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Essential Classics with Kate Molleson: Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld, Holst visits Hardy, Deborah Meaden

With guest, businesswoman and "dragon", Deborah Meaden.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Carl Nielsen

    Maskarade (Overture)

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Sch酶nwandt.
    • DaCapo.
  • Francis Poulenc

    脡l茅gie en accords altern茅s

    Performer: G眉her Pekinel. Performer: S眉her Pekinel.
    • Encores for two pianos.
    • Berlin Classics.
    • 6.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Go, lovely rose (3 Flower Songs)

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Cloudburst and other choral works.
    • HYPERION.
    • 5.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie fantastique Op.14 (Un Bal)

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 2.
  • Henry Purcell

    The Fairy Queen (First music - Prelude)

    Conductor: Harry Christophers. Orchestra: Orchestra of The Sixteen.
    • Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629: The Sixteen, Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.
    • 1-5.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Orpheus in the Underworld - concert overture

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Offenbach Overtures.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Nocturne No 4 in F, Op 15 No 1

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • SONY.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Valse-Scherzo in C major Op.34

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto etc..
    • Onyx.
    • 5.
  • Johann Christian Bach

    Symphony no. 4 for wind instruments in B flat major T.285/3`4

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • J.C. Bach: Wind Symphonies: Consortium Classicum.
    • MDG.
    • 11-13.
  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Love endureth

    Choir: VOCES8. Director: Barnaby Smith.
    • Love Abide.
    • Warner.
    • 1.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Homecoming

    Choir: Baccholian Singers of London.
    • EMI.
  • Gustav Holst

    Egdon Heath

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Teldec.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in E major Kk.206

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Murray Perahia plays Handel and Scarlatti.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 19.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    Orpheus with his lute

    Singer: Sir Thomas Allen. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • Hyperion.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Bacchanale (Samson et Dalila)

    Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥 Philharmonie.
    • Saint-Saens: Organ Symphony/Danse Macabre: Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Suite in Old Style (1st mvt)

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Vaiva Eidukaityt臈-Storastien臈. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras.
    • ECM New Series.
  • Trad.

    Gat Kirwani

    Performer: Ravi Shankar.
    • BGO.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Trio no.1 Op.8

    Ensemble: Trio Kar茅nine.
    • Chostakovitch, Dvo艡谩k & Weinberg.
    • Mirare.
    • 1.
  • Philip Wilby

    A Breathless Alleluia

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Performer: Philip Wilby. Conductor: Nicholas Childs.
    • A Breathless Alleluia.
    • NAXOS.
    • 1.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Tarantelle, Op 6

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Saint-Saens: Chamber Music: The Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No 2 in C major, Op 61 (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Christian Thielemann. Orchestra: Philharmonia.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Trio in A minor, 3rd mvt: Passacaille

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Maurice Ravel.
    • CRD.
    • 8.
  • Duke Ellington

    Sophisticated Lady

    Music Arranger: Luther Henderson. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • American Music.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.
  • William Lawes

    Royal Consort Sett no.4 in D: Paven

    Ensemble: Phantasm. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
    • LINN.
  • Aaron Copland

    An Outdoor Adventure

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Copland: Symphonies Vol. 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

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  • Wed 9 Oct 2019 09:00

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