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Breakfast with the best classical music

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Music Played

  • Randall Thompson

    Alleluia

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Moonlight (4 Sea interludes [from 'Peter Grimes'] Op.33a)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Steuart Bedford.
    • Britten - London Symphony Orchestra, Steuart Bedford.
    • Collins Classics.
    • 13.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Notturno

    Performer: David Quigley.
    • AVIE.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Song for orchestra, Op 33

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Ruth Gipps: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.

  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    5 Preludes (no.1 in E minor)

    Performer: Carlos Bonell.
    • The Private Collection: Carlos Bonell.
    • Upbeat Classics.

  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite (3rd mvt: Minuet)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • John Ireland: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • John Frederick Lampe

    Flute Concerto in G major, "The Cuckoo"

    Performer: Rachel Brown. Orchestra: Opera Restor'd. Conductor: Peter Holman.
    • Hyperion.

  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet no. 2 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Byol Kang. Performer: Anna Reszniak. Performer: Barbara Buntrock. Performer: Julian Steckel.
    • Avi Music.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Musetta's Waltz

    Performer: Dick Hyman. Music Arranger: Dick Hyman. Orchestra: Original Soundtrack Orchestra. Conductor: Moe Koffman.
    • Moonstruck (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Capitol Records (CAP).
    • 11.

  • Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek

    Donna Diana (Overture)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • Opera Overtures and Incidental Music.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 14.

  • Träd

    An Eriskay Lullaby [Seal Woman, Act II Interlude]

    Music Arranger: Marjory Kennedy‐Fraser. Music Arranger: Granville Bantock. Orchestra: Orchestra of Scottish Opera. Conductor: John Andrews.
    • Retrospect Opera.

  • Queen Liliʻuokalani of Hawaii

    Ku'ku Pua i Paoakalani

    Ensemble: Rose Ensemble.
    • ROSE RECORDS.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude & Fugue in A Minor [24 Preludes & Fugues, Op.87 No.2]

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Shostakovich: The Piano Concertos; Solo Works.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 10.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    España

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

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Étude symphonique, Op.28

    Performer: Jonathan Plowright.
    • Homage to Paderewski: Jonathan Plowrigtht.
    • Hyperion.
    • 23.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten [Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV.78]

    Singer: Julianne Baird. Singer: Allan Fast. Ensemble: The Bach Ensemble. Director: Joshua Rifkin.
    • Bach, J.S.: Cantatas Nos. 8, 78 & 99.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Sunday rag for piano

    Performer: Sarah Nicolls.
    • Kats-Chernin: Ragtime and Blue.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1401.

  • Maggie Holland

    A Place Called England

    Music Arranger: Sean Cooney. Ensemble: The Young’uns.
    • Hereteu Records.

  • Georges Auric

    Ouverture

    Conductor: Antal Doráti. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • MERCURY.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major (2nd mvmt, Andante)

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Orchestra: The Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces.
    • Trumpet Concertos.
    • Simax Classics.
    • 2.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Pineapple Poll (Opening Dance)

    Music Arranger: Charles Mackerras. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • 100 Best Ballet.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Trad.

    Scarborough Fair

    Music Arranger: Simon Parkin. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Plínio Fernandes.
    • DECCA.

  • Franz Schubert

    Im Frühling, D 882

    Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Ian Bostridge.
    • Schubert: 25 Lieder: Ian Bostridge.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 21.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Perpetuum Mobile, Op.257

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.
    • Strauss II, J.: Waltzes.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.

  • Thomas Tallis

    Sancte Deus, sancte fortis

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • A Tudor Collection: The Tallis Scholars.
    • Gimell.

  • William Walton

    Violin Concerto (2nd mvt: Presto capriccioso alla napolitana)

    Performer: Charlie Lovell-Jones. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Walton: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 6.

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