Václav Luks.- Accent.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Adelaide, Op.46
Singer: James Newby. Performer: Joseph Middleton.- I Wonder as I Wander.
- BIS.
- 801.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Maigesang Op.52 no.4
Singer: James Newby. Performer: Joseph Middleton.- I Wonder as I Wander.
- BIS.
- 901.
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Antonín Dvořák
Piano Quintet no.2 in A major Op.81 (4th mvt)
Performer: Stefan Vladar. Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.- Dvorak: Quatuor Op.95 'Americain'.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 8.
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George Gershwin
Strike Up the Band (Overture)
Orchestra: WDR Funkhausorchester. Conductor: Wayne Marshall.- Born to play Gershwin.
- AVI.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue in C sharp major, BWV.848
Performer: Sir András Schiff.- DECCA.
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Richard Walthew
Clarinet Concerto (3rd mvt)
Orchestrator: Alfie Pugh. Performer: Robert Plane. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.- Champs Hill Records.
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Manuel de Falla
7 Canciones Populares Espanolas (Nana)
Performer: Yaniv d'Or. Performer: Ensemble NAYA.- Naxos.
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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Nocturne in E flat major
Performer: Xavier de Maistre.- Sony.
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George Frideric Handel
Sento la gioia (Amadigi di Gaula)
Music Arranger: Trevor Pinnock. Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.- EMI.
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Philip Glass
Etude no.13
Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Orlando Gibbons
Almighty and everlasting God
Choir: Stile Antico.- The Phoenix Rising.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 10.
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Clara Schumann
Piano Trio in G minor Op.17 (4th mvt)
Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.- Hyperion.
Broadcast
- Wed 18 Nov 202009:00BBC Radio 3
