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Music Played

  • Félix Godefroid

    Carnaval de Venise

    Performer: Xavier de Maistre.
    • Notte Veneziana.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 21.
  • Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor

    Children's Intermezzo (Othello)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Fawzi Haimor.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Othello, Op. 79: II. Children's Intermezzo.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song without Words in A major, Op 62 No 6, 'Frühlingslied' (Spring Song)

    Performer: Peter Donohoe.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Anon.

    Jeux Interdits - Spanish Romance (arr. for guitar and orchestra)

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Watkins.
    • ѱ徱ٱáԱ.
    • Deutsch Grammophon.
    • 05.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (Cantata no.1)

    Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Choir: Amsterdam Baroque Choir. Director: Ton Koopman.
    • Bach - Complete Cantatas 13.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 1.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Feuillet d'album

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: William Bennett. Performer: James Campbell. Performer: David Campbell. Performer: Rachel Gough. Performer: Robin Kennard. Performer: Richard Watkins. Performer: Robert Maskell. Music Arranger: Paul Taffanel.
    • Debussy/Saint-Saens: Complete Chamber Music for Woodwinds.
    • Cala.
    • 6.
  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon in D major

    Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Musiques de cinéma - Pachelbel: Canon (From "Ordinary People").
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Haydn Wood

    An Evening Song

    Conductor: Ernest Tomlinson. Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Wood: Paris Suite / A May-Day Overture.
    • Marco-Polo.
    • 1.
  • Anton Webern

    Lagngsamer satz

    Ensemble: Kleio Quartet.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Madam Butterfly; Humming Chorus

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Choir: Chorus of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Puccini: Madama Butterfly.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 13.
  • Ulysses Kay

    Tender Thought

    Performer: William Chapman Nyaho.
    • Kete - Piano Music of Africa and the African Diaspora.
    • MSR Classics.
    • 2.
  • Florence Price

    Ticklin' Toes

    Performer: William Chapman Nyaho.
    • Kete - Piano Music of Africa and the African Diaspora.
    • MSR Classics.
    • 8.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Masques et Bergamasques

    Orchestra: Basel Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ivor Bolton.
    • The Secret Fauré 2.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 6.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 40 (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Mathieu Herzog. Orchestra: Ensemble Appassionato.
    • Mozart: The Last Three Symphonies.
    • NAIVE.
    • 7.
  • Aaron Copland

    The Cat and the Mouse

    • Summertime.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 13.
  • Edmond Dédé

    Morgiane: Overture

    Conductor: Patrick Dupré Quigley. Orchestra: Opera Lafayette Orchestra.
    • Edmond Dédé: Morgiane, ou, Le sultan d'Ispahan.
    • Delos.
    • 1.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Concerto No 1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Elim Chan.
    • Chopin Piano Concertos.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
  • Marek Pasieczny

    Abbatia Fontium: III. Turris

    Performer: Alberto Crugnola.
    • SLE London Records.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Bassoon Concerto in B flat major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sergio Azzolini. Orchestra: Streicherakademie Bozen.
    • C.P.E. Bach: Bassoon Music / Werke für Fagott.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 11.
  • Karl Jenkins

    Adiemus

    Singer: Miriam Stockley. Singer: Mary Carewe. Performer: Pamela Thorby. Performer: Mike Ratledge. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Jenkins.
    • Songs Of Sanctuary.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 101.
  • Ethel Smyth

    Suite for Strings (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Joshua Weilerstein. Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.
    • American and English Orchestral Music.
    • CLAVES RECORDS.
  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No 3 "Rhenish" (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Schumann Complete Symphonies.
    • PLATOON.
    • 9.
  • Tomás Bretón

    La Verbena de La Paloma: "Preludio"

    Conductor: Ataúlfo Argenta. Orchestra: Gran Orquesta Sinfónica.
    • La Zarzuela: La Verbena de la Paloma.
    • Homokord.
    • 1.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 2

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Péter Nagy.
    • Brahms: Violin Concerto; Hungarian Dances; Bartók: Rhapsodies.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 9.

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