This is a list of Private Passions episodes from 2010 to 2014. It does not include repeated episodes or compilations.
| Date | Guest | Composer | Title | Performer / Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Jan 2010 | Katie Mitchell | Johann Sebastian Bach | Erbarme Dich (St Matthew Passion, Part 2) | |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 (Finale: Allegro Appassionato) | |||
| Leoš Janáček | String Quartet No. 1 (Kreutzer Sonata) – 4th Movement | |||
| Luigi Nono | "Al Gran Sole Carico D'Amore" (In The Bright Sunshine Heavy With Love) – II Tempo – Scena 2 | |||
| Paul Clark | "Waves Music" | |||
| Alfred Schnittke | "Stille Nacht" | |||
| Franz Schubert | "Nacht und Träume" | |||
| Bach | Prelude and Fugue in A-flat, Bwv862 (The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1) | |||
| 10 Jan 2010 | Leslie Caron | Bach | Bourrees 1 and 2 (Cello Suite In C, Bwv1009) | |
| Frank Loesser | "Baby It's Cold Outside" | |||
| George Gershwin | An American In Paris | |||
| Kurt Weill | "Alabama Song" ( Rise and Fall of the State of Mahagonny ) | |||
| Henri Sauguet | Les Forains (Petite Fille a la Chaise and Galop Final) | |||
| Stephen Sondheim | "A Weekend in the Country" (A Little Night Music) | |||
| Igor Stravinsky | Petrushka (Scene 3 – At The Moor's House) | |||
| Yves Montand | A Bicyclette (Pierre Barouh/Francis Lai) | |||
| 17 Jan 2010 | Philip Campbell | Bach | Goldberg Variations (Variations 20 and 21) | |
| William Byrd | Agnus Dei (Mass in Four Parts) | |||
| Claude Debussy | Etude Pour Les Quartes | |||
| George Gershwin | "They Can't Take That Away From Me" | |||
| Jonathan Harvey | Ashes Dance Back | |||
| Led Zeppelin | "Good Times Bad Times" | |||
| Olivier Messiaen | Transports de Joie ( L'Ascension ) | |||
| Arnold Schoenberg | Peripetia (Five Pieces For Orchestra, Op. 16) | |||
| Michael Tippett | Ritual Dances (The Midsummer Marriage: Prelude and First Transformation) | |||
| 24 Jan 2010 | Fiona Reynolds | Bach | Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G (First Movement Allegro Moderato) | |
| Edward Elgar | Introduction and Allegro | |||
| Gerald Finzi | The Salutation (Dies Natalis) | |||
| Leoš Janáček | "To Jste Si Vymyslily Peknou Vec!" (Kat'A Kabanova, the end of Act 2) | |||
| Mozart | Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat, K364 (Third Movement Presto, excerpt) | |||
| Dmitri Shostakovich | Piano Concerto No. 2 (Second Movement Andante) | |||
| Bedřich Smetana | String Quartet in E Minor (from My Life) (1st Movement Allegro Vivo Appassionato) | |||
| 28 Feb 2010 | Frieda Hughes | Ac/Dc | "Rock N Roll Train" (from the album Black Ice) | |
| Anonymous Work | "The Humours of Ballyloughlin" | |||
| Beethoven | "Für Elise" | |||
| Chopin | Preludes Nos 3, 7 And 8 (from The Preludes, Op. 28) | |||
| Frieda Hughes | Reading: Doll from The Book of Mirrors (Bloodaxe) | |||
| Frieda Hughes | Reading: For Nick From The Book of Mirrors (Bloodaxe) | |||
| Holst | Mars (From The Planets) | |||
| Laura Sullivan | "Hawaiian Islands" (from the album Mystical America) | |||
| John Tavener | "The Protecting Veil" | |||
| Vivaldi | Spring (from The Four Seasons) (1st Movement, Allegro) [Concerto in E major, Rv 269] | |||
| 7 Mar 2010 | Mark Gatiss | Leonard Bernstein | "Make Our Garden Grow" (from Candide) | |
| Cole Porter | "So In Love" (from Kiss Me Kate) | |||
| Eden Ahbez | "Nature Boy" | |||
| Miklós Rózsa | "Auf Wiedersehen" (from The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes) | |||
| Jacques Offenbach | Barcarolle (Prelude to Act IV from The Tales of Hoffmann) | |||
| Henry Purcell | "What Power Art Thou?" (The Cold Genius from King Arthur, Act III) | |||
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | Symphony No 6 in E Minor (1st movement, Allegro) | |||
| Wagner | Liebestod (from Tristan und Isolde, Act III) | |||
| 14 Mar 2010 | Lee Hall | Attributed To John Hall Of Sheffield Park | "Hark! Hark! What News" | |
| Conlon Nancarrow | Study For Player Piano No. 6 | |||
| Harvey Brough | Lux Aeterna (From Requiem In Blue) | |||
| John Coltrane | Ascension (The Opening) | |||
| Messiaen | "Louange de L'Immortalité de Jésus" (from The Quartet For The End Of Time) | |||
| Mieczysław Weinberg | Prelude No. 1 (from 24 Preludes, Op. 100) | |||
| Henry Purcell | "Music For A While" (from Oedipus) | |||
| Robert Schumann | "Im Ruhigen Tempo" (No. 1 from Gesänge Der Frühe, O. 133) | |||
| Traditional music | "Bonnie Jeannie O'Bethelnie" (also known as "Glenlogie") | |||
| Traditional music | Ma Bonney Lad | |||
| 21 Mar 2010 | Gareth Malone | Leonard Bernstein | Part 3 of Chichester Psalms | |
| William Byrd | "Iustorum Animae" | |||
