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Music Played

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Symphony in E Major "Irish" (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes.
    • Sullivan: Irish Symphony, Imperial March, Victoria and Merrie England & In Memor.
    • CPO.
    • 102.

  • Anna-Karin Klockar

    Limu limu lima

    Choir: Allmänna Sången. Conductor: Maria Goundorina.
    • Extending the Range.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.

  • François‐Joseph Gossec

    Concertante du Ballet de Mirza, 3rd mvt

    Performer: Xavier de Maistre. Performer: Catherine Michel. Orchestra: Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Boguslaw Madey.
    • Concertos For Two Harps & Orchestra.
    • EGAN OZENKI.
    • 6.

  • Eric Coates

    By the Sleepy Lagoon

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • EMI.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue in G minor, BWV.578

    • Bach to Notre-Dame.
    • La Dolce Volta.
    • 2.

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Piano Trio in E flat major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Hummel: Piano Trios.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream Op.61 (Nocturne)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Mendelssohn In Birmingham Vol. 4.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The Bluebird

    Performer: BBC Singers. Performer: Jess Gillam. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.

  • Ignatius Sancho

    The Runaway

    Ensemble: The Raritan Players. Director: Rebecca Cypess.
    • Ignatius Sancho: Music of an Eighteenth-Century Black Englishman.
    • CENTAUR.
    • 24.

  • Ignatius Sancho

    Minuet in C Major

    Ensemble: The Raritan Players. Director: Rebecca Cypess.
    • Ignatius Sancho: Music of an Eighteenth-Century Black Englishman.
    • CENTAUR.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis for double string orchestra

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • A Walk With Ivor Gurney.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 101.

  • Cait Nishimura

    Hiraeth

    Performer: Christopher Williams. Performer: David Childs.
    • Still Glides the Stream.
    • Naxos.
    • 107.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Flute Concerto in A Minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock. Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy.
    • Bach, C.P.E.: Flute Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 102.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Prelude No 4 in E Minor

    Performer: Peter Donohoe.
    • The Chopin I Love.
    • Somm Records.
    • 4.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 53 "L'Impériale" (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Rebecca Miller. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 52, 53 & 59.
    • Signum Records.
    • 10.

  • Johnny Handle

    The Collier Lad

    • The Wild and Wonderful Sounds of the 50s and 60s, Vol. 18.
    • Top Tracks.
    • 3.

  • Robert Schumann

    Kinderszenen, Op 15

    Performer: Arcadi Volodos.
    • Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Major, D. 850 - Schumann: Kinderszenen Op. 15.
    • Sony.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade no.2 in A major Op.16 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DG.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Tchaikovsky: Overtures & Fantasies.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.

  • Franco Robert

    Ipomoea

    Performer: Franco Robert.
    • Perceptions, Vol. 7.
    • Bigo and twigetti.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Viola Concerto in G Major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Bernhard Forck.
    • Georg Philipp Telemann: Viola Concertos - Overtures - Fantasias.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 9.

  • Hubert Parry

    I was glad

    Choir: The Sixteen. Performer: Robert Quinney. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • A New Heaven, The Sixteen.
    • UCJ.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Yesterday 06:30
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