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Wind down from the day with classical

Sean Rafferty talks to conductor John Butt, who is preparing to conduct Mozart's opera Idomeneo at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Pianist Steven Osborne plays live in the studio.

2 hours

Last on

Mon 11 Mar 202417:00

Music Played

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Grande Valse Brillante in E flat major Op.18

    Performer: Ingrid Fliter.
    • Chopin: Complete Waltzes.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Seal Lullaby

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Choir: Laudibus. Performer: Christopher Glynn. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Eric Whitacre: Light & Gold: Eric Whitacre.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Intermezzo (Manon Lescaut)

    Orchestra: ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Famous Italian Overtures - Chailly.
    • Decca.
    • 6.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Spring Song (Songs without words, Book 5 No 6)

    Performer: Michael Barenboim. Performer: Natalia Pegarkova-Barenboim.
    • Linn.
  • Marc‐Antoine Charpentier

    David et Jonathas - overture

    Orchestra: Les Temps présents. Conductor: Olivier Schneebeli.
    • Aparte.
  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Trio in G minor, Op 17 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Introit, Op 6

    Performer: Thomas Gould. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 9.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite no.3 in D major BWV.1068 (Air)

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • Bach: Orchestral Suites BWV 1066-1069.
    • Linn Records.
    • 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mass in C minor, K 427 (Great) - Laudamus te

    Singer: Anna Dennis. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • Mozart: Mass in C Minor - C.P.E. Bach: Heilig ist Gott.
    • Linn Records.
    • 3.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Butterfly (Lyric Pieces - book 3 Op.43)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Homeward (Lyric pieces - book 7 Op.62)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Grieg Lyric Pieces.
    • EMI.
    • 6.
  • Maria Theresia von Paradis

    Sicilienne arr Johnson

    Performer: Emma Johnson. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • Emma Johnson - Encores.
    • ASV.
    • 18.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Mazurek in E minor Op.49

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • Dvorak: Violin Concerto; Romance; Mazurek; Humoresque.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Ludwig Göransson

    American Prometheus (Oppenheimer)

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Director: Ludwig Göransson.
    • Oppenheimer (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Back Lot Music.
    • 9.
  • Amilcare Ponchielli

    Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia. Conductor: Lamberto Gardelli.
    • Ponchielli: La Gioconda: Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra/Gardelli.
    • Decca.
  • Robert Schumann

    Arabesque in C major op 18

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
  • Keith Jarrett

    My Song

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
  • Émile Waldteufel

    The Skaters, Op.183

    • The Great Waltzes: The Essential Collection.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger

    Canario

    Performer: Jonas Nordberg.
    • Intavolatura di chitarone.
    • BIS.
    • 108.

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