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  • Gustav Holst

    Mercury, the Winged Messenger (The Planets)

    Conductor: Andrew Davis. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.
    • Holst : The Planets & Egdon Heath.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 3.
  • Thomas Adès

    The Thieves (Dante, Part 1: Inferno)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No. 1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Orchestra: 水戸室内管弦楽団. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Argerich & Ozawa: Beethoven.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Giovanni Benedetto Platti

    Cello sonata No 7 in D major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Abel Selaocoe. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Performer: Kadialy Kouyate. Performer: Fred Thomas.
    • single.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphonic Dance no. 2: Andante con moto (tempo di Valse)

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.
    • Rachmanonoff: Symphonic Dances.
    • Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings.
    • 102.
  • George Gershwin

    Summertime (Porgy & Bess)

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Angel Blue.
    • OPUS ARTE.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in G major, Kk.455

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • DG.
  • Arthur Bliss

    Welcome the Queen, Op 78

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Edwin York Bowen

    Thumbelina (Fragments from Hans Andersen)

    Performer: Nicolas Namoradze.
    • York Bowen: Fragments from Hans Andersen & Studies.
    • Hyperion.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV1067: VII Badinerie

    Ensemble: La Petite Bande. Conductor: Sigiswald Kuijken.
    • ACCENT.
  • Noël Coward

    Parisian Pierrot

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Nicky Spence.
    • A Most Marvellous Party: Noel Coward and Friends.
    • Signum Records.
    • 7.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Oberon - Act 1: Overture

    Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Weber: Oberon.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Richard Wagner

    Siegfried: Siegfried's Horn Call

    Performer: Ben Goldscheider. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder. Orchestra: Hallé.
    • Siegfried: Siegfried's Horn Call.
    • Halle Concerts Society.
    • 1.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Oboe concerto in G major, TWV 51:g2 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Music Arranger: Ian Payne. Ensemble: Jess Gillam Ensemble.
    • Telemann: Oboe Concerto in G Major, TWV 51:g2 (Reconstr. Ian Payne): I. Andante.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Trad.

    Blow the Wind Southerly

    Music Arranger: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Decca.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Violin Concerto in D minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Thomas Søndergård.
    • Sibelius Prokofiev: Violin Concerto.
    • EMI.
    • 3.
  • Henry Purcell

    Dido and Aeneas: Overture

    Ensemble: Jupiter. Director: Thomas Dunford.
    • Songs of Passion.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 20.
  • Duke Ellington

    The Queen's Suite: The Single Petal Of A Rose

    Performer: Duke Ellington. Performer: Jimmy Woode.
    • The Ellington Suites [Original Jazz Classics Remasters].
    • Original Jazz Classics.
    • 5.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in D minor RV.128

    Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • ALPHA914.
  • Evelyn Glennie

    A Little Prayer

    Performer: Evelyn Glennie.
    • Rhythm Song.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 10.

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