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Sat 22 Nov 202506:30
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Music Played

  • Cecilia McDowall

    Alma Redemptoris

    Choir: ORA Singers. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • Stella.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 9.

  • Max Richter

    On the Nature of Daylight

    Orchestra: Max Richter Orchestra. Conductor: Lorenz Dangel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Enrique Granados

    Piano Quintet In G minor, Op. 49: II. Allegretto quasi andantino

    Performer: Javier Perianes. Ensemble: Cuarteto Quiroga.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI: 902226.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 4.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen (Canata BWV.215)

    Choir: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus. Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • Bach: Celebratory Cantatas.
    • BIS.
    • 12.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    German Song

    Performer: Ryan Corbett.

  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's French Album.
    • HYPERION.
    • 15.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59 No. 2 "Razumovsky No. 2": IV. Finale. Presto

    Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • Beethoven: String Quartets, Vol. 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 208.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 73 in D Major, Hob. 1/73 "La Chasse": I. Adagio - Allegro

    Orchestra: Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra. Conductor: Ádám Fischer.
    • Haydn: The Complete Symphonies.
    • Nimbus Records.
    • 277.

  • Thomas Weelkes

    In Nomine a5, Vdgs 1

    Ensemble: Newe Vialles. Conductor: Andrew Arthur.
    • See, See, The Word is Incarnate: Choral & Instrumental Music by Gibbons, Tomkins.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 4.

  • Bernhard Crusell

    Concerto in E-Flat Major, Op. 1: II. Adagio

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
    • Crusell: Clarinet Concertos.
    • Chandos.
    • 102.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon)

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Conductor: Christina Pluhar.
    • Handel Goes Wild.
    • WARNER.
    • 7.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 73 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jakub Hrůša.
    • Tudor.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Nonet in E-Flat Major, Op. 38: III. Scherzo

    Ensemble: Sabi Ensemble.
    • From The Heart.
    • Penny Fiddle Records.
    • 7.

  • Agustín Barrios Mangoré

    Vals, Op. 8 No. 4

    Performer: Thibaut Garcia.
    • El Bohemio.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 14.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Bassoon Concerto in F Major, Op. 75, J. 127: III. Rondo. Allegro

    • Weber: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 108.

  • Zequinha de Abreu

    Tico Tico

    Performer: Phil Kelsall.
    • At The Wurlitzer Of The Tower Ballroom.
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 17.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    The Four Seasons: Concerto No. 4 in F Minor, RV 297 "L'inverno" (winter): I. Allegro non molto

    Performer: Adrian Chandler. Orchestra: La Serenissima.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons • Concertos for Bassoon & Violin 'in tromba marina'.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 10.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    The Four Seasons: Concerto No. 4 in F Minor, RV 297 "L'inverno" (winter): II. Largo

    Performer: Adrian Chandler. Orchestra: La Serenissima.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons • Concertos for Bassoon & Violin 'in tromba marina'.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 11.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    The Four Seasons: Violin Concerto No. 4 in F Minor, RV 297 "L'inverno" (winter): III. Allegro - Lento - Allegro

    Performer: Adrian Chandler. Orchestra: La Serenissima.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons • Concertos for Bassoon & Violin 'in tromba marina'.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 12.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Shéhérazade, ouverture de féerie

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye, Le tombeau de Couperin & Shéhérazade, ouverture de féerie.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 113.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Rondeau, Op. 97

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Music Arranger: Jarle Storløkken. Ensemble: tenThing.
    • She Composes Like A Man.
    • Lawo Classics.
    • 6.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    West Side Story (America)

    Singer: Rita Moreno. Ensemble: West Side Story Orchestra. Singer: Betty Wand. Singer: George Chakiris. Conductor: Johnny Green.
    • West Side Story: Original Soundtrack Recording (1961).
    • Sony.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Reveille

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Enrico Pace.
    • DECCA: 478 9377.
    • Decca.
    • 11.

  • Nadia Boulanger

    Ta bonté (Les Heures claires, No 6)

    Composer: Raoul Pugno. Performer: Tristan Raës. Singer: Cyrille Dubois.
    • Lili et Nadia Boulanger: Mélodies.
    • Aparté.
    • 119.

  • Edvard Grieg

    In The Hall of the Mountain King (Peer Gynt Op.23)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Cello concerto in A major Wq.172 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Andreas Brantelid. Orchestra: Concerto Copenhagen. Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
    • Times of Transition: Cello Concertos by C.P.E. Bach & Haydn.
    • Naxos.
    • 103.

  • Richard Wagner

    Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90, Act III: Isoldes Liebestod

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • The Wagner Project.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 105.

Broadcast

  • Sat 22 Nov 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3