Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture in Building a Library with Marina Frolova-Walker and Andrew McGregor
Marina Frolova-Walker choses her favourite version of Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet fantasy overture in Building a Library.
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Building a Library
Marina Frolova-Walker chooses her favourite version of Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture.
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Gregorio Lambranzi
Dances from the 'Ballet-school' (extract)
Music Arranger: Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Music Arranger: Olivier Fourés. Orchestra: Le Consort.- Harmonia Mundi.
- 8-12.
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Claude Debussy
Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
Music Arranger: David Walter. Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.- Hyperion.
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Rufus Wainwright
Dream Requiem (Darkness)
Choir: Maîtrise de Radio France. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Mikko Franck.- Warner Classics.
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Rufus Wainwright
Dream Requiem - Sequentia II. Mors stupebit
Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Choir: Maîtrise de Radio France. Choir: Chœur de Radio France. Conductor: Mikko Franck.- Warner Classics.
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Manuel de Falla
In the Generalife (Nights in the Garden of Spain)
Performer: Clélia Iruzun. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Jac van Steen.- Somm.
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Giovanni Sollima
Il concerto perduto [after Vivaldi's Cello Concerto in E minor RV.787 'per Teresa'] (2nd mvt)
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi. Performer: Giovanni Sollima. Performer: Federico Guglielmo. Ensemble: Il Pomo d’Oro.- Erato.
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Giles Swayne
Riff-raff
Performer: James McVinnie.- Pentatone.
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Béla Bartók
String Quartet no.4 Sz 91 (5th mvt)
Ensemble: Marmen Quartet.- BIS.
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Exultate Deo
Choir: Stile Antico.- Decca.
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Missa Papae Marcelli (Kyrie)
Choir: Stile Antico.- Decca.
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Clara Schumann
3 Romances Op.22 (no.1 in D flat major)
Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Performer: Katia Labèque.- Viktoria Mullova & Katia Labeque - Recital.
- Signum Classics.
- 1.
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Kurt Weill
The Seven Deadly Sins (Prologue)
Singer: Magdalena Kožená. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins.
- LSO Live.
- 101.
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Kurt Weill
The Seven Deadly Sins (Sloth)
Singer: Andrew Staples. Singer: Florian Boesch. Singer: Ross Ramgobin. Singer: Alessandro Fisher. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins.
- LSO Live.
- 102.
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