Playlist:

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F, BWV 1046 - first movement
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Catherine Mackintosh (violino piccolo and director)

Haydn: In manuas tuas, Domine, commendo spiritum meum (from Seven Last Words)
Emerson String Quartet

Verdi: Falstaff, Act 1 Part 2
Meg .......... Stella Dufexis
Alice ......... Adrianne Pieczonka
Quickly ........... Larissa Diadkova
Nanetta ............. Dorothea Roschmann
Dr Cajus ........... Enrico Facini
Ford ............. Thomas Hampson
Bardolfo ............ Anthony Mee
Fenton .......... Daniil Shtoda
Pistola ........ Anatoli Kotsherga
Berlin Philharmonic,
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

Elgar: Violin Concerto - first movement
Pinchas Zuckerman (violin)
LPO
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

Ravel: La Valse
Philip Moore
Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano duet)

Strauss: Metamorphosen
Dresden State Orchestra
Rudolf Kempe (conductor)

Poulenc: Oboe Sonata
Nick Daniel (oboe),
Julius Drake (piano)

Saint Saens: Piano Concerto No.2 (scherzo)
Stephen Hough (piano)
CBSO
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Mahler: Symphony No 8 - First movement
Heather Harper, Arleen Auger, Lucia Popp (sopranos),
Yvonne Minton (mezzo)
Helen Watts (alto)
Rene Kollo (tenor)
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
Martti Talvela (bass),
Vienna State Opera Chorus
Vienna Singverein
Vienna Boys' Choir
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sir Geo (conductor)