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Essential Classics for comfort and hope

An hour of comforting and hopeful classical music for uncertain times. Georgia Mann invites you to take some time out and reset with tracks from composers including Vaughan Williams, Bach, Julie Cooper and Joseph Canteloube.

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Music Played

  • Max Richter

    Spring 1 (The Four Seasons)

    Composer: Antonio Vivaldi. Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Z眉rcher Kammerorchester.
    • Four Seasons.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 15.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.
    • Conifer.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

    Performer: Myra Hess.
    • Sony.

  • Claude Debussy

    Cort猫ge (Petite Suite)

    Orchestrator: Henri B眉sser. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Debussy: Night in Granada, Clair de Lune, etc.: Philharmonia Orchestra/Simon.
    • Cala.
    • 10.

  • William Grant Still

    Prelude for flute, string quintet and piano (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alexa Still. Performer: Michael Steer. Performer: Susan DeWitt Smith. Ensemble: New Zealand String Quartet.
    • KOCH.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Lever du Jour (Daphnis et Chloe)

    Choir: Ensemble Vocal Aedes. Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Ravel: Daphnis et Chlo茅.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 301.

  • Joseph Canteloube

    Chants d'Auvergne: Ba茂l猫ro

    Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Gerhardt.
    • Essential - Classical Collection.
    • Sony Music UK.
    • 13.

  • Franz Schubert

    Serenade

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: James McMillan.
    • UNIVERSAL : UCJ-4763159.
    • UNIVERSAL.
    • 6.

  • Julie Cooper

    Ascensio

    Performer: Rebeca Omordia.
    • Julie Cooper: Ascensio.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.

  • Edward Elgar

    Enigma Variations, Op. 36; 10. Intermezzo: Dorabella (Allegretto)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • DG.

  • Trad.

    Deep River

    Music Arranger: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Music Arranger: Kanneh-Mason Trio. Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Braimah Kanneh-Mason.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Soave sia il vento (Cos矛 fan tutte)

    Singer: Miah Persson. Singer: Christine Rice. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Mozart: Tutto Mozart!: Bryn Terfel/Sir Charles Mackerras.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.

  • Franz Liszt

    Consolations, Six Pens茅es po茅tiques, S.172: ii) Un poco pi霉 mosso

    Performer: Mariam Batsashvili.

  • Leo Brouwer

    Berceuse

    Performer: John Williams.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Pastorale

    Performer: Emily Beynon. Performer: Andrew West.
    • HYPERION.

  • Frederick Delius

    La Calinda

    Music Arranger: Eric Fenby. Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • EMI.

  • Ronald Binge

    Sailing By

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • Hyperion.