| Gerald Finzi | "Come Away, Come Away, Death" from Let Us Garlands Bring (Op. 18) | |||
| Mozart | "Ah Perdona Al Primo Affetto" from La Clemenza Di Tito | |||
| Robert Schumann | "Mit Myrten Und Rosen" from Liederkreis (Op. 24) | |||
| Shostakovich | 2nd movement "Allegretto" From Symphony No. 5 in D Minor (Op. 47) | |||
| Stravinsky | "I Go, I Go To Him" from The Rake's Progress Act 1, Sc. III | |||
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | A Sea Symphony (Symphony No. 1) | |||
| 4 Apr 2010 | Bernard Longley | Arnold Bax | Third Symphony (Epilogue to the 3rd movement, Finale) | |
| Alexander Borodin | String Quartet No. 2 in D (3rd movement, Notturno) | |||
| Elgar | Sanctus Fortis (From The Dream Of Gerontius) | |||
| Messiaen | O Sacrum Convivium | |||
| Francis Poulenc | Dialogues Des Carmélites (Act 3, Tableau 4, Place De La Révolution) | |||
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | Mass in G (Kyrie) | |||
| Verdi | Rex Tremendae (includes "Salva Me") (from The Requiem) | |||
| 11 Apr 2010 | Alistair McGowan | Chopin | Nocturne In D-flat, Op. 27/2 | |
| Grieg | "Solveig's Song" (from Peer Gynt, Op. 23) | |||
| John Kander and Fred Ebb | "It Couldn't Please Me More" (from Cabaret) | |||
| Rachmaninov | Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23/5 | |||
| Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | Scheherazade, Op. 35 (3rd movement – The Young Prince and Princess) | |||
| Erik Satie | Gnossienne No. 3 | |||
| Shostakovich | Waltz 2 (from Jazz Suite No. 2) | |||
| Marcel Zidani | Prelude | |||
| 18 Apr 2010 | Edmund de Waal | Bach | "Ich Habe Genug" (Bwv82) | |
| Brian Eno | "This" from Another Day on Earth | |||
| Britten | Prologue & Pastoral from Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (Op. 31) | |||
| Carlo Gesualdo | Alieni Insurrexerunt from Tenebrae Responses | |||
| John Adams | "A Final Shaking" from Shaker Loops | |||
| Moby | "Porcelain" | |||
| Mozart | 1st movement from Sonata in A K331 | |||
| Orlando Gibbons | Magnificat from The 2nd Service | |||
| 25 Apr 2010 | Joanne Harris | Ennio Morricone | Theme from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly | |
| Grieg | "In the Hall of the Mountain King" (from Peer Gynt) | |||
| Mahler | Symphony No 1 In D (1st Movement Excerpt) | |||
| Rachmaninov | Prelude In C-sharp Minor, Op. 3, No. 2 | |||
| Schubert | Piano Trio In E-flat, D929 (2nd Movement, Andante Con Moto) | |||
| Bedřich Smetana | Vltava (from Ma Vlast) | |||
| 9 May 2010 | Philip Ball | Béla Bartók | Piano Concerto No 2 (3rd movement, Allegro Molto) | Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Orchestre de Paris/Lorin Maazel |
| Duke Ellington | "Cotton Tail" | Duke Ellington Label: SHOUT FACTORY 37470. | ||
| Sergei Prokofiev | Sonata No. 7 in B-flat, Op. 83 (1st movement Allegro inquieto – Andantino) | Maurizio Pollini (piano) Label: DG 447 4312. | ||
| Bach | Prelude in E-flat Minor (from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I) | Angela Hewitt (piano) Label: HYPERION CDS 44291. | ||
| Déodat de Séverac | Dunántúli Ugrósok | Muzsikás Label: HANNIBAL HNCD 1439. | ||
| Tom Waits | "Telephone Call from Istanbul" (from Franks Wild Years) | Tom Waits Label: ISLAND 4235723. | ||
| Paul Hindemith | Interlude in A-flat (No. 15 from Ludus Tonalis) | John McCabe (piano) Label: HYPERION CDA 66824. | ||
| Stravinsky | Tango | James Crabb and Geir Draugsvoll (accordions) Label: EMI 569705-2. | ||
| 16 May 2010 | John Adams | John Adams | "News has a kind of mystery from Nixon in China" (Act I, sc. i) | James Maddalena (Nixon), Orchestra of St Lukes/Edo de Waart Label: NONESUCH 79177. |
| John Philip Sousa | "The Stars and Stripes Forever" | United States Airforce Band of the Golden West/Douglas Monroe Label: Altissimo 75442260332. | ||
| Beethoven | Scherzo (5th movement) from Quartet in C-sharp minor Op. 131 | New Budapest String Quartet Label: HYPERION CDA66405. | ||
| Schubert | 2nd movement from Piano Sonata in B-flat major (D960) | Richard Goode (piano) Label: NONESUCH 7559791242. | ||
| Wagner | "Hier sitz' ich zur Wacht" (Götterdämmerung Act 1) | Karl Ridderbusch, Berlin Philharmonic/Herbert von Karajan | ||
| James Rhodes | Jeux (excerpt) | Cleveland Orchestra/Pierre Boulez Label: M2YK45620. | ||
| The Duke Ellington Orchestra | "The Tattooed Bride" | Duke Ellington & His Orchestra Label: MWML4418. | ||
| The Beach Boys | "Good Vibrations" | Beach Boys Label: CDP74667382. | ||
| 23 May 2010 | Rachel Cusk | Bach | Goldberg Variations (Variation 13) | Glenn Gould (piano) Label: SONY SM3K 87703. |
| Beethoven | Sonata no.32 in C minor, op. 111 [excerpt from 2nd movement] | Richard Goode (piano) Label: NONESUCH 979 211-2. | ||
