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Pianist Ivana Gavric performs live, plus Katie Derham marks the 80th birthday of the Borodin Quartet.

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2 hours, 1 minute

Music Played

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Violin Concerto in E minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Decca.
  • Hamish MacCunn

    The Land of the Mountain and the Flood, Op. 3

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Grant Llewellyn.
    • Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow; A Shropshire Lad/ /McGunn: The Land of t.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 7.
  • Francesca Caccini

    Dolce Maria

    Performer: Amanda Keesmaat. Performer: Luc Beauséjour. Singer: Shannon Mercer.
    • Analekta.
  • Franz Liszt

    Petrarch Sonnet No123

    Performer: Ivana Gavrić.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vespers (All-Night Vigil), Op 37 No 9 - Teach me, O Lord in the way of truth

    Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Conductor: Sigvards Kļava.
    • Ondine.
  • Dora Pejačević

    Erinnerung Op. 24

    Performer: Ivana Gavrić.
  • Arturo Márquez

    Danzón no.2

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Franz Schubert

    An der Mond D.259

    Singer: Matthias Goerne. Performer: Andreas Haefliger.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Act 3: Sinfonia)

    Orchestra: Le Concert d’Astrée. Director: Emmanuelle Haïm.
    • G. F. Handel: Cleopatra: Arias from Giulio Cesare: Natalie Dessay/Emmanuelle Hai.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 17.
  • George Gershwin

    It ain't necessarily so (Porgy and Bess)

    Singer: Simon Estes. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin. Choir: Berlin Radio Choir.
    • Gershwin: Porgy and Bess: Simon Estes, Roberta Alexander.
    • Philips.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Gavotte (from Holberg Suite)

    Performer: Ivana Gavrić.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony no 3: iii: Poco Allegretto

    Conductor: Simone Young. Orchestra: Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg.
    • Oehms.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    24 Preludes for piano (Op.28); no.6 in B minor

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Petite Suite de Concert, Op. 77 - I. Le caprice de Nannette

    Performer: Anthony Parnther. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra.
    • DECCA.
  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet No 1 in A major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Borodin Quartet.
    • Borodin: String Quartets nos 1&2: Borodin Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet, Op 59 No 2 'Razumovsky' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Borodin Quartet.
    • Chandos.
  • Pietro Mascagni

    Easter Hymn (Cavalleria rusticana)

    Singer: Montserrat Caballé. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Icon: Montserrat Caballé.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    La clemenza di Tito (Overture)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Baldini.
    • Linn.

Broadcast

  • Tue 7 Jan 202517:00

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