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Breakfast with the best classical music

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Music Played

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Prelude & Romanesca (Raymonda)

    Performer: Xavier de Maistre. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Nathalie Stutzmann. Conductor: Nathalie Stutzmann.
    • Glière, Mosolov: Harp Concertos.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 4.

  • Granville Bantock

    Fairyland (English Scenes)

    Conductor: Rumon Gamba. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Bantock: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 110.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Humeresques op.89 (no.5)

    Performer: Pekka Kuusisto. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta.
    • Works for Violin and Orchestra.
    • ONDINE.
    • 5.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No 1

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma.
    • Bach: Unaccompanied Cello Suites ((Remastered)).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.

  • Patrick Doyle

    My father's favourite (Sense and Sensibility)

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Ziegler.
    • Sony Classical.

  • William Byrd

    Civitas sancti tui (Ne irascaris Domine)

    Director: James O’Donnell. Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir.
    • Exultate Deo: Masterpieces of Sacred Polyphony.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.

  • Georges Bizet

    L'Arlésienne Suite No. 1 IV Carillon

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Kazuki Yamada.
    • Bizet, Fauré & Gounod.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 4.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in E-flat major D899 No 2

    Performer: Ryan Wang.

  • Nicholas Simpson

    Violin Concerto (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Caroline Pether. Conductor: Nicholas Simpson. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata.
    • Nicholas Simpson: Flourish (world première recording).
    • Ulysses Arts.
    • 2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Lacrymosa (Requiem)

    Choir: Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh. Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • Requiem: Mozart's Death in Words and Music.
    • Reference Recordings.
    • 118.

  • Matthew Locke

    A martial jigge (from music for The Tempest)

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Ensemble: Innsbruck Trumpet Consort. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • TELDEC.

  • Max Richter

    Autumn 1 (The New Four Seasons)

    Composer: Antonio Vivaldi. Performer: Elena Urioste. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra.
    • The New Four Seasons - Vivaldi Recomposed.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 8.

  • Albert Ketèlbey

    Bells across the meadows

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Leaper.
    • Ketelbey: In A Monastery Garden / Chal Romano.
    • Marco-Polo.
    • 1.

  • Léo Delibes

    Les Chasseresses (Sylvia - suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Chandos.

  • Franz Berwald

    Konzertstück in F

    Performer: Jaakko Luoma. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Janne Nisonen.
    • Crusell, Du Puy & Others: Bassoon Concertos.
    • Ondine.
    • 301.

  • Segun Akinola

    Doctor Who (theme)

    Composer: Ron Grainer. Composer: Delia Derbyshire.
    • SILVER SCREEN.

  • Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor

    Summer is Gone

    Conductor: Harry Bradford. Ensemble: Recordare.
    • Ever Changing Skies.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 15.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Concerto No 2 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili. Conductor: Paavo Järvi. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie.
    • Chopin.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.

  • William Walton

    Crown Imperial

    Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • An English Coronation, 1902-1953.
    • Signum Records.
    • 47.

  • Elena Ruehr

    Piano Quartet No 2 "Maple" (1st mvt)

    Performer: Marcus Thompson. Ensemble: Boston Trio.
    • Ruehr: Winter Night.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 7.

  • Joseph Canteloube

    Bailero (Chants d'Auvergne)

    Singer: Kate Royal. Conductor: Edward Gardner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Kate Royal.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 103.

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Piano Sonata in E Flat Op.13 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet.
    • The Beethoven Connection, Volume 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 103.

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