| Handel | "As with rosy steps the morn" (from Theodora) | Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano), Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment/Harry Bicket Label: AVIE AV 0030. | ||
| Britten | Canticle II, Abraham and Isaac, Op. 51 | David Daniels (counter tenor), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano) Label: VIRGIN 545525-2. | ||
| Leoš Janáček | Jenufa (Act 2, excerpt) | Eva Randova (Kostelnicka), Vienna PO/Sir Charles Mackerras Label: DECCA 414 483-2. | ||
| Shostakovich | Piano Concerto No 1 (2nd movement, Lento) | Dmitri Alexeev (piano), Philip Jones (trumpet), English Chamber Orchestra/Jerzy Maksimiuk Label: CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE CD-CFP 4547. | ||
| Stravinsky | Nonne erubescite (from Oedipus Rex, Act 2) | Patricia Johnson (Jocasta), Sadler's Wells Opera Chorus, RPO/Sir Colin Davis Label: CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE 585011-2. | ||
| Gerald Finzi | Eclogue (extract) | Piers Lane (piano), RLPO/Vernon Handley Label: EMI CDEMX 2239. | ||
| 20 Jun 2010 | Cecil Balmond | Chopin | Fantaisie Impromptu no 4 in C-sharp minor, Op. 66 | Arthur Rubenstein (piano) |
| Bach | Menuetto I & II from Cello Suite no 1 in G major | Pablo Casals (cello). Label: EMI CHS7610272. | ||
| Paganini | 1st movement from Grand Sonata in A major | John Williams (guitar). Label: SONY CLASSICAL SBK62425. | ||
| The Benny Goodman Quartet | "Runnin' Wild" | Benny Goodman Quartet: Benny Goodman (clarinet), Teddy Wilson (piano), Gene Krupa (drums), Lionel Hampton (vibes) Label: Classics 1936-7. | ||
| Brahms | 1st movement from Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op115 (Excerpt) | Karl Leister (clarinet), Amadeus Quartet. Label: DG 4496112. | ||
| Beethoven | Adelaide' (from 7 Lieder) op. 46 | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Jörg Demus (piano). Label: DG 4151892. | ||
| Ladysmith Black Mambazo | Unomathemba | Ladysmith Black Mambazo Label: WARNER 9255822. | ||
| 27 Jun 2010 | Sir Thomas Allen | Michael Berkeley | "The Wakeful Poet" (Music from Chaucer) (pub. OUP) | Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet Label: BBQ BBQ 003. |
| Engelbert Humperdinck | Hansel and Gretel Overture | Dresden Staatskapelle Orchestra/Sir Colin Davis Label: PHILIPS 438 013-2. | ||
| Schubert | Fantasia in F Minor, D. 940 (excerpt) | Alfred Brendel and Evelyne Crochet (piano duet) Label: VOX BOX CD3X 3041. | ||
| Wagner | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Prelude to Act III | Bavarian Radio SO/Rafael Kubelik | ||
| Frank Bridge | The Sea (part three: Moonlight) | RLPO/Charles Groves Label: EMI CDM 566855-2. | ||
| Monteverdi | Il Ritorno d'Ulisse (Act 2, scene 12 [final scene]) | Arranger: Henze Thomas Allen (Ulysses), Kathleen Kuhlmann (Penelope), Vienna RSO/Jeffrey Tate. Label: ORFEO C528003. | ||
| 4 Jul 2010 | Dame Barbara Stocking | Michael Berkeley | "The Wakeful Poet" (music from Chaucer) | Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet. Label: BBQ BBQ 003. |
| Bach | Gratias Agimus Tibi (from the Mass in B Minor) | Bavarian Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra/Carlo Maria Giulini. Label: SONY S2K 66354. | ||
| Mozart | "Voi che sapete" (from The Marriage of Figaro, Act II) | Angelika Kirschlager (Cherubino), Concerto Köln/René Jacobs Label: HARMONIA MUNDI 901818/20. | ||
| Women of the Calabash | "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" | Label: ORCHARD 793415182323. | ||
| Agustín Lara | Granada (from the 3 Tenors Concert at the 1990 World Cup) | José Carreras (tenor), Orchestras of the Maggio musicale, Florence and the Rome Opera/Zubin Mehta Label: DECCA 430 433-2. | ||
| Alexander Borodin | String Quartet No 2 in D (3rd movement, Notturno) | The Lindsays Label: ASV CDDCA 1143. | ||
| Mozart | Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat (2nd movement, Larghetto) | Daniel Barenboim (piano and director), Berlin PO Label: TELDEC 75716. | ||
| Juan Luis Guerra | A pedir su mano | Juan Luis Guerra and 440 Label: KAREN RECORDS 261927. | ||
| 11 Jul 2010 | Scott Turow | Bach | Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D (1st movement) | Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute), Henryk Szeryng (violin), George Malcolm (harpsichord), ASMF/Neville Mariner. Label: PHILIPS 470 934-2. |
| George Gershwin | "Bess, you is my woman now" (from Porgy & Bess, Act II, scene 1) | Willard White (Porgy), Cynthia Haymon (Bess), LPO/Simon Rattle Label: EMI 749568-2. | ||
| Pink Martini – Music and lyrics by China Forbes | "Hey Eugene" | Pink Martini Label: WRASSE WRASS193. | ||
