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Music Played

  • Samuel Dushkin

    Sicilienne

    Performer: Geneva Lewis. Performer: Julia Hamos.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Variations on 'La stessa, la stessissima', WoO 73

    Performer: Gianluca Cascioli.
    • Beethoven: Variations: Gianluca Cascioli.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Josef Suk

    A Summer's tale [Pohadka leta] (Op.29), 3rd mvt; Intermezzo - Blind players

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Libor Pe拧ek.
    • Suk: Asrael Symphony: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Pesek.
    • Virgin Classics.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Mandolin Concerto in C major RV.425 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Duilio Galfetti. Performer: Luca Pianca. Performer: Enrico Onofri. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Vivaldi: Lute & Mandolin Concertos: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Teldec.
    • 7.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in C Major Op 74 No 1 - Finale Vivace

    Ensemble: Maxwell String Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Op. 74 - Folk Music from Scotland.
    • Linn Records.
    • 4.

  • Niel Gow

    Coilsfield House - Drunk at Night, Dry in the Morning

    Composer: Nathaniel Gow. Music Arranger: Maxwell String Quartet. Ensemble: Maxwell String Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Op. 74 - Folk Music from Scotland.
    • Linn Records.
    • 2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in G major K.525 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Jane Glover.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.

  • Harold Arlen

    Over the Rainbow

    Music Arranger: Toru Takemitsu. Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰.
    • The Sound of Silence.
    • Decca.
    • 16.

  • Joaqu铆n Rodrigo

    Concierto de Aranjuez (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Julian Bream. Performer: Peter Walden. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • 100 Best Relaxing Classics.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.

  • Trad.

    Bonny Jean

    Ensemble: Apollo's Cabinet.
    • Musical Wanderlust: Charles Burney鈥檚 European Travels in Pursuit of Harmony.
    • Prima Classic.
    • 37.

  • William Walton

    Death of Falstaff; Touch her soft lips (Henry V)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Vaughan Williams, Walton, Delius, Zukerman, Black, ECO, Barneboim.
    • Deustche Grammophon.
    • 10.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Os justi

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Bruckner: Mass in E minor/Motets: Polyphony/Britten Sinfonia/Layton.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.

  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F Major, D. 803: III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace - Trio

    Ensemble: Edding Quartet. Ensemble: Northernlight.
    • Schubert: Octet, D. 803 & Quartettsatz, D. 703.
    • Phi.
    • 3.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore - "Una furtiva lagrima"

    Singer: Benjamin Bernheim. Orchestra: Prague Philharmonia. Conductor: Emmanuel Villaume.
    • Benjamin Bernheim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No 8 in D minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • LPO.

  • Antonio Bertali

    Chiacona

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • All' Improvviso: Ciaccone, Bergamasche, & un po' di Follie....
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 9.

  • Louis Vierne

    2 pi猫ces pour piano, Op. 7: No. 1, Impression d'automne

    Performer: Sergio Monteiro.
    • Vierne: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 101.

  • Richard Wagner

    The Pilgrim's chorus from Tannhauser

    Choir: Berlin Opera Chorus. Orchestra: Orchestra of the German Opera, Berlin. Conductor: Hansgeorg Otto.
    • Teldec.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Dance of the Blessed Spirits from 'Orfeo and Euridice'

    Performer: Martin James Bartlett.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides, Op 26

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Christoph von Dohn谩nyi.
    • Decca.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Fountains of Rome (The Trevi Fountain at Noon)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Edo de Waart.
    • Great Orchestral Showpieces, Vol.1.
    • Philips.
    • 7.

  • Charles鈥怣arie Widor

    Symphony No. 5 in F Major, Op. 42: V. Toccata

    Performer: Roger Fisher.
    • The King of Instruments.
    • Editions Audiovisuel Beulah.
    • 20.

  • Sigur R贸s

    贵濒箩贸迟补惫铆办

    Performer: Thomas Gould. Performer: Emma Denton. Performer: Sam Becker. Music Arranger: Geoff Lawson. Choir: VOCES8.
    • DECCA.

  • John Cage

    Apartment House 1776: Harmony No. 1, Cookfield

    Ensemble: Arditti Quartet.
    • Mode Records.

  • Franz Liszt

    Liebestraum no.3 in A flat major

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • The Very Best of: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 214.

  • Florence Price

    String Quartet No 1 in G major (2nd mvmt, Andante moderato)

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered, Vol. 2: Florence B. Price.
    • Azica Records.
    • 19.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Dance of the Tumblers (The Snow Maiden)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • The Best of The Academy.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 15.

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