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Esther Abrami performs live in the studio

Violinist Esther Abrami, inspiring a new generation of performers, plays live.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan and Ludmila (Overture)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Glinka: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No. 6, BWV 830: Allemande

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Opus 109 (Beethoven, Bach, Schubert).
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Al Bowlly

    Blue Moon (feat. Ray Noble and His Orchestra)

    • The Al Bowlly Collection 1927-40, Vol. 2.
    • Acrobat.
    • 25.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon duodecimi toni à 10, C178

    Ensemble: Wallace Collection. Conductor: Simon Wright.
    • Gabrieli and St.Marks: Venetian Brass Music: The Wallace Collection/Wallace/Wrig.
    • Nimbus.
    • 1.
  • Esther Abrami

    Transmission

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Performer: Edward Picton-Turbervill.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No.2 in D minor

    Orchestrator: Iván Fischer. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Brahms: Hungarian Dances.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Oboe Concerto in A minor (1st mvt)

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia.
    • Oboe Concertos/Nicholas Daniel.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.
  • Henry Purcell

    Chaconne (The Fairy Queen)

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien. Director: François Lazarevitch.
    • Purcell: Songs & Dances.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 20.
  • Ilse Weber

    Wiegala

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Performer: Edward Picton-Turbervill. Music Arranger: Esther Abrami.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No.6, "Pathetique" (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan.
    • Onyx.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    3 Nocturnes Op. 15 No.3 in F sharp major

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Frederic Chopin Nocturnes.
    • HYPERION.
    • 05.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No. 2, K. 417 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • Mozart: Horn Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 6.
  • Esther Abrami

    Tournelle

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Performer: Edward Picton-Turbervill.
  • Yoko Shimomura

    Valse Di Fantastica

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Performer: Edward Picton-Turbervill.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Oboe concerto in G major, TWV 51:g2 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Music Arranger: Ian Payne. Ensemble: Jess Gillam Ensemble.
    • Telemann: Oboe Concerto in G Major, TWV 51:g2 (Reconstr. Ian Payne): I. Andante.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Léo Delibes

    Pizzicato (Sylvia)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • New Year's Concert 2014.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.
  • Stefano Landi

    A che più l'arco tendere

    Composer: Anonymous. Singer: Johannette Zomer. Singer: Marco Beasley. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Landi: Homo fugit velut umbra....
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 8.
  • Lord Berners

    Cupid and Psyche Suite: VII. Valse lente - Final Dance

    Conductor: David Lloyd‐Jones. Orchestra: RTÉ Sinfonietta.
    • Lord Berners: Ballet Music – Les sirènes & Cupid and Psyche Suite.
    • Naxos.
    • 307.
  • Julian Nott

    Theme from Wallace and Gromit

    Music Arranger: Nic Raine. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Tolga Kaşif.
    • Greatest Film Classics.
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 9.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pulcinella Suite

    Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite, Apollon musagète & Concerto for Strings in D Major.
    • BIS.
    • 108.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No.7 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.
    • Beethoven · Tchaikovsky · Schmidt · Stephan.
    • Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 4.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Jeux d'eau

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.
    • DECCA.

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  • Tue 25 Nov 202517:00

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