BBC Proms special: Pensive classical tracks to focus your attention

Georg Philipp Telemann

Oboe Concerto in G Major, TWV 51:g2: I. Andante

Performer: Jess Gillam. Ensemble: Jess Gillam Ensemble.

• PRISM, Vol. 2.
• Decca Music Group Ltd..
• 4.

Grace Williams

Elegy

Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes.

• Welsh Music for Strings.
• Rubicon.
• 1.

Erland Cooper

Sula Bassana

Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: George Morton.

• Sula bassana.
• Mercury Classics / Universal Music Group.
• 3.

Florence Price

String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor: II. Andante cantabile

Music Arranger: Jonathan Colbert. Performer: Sphinx Virtuosi.

• Songs for Our Times.
• Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
• 6.

Orlando Gibbons

Song 20

Conductor: Jeremy West. Ensemble: The King’s Singers.

• Head Space: Candlelight.
• Signum Records.
• 7.

Claude Debussy

Clair de Lune Variation (After Suite Bergamasque CD 82/L.75: III. Clair de Lune)

Composer: Tim Allhoff. Performer: Gabriele Bagnati.

• Clair de Lune Variation (After Suite Bergamasque CD 82/L.75: III. Clair de Lune).
• Masterworks/Sony Music.
• 1.

Sergey Rachmaninov

Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30: II. Intermezzo: Adagio

Performer: Nikita Mndoyants. Ensemble: Ensemble Appassionato. Conductor: Mathieu Herzog.

• Appassionato, le label.

Lucy Walker

Give Me Your Stars

Composer: Sara Teasdale. Ensemble: VOCES8.

• TWENTY.
• Decca Music Group Ltd..
• 6.

Jean Sibelius

Valse triste, Op. 44 No. 1

Conductor: Thomas Søndergård. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

• Sibelius: Finlandia.
• Linn Records.
• 5.

Antonio Vivaldi

Concerto for 2 Oboes in D Minor, RV 535: III. Largo

Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Prince‐Monaco. Conductor: Gianluca Capuano.

• Vivaldi: Concerti per vari strumenti II.
• Naïve, a Label of Believe Group.
• 16.

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

Sinfonietta No. 1: II. Song Form-Largo

Orchestra: The Experiential Orchestra. Conductor: James Blachly.

• American Counterpoints.
• Bright Shiny Things.
• 4.

Quirino Mendoza y Cortés

Cielito lindo

Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Music Arranger: Sir Stephen Hough.

• Stephen Hough's Piano Postcards.
• Hyperion.
• 13.

Cipriani Potter

Symphony in D Major: II. Andante

Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.

• CPO.

Dmitry Shostakovich

The Gadfly, Suite Op. 97a: No. 8 Romance

Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: Piers Lane. Music Arranger: Levon Atovmyan.

• Zzz - Classical Dream. Music for Deep Sleep.
• Warner Classics.
• 48.

Steven Sametz

We Two: No. 4, Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes

Ensemble: Cantus.

• The Secret Letter.
• Signum Records.
• 10.

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36: II. Andantino in moto di canzone

Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas. Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony.

• Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4.
• SFS Media.
• 2.

Alexis Ffrench

Where Worlds Collide

Performer: Alexis Ffrench.

• Evolution.
• Sony Classical.
• 9.

Imogen Holst

Suite for String Orchestra: III. Intermezzo

Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Alice Farnham.

• Imogen Holst: Discovering Imogen.
• NMC Recordings Limited.
• 13.

Clara Schumann

Romance No. 1, Op. 22

Performer: Orit Wolf. Performer: Kristina Reiko Cooper.

Henriette Renié

Harp Concerto in C Minor: II. Adagio

Performer: Emmanuel Ceysson. Orchestra: Orchestre national Avignon-Provence. Conductor: Samuel Jean.

• Believe International.

Jules Massenet

Melodie-Elegie (Arr. for Violin, Piano, Guitar & Orchestra)

Performer: David Garrett. Performer: Franck van der Heijden. Performer: Julien Quentin. Music Arranger: David Garrett. Music Arranger: Franck van der Heijden. Orchestra: Orchestra the Prezent.

• Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

Rebecca Dale

true love

Performer: Ben Russell. Performer: Richard Harwood. Performer: Klara Romac. Performer: Tom Walley. Performer: Olivia Jageurs. Ensemble: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.

• Rebecca Dale: Night Seasons.
• Signum Records.
• 3.

Kristina Arakelyan

Star Fantasy

Performer: Kristina Arakelyan.

• Platoon.

Antonín Dvořák

Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, B. 178, "From the New World": II. Largo

Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.

• Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7-9.
• Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

Alberto Ginastera

Milonga, Op. 3/1

Performer: Daniil Trifonov.

• Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

Benjamin Britten

Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10: II. Adagio

Orchestra: European Camerata. Conductor: Laurent Quénelle.

• Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Lachrymae, Two Portraits & Simpl.
• Fuga Libera.
• 2.

Robert Schumann

Cello Concerto Variation (After Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129: II. Langsam)

Composer: Jan-Peter Klöpfel. Performer: Jan Vogler. Ensemble: Moritzburg Ensemble.

• Schumann Cello Concerto Variation (After Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129: II..
• Sony Classical/Sony Music.
• 1.

Zhou Tian

Three Chinese Songs: III. Transience

Performer: Alex Lee. Performer: Jingwei Yuan.

• Transience - Kindred.
• Blue Griffin Recording.
• 8.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Schafe können sicher weiden

Lyricist: Alexander Kilian. Music Arranger: Jan Pascal. Ensemble: Café del Mundo.

• Sofa Songs.
• Masterworks/Sony Music.
• 7.

Vicente Lusitano

Regina Caeli

Choir: Apollo5.

• Lusitano: Regina Caeli.
• VOCES8 Records.
• 1.

Hildegard of Bingen

Spiritus sanctus vivificans

Performer: Jess Gillam. Music Arranger: Geoff Lawson.

• Decca Music Group Ltd..

Ludwig van Beethoven

Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61: II. Larghetto

Performer: Charlie Siem. Conductor: Oleg Caetani. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.

• Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61: II. Larghetto.
• Signum Records.
• 1.