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An engaging mix of classical music for half an hour, featuring a clarinettist's take on Wagner’s dream-inspired Wesendonck-Lieder, mournful text from Isaiah set as sacred song by Byrd, and the resolution to Bernstein’s tragic West Side Story.

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30 minutes

Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    Sinfonia Concertante in B flat major, H.I.105 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Ilya Gringolts. Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Performer: Alfredo Bernardini. Performer: Peter Whelan. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Haydn Sinfonia concertante / Mozart Concertos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 002.
  • Richard Wagner

    Wesendonck-Lieder, WWV 91: No. 5, Träume

    Performer: Raphaël Sévère. Performer: Adam Laloum.
    • Sing! - Songs Without Words (Schumann-Brahms-Wagner).
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 26.
  • William Byrd

    Ne irascaris Domine a 5 (1st mvt)

    Choir: The Gesualdo Six. Conductor: Owain Park.
    • English Motets: From Dunstaple to Gibbons.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.
  • Leopoldine Blahetka

    Nocturne, Op. 46 No. 1

    Performer: Dmitry Mayboroda.
    • She Composed - 53 Piano Pieces by Women Composers.
    • Prospero Classical.
    • 45.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue in C sharp minor, BWV 849 (The Well-tempered klavier)

    Music Arranger: Emanuel Aloys Förster. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Prism III.
    • ECM.
    • 12.
  • Nadia Boulanger

    Les Heures claires: IV. Que tes yeux clairs, tes yeux d'été

    Composer: Raoul Pugno. Performer: Tristan Raës. Singer: Cyrille Dubois.
    • Lili et Nadia Boulanger: Mélodies.
    • ´¡±è²¹°ù³Ùé.
    • 117.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: Finale

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Bernstein: Arias and Barcarolles etc.:LSO/Tilson Thomas.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 23.

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  • Tuesday 19:00

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