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Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, including a focus on music reflecting Holocaust Memorial Day.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, including a focus on music reflecting Holocaust Memorial Day.

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  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 6 in F major, Op 68, 'Pastoral' (5th mvmt)

    Orchestra: West鈥揈astern Divan Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Beethoven - L' Hymne 脿 la Joie.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 4.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Eclogue, Op.10

    Composer: Gerald Finzi. Performer: Tom Poster. Performer: Tom Poster. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 17.
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    String Quartet No 1 in A major, Op 4 (4th mvmt, Vivace e con fuoco)

    Composer: Alexander von Zemlinsky. Ensemble: LaSalle Quartet. Ensemble: LaSalle Quartet.
    • Schoenberg / Webern / Berg / Zemlinsky / Apostel: Complete String Quartets.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 4.
  • Alessandro Marcello

    Oboe Concerto in D minor (2nd mvt, Adagio)

    Performer: Douglas Boyd. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Alexander Schneider.
    • Mozart, Vivaldi, Marcello, Wolf, J. Strauss: Schneider 80th Birthday Concert.
    • COE Records.
    • 009.
  • Erwin Schulhoff

    Symphony No 6, 'Symphony of Freedom' (1st mvmt)

    Orchestra: Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Vladim铆r V谩lek.
    • Supraphon.
  • Florence Price

    Song Without Words (In the Land O' Cotton, No 3)

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Guild.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Don Giovanni (Madamina, il catalogo e questo - catalogue aria)

    Performer: Ji艡铆 Pokorn媒. Singer: Karel Berman. Orchestra: Prague Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Libor Pe拧ek.
    • Supraphon.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg suite (Op.40) - 2nd mvt; Sarabande

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Sibelius: Karelia Suite; Swan of Tuonela/Grieg: Holberg Suite.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.
  • Marcel Tyberg

    Symphony No 3 (2nd mvmt, Scherzo)

    Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Tyberg: Symphony No. 3 - Piano Trio.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty (Panorama)

    Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 24.
  • Henri毛tte Bosmans

    Lead, Kindly Light

    Performer: Maarten Hillenius. Singer: Julia Bronkhorst.
    • Henri毛tte Bosmans and Her Circle.
    • Globe.
    • 14.
  • Nicola Matteis Sr.

    Diverse bizzarie sopra la vecchia sarabanda o pur ciaccona (Suite in C major)

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Lorenza Borrani. Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout. Performer: Stephan Rath. Performer: Stephan Maass. Performer: Jonathan Cohen.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • Erwin Schulhoff

    Symphony No 6, 'Symphony of Freedom' (1st mvmt)

    Orchestra: Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Vladim铆r V谩lek.
    • Supraphon.
  • L茅on Jessel

    Parade of the Tin Soldiers

    Orchestra: New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • European Light Music Classics.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Chevalier de Saint-Georges Joseph Bologne

    Concertante Quartet in C major, Op 15 No 3 (2nd mvmt, Rondeau)

    Ensemble: Levare Quartet.
  • Mieczyslaw Weinberg

    The Golden Key - Ballet Suite No 4 (No 8, The Pursuit)

    Orchestra: St. Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Lande.
    • Weinberg: Symphony No. 12 - The Golden Key Suite No. 4.
    • Naxos.
    • 12.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Somewhere (West Side Story)

    Music Arranger: Sebastian Erlewein. Ensemble: Peter Buck Cello Ensemble. Director: Peter Buck.
    • Rondo Violoncello.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 7.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Hiob (Job)

    Choir: Crouch End Festival Chorus. Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: David Temple.
    • Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn: Choral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 107.
  • Christopher Tin

    Hope is the thing with feathers

    Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • The Lost Birds: Choral Edition.
    • Universal Music Classics.
    • 5.
  • Ethel Smyth

    March Of The Women

    Music Arranger: Juliette Pochin. Music Arranger: Juliette Pochin. Choir: Kantos Chamber Choir. Choir: Kantos Chamber Choir. Ensemble: Suffrage Sinfonia. Ensemble: Suffrage Sinfonia. Conductor: Alice Farnham. Conductor: Alice Farnham.
    • The Lost Women Of Music.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 1.
  • Bob Marley

    Redemption Song

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Aminata Kanneh-Mason. Performer: Mariatu Kanneh-Mason. Performer: Jeneba Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Braimah Kanneh-Mason. Performer: Konya Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Carnival.
    • DECCA.
    • 45.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Libert茅 (Figure humaine)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Figure Humaine.
    • Signum Records.
    • 19.
  • Leonora Duarte

    Sinfonia No 6 for 5-part viol consort

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Birds On Fire.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 11.
  • Leo Smit

    Flute Sonata (2nd mvmt, Lento)

    Performer: Anne-Cath茅rine Heinzmann. Performer: Thomas Hoppe.
    • AUDITE.
  • Edward Elgar

    The Little Bells (The Wand of Youth - Suite no.2)

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Elgar: Wand of Youth Suites No.1 & 2: New Zealand SO/Judd.
    • Naxos.
    • 9.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz in A flat major, Op 42

    Performer: Nelly Ben-Or.
    • Chopin Dances.
    • Meridian Records.
    • 14.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor (4th mvmt, Adagietto)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rudolf Schwarz.
    • Classical Music for Mourning, Loss and Grieving.
    • Menuetto Classics.
    • 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Chorale-Prelude 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme', BWV 645

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • J.S.Bach: Schubler-Chorale, Passacaglia: Simon Preston.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • Hans Kr谩sa

    Brundib谩r (Suite)

    Music Arranger: David Matthews. Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Brundib谩r: Music by Composers in Theresienstadt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1-7.
  • Kassiani

    Isaiou nyn tou prophitou [Now Isaiah the Prophet]

    Choir: VocaMe. Director: Michael Popp.
    • CHRISTOPHORUS.
  • Darius Milhaud

    Suite fran莽aise, Op 248 (5th mvmt, Provence)

    Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.
    • Mozart: Wind Serenade in B-Flat / Strauss, R.: Serenade for Wind / Milhaud: Suit.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 13.
  • Philip Glass

    3 Pieces for Four Hands (No 2, Stokes)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Performer: Vanessa Wagner.
    • Four Hands.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 18.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Vltava (M谩 vlast)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay.
    • DG.
  • Herman D. Koppel

    Clarinet Concerto, Op 35 (3rd mvmt, Allegro tranquillo)

    Performer: John Kruse. Orchestra: Aalborg Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Fredrik Burstedt.
    • Orlando Records.
  • Ilse Weber

    Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Performer: Bebe Risenfors.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

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  • Mon 27 Jan 2025 09:30

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