Friday - Kate's classical alarm call

Johannes Brahms

A German Requiem Op.45 (How lovely Are thy Dwellings)

Choir: Tenebrae. Performer: Alexander Mason. Conductor: Nigel Short.

• Brahms & Bruckner: Motets.
• Signum Classics.
• 11.

Joseph Haydn

String Quartet Op 64 No 4 in G major (4th mvt)

Ensemble: London Haydn Quartet.

• Hyperion.

Mary Lou Williams

Rosa Mae

Composer: Larry Gales. Performer: Mary Lou Williams. Performer: Bob Cranshaw. Performer: Mickey Roker.

• Zoning.
• Smithsonian Folkways.
• 9.

Richard Wagner

Siegfried Idyll

Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Georg Solti.

• DECCA.

Frédéric Chopin

Study in A flat major, Op.25 no.1

Performer: Murray Perahia.

• Chopin: Etudes Op.10 & Op.25: Murray Perahia.
• Sony Classical.
• 21.

Alexander Borodin

String Quartet no.2 in D major (2nd mvt)

Ensemble: Borodin Quartet.

• Borodin: String Quartets Nos. 1&2: Borodin Quartet.
• Chandos.
• 6.

Gustav Holst

Venus, the Bringer of Peace (The Planets, Op. 32)

Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd‐Jones.

• Naxos.

Sulpitia Cesis

Parvulus filius

Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia. Director: Candace Smith.

• Tactus.

Marianne Faithfull

To the Moon

Composer: Warren Ellis. Lyricist: Percy Bysshe Shelley. Singer: Marianne Faithfull. Performer: Nick Cave. Performer: Warren Ellis. Performer: Head.

• Panta Rei.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op 27 No 2, 'Moonlight' (1st mvt)

Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.

• In the Night.
• HYPERION.
• 2.

Franz Schubert

Ständchen (Schwanengesang, D 957)

Performer: Gerald Moore. Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau.

• DG.

Reginald Spofforth

Hail! Smiling Morn

Performer: Delph Band. Conductor: Philip Goodwin.

• Doyen.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Piano Concerto No 21 in C major (2nd mvt)

Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

• Mozart Momentum - 1785.
• Sony.
• 5.

Aaron Copland

Quiet City

Performer: Thomas Stacy. Performer: Philip Smith. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.

• DG.

George Frideric Handel

Solomon: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Fugue; Air

Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Kenneth Sillito.

• CAPRICCIO.

Barbara Strozzi

Serenata con violini (Sinfonia), Op 8

Ensemble: Ensemble Poïesis.

• Aeon.

Kaija Saariaho

7 Papillons: No 7

Performer: Anssi Karttunen.

• Ondine.

Karen Tweed

Back Home at Onsbacken

Ensemble: RANT.

• RANT.
• Bandcamp.

Edvard Grieg

Blueberry Slope (The Mountain Maid, Op. 67)

Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Performer: Håvard Gimse.

• Storyteller.
• Warner Classics.
• 12.

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Symphony in F sharp major, Op.40 (2nd mvt)

Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.

• Chandos.