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Switch up your listening with classical music

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Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Hob. VIIb:2: II. Adagio

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Ensemble: TrondheimSolistene.
    • Transfigured Night.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 2.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Prelude in A major, Op 28 No 7

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Chopin: 26 Preludes Scherzo NR. 2 - Martha Argerich.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 7.

  • Traditional Scottish

    Loch Lomond

    Music Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams. Singer: Michael George. Choir: Holst Singers. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.

  • Béla Bartók

    Hungarian Sketches for orchestra (Evening in the Village)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Bartok: Orchestral Works Vol.1: Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer.
    • Philips.
    • 3.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Keyboard Suite No. 7 (Set I) in G Minor, HWV 432: II. Andante

    Performer: Laurence Cummings.
    • Baroque Harpsichord (The Art Of The).
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane pour une infante defunte

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.

  • Thomas Tallis

    Ecce tempus idoneum

    Performer: David Wulstan. Choir: Clerkes Of Oxenford. Conductor: David Wulstan.
    • EMI CLASSICS.

  • Mel Bonis

    Cloches lointaines (Distant bells)

    Performer: Elisabeth Remy.
    • Quest.
    • Albany Records.
    • 8.

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