| Puccini | "Un bel di vedremo" (from Madama Butterfly, Act II) | Renata Tebaldi (Madama Butterfly), Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma/Tullio Serafin Label: DECCA 470 577-2. | ||
| Traditional music | "Big Rock Candy Mountain" | Arranger: Roger McGuinn Roger McGuinn Label: Folkden podcast. | ||
| The Byrds – Words from The Book of Ecclesiastes – music Pete Seeger | "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There is a Season)" | The Byrds Label: CBS 656544-2. | ||
| Stravinsky | The Rite of Spring (Introduction, the Augurs of Spring and Dance of the Adolescents) | LSO/Claudio Abbado Label: DG 453 085-2. | ||
| Stephen Sondheim | "Send in the Clowns" (from A Little Night Music, Act II) | Glynis Johns (Desirée), original cast recording, conducted by Harold Hastings Label: COLUMBIA CK32265. | ||
| Puccini | "O mio babbino caro" (from Gianni Schicchi) | Maria Callas(Lauretta), Philharmonia Orchestra/Tullio Serafin. Label: EMI 566463-2. | ||
| 25 Jul 2010 | William Orbit | William Orbit | Aquarium | William Orbit Label: Universal 4782546. |
| Stravinsky | 1st Movement from 'Symphony in Three Movements' | London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Eugene Goossens. Label: PHILIPS 4223032. | ||
| Nicola Porpora | Alto Giove from Polifemo Act III | Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset (Dir & Harpsichord) Label: TRAVELLING K1005. | ||
| Vincenzo Bellini | "Ah! non credea mirarti" from La sonnambula Act II | Maria Callas Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala, Milan/Antonino Votto Label: EMI CDC5564112. | ||
| Mozart | 2nd movement from Clarinet Quintet in A major K581 | David Shifrin (clarinet), Emerson String Quartet, Label: DG 4596412. | ||
| Imogen Heap | "Hide and Seek" | Imogen Heap Label: MEGACD001. | ||
| Jean Mouton | "Nesciens Mater" | The Sixteen/Harry Christophers Label: HYPERION CDA66263. | ||
| Britten | End Sequence from 'Night Mail' | The Nash Ensemble/Lionel Friend, with Nigel Hawthorne (narrator). Label: HYPERION CDA66845. | ||
| 1 Aug 2010 | Russell Kane | Beethoven | Third movement from Piano Sonata no. 14, Op. 27/2 | Mikhail Pletnev (piano) Label: EMI VM5618342. |
| Béla Bartók | Part One from Rhapsody for Violin & Piano | György Pauk (violin), Jenó Jandó (piano) | ||
| Chopin | Nocturne no. 2 in E-flat Op. 9, no. 2 | Daniel Barenboim (piano) | ||
| James Rhodes | Clair de Lune from Suite Bergamasque | Moura Lympany (piano) Label: EMI CDZ7625232. | ||
| Alexander Scriabin | 1st movement from Piano Sonata No 3, Op. 23 | John Ogdon (piano) Label: EMICZS5726522. | ||
| Schubert | Quartettsatz in C minor D703 | Amadeus Quartet Label: DG4100242. | ||
| 8 Aug 2010 | Tracy Chevalier | Michael Berkeley | "The Wakeful Poet" (Music from Chaucer) | Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet Label: BBQ BBQ 003. |
| Schubert | Symphony no 8 in B minor (Unfinished), (excerpt from 1st movement, Allegro moderato) | Vienna PO/Sir Georg Solti Label: DECCA 430 439-2. | ||
| Brahms | Clarinet Sonata no. 2 in E-flat, Op. 120 (2nd movement, Allegro appassionato) | Thea King, clarinet; Clifford Benson, piano Label: HYPERION CDS 44340. | ||
| Antonín Dvořák | Symphony no 9 in E minor (from the New World), (4th movement, Allegro con fuoco) | London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Colin Davis Label: LSO 0001. | ||
| Leonard Bernstein | Prologue | Original Broadway Cast Recording/Max Goberman (Musical Director) Label: SONY SK 60724. | ||
| Schubert | Impromptu in G-flat major, D899 | Paul Berkowitz, piano Label: MERIDIAN CDE 84102. | ||
| Anonymous work | "Polorum regina" (from the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, the Red Book of Montserrat) | The Osnabrückner Youth Choir/Johannes Rahe Label: JARO 41712. | ||
| Robert Schumann | "Of Strange Lands and People" (from Kinderszenen, Op. 15, no. 1) | Alfred Brendel, piano. Label: PHILIPS 434 732-2. | ||
| Talking Heads | "Once in a Lifetime" | Label: SIRE K256867. | ||
| 15 Aug 2010 | Martin Jarvis | Stravinsky | Final section "Tableaux II" from The Firebird | Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Stravinsky Label: CBS CD42432. |
| Schubert | "Die Forelle" | Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Geoffrey Parsons (piano) Label: EMI 7243 5693892. | ||
| Schubert | 4th movement from the 'Trout Quintet' | András Schiff (piano), Members of the Hagen Quartet with Alois Posch (double bass) Label: DECCA 458608-2. | ||
| Bizet | "The Toreador Song" from Carmen Act II | Michel Dens, Choir and Orchestra of the Théâtre National de L'Opéra-Comique Label: EMI CMS5653182. | ||
