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Ease into your evening with classical music

Pianist Kirill Gerstein joins Sean Rafferty to play live, and American countertenor Reginald Mobley also performs live in the studio, ahead of his appearance with the Academy of Ancient Music in London this week.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Three little maids from school (The Mikado)

    Librettist: William Gilbert. Singer: Lesley Garrett. Singer: Jean Rigby. Singer: Susan Bullock. Orchestra: The English National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Robinson.
    • Gilbert and Sullivan: The Mikado: English National Opera.
    • That's Entertainment.
    • 8.
  • Hans Zimmer

    Pirates of the Carribean Suite; Jack Sparrow

    Composer: Tom Gire. Performer: Kian Soltani. Music Arranger: Kian Soltani.
    • Cello Unlimited – A cellist at the movies.
    • DG.
  • Vardapet Komitas

    7 Armenian folk dances for piano; no.2; Yerangi of Yerevan; no.5; Shushiki of Vagharshapat

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein.
  • Joan Trimble

    Suite for Strings (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Irish Chamber Orchestra. Director: Fionnuala Hunt.
    • Black Box.
  • Trad.

    La Bruja

    Performer: Luciana Mancini. Performer: L’Arpeggiata. Performer: Christina Pluhar.
    • WARNER.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Sea and Sinbad's Ship (Scheherazade Op.35)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • LAWO.
  • Claude Debussy

    Berceuse héroïque

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein.
  • Claude Debussy

    Epigraphes antiques; no.5; Pour l'egyptienne; no.1; Pour invoquer Pan

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein. Performer: Katia Skanavi.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La donna è mobile (Rigoletto)

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Orchestra: Orchestra dell'Opera di Parma. Conductor: Pier Giorgio Morandi.
    • Jonas Kaufmann - The Verdi Album.
    • Sony.
    • 1.
  • Anthony Holborne

    The Fairie-Round Galliard

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Music for Viols.
    • Virgin.
    • 14.
  • Vivian Ellis

    Coronation Scot (theme from the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ radio series 'Paul Temple')

    Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • The Best Of British Light Music.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Henry Purcell

    O solitude, my sweetest choice

    Performer: Reginald Mobley. Performer: Kristiina Watt.
  • Franz Schubert

    Rosamunde, D.797 (Entr'acte in B flat major)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • The Best of The Academy.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 8.
  • John Blow

    So ceased the rival crew

    Performer: Reginald Mobley. Performer: Kristiina Watt.
  • Cesare Morelli

    Go perjured man

    Lyricist: Samuel Pepys. Performer: Reginald Mobley. Performer: Kristiina Watt.
  • John Dowland

    Flow my tears

    Performer: Reginald Mobley. Performer: Kristiina Watt.
  • Duke Ellington

    Meditation (from the Second Sacred Concert suite)

    Performer: Luigi Palombi.
    • Duke Ellington: Piano Works.
    • Dynamic.
    • 116.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in B minor for 4 violins and cello, RV 580

    Performer: Cynthia Roberts. Performer: Emlyn Ngai. Performer: Naomi Guy. Performer: Min-Young Kim. Performer: René Schiffer. Ensemble: Apollo’s Fire. Conductor: Jeannette Sorrell.
    • Vivaldi & Friends: La Folia & Other Concertos: Apollo's Fire/Sorrell.
    • Avie.
    • 2-4.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Gloria patri et Filio (Dixit Dominus HWV.232)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • PHILIPS.

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