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Sean Rafferty is joined by the Barbican String Quartet, who play live in the studio, and conductor Stephen Bell, who previews the Hallé orchestra's 4th of July 'Stars & Stripes' concert later this week, featuring some of the best-known American music.

2 hours

Last on

Mon 1 Jul 2024 17:00

Music Played

  • Joe Hisaishi

    Merry-Go-Round of Life (Howl's Moving Castle)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Joe Hisaishi.
    • DG.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko.
    • Leif Ove Andsnes: A Portrait.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.
  • Lili Boulanger

    Psaume 129

    Singer: Pierre Mollet. Choir: Chœurs Élisabeth Brasseur. Orchestra: Orchestre Lamoureux. Conductor: Igor Markevitch.
    • Everest.
  • Alexander Faris

    Upstairs, Downstairs, (theme from the TV drama series)

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Harry Rabinowitz.
  • Arnold Bax

    Tintagel

    Conductor: Vernon Handley. Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Bax: The Symphonies: ѿý Philharmonic/Handley.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Quartet in D major, Op.20 No.4: 1. Allegro di molto

    Ensemble: Barbican Quartet.
  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Eliza's Aria (Wild Swans)

    Singer: Jane Sheldon. Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ola Rudner.
    • ABC.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite no.1 in C major, BWV.1066 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Ton Koopman.
    • J.S. Bach, Orchestral Suites, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra / Ton Koopman.
    • RCA.
    • 1.
  • Robert Schumann

    Quartet in A major, Op.41 No.3: 2. Adagio molto

    Ensemble: Barbican Quartet.
  • William Grant Still

    Song For The Lonely

    Performer: Titus Underwood. Performer: Lara Downes.
    • Rising Sun Records.
  • Maurice Ravel

    DZé

    Conductor: Pierre Boulez. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Ravel: Bolero: Berliner Philharmoniker, Boulez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 15.
  • John Philip Sousa

    The Stars and Stripes Forever (arr. Stokowski)

    Orchestra: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Erich Kunzel.
    • Pomp & Pizazz.
    • Telarc.
    • 009.
  • Cole Porter

    Always true to you in my fashion

    Music Arranger: Guy Barker. Singer: Clare Teal. Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Stephen Bell.
    • MUD RECORDS.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Le Tombeau de Couperin (Prélude)

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Ravel: La valse, M. 72 & Other Works.
    • BIS.
    • 301.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Coronation Anthem No. 3, HWV260 'The King Shall Rejoice' - final section 'Glory and Worship' and Alleluia

    Ensemble: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.
  • Claude Debussy

    Reverie

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.
    • Debussy: Preludes etc.: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 18.

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