| Mozart | 2nd movement from Piano Concerto no 27 in B-flat major K595 | Clifford Curzon (piano), English Chamber Orchestra/Benjamin Britten Label: DECCA 4172882. | ||
| Ambrose and His Orchestra | "Painting the Clouds with Sunshine" | Ambrose & His Orchestra Label: HISICD 78120. | ||
| Beethoven | 4th movement from Symphony no. 7 in A, Op. 92 | Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer Label: EMI CDM7638682. | ||
| Robert Schumann | Widmung (Dedication) from Myrthen Op. 25, no. 1 | Lucy Parham, piano Label: SANCTUARY CDRSB202. | ||
| 22 Aug 2010 | David Hyde Pierce | Arthur Sullivan | Overture to HMS Pinafore | Orchestra of Welsh National Opera/Sir Charles Mackerras Label: TELARC CD80374. |
| Bach | English Suite No 3 in G minor (Gigue) | Rosalyn Tureck (piano) Label: ALBANY TROY 009. | ||
| Sir Hubert Parry | Anthem I was Glad | Iain Simcock (organ), Choir of Westminster Abbey/Martin Neary Label: IMP PCD919. | ||
| Felix Mendelssohn | Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 (2nd movement, Andante) | Stephen Hough (piano), CBSO/Lawrence Foster Label: HYPERION CDA 66969. | ||
| Berlioz | "Je vais le voir...Il me revient fidèle" (from Beatrice and Benedict Act 1) | Susan Gritton (Hero), LSO/Sir Colin Davis Label: LSO LIVE 004. | ||
| Louis Vierne | Carillon de Westminster | Andrew Lucas (organ of St Paul's Cathedral) Label: NAXOS 8550955. | ||
| 29 Aug 2010 | Hisham Matar | Shed Alhezam | Sayid Darweesh | Shed Alhezam Label: SAWT AL-QAHIRA 10. |
| Chopin | Study in C minor, Op. 10, No. 12 (The Revolutionary) | Sviatoslav Richter (piano) | ||
| unknown | Oghniat Al Wadaa | Fairuz Label: EMI ARABIA 01-CC-100010-2. | ||
| Jean Sibelius | Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 – 3rd movement, Allegro, ma non tanto | Kyung-wha Chung. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn Jascha Heifetz (violin), Chicago Symphony Orochestra, Walter Hendl Label: RCA RD87019. | ||
| unknown | Ahwa Kamaran | Ghada Shbeir Label: FORWARD MUSIC 63447930017-2. | ||
| Ligeti | Tempo de Valse (No 4 from Musica ricercata) | Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) Label: SONY SK 62308. | ||
| unknown | Leley Leley el Layl Mawal (Part 1) (Vocal Power Demis Roussos) | Sabah Fakhri Label: B002IDA78C. | ||
| Schubert | Nacht und Träume | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano). Label: EMI 565670-2. | ||
| Nubia Escalay | Song with Tar (The Water Wheel) | Nubia Escalay Label: NONESUCH 72041. | ||
| Bob Dylan | I Shall Be Released | Jeff Buckley Label: COLUMBIA C2K 89202. | ||
| 12 Sep 2010 | Peter Bazalgette | Schubert | Impromptu No 3 in G-flat D899 | Alfred Brendel (piano) Label: PHILIPS 4425432. |
| Britten | "Deo Gracias!" (from A Ceremony of Carols Op. 28) | Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Sir David Willcocks Osian Ellis (harp) Label: EMI CDM5651122. | ||
| Bach | 1st movement from Keyboard Concerto no 1 in D minor BWV1052 | Dinu Lipatti (piano), Concertgebouw Amsterdam/Eduard van Beinum Label: JECKLIN DISCO 541. | ||
| Jack Hylton | Love is the Sweetest Thing | Jack Hylton and his Band feat Pat O'Malley (vocals) Label: ECM2046. | ||
| Mozart | "A Man in Search of Truth and Beauty" (The Magic Flute, Act I) | Rebecca Evans (soprano – Pamina), Simon Keenlyside (baritone – Papageno), London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles Mackerras Label: CHANDOS CHAN31212. | ||
| John Lennon and Paul Mccartney | "In My Life" | The Beatles | ||
| Richard Strauss | 1st movement from Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra in D major AV144 | Alex Klein (oboe), Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Daniel Barenboim Label: TELDEC 3984239132. | ||
| Carl Davis | Opening Title Music from Pride and Prejudice | Carl Davis (Melvyn Tan – fortepiano) Label: EMI CDEMC3726. | ||
| 19 Sep 2010 | Jackie Kay | Leoš Janáček | Pozehany' (Blessed) from Lachian Dances JW VI/17 | Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra/Ondrej Lenárd Label: NAXOS 8550411. |
| Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | "O Quam tristis et afflicta" from Stabat Mater | Emma Kirkby (soprano), James Bowman (countertenor), The Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood. Label: Oiseau Lyre 4256922. | ||
| Bach | Prelude from Cello Suite no. 6 in D major BWV 1012 | Pablo Casals (cello). Label: EMI CHS7610272. | ||
| Nina Simone | "Four Women" | Nina Simone. Label: PHILIPS 8228462. | ||
| Richard Strauss | "September" from Four Last Songs | Jessye Norman (soprano). Gewandhaus Orchester/Kurt Masur Label: PHILIPS 411052-2. | ||
| Ali Farka Touré | "Heygana" | Ali Farka Toure Label: World Circuit WCD017. | ||
