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In a regular monthly slot on Sunday Breakfast – we explore and discover some new and more familiar classical music and artistes and hopefully introduce you to some new pieces of music to get stuck into as part of our listening club… 

This month’s tracks are:

William Byrd - Though Amyrillis Dance in Green

Damh the bard - Noon of the Solstice

Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream - original orchestral version + Rachmaninov's piano transcription of the Scherzo

Purcell - Come All ye songsters of the Night from The Fairy Queen

Charlotte Bray - That crazed smile

Benjamin Britten - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows from A Midsummer Night's Dream

Astor Piazzolla - Summer from the Four Seasons of Buenos Aires

Sally Beamish - The Imagined Sound of Sun on Stone

Hugo Alfven - Midsummer Vigil

Michael Tippett - Fire in Summer from Ritual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage

Carl Nielsen - Helios Overture

GF Handel - Eternal Source of Light Divine

Sergei Prokofiev - Summer Night

Arnold Bax - Summer Music

Richard Strauss - Prelude (Sunrise) from Also sprach Zarathustra

Edward Elgar - As torrents in summer

Peter Maxwell Davies - Solstice of Light

William Grant Still - Summerland