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Essential Classics for an early spring day

Georgia Mann introduces an hour of beautiful classical music chosen to welcome spring. Birds, insect life, flowers and morning sunshine all to come from composers including Mendelssohn, Nkeiru Okoye, Vaughan Williams and Johann Strauss II. MM.

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Music Played

  • Christian Sinding

    The Rustle of spring Op.32 no.3

    Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.
    • Norwegian Classical Favourites: Iceland Symphony Orchestra/Engeset.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Spring Song (Song without Words in A major)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mendelssohn: Lieder Ohne Worte: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

  • Frederick Delius

    On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Delius: Orchestral Works: London Philharmonic Orchestra/Handley.
    • CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.
    • 2.

  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Butterflying

    Performer: Nicola Sweeney. Performer: Sarah Nicolls.
    • Kats-Chernin: Ragtime and Blue.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 13.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Prelude (The Birds)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Paul Reade

    Spring (The Victorian Kitchen Garden)

    Performer: Emma Johnson. Performer: Julius Drake. Performer: Skaila Kanga.
    • Emma Johnson - Encores.
    • ASV.
    • 2.

  • George Butterworth

    The Banks of Green Willow

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Butterworth/Delius: English Rhapsody: Halle, Elder.
    • Halle.
    • 4.

  • Nkeiru Okoye

    When Young Spring Comes

    Performer: Lara Downes.
    • Spring Fever.
    • Rising Sun Records.
    • 101.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    The Four Seasons Recomposed: Spring 0 and Spring 1

    Composer: Max Richter. Performer: Elena Urioste. Ensemble: Chineke! Orchestra.
    • The New Four Seasons - Vivaldi Recomposed.
    • DG.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

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

  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    In the Bottoms (Barcarolle [Morning])

    Performer: Monica Gaylord.
    • Black Piano, A Treasury of Works for Solo Piano by Black Composers.
    • MUSIC & ARTS.
    • 8.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Morning (Peer Gynt Suite no.1, Op.46)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Berglund.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Percy Grainger

    Country Gardens

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Grainger Editions Vol. 6: Orchestral Works - 成人快手 Phil./Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • Amy Beach

    Young Birches, Op 128 No 2

    Performer: Joanne Polk.
    • ARABESQUE.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Rose Garden (The Sea Hawk)

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • The Film Music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold: 成人快手 Phil / Gamba.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Voices of Spring, Op.410

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.
    • Sony Classical.