| Schubert | "Nacht und Traume" | Roland Hayes (tenor), Reginald Boardman (piano) Label: PREISER 93462. | ||
| Jean Redpath | "Leaving the Land" | Jean Redpath Label: Greentrax CDTRAX039. | ||
| Cole Porter | "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" from Kiss Me Kate | Lee Wilkof & Michael Mulheren from the New Broadway Cast Recording Label: DRG1298. | ||
| 3 Oct 2010 | Graham Vick | Guillaume de Machaut | Messe de notre Dame, Kyrie | Ensemble Organum, Marcel Péres (director) Label: HARMONIA MUNDI HMG 901590. |
| Monteverdi | "Vorrei baciarti" (from Book 7 of the Madrigals) | Sara Mingardo (alto), Monica Bacelli (mezzo-soprano), Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini Label: NAÏVE OP 30395. | ||
| Chopin | Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 45 | Michelangeli (piano) | ||
| Ravi Shankar | Raga Shudh Sarang [an early afternoon rag] | Ravi Shankar Label: SAREGAMA RECORDS CDNFC150918/9. | ||
| Beethoven | String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131 (finale, Allegro) | Alban Berg Quartet Label: EMI CDS 7471358. | ||
| Mozart | Die Zauberflöte (Act II, scene 8) | Evelyn Lear (Pamina), Fritz Wunderlich (Tamino), James King and Marrti Talvela (Armed Men), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Böhm Label: DG 449 749-2. | ||
| Leonard Bernstein | "Make Our Garden Grow" (finale of Candide) | Robert Rounseville (Candide), Barbara Cook (Cunegonde), The Company, Original Broadway Cast recording, Samuel Krachmalnick (musical director) Label: SONY SK 48017. | ||
| 17 Oct 2010 | Marina Lewycka | Bach | Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F, BWV 1046 (1st movement) | The Academy of St Martin's in the Fields/Neville Marriner Label: DECCA 470 934-2. |
| Handel | I know that my Redeemer liveth (from Messiah, Part III) | Carolyn Samson (soprano), The Sixteen/Harry Christophers Label: CORO 16062. | ||
| Jean Sibelius | Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 (1st movement, opening) | David Oistrakh (violin), Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra/Gennady Rozhdestvensky Label: BRILLIANT CLASSICS 09421. | ||
| Mozart | Piano Sonata in F, K332 (1st movement, Allegro) | Maria Joao Pires (piano) Label: DG 477 5200. | ||
| Berlioz | Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 (4th movement, March to the Scaffold) | Boston Symphony Orchestra/Charles Munch Label: RCA 82876 67899-2. | ||
| Mozart | Dove sono (from Le nozze di Figaro, Act III) | Margaret Price (soprano), English Chamber Orchestra/James Lockhart Label: RCA 82876-65841-2. | ||
| Traditional Russian folksong | "Black Raven" (Cherniy Voron) | Stella Zubkova (vocals) Label: A free download from audiopoisk.com. | ||
| Dawn Chorus | Farm: Dawn in Summer | Label: BBCCD 861. | ||
| 24 Oct 2010 | Ian McDiarmid | Britten | Piano Concerto (second movement, Waltz) | Sviatoslav Richter (piano), English Chamber Orchestra/Benjamin Britten Label: DECCA 475 6051. |
| Britten | "Look. Through the port comes the moon-shine astray" (Billy Budd, Act 2, scene 3, aka ""Bil | Simon Keenlyside (Billy), LSO/Richard Hickox Label: CHANDOS CHAN 9826. | ||
| Schubert | Gretchen am Spinnrade | Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Gerald Moore (piano) Label: EMI 208087-2. | ||
| James Macmillan | St John Passion (Part II, vi, Christ's garments divided) | London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra/Sir Colin Davis Label: LSO LIVE LSO0671. | ||
| Shostakovich | Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (the end of Act One) | Galina Vishnevskaya (Katerina Ismailova), Nicolai Gedda (Sergey), Dimiter Petkov (Boris Ismailov), London Philharmonic Orchestra/Mstislav Rostropovich Label: EMI 567776-2. | ||
| William Wordsworth – by Robert Donat | "On Westminster Bridge" | Label: LP: ARGO RG 192. | ||
| Robert Burns – Read by Tom Fleming | "Ae fond kiss" | Label: LISMOR LCOM 6042. | ||
| Traditional music | "Ae fond kiss" | Arranger: Knight/Burns Kenneth McKellar (tenor), Patricia Cahill (soprano) Label: DECCA 466 415-2. | ||
| Leonard Bernstein | "On The Town" (Dance: The Real Coney Island and the Finale) | Ensemble, Chorus and Orchestra/Leonard Bernstein Label: SONY SM3K 47154. | ||
| 31 Oct 2010 | Baroness Shirley Williams | Aaron Copland | Music from Appalachian Spring | New York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein Label: Sony Classical SMK63082. |
| Britten | "Storm at Sea" from Peter Grimes (Act 1) | Orchestra: of the Royal Opera House/Britten Label: DECCA 467 682-2. | ||
| Henry Purcell | "The Plaint" from The Fairy Queen | Jennifer Vyvyan (Nymph), Peter Graeme (oboe), Kenneth Heath (cello continuo), Philip Ledger (harpsichord continuo), (English Chamber Orchestra/Benjamin Britten) Label: DECCA 4331632. | ||
