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Ease into your evening with classical music

Al Ryan talks to tenor Nicky Spence ahead of his performance in Peter Grimes with the Welsh National Opera, and there's live music in the studio from pianist Cristian Sandrin, who has a new album of Beethoven's last three Sonatas.

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Music Played

  • Jerome Moross

    The Big Country (Main theme)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Tony Bremner.
    • The Big Country.
    • Silva Screen.
    • 1.
  • Robert Schumann

    Quintet in E flat major Op 44 for piano and strings (1st mvt)

    Performer: Paul Gulda. Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Schumann - The Masterworks.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 382.
  • Mario Castelnuovo‐Tedesco

    Guitar Concerto no.1 in D major Op.99 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Kazuhito Yamashita. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • RCA.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Concerto (H.7h.4) in F major (Finale)

    Performer: François Leleux. Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Münchener Kammerorchester.
    • Prince Esterházy Concertos.
    • Sony.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Jennifer Pike. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Kavatine from String Quartet Op 130, arr for piano

    Performer: Cristian Sandrin. Music Arranger: Carl Tausig.
  • Louise Drewett

    Cannone alla Decima (New Goldberg Variations)

    Performer: Cristian Sandrin.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Variation 30, Quodlibet (Goldberg Variations, BWV 988)

    Performer: Cristian Sandrin.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Five Bagatelles, Op 23, arr Ashmore; No 3 Carol

    Performer: Robert Plane. Music Arranger: Lawrence Ashmore. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • Finzi: Clarinet Concert, Five Bagatelles: Robert Plane.
    • Naxos.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Bacchanale (Samson et Dalila)

    Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • Saint-Saens: Organ Symphony/Tone Poems: Pittsburgh Symphony/Maazel.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.
  • Henry Purcell

    Suite No 4 in A minor: Prelude & Almand

    Performer: Cristian Sandrin.
  • Maria Theresia von Paradis

    Sicilienne

    Music Arranger: Samuel Dushkin. Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • BIS.
  • Erroll Garner

    Misty

    Lyricist: Johnny Burke. Music Arranger: Quincy Jones. Singer: Sarah Vaughan. Conductor: Quincy Jones. Orchestra: Quincy Jones and His Orchestra.
    • Vaughan And Violins.
    • Universal Music Division Decca Records France.
    • 4.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Sento la gioia (Amadigi di Gaula)

    Music Arranger: Trevor Pinnock. Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • EMI.
  • Edward Elgar

    The Dream of Gerontius, Op 38, Pt 1: Jesu, Maria - I am near to death (extract)

    Singer: Nicky Spence. Ensemble: Giovanni Gabrieli. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius.
    • Signum Records.
    • 2.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Moonlight (4 Sea interludes [from 'Peter Grimes'] Op.33a)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Steuart Bedford.
    • Britten - London Symphony Orchestra, Steuart Bedford.
    • Collins Classics.
    • 11.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    3 Songs, Op 23: No 3, Le secret

    Lyricist: Paul-Armand Silvestre. Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Nicky Spence.
    • Fauré: La bonne chanson & Other Songs.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor, BWV 1067 (Badinérie)

    Performer: Wilbert Hazelzet. Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Solveig's Song (Peer Gynt Suite No 2, Op 55 No 4)

    Orchestra: Malmö SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.
    • Naxos.
  • Eleanor Daley

    Upon Your Heart

    Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Choir: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • All Things Are Quite Silent.
    • Signum Records.
    • 13.

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