
Ease into your evening with classical music
Martin Handley speaks to American opera singer Michael Spyres about Opera Rara's Donizetti Song Project. Michael Spyres sings on Volume 3, accompanied by Opera Rara's Artistic Director, Carlo Rizzi, which is due for release on 21 February.
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Léo Delibes
Mazurka (Coppélia)
Orchestra: Opéra de Lyon. Conductor: Kent Nagano.- Delibes: Coppelia: Orchestre de l'opera de Lyon/Nagano.
- Erato.
- 4.
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Arnold Bax
Dance in Sunlight (3 Pieces for small orchestra)
Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.- The Banks of Green Willow.
- EMI.
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Elfrida Andrée
Piano Trio in C minor: iv. Finale (Allegro con fuoco)
Ensemble: Nordica Trio.- INTIM MUSIC.
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Franz Lehár
Where the lark sings
Orchestra: Wiener Johann Strauss Orchester. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.- EMI.
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Charles Gounod
Petite Symphonie (4th mvt)
Ensemble: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.- Gounod/Bizet: Symphony no.1/L'Arlesienne: St Paul Chamber Orch/Hogwood.
- Decca.
- 8.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending
Performer: Sarah Chang. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- Vaughan Williams: Orchestral and Vocal Favourites.
- EMI Classics.
- 4.
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Darius Milhaud
Scaramouche, Op. 165d (Version for Clarinet & Orchestra): III. Brazileira
Conductor: Anna Skryleva. Orchestra: Odense Symfoniorkester.- Busoni, Françaix & Others: Clarinet Concertos.
- Orchid Classics.
- 105.
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AntonÃn Dvořák
Carnival Overture Op.92
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Libor Pešek. Conductor: Libor Pešek.- Virgin.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
4 African dances (no.2)
Performer: David Juritz. Performer: Michael Dussek.- Dutton Epoch.
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Zoltán Kodály
Viennese Musical Clock (Hary Janos - Suite)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: István Kertész.- Decca.
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Edward Elgar
The Wand of youth - suite no. 1 Op.1a - Sun Dance
Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Mark Elder.- EMI.
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Erland Cooper
Folded Landscapes - Movement 2
Performer: Erland Cooper. Narrator: Simon Armitage. Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.- Folded Landscapes.
- Mercury Classics.
- 3.
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Benjamin Britten
On This Island, Op. 11: IV. Nocturne
Performer: Anna Tilbrook. Lyricist: W. H. Auden. Singer: James Gilchrist.- Britten: My Beloved is Mine.
- Linn Records.
- 4.
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Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto No.2 Op.83 - 4. Allegro non troppo
Performer: Maurizio Pollini. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.- DG.
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Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in G major Op.76`1 (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Angeles Quartet.- Joseph Haydn The String Quartets Op.76 nos.1-3.
- Philips.
- 3.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no.1 in C major Op.21 (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Beethoven: Symphonies 1 & 2: Gewandhouorchester, Riccardo Chailly.
- Decca.
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