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Essential Classics for Fireworks Night

Georgia Mann with an hour of upbeat and sparkling music to help your fireworks party go with a bang. There’s explosive music from Handel and Stravinsky, and effervescent tracks from Amy Beach and Johann Strauss II.

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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    La Réjouissance (Music for the Royal Fireworks)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Zefiro. Conductor: Alfredo Bernardini.
    • Arcana A 386.
    • Arcana.
    • 4.

  • Richard Wagner

    The Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walküre)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Wagner: The Ring: Daniel BarenBoim, Orchestre de Paris.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Marche pour la cérémonie des Turcs

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Lully: L'Orchestra du Roi Soleil/Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 4.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Waltz (Masquerade Suite)

    Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Kondrashin.
    • RCA.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Thunder and Lightning Polka

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • Orchestra Fireworks.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals - Aviary

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Jeneba Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Braimah Kanneh-Mason. Performer: Ayla Sahin. Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Toby Hughes. Performer: Adam Walker.
    • The Kanneh-Masons.
    • Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd..
    • 23.

  • Amy Beach

    Four Sketches for piano, Op 15 (Fireflies)

    Performer: Alan Feinberg.
    • The American Virtuoso.
    • ARGO.
    • 6.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Ritual Fire Dance (El amor brujo)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • De Falla: Love The Magician: Simon, LSO.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Il barbiere di Siviglia: Largo al factotum (Arr. for Cello & Orchestra)

    Performer: Jan Vogler. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Omer Meir Wellber.
    • Pop Songs.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 7.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Autumn (The Four Seasons)

    Performer: Pekka Kuusisto. Ensemble: Virtuosi di Kuhmo.
    • ONDINE.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Waltz from Eugene Onegin

    Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • EMI.

  • Sonya Belousova

    Bonfire (from The Witcher)

    Performer: Lindsay Deutsch. Composer: Giona Ostinelli.

  • Moritz Moszkowski

    Étincelles (8 Morceaux caracteristiques Op.36)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Waltz on the Ice (Winter Bonfire)

    Orchestra: New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • Prokofiev: Music for Children: New London Orchestra/Corp.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.

  • Jeremiah Clarke

    Trumpet Voluntary 'The Prince of Denmark's March'

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Sony.

  • Charles‐Marie Widor

    Symphony for organ no 5: Toccata

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • The World of The Organ, Simon Preston.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Fireworks, Op.4

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • BMG.