| Schubert | Music from 1st movement from The Trout Quintet D667 | Emil Gilels (Piano) Norbert Brainin (violin), Peter Schidlof (viola), Martin Lovett (cello), Rainer Zepperitz (double bass) Label: DG 4134532. | ||
| Simon & Garfunkel | "Bridge Over Troubled Water" | Simon & Garfunkel Label: CBS CD63699. | ||
| Traditional music | "The Keel Row" | Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Phyllis Spurr (piano). Label: DECCA 4171922. | ||
| Handel | "How Beautiful Are The Feet" (from Messiah) | Emma Kirkby (soprano), The Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood Label: Oiseau Lyre 4118582. | ||
| 7 Nov 2010 | Arabella Weir | Mozart | Il mio tesoro (from Don Giovanni, Act II) [Joseph Losey film sound track] | Kenneth Riegel (Don Ottavio), Paris Opera Orchestra/Lorin Maazel |
| Schubert | Piano Sonata in B-flat, D 960 (Scherzo, Allegro vivace con delicatezza) | Alfred Brendel (piano) | ||
| Traditional music | "The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies" | Alfred Deller (counter tenor), Desmond Dupré (guitar) | ||
| Beethoven | Piano Trio in D, Op. 70 No 1 (The Ghost) (1st movement, Allegro vivace e con brio) | The Beaux Arts Trio | ||
| Ayah Marar | "Blow the wind southerly" | Kathleen Ferrier | ||
| Mozart | Piano Sonata in A minor KV 310 | Claudio Arrau (piano) | ||
| Traditional music | The Skye Boat Song | The Alexander Brothers | ||
| Verdi | "Sempre libera" (La Traviata, Act I) | Montserrat Caballé (Violetta), Carlo Bergonza (Alfredo), RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra/Georges Pretre | ||
| 14 Nov 2010 | Zdenka Fantlova [1] | Antonín Dvořák | Symphony No. 9 in E minor (From the New World) (1st movement) | Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Karel Ancerl |
| Chopin | Study in C minor, Op. 25, No. 12 | Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | ||
| Gideon Klein | String Trio (1944) (2nd movement, Adagio) | Daniel Hope (violin), Philip Dukes (viola) and Paul Watkins (cello) | ||
| Nacio Herb Brown | "You are My Lucky Star" | Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds | ||
| Bedřich Smetana | The Bartered Bride: Overture | Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Zdenek Kosler | ||
| Johann Strauss II | Radetzky March | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra /Nikolaus Harnoncourt | ||
| Mozart | Symphony No. 40 in G minor (first movement, Molto allegro) | New York Philharmonic Orchestra/Bruno Walter | ||
| 5 Dec 2010 | Adam Foulds | Nicholas Ludford | Gloria from the Missa Videte Miraculum | The Cardinall's Musick/Andrew Carwood Label: ASV CD GAU 131. |
| Arnold Schoenberg | Tanzszene (5th movement from the Serenade, Op. 24) | London Sinfonietta/David Atherton Label: DECCA 425 626-2. | ||
| Adam Foulds | reads from his poem "The Broken Word" (Jonathan Cape) | Adam Foulds | ||
| James Rhodes | Sonata for flute, viola and harp (1st movement, Pastorale) | Roger Bourdin (flute), Colette Lequien (viola), Annie Challan (harp) Label: PHILIPS 422 839-2. | ||
| Ligeti | Der Sommer | Christiane Oelze (soprano), Irina Kataeva (piano) Label: SONY SK 62311 T1103 07. | ||
| Stravinsky | "Full Fadom Five" (from 3 Shakespeare Songs) | Emma Kirkby (soprano), Basel Chamber Orchestra/Christopher Hogwood Label: ARTE NOVA 74321 92650-2. | ||
| Oliver Knussen | Two Organa | London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen Label: DG 449 572-2. | ||
| Leoš Janáček | The vixen dreams she is a young girl (Pantomime 2 from The Cunning Little Vixen, Act I) | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Charles Mackerras Label: DECCA 417 129-2. | ||
| Neutral Milk Hotel | Ghost (from the album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea) | Label: DOMINO REWIGCD 21. | ||
| 12 Dec 2010 | Julian Rhind-Tutt | Georg Philipp Telemann | Concerto in D for trumpets, strings and continuo (I. Adagio) | Haken Hardenberger (trumpet) Label: PHILIPS 420 954-2. |
| Bach | Prelude from the Suite No 6 in D for unaccompanied cello, BWV 1012 | Paul Tortelier (cello) Label: His Master's Voice D 572749-2. | ||
| Tchaikovsky | Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35 (II. Canzonetta: Andante) | Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Andre Previn Label: DG 474 874-2. | ||
| John Hilton | "Lord for thy tender mercy's sake" | Clare College Chapel Choir/Timothy Brown Label: GUILD GMCD 7115. | ||
| Puccini | "Che gelida manina" (Your tiny hand is frozen) (from La Bohème Act 1) | Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Edward Downes Label: DECCA 470 011-2. | ||
