Ease into the day with classical music

Johann Sebastian Bach

Violin Concerto in G minor after BWV 1056

Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.

• Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque - J.S. Bach violin concertos.
• Channel Classics.
• 7.

George Gershwin

It Ain't Necessarily So (Porgy and Bess)

Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Performer: André Previn. Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz.

• Anne-Sophie Mutter - Tango Song and Dance.
• Deutsche Grammophon.
• 8.

Frederick Delius

A Song Before Sunrise

Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: John Barbirolli.

• Favourite British Music.
• CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.
• 6.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Sinfonia Concertante E-Flat, K. 297b (3rd mvt)

Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Gordon Hunt. Performer: Meyrick Alexander. Performer: Michael Thompson. Orchestra: London Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Warren‐Green.

• Symphony No.29.
• Warner Classics.
• 6.

Franz Liszt

19 Hungarian rhapsodies S.244 (no.11 in A minor)

Performer: Alexandre Kantorow.

• Brahms, Bartók & Liszt: Piano Works.
• BIS.
• 104.

Joseph Haydn

Piano Trio in G (3rd mvt. Rondo all' ongarese)

Ensemble: Trio Fontenay.

• Haydn: Piano Trios: Trio Fontenay.
• Teldec.
• 9.

Felix Mendelssohn

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Overture, Op 21)

Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.

• Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Ozawa.
• Deutsche Grammophon.
• 1.

Hannah Peel

Sunrise through the Dusty Nebula

Ensemble: Tubular Brass. Conductor: Sandy Smith.

• My Own Pleasure.

John Ireland

The Three Ravens

Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Ashley Riches.

• A Musical Zoo.
• CHANDOS.
• 15.

Maurice Ravel

Forlane (Le Tombeau de Couperin)

Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.

• Ravel, Berkeley, Pounds: Orchestral Works.
• Chandos.
• 2.

George Gershwin

Rhapsody in Blue (jazz band version)

Performer: George Gershwin. Music Arranger: Ferde Grofé. Orchestra: Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra.

• NAXOS.

Nadia Boulanger

Cantique

Performer: Myra Huang. Singer: Nicholas Phan.

• Clairières: Songs by Lili & Nadia Boulanger.
• AVIE Records.
• 5.

Ludwig van Beethoven

String Quartet in B flat major, Op.130 (5th mvt)

Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.

• ECM.

Frédéric Chopin

Grande valse brillante

Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.

• Chopin: Waltzes: Stephen Hough.
• Hyperion.
• 1.

William Lawes

Royall consort suite no. 8 in C major

Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Phantasm. Director: Laurence Dreyfus.

• LINN.

Francis Poulenc

Avant le cinéma

Performer: Francis Poulenc. Singer: Pierre Bernac.

• Soirée Française.
• Sony Classical.
• 3.

Georges Delerue

Le Grand Choral

Conductor: Georges Delerue.

• Fantastic Mr. Fox (Original Soundtrack).
• ABKCO (US).
• 20.

Jean‐Philippe Rameau

Les Tendres Plaintes

Performer: Jean Rondeau.

• Vertigo.
• Erato/Warner Classics.
• 103.

Hubert Bath

Cornish Rhapsody

Performer: Philip Fowke. Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Proinnsías Ó Duinn.

• Piano Concertos from the Movies.
• Naxos.
• 6.