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The eclectic classical mix

There's music by Haydn and Dvorak today, Orlando Gibbons laments the outnumbering of the wise by fools in his Silver Swan and two of Mozart's daftest opera characters find each other and live happily ever after.

30 minutes

Last on

Fri 1 Apr 2022 19:00

Music Played

  • Arnold Bax

    Maenads (Spring Fire)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Bax: Spring Fire etc.: RPO / Handley.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    The Silver Swan

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • COLLEGIUM.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in E flat major Op.20`1 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets, Op.20 - Doric String Quartet.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 2.
  • Oskar B枚hme

    Trumpet Sextet in E flat minor (3rd mvt, Allegro con spirito)

    Ensemble: Prince Regent's Band.
    • Resonus.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Mazurek in E minor, Op 49, arr. for violin and orchestra

    Performer: Anne鈥怱ophie Mutter. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • Dvorak: Violin Concerto; Romance; Mazurek; Humoresque.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in G major H.16.39 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute (Pa... pa... pa...)

    Singer: Inger Dam-Jensen. Singer: Fran莽ois Le Roux. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • CONIFER.

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  • Fri 1 Apr 2022 19:00

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