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Music Played

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Flute Concerto in G Major: II. Adagio ma non troppo

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel.
    • Revolution - Flute Concertos by Devienne, Gianella, Gluck & Pleyel.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.

  • Snorri Hallgrímsson

    I Am Weary, Don't Let Me Rest

    Performer: Chrissie Telma Guðmundsdóttir. Performer: Karl Pestka. Performer: Júlía Mogensen. Performer: Unnur Jónsdóttir. Performer: Jelena Ćirić. Performer: Bergur Þórisson.
    • I Am Weary, Don't Let Me Rest (Nowhere Sessions).
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Karl Goldmark

    Violin Concerto (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Sueye Park. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Valentin Egel.
    • Goldmark: Violin Concerto, Op. 28: II. Air. Andante.
    • BIS.
    • 1.

  • Michael Cohen

    Cancao pequena

    Performer: Alex Klein. Performer: Rita Costanzi.
    • Navona.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata No. 180: I. Schmücke Dich, o liebe Seele (Chorus)

    Choir: Chorus Musicus Köln. Orchestra: Das Neue Orchester. Conductor: Christoph Spering.
    • I. Schmücke Dich, o liebe Seele (Chorus).
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201: I. Allegro moderato

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Franz Welser‐Möst.
    • Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 & Symphony No. 29.
    • The Cleveland Orchestra.
    • 4.

  • Bernard Herrmann

    Clarinet Quintet - Souvenirs de Voyage: III. Andantino. Canto amoroso

    Performer: Ma Yue. Orchestra: Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Joshua Tan.
    • John Williams Flute Concerto – Bernard Herrmann Souvenirs de Voyage.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Dolly Suite: No. 3, Le Jardin de Dolly. Andantino

    Orchestrator: Henri Rabaud. Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland. Conductor: Jean-Luc Tingaud.
    • Faure: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
    • 9.

  • John Williams

    Theme from Schindler's List

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Dora Pejačević

    Piano Quartet in D Minor, Op. 25: IV. Rondo. Allegro

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. 3.
    • Chandos Records Ltd.
    • 4.

  • Percy Grainger

    Harvest Hymn

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • English Seasons.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto grosso in F major Op.6`2 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • Corelli: Concerti Grossi, Sinfonia to Santa Beatrice d'Este.
    • Aparté.
    • 110.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in G flat major, D 899 No 3

    Performer: Eric Lu.
    • Schubert: Four Impromptus, Op. 90, D. 899.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • MacMhaighstir Alasdair

    Allt an t-Siùcair (The Sugar Burn)

    Performer: Finlay Wells. Singer: Mary Ann Kennedy.

  • Conradin Kreutzer

    Grand Septet in E-Flat Major, Op. 62: III. Minuet. Moderato

    Performer: Theo Plath. Performer: Franziska Hölscher. Performer: Haesue Lee. Performer: Andrei Ioniţă. Performer: Sebastian Manz. Performer: Felix Klieser. Performer: Dominik Wagner.
    • Beethoven - C. Kreutzer: Septets.
    • CAvi-music.
    • 9.

  • Max Bruch

    Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26: II. Adagio

    Performer: Johan Dalene. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gemma New.
    • Johan Dalene plays Mendelssohn, Bruch and Vaughan Williams.
    • BIS Records.
    • 5.

  • Trad.

    Counting Songs

    Music Arranger: Chris Wines. Choir: Pupils from St. Andrew's Junior School in Hadfield, North Derbyshire. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Paterson. Narrator: Christopher Eccleston.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Overture Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op. 27

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos 1-5, Overtures, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
    • LSO Live.
    • 5.

  • Maurizio Cazzati

    La Strozza

    Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Conductor: Christina Pluhar.
    • Wonder Women.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Concertino in E Flat Major, Op. 26

    Performer: Simon Lopez. Orchestra: Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté. Conductor: Jean-François Verdier.
    • Simon Lopez - Prodiges.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka, Op. 214 "Triqui Traqui"

    Music Arranger: Paul Desenne. Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Self release by Gustavo Dudamel.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.1 in D major (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Mahler Symphony No 1.
    • Pentatone.
    • 2.

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