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Blissful music and soundscapes to wake up to at Glastonbury

Glastonbury is here, so ease into your morning with the serenest of sounds

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Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune from 'Suite bergamasque'

    Music Arranger: Mstislav Rostropovich. Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: Markus Becker.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Berceuse for piano (Op. 57) in D flat major

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.

  • Amy Beach

    Serenade (transcription of R Strauss' Standchen)

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.

  • Claude Debussy

    Beau soir arr. Heifetz for violin/cello and piano

    Performer: Jascha Heifetz. Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Itamar Golan.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Après un rêve, Op 7 No 1 arr for violin and piano

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Alexei Grynyuk.

  • Muzio Clementi

    12 Monferrinas for piano (Op.49), no.5 in A major

    Performer: Howard Shelley.

  • Paul McCartney

    Blackbird arr. for string quartet

    Ensemble: Wihan Quartet. Music Arranger: Lubos Krticka.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt Suite No.1: Morning

    Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.

  • Frederick Delius

    On hearing the first cuckoo in spring for orchestra (RT.6.19)

    Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Summer day - children's suite for small orch (Op.65a)..., no.1; Morning

    Conductor: Ronald Corp. Orchestra: New London Orchestra.

  • Georges Hüe

    Nocturne for flute and orchestra

    Conductor: Ross Pople. Orchestra: London Festival Orchestra. Performer: Edward Beckett.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Romance for string orchestra (Op.11)

    Conductor: Richard Hickox. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Czech suite (Op.39), no.4; Romance

    Conductor: Antal Doráti. Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping beauty - suite (Op.66a), Panorama

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich.

  • Joseph Haydn

    The Seasons: Winter (beginning)

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.

  • Arthur Bliss

    2 Studies for orchestra [1920]: no.2 [Gay]

    Conductor: David Lloyd‐Jones. Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    The Four Seasons Recomposed: Spring 2

    Conductor: André de Ridder. Orchestra: Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin. Performer: Daniel Hope. Composer: Max Richter.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Spring [Vesna] - musical picture Op.34

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

  • Ferde Grofé

    Grand Canyon Suite: Sunrise

    Conductor: Enrique Bátiz. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

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