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Expand your horizons with classical music

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites.

30 minutes

Last on

Wed 1 May 2024 19:00

Music Played

  • Will Todd

    Softly

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev

    Piano Quintet in G minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Peter Donohoe. Ensemble: Sacconi Quartet.
    • Taneyev and Schumann: Piano Quintets.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wie teuer sind des heilgen Mahles Gaben! (Cantata No 180)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach Cantatas: Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 15.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto no.1 in F sharp minor Op.1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Simon Trpceski. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 1 & 4 - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 2.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Le tombeau de Couperin (Prelude)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
  • Lili Boulanger

    Au pied de mon lit (Clairières dans le ciel)

    Singer: Katharina Konradi. Performer: Gerold Huber.
    • Gedankenverloren.
    • Genuin.
    • 901.
  • John Barry

    Mary, Queen Of Scots (1971) "Mary's Theme"

    Conductor: John Barry. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • Mary, Queen Of Scots.
    • Geffen.
    • 1.
  • Derek Bourgeois

    Serenade Op.22

    Ensemble: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Frank Renton.
    • Classic Brass.
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 4.

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  • Wed 1 May 2024 19:00

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