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25/01/2009

With Martin Handley. The music includes sparkling Sea Songs, a Bach cantata and Placido Domingo conducting a Lehar favourite.

With Martin Handley.

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7:04

RAMEAU
Overture: Zais
Les Musiciens du Louvre
Marc Minkowski (conductor)
ARCHIV 00289 4778 5578 T1

7:10

SCHUMANN
2 Canons from Op.56 (No.4 in A Flat & No.5 in B minor)
Thomas Trotter (organ of Symphony Hall, Birmingham)
SYMPHONY HALL SHCD3 T7 & 8

7:17

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Sea Songs
Cleveland Symphonic Winds
Frederic Fennell (conductor)
TELARC CD-80099 T10

7:22

TCHAIKOVSKY
5 Pieces from 'Nutcracker' Suite
Philharmonia Orchestra
Nikolai Malko (conductor)
EMI CZS5 75121-2 D1 T7 鈥 11

7:33

BYRD
Exurge, quare obdormis, Domine
The Cardinall's Musick
Andrew Carwood (conductor)
HYPERION CDA 67653 T7

7:38

RAVEL
Sonatine
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
DABRINGHAUS UND GRIMM MDG 604 1190-2 D1 5 - 7

7:51

BACH arr. Walton
Ah, how Ephemeral & Sheep May Safely Graze (The Wise Virgins)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Louis Fremaux (conductor)
EMI CZS5 73998-2 D2 T26 & 27

8:03

GLINKA
Overture: Ruslan & Ludmilla
Russian National Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 439 892-2 T1

8:09

MAHLER arr. Clytus Gottwald
Die zwei blauen Augen (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen)
Accentus
Laurence Equilbey (conductor)
NA脧VE V 5048 T9

8:14

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
The Helsinki Strings
Csaba & Geza Szilvay (directors)
WARNER CLASSICS 2564 69232-2 T2

8:29

TALLIS
Spem in Alium
The Taverner Consort & Choir
Andrew Parrott (conductor)
VIRGIN 562 2302 D1 T10

8:40

MOZART
Andante & Fugue in A K402
Gary Cooper (fortepiano)
Rachel Podger (violin)
CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS SA 23606 T7 & 8

8:52

GIANONCELLI
Bergamasca
Paul O鈥橠ette (archlute)
HYPERION CDA 66228 T14

8:56

IVES
Country Band March
Orchestra New England
James Sinclair (conductor)
KOCH 370252 T1

9:04

BRAHMS
Hungarian Dances Nos. 1 & 2
Nicholas Angelich & Frank Braley (piano duet)
VIRGIN 518998-2 T4 & 5

9:10

SCHUBERT arr. Fortner
Valses Nobles D969
Strings of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Matthias Bamert (conductor)
KOCH CD 311 135 T1

9:21

BACH
Cantata BWV 72 Alles nur nach Gottes Willen
Sandrine Piau (sop)
Bogna Bartosz (alto)
Klaus Mertens (bass)
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir
Ton Koopman (conductor)
CHALLENGE CLASSICS CC72219 D1 T16 鈥 21

9:38

Thomas WILSON
Bird (St. Kentigern Suite)
Scottish Ensemble
Jonathan Rees (director)
VIRGIN VC7 911123-2 T15

9:43

MENDELSSOHN
Hear My Prayer
Gavin Moralee (treble)
The Rosebery Chorus
Jeremy Barham (organ)
William McVicker (conductor)
IMP CLASSICS PCD 2021 T1

9:54

LEHAR
Waltz: Gold & Silver
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Placido Domingo (conductor)
EMI CDC5 563370-2 T13 (ends on applause)

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