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Keep calm and clear with the Kanneh-Masons

Keep calm and clear with the Kanneh-Masons' Classical Focus Mix.

Join the Kanneh-Mason family for two hours of soothing and serene sounds chosen by all seven siblings of this amazing force in classical music. Isata, Braimah, Sheku, Konya, Jeneba, Aminata and Mariatu have put together a collaborative playlist especially for Classical Focus, a beautiful mix of some of their favourite music tracks which they hope will lift, inspire and move you. Expect sounds from Chopin to Chick Corea as well as selections from their own interpretations of classical greats.

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  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    II - Andante

    Performer: Dmitry Shostakovich. Performer: I Musici de Montr茅al. Performer: Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich. Performer: Yuli Turovsky.
    • Piano Concerto No.2 Op.102 / Symphony For Strings Op.118a.
    • Chandos.

  • Dario Marianelli

    The Secret Life of Daydreams

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • Pride & Prejudice (Music From The Motion Picture).
    • UCJ.

  • Dario Marianelli

    The Living Sculptures Of Pemberley

    Performer: Benjamin Wallfisch. Performer: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Pride & Prejudice (Music From The Motion Picture).
    • UCJ.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Rondo In A Minor, K.511

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
    • Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon.
    • Deutsche Grammophon GmbH.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy From The Nutcracker Op.71 (Arr. Langer)

    Performer: Jeneba Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Konya Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Carnival Of The Animals.
    • Decca.

  • Michael Nyman

    A Bed Of Ferns

    • The Piano (Original Music From The Film By Jane Campion).
    • Virgin.

  • Carlos Rafael Rivera

    Kentucky State Championship 1963

    Performer: Budapest Art Orchestra.
    • The Queen's Gambit (Music From The Netflix Limited Series).
    • Mondo.

  • Kathryn Bostic

    Spontaneous Ephiphanies

    Performer: Kathryn Bostic.
    • Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Lakeshore Records.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    "Song For Amadeus" (Improvisation On Mozart's Sonata No. 2 In F Major, K.280/189

    Performer: Bobby McFerrin. Performer: Chick Corea. Ensemble: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
    • The Mozart Sessions.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Isobel Waller-Bridge

    Emma Is Lost

    Performer: David Schweitzer.
    • Emma. (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Mondo.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    No. 1 In E Minor Op. 11 E-moll 2. Romance: Larghetto

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman. Performer: Polish Festival Orchestra.
    • Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Mario Castelnuovo鈥怲edesco

    Sea Murmurs

    Performer: The Kanneh鈥怣asons.
    • Carnival Of The Animals.
    • Decca.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Carnival Of The Animals: Aquarium

    Performer: The Kanneh鈥怣asons.
    • Carnival Of The Animals.
    • DECCA.

  • Clara Schumann

    8 -12 Gedichte aus Liebesfr眉hling, Op. 37: No. 4, Liebst du um Sch枚nheit (Arr. L

    Performer: Anneleen Lenaerts. Performer: Dionysis Grammenos.
    • Schumann & Schubert - Transcriptions for Clarinet & Harp.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581: II. Larghetto

    Performer: London Haydn Quartet. Performer: Eric Hoeprich.
    • MOZART, W.A.: Clarinet Quintet in A major / BRAHMS, J.: Clarinet Quintet in B mi.
    • Glossa.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488: II. Adagio - Vocal

    Performer: Bobby McFerrin. Performer: Chick Corea. Performer: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
    • The Mozart Sessions.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Nicholas Hooper

    Dumbledore's Farewell

    Performer: London Chamber Orchestra.
    • Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • New Line Records.

  • Julius Klengel

    Hymnus, Op. 57

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Sir Simon Rattle. Performer: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Elgar.
    • Decca.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Violin Sonatina In G major, Op.100: II - Larghetto

    Performer: Jack Liebeck. Performer: Katya Apekisheva. Performer: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Performer: Garry Walker.
    • Violin Concerto, Sonata And Sonatina.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Frank Bridge

    Cello Sonata: II. Adagio ma non troppo - Molto allegro e agitato

    Performer: Connie Shih. Performer: Steven Isserlis.
    • The Cello In Wartime.
    • BIS.

  • Alexandre Desplat

    Dr March's Daughters

    Performer: Alexandre Desplat.
    • Little Women (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Sony Classical.

  • Patrick Doyle

    Harry in Winter

    Performer: James Shearman. Performer: London Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Patrick Doyle.
    • Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Warner Bros. Records.

  • Dario Marianelli

    The Cottage On The Beach

    Performer: Dario Marianelli. Performer: Benjamin Wallfisch. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • Atonement (Original Soundtrack Track).
    • Decca.

  • Edmund Finnis

    String Quartet No 1, "Aloysius" Hymn (After Byrd) IV

    Performer: Manchester Collective.
    • Shades.
    • Bedroom Community.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    12 Romances, Op. 21: No. 7, How Fair This Spot (Arr. for Violin and Piano)

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Samuel Sanders.
    • Violin Encores.

  • Gustav Holst

    In the Bleak Midwinter (Arr. Kanneh-Mason)

    Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter (Arr. Kanneh-Mason).
    • Decca.

  • Alessio Prati

    5 Preludes, W419: No. 5 In D Major

    Performer: Abel Selaocoe.
    • 5 Preludes, W419: No. 5 In D Major.

  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    5 Preludes, W 419: No. 5 in D Major

    Performer: Pl铆nio Fernandes.
    • Saudade.
    • Decca Records US.

  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    5 Preludes, W419: No. 4 in E minor

    Performer: Pl铆nio Fernandes.
    • Saudade.
    • Decca Records US.

  • Pl铆nio Fernandes & Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason

    Scarborough Fair

    • Elgar.
    • Decca.

  • Franz Schubert

    3. Scherzo (Allegro molto)

    Performer: 12 Ensemble.
    • Death and the Maiden (12 Ensemble).
    • Sancho Panza.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Sussex Landscape, Op. 27 II. Lento e molto tranquillo

    Performer: Chineke! Orchestra. Performer: Elena Urioste.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • DECCA.

  • Eric Whitacre

    The Seal Lullaby

    Performer: The Kanneh鈥怣asons.
    • Carnival Of The Animals.
    • Decca.