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Marios Papadopoulos, pianist and founder of the Oxford Piano Festival, performs live. Plus Katie Derham speaks to Alison Buchanan, Artistic Director of Pegasus Opera Company, as well as Odaline de la Martinez who will be conducting the 'Opera Royale'.

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Music Played

  • Richard Wagner

    The Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walküre)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • The Berlin Album: Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Claude Debussy

    Beau soir, L. 84

    Performer: Pablo Ferrández. Performer: Julien Quentin.
    • Beau soir, L. 84.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Heinrich Schütz

    Ach Herr, Du Schöpfer aller Ding, SWV 450 - Dank sagen wir alle

    Performer: David Munrow. Performer: Philip Pickett. Performer: Keith Harvey. Performer: Rodney Slatford. Performer: Charles Spinks. Performer: William Waterhouse. Music Arranger: Friedrich Schoneich. Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble. Choir: Schütz Choir of London. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Schütz: Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi.
    • Decca.
    • 13.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata No 17 Op31 No2 'The Tempest' 3. Allegretto

    Performer: Marios Papadopoulos.
    • Oxford Philharmonic.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

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    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • DG.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Meditation (Souvenir d'un lieu cher Op.42)

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • DECCA.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata in E minor, Op 90 - Movement 1

    Performer: Marios Papadopoulos.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Sinfonia 'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba' (Solomon)

    Music Arranger: Michael Allen. Ensemble: Canadian Brass.
    • Legends: Canadian Brass.
    • Opening Day Recordings.
    • 2.
  • George Gershwin

    Prelude No.1

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • DG.
  • Edvard Grieg

    In The Hall of the Mountain King (Peer Gynt Op.23)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.
  • Edvard Grieg

    In the Hall of the Mountain King (Peer Gynt)

  • Johannes Brahms

    3 Intermezzi Op.117 for piano - No.1 in E flat major; 'Schlummerlied'

    Performer: Marios Papadopoulos.
  • Fairuz

    Li Beirut

    Composer: Joaquín Rodrigo. Performer: Sean Shibe. Music Arranger: Karim Sulayman. Music Arranger: Sean Shibe. Singer: Karim Sulayman.
    • Broken Branches.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 9.
  • Adolphe Adam

    Giselle; Act 2' Scene de Wilis - Entrée d'Hilarion

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Decca.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Requiem in D minor, K626 - I. Introitus

    Singer: Dorota Szczepańska. Choir: Warsaw Chamber Opera Chorus. Orchestra: Warsaw Chamber Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Adam Banaszak.
    • Dux.
  • Ethel Smyth

    Fete Galante: Overture-sarabande

    Ensemble: Lontano Ensemble. Conductor: Odaline de la Martínez.
    • Retrospect Opera.
  • Ethel Smyth

    Fete Galante: Madrigal: 'Soul's Joy'

    Ensemble: Lontano Ensemble. Conductor: Odaline de la Martínez.
    • Retrospect Opera.
  • Ethel Smyth

    Serenade in D (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Odaline de la Martínez.
    • Chandos.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Samson et Dalila Op.47 (Bacchanale)

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Trio: III. Finale

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Nonet, Piano Trio, Piano Quintet.
    • Chandos.
    • 203.

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