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Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musicians.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 (1st mvt)

    Performer: David Blackadder. Performer: Pamela Thorby. Performer: Alexandra Bellamy. Performer: Cecilia Bernardini. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • J.S. Bach: Six Brandenburg Concertos.
    • Linn Records.
    • 5.
  • James MacMillan

    Benedicimus Deum caeli (Strathclyde Motets II)

    Choir: Cappella Nova. Director: Alan Tavener.
    • Who Are These Angels? New Choral Music by James MacMillan.
    • Linn Records.
    • 13.
  • Franz Schubert

    Quartet No. 14, "Death and the Maiden" in D minor, D. 810: III. Scherzo

    Ensemble: Dudok Quartet Amsterdam.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Suite from The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66a: V. Waltz

    Conductor: Riccardo Muti. Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 0724358663952.
    • 13.
  • Nico Muhly

    A Brisk Young Lad

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Iestyn Davies.
    • Divine Music – An English Songbook.
    • Signum Records.
    • 21.
  • Nico Muhly

    Drones & Violin (extract)

    Performer: Nico Muhly. Performer: Pekka Kuusisto.
    • Bedroom Community.
  • Nico Muhly

    The Only Tune: III. The Only Tune

    Singer: Sam Amidon.
    • Mothertongue.
    • Bedroom Community.
    • 10.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Flute Concerto no. 1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Kate Hill. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.
    • CFM.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 5

    Orchestrator: Iván Fischer. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Brahms/Dvorak: Hungarian Dances/Slavonic Dances: Budapest Festival Orch/Fischer.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Carlo Gesualdo

    Moro, lasso, [al mio duolo] - "I die, alas, in my suffering" arr. Dudok Quartet

    Music Arranger: Dudok Quartet Amsterdam. Ensemble: Dudok Quartet Amsterdam.
  • Claude Debussy

    Fetes (Nocturnes)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Philips.
  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    24 Jazz Preludes, Op. 53: No. 17, Allegretto

    Performer: Ophelia Gordon.
    • Kapustin: Between the Lines.
    • Divine Art.
    • 106.
  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    24 Jazz Preludes, Op. 53: No. 19, Vivace

    Performer: Ophelia Gordon.
    • Kapustin: Between the Lines.
    • Divine Art.
    • 108.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No. 5 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8.
    • Linn Records.
    • 4.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    24 Preludes, Op. 34: No. 2 in A Minor, Allegretto, no. 7 in A major

    Music Arranger: Dudok Quartet Amsterdam. Ensemble: Dudok Quartet Amsterdam.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    24 Preludes, Op. 34: No. 22 in G Minor arr. Dudok Quartet

    Music Arranger: Dudok Quartet Amsterdam. Ensemble: Dudok Quartet Amsterdam.
  • Harold Arlen

    The Wizard of Oz - musical film: Somewhere over the Rainbow

    Performer: André Previn. Performer: David Finck. Singer: Sylvia McNair.
    • Come Rain Or Come Shine.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 001.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    10 Preludes Op.23 (no.5 in G minor)

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Yuja Wang - The Berlin Recital.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Martin Peerson

    Alman, The Primerose, The Fall of the Leaf

    Performer: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 00028948709175.
  • Vernon Duke

    Autumn in New York

    Singer: Billie Holiday. Performer: Oscar Peterson.
    • Intense Media GmbH.
  • Imogen Holst

    The Fall of the Leaf (excerpt)

    Performer: Thomas Hewitt Jones.
    • NMC.
    • NMCD236.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 82: III. Allegro molto

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Sibelius: Orchestral Works.
    • Ondine.
    • 103.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Bergamasca (Ancient Airs and Dances - suite no. 2)

    Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège. Conductor: John Neschling.
    • BIS.
  • Louis Couperin

    Sarabande (Suite en la)

    Performer: Jean Rondeau.
    • Louis Couperin: The Complete Works, Vol. IX.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 27.

Broadcast

  • Wed 19 Nov 202517:00

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