
Revitalising Spring sounds for new horizons
As days begin to grow lighter, enjoy this playlist packed with Spring-filled classical sounds to bring you a calming energy.
As days begin to grow lighter, enjoy this playlist packed with Spring-filled classical sounds to bring you a calming energy.
Including hopeful sounds from from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, and Stanford’s ‘The Blue Bird’. With calming emotional journeys from Howard Skempton’s ‘Lento', Anne Boyd’s ‘The Beginning of The Day’ and many more.
Produced by James Taylor
An Overcoat Media Production for ѿý Sounds, MM.
Music Played
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Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring: VI. Meno mosso
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.- Barber: Adagio for Strings & Copland (without digital booklet).
- Sony Classical.
- 7.
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Claude Debussy
2 Arabesques, L. 66: I. Andantino con moto
Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.- Harmonia Mundi UK Limited.
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Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in E Major, 'Spring': II. Largo
Performer: Pekka Kuusisto. Orchestra: Virtuosi di Kuhmo.- Vivaldi, A.: Four Seasons (The) / Violin Concerto in A Minor.
- Ondine.
- 2.
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Anne Boyd
The Beginning Of The Day
Orchestra: Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ron Spigelman.- Dream Children.
- Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
- 11.
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Nkeiru Okoye
When Young Spring Comes
Performer: Lara Downes.- Rising Sun Records.
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Trad.
My Lord, What a Mornin'
Music Arranger: Harry Burleigh. Choir: Chattanooga Choral Arts Society. Conductor: Robert Bode.- Gothic.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata For Violin And Piano No. 5 In F, 'Spring': 2. Adagio Molto espressivo
Performer: Gidon Kremer. Performer: Martha Argerich.- Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas.
- Decca (UMO).
- 11.
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Akira Nakada
12 Songs for Guitar: Gita no tame no juni no uta: No. 7. A Song of Early Spring
Performer: Shin-Ichi Fukuda.- Naxos Music UK Ltd.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 'Jupiter': II. Andante cantabile
Ensemble: Luxembourg Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Louis de Froment.- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 40 In G Minor, K. 550.
- Classical.com Music.
- 6.
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Baal HaSulam
Melodies of the Upper Worlds: XIII. To Proclaim in the Morning About Your Mercy
Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan.- Naxos Music UK Ltd.
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Eric Whitacre
Lux Aurumque
Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Lyricist: Edward Esch.- Light & Gold.
- Decca (UMO).
- 1.
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Nino Rota
Clarinet Sonata in D Major: II. Andante (quasi adagio)
Performer: Goran Gojevic.- Rota: Clarinet Sonata - Clarinet Trio.
- Naxos.
- 2.
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John Farrar
English Pastoral Impressions: II. Bredon Hill
Performer: Howard Shelley. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Alasdair Mitchell.- Farrar: Orchestral Music.
- Chandos.
- 6.
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Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Les tendres plaintes
Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.- Rameau: Les tendres plaintes.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 1.
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William Grant Still
Suite for Violin and Piano: II. Mother and Child
Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Zhu Wang.- Roots.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 10.
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Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt, Op. 23: No. 13, Morning Mood
Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Lyricist: Henrik Ibsen. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.- Grieg: Peer Gynt; Piano Concerto; Symphony.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 8.
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Pauline Viardot
Six Morceaux: Berceuse
Performer: Laura Kobayashi. Performer: Susan Gray.- Feminissimo!.
- Albany Records.
- 12.
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Johannes Brahms
5 Lieder, Op. 105: No. 1, Wie Melodien zieht es mir
Performer: Martin Fröst. Performer: Roland Pöntinen.- BIS.
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Charles Villiers Stanford
The Blue Bird
Music Arranger: Paul Hillier. Choir: Chamber Choir Ireland.- RTÉ Lyric.
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Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2
Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.- Chopin: Pièces pour piano.
- Warner Classics.
- 16.
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Ronald Binge
The Watermill
Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ernest Tomlinson.- Binge: Elizabethan Serenade, Scottish Rhapsody & Other Works.
- Naxos.
- 11.
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Germaine Tailleferre
Trio: III. Moderato
Performer: Renate Eggebrecht. Performer: Friedemann Kupsa. Performer: Angela Gassenhuber.- Troubadisc.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia On Greensleeves
Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.- Vaughan Williams: Fantasia On "Greensleeves"; The Lark Ascending / Delius: Two P.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 1.
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Florence Maude Ewart
Prelude No. 3
Performer: Jeanell Carrigan.- Wirripang.
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Anthony Collins
Symphony for Strings No.1: II. Adagio molto
Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra.- Anthony Collins - Vanity Fair.
- Dutton Epoch.
- 23.
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Muzio Clementi
Keyboard Sonata in A Major, Op. 10, No. 1: II. Menuetto: Allegretto con moto
Performer: Piotr Kępiński.- CD Accord.
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Thomas Tallis
O nata lux de lumine
Performer: Oliver Brett. Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.- England my England.
- Warner Classics.
- 9.
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Maria Theresia von Paradis
Sicilienne
Performer: Jacqueline du Pré. Performer: Gerald Moore. Music Arranger: Samuel Dushkin.- Joy of the Cello.
- Warner Classics.
- 28.
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Howard Skempton
Lento
Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth.- NMC Recordings.