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Music Played

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Telemann: Trio Sonata in A Minor, TWV 42:a4: I. Largo

    Performer: Lucie Horsch. Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Albert Brüggen. Performer: Tom Foster.
    • The Frans Brüggen Project.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 9.
  • Francisco Tárrega

    Gran Vals for guitar

    Performer: Mats Bergström.
    • Gorgeous Guitar: Best Loved Classical Guitar Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 1001.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Quintet for piano and wind (Op.16) in E flat major, 2nd mvt; Andante cantabile

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Ensemble: Philharmonisches Bläserquintett Berlin.
    • BIS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No.6 in B-flat Major, BWV 1051 [complete]

    Performer: Gottfried von der Goltz. Performer: Freiburg Barockorchester.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Menuet antique

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Erato.
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Mandolin Concerto in G Major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Avi Avital. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Concertos.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 13.
  • Cristóbal de Morales

    Parce mihi Domine (Officium Defunctorum)

    Ensemble: The Gesualdo Six. Director: Owain Park.
    • Lux Aeterna.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in F sharp minor, H XV 26 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Susan Tomes. Performer: Anthony Marwood. Performer: Richard Lester. Ensemble: The Florestan Trio.
    • Haydn: Piano Trios, Vol.1: The Florestan Trio.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Eternal source of light divine (Birthday ode for Queen Anne)

    Singer: Lea Desandre. Singer: Iestyn Davies. Ensemble: Jupiter. Conductor: Thomas Dunford.
    • Eternal Heaven.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Barcarolle in F sharp major Op.60

    Performer: Alexander Gadjiev.
  • Hans Gál

    Piano Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 13: II. Andante con moto

    Performer: Katalin Kertész. Performer: Nichola Blakey. Performer: Cressida Nash. Performer: Sarah Beth Briggs.
    • Gál: Chamber Music, Vol. 3.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 2.
  • Max Bruch

    Scottish fantasy Op.46 for violin and orchestra; III. Andante sostenuto

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Scottish Fantasy.
    • Sony.
    • 3.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto no.2 in E flat major, K.417 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alessio Allegrini. Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart: Horn Concertos: Allegrini/Orchestra Mozart/Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Henry Purcell

    Strike the viol (Come ye sons of art)

    Singer: Barnaby Smith. Ensemble: Les Inventions.
    • A Purcell Collection.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 11.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Flute Sonata (1st mvt)

    Music Arranger: Lennox Berkeley. Performer: Emily Beynon. Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Bramwell Tovey.
    • British Flute Concertos - Beynon/³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ NOW/Tovey.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    No.3: Mir ist so wunderbar "A wondrous feeling fills me (Quartet) from Fidelio Act I

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Conductor: Alexander Soddy. Singer: Jennifer Davis. Singer: Christina Gansch. Singer: Peter Rose. Singer: Michael Gibson.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Symphony no.5 in B flat major Op.55 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Tadaaki Otaka.
    • Glazunov: Symphonies Nos. 5 and 7.
    • BIS.
    • 2.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, D485 i) Allegro

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Otto Klemperer.
    • Warner.
  • Florence Price

    String Quartet no.2 in A minor (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered Vol 2: Florence B Price.
    • Azica Records.
    • 11.
  • Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda

    Morceau de salon, Op. 228: I. Allegro non tanto

    Performer: Eric Speller. Performer: Thomas Dieltjens.
    • Salon Music for Oboe and Piano.
    • Cypres.
    • 1.
  • Charles Wesley

    Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending

    Composer: Paul Trepte. Performer: Scott Farrell. Choir: Choir of Ely Cathedral. Director: Paul Trepte.
    • PRIORY.
  • Édouard Lalo

    Symphonie espagnole Op.21 (5th mvt)

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Bruch, Lalo: Little, RSNO, Handley.
    • EMI Eminence.
  • Franz Liszt

    Consolations S.172 (no.3 in D flat major)

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Sony.
  • Harry Warren

    One sweet letter from you

    Composer: Sidney Clare. Composer: Lew Brown. Singer: Lionel Hampton. Performer: Dizzy Gillespie. Performer: Clyde Hart. Performer: Charlie Christian. Performer: Cozy Cole. Performer: Milt Hinton.
    • Hot Mallets Vol. 1.
    • Bluebird.
    • 19.
  • Gregor Joseph Werner

    Sinfonia in D major (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: la festa musicale. Conductor: Lajós Rovátkay.
    • Werner, Caldara.
    • Audite.
    • 4.
  • Anton Stepanovich Arensky

    Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op.32: I. Allegro Moderato

    Ensemble: Nota Bene.
    • CLAVES.

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