| Bach | Minuets I and II from the French Suite No 2 in C minor, BWV 813 | Andras Schiff (piano) Label: DECCA CD1. | ||
| Mahler | "Ablösung im Sommer" (from Songs of Youth) | Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Gerold Huber (piano) Label: RCA 88697 56773-2. | ||
| Alan Hawkshaw | "Best Endeavours" (the Theme to Channel 4 News) | Unknown Label: BRUTON BRCD15. | ||
| Bach | Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 | David Goode (organ) Label: HERALD HAVPCD 219. | ||
| Sergei Prokofiev | The Fight and The Prince gives his order (from Romeo & Juliet, Act 1 scene 1) | London Symphony Orchestra/Andre Previn Label: PHILIPS 464 726-2. | ||
| 26 Dec 2010 | Pamela Stephenson Connolly | Vincenzo Bellini | Ah! Non credea mirarti (from La somnambula Act II, scene 2) | Joan Sutherland (Amina), Fernando Corena (Rodolfo), Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino/Richard Bonynge Label: DECCA 467 789-2. |
| Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse | Gymnopédie No 1 | Anne Queffélec (piano) Label: VIRGIN 522020-2. | ||
| Kurt Weill | Alabama Song (from Mahagonny words by Brecht) | Lotte Lenya (vocal), orchestra conducted by Roger Bean Label: SONY MHK 63222. | ||
| James Rhodes | Prélude à l'après midi d'un faune | LSO/André Previn [Peter Lloyd, solo flute] | ||
| Balinese Gamelan | Lagu Kotok (Frog Song) | Label: NONESUCH EXPLORER SERIES 79794-2. | ||
| Phil Cunningham | Strathmarches | Blazin' Fiddles Label: BRCD002. | ||
| Richard Strauss | "Morgen", Op. 27 No. 4 | Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), LSO/Andrew Davis Label: SONY SMK 89881. | ||
| Date | Guest | Composer | Title | Performer / Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Jan 2011 | Tim Waterstone | Elgar | "Where corals lie" from Sea Pictures op. 37 | Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), The Philharmonia/Sir John Barbirolli Label: PHILIPS 465 253-2. |
| Elizabeth Poston | Jesus Christ the Apple Tree | The Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Sir David Willcocks Label: EMI VTDCD933. | ||
| Puccini | "Doretta's song" from La Rondine, Act 1 | William Matteuzzi (Prunier), Angela Gheorghiu (Magda) London Symphony Orchestra/Antonio Pappano (conductor) Label: EMI CDC556339 2. | ||
| Mahler | Music from the 4th movement "Adagietto" from Symphony no 5 in C-sharp minor | London Philharmonic Orchestra/Klaus Tennstedt Label: CDC 747105 2. | ||
| Gabriel Fauré | "Pie Jesu" from Requiem Op. 48 | Richard Eteson (treble), Peter Barley (organ) London Chamber Orchestra/Stephen Cleobury (director) Label: EMI CDC7498802. | ||
| Richard Strauss | "Im Abendrot" from Four Last Songs | Renée Fleming (soprano), Houston Symphony Orchestra/Christoph Eschenbach Label: RCA 09026685392. | ||
| Jerome Kern | The Way You Look Tonight | Fred Astaire. Lyricist: Dorothy Fields Label: CONIFER TQ134. | ||
| 6 Feb 2011 | Richard Mabey | John Dowland | Come Again. | The Consort of Musicke: Evelyn Tubb (soprano), Lucy Ballard (alto), Andrew King (tenor), Simon Grant (bass), Anthony Rooley (lute and director) Label: ASV GAUDEAMUS GAU 187. |
| Eric Bogle | "The Green Fields of France" | The men they couldn't hang Label: DEMON FIEND CD940. | ||
| Anonymous work | "Les Ameriquains" | Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall Label: ALIA VOX AV 9824. | ||
| I Muvrini | "Barbara furtuna" | Label: CDR 213. | ||
| Juan de Araujo | Ay, Andar! | Ex Cathedra/Jeffrey Skidmore Label: Moon, sun and all things. | ||
| David Rothenberg And John Wieczorek And Robert Jürjendal | Soo-roo – Improvisation over the song of marsh warblers | David Rothenberg (clarinet), John Wieczorek (percussion), Robert Jürjendal (guitar). Label: TERRA NOVA MUSIC 0692 8630561-2. | ||
| Joseph Canteloube | "Lo Calhé" (The Quail) (from Songs of the Auvergne) | Netania Devrath (soprano), Orchestra conducted by Pierre de la Roche Label: VANGUARD 08800272. | ||
| George Butterworth | "Is my team ploughing?" | Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano) Label: NAXOS 8.572426. | ||
| Evencio Castellanos | Santa Cruz de Pacairigua (excerpt) | Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela/Gustavo Dudamel Label: DG 477 8337. | ||
| 13 Feb 2011 | Joanna van Kampen [2] | Mozart | Excerpts from Requiem K626 | Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Chorus/Sir Neville Marriner Label: METRONOME 8251262. |
| Gustave Charpentier | Depuis le jour' from Louise (Act III) | Maria Callas (soprano), Orchestra della RAI/Alfredo Simonetto (recorded in 1954, Casino, San Remo) Label: EMI CZS5720302. | ||
| John Williams | "Hedwig's Theme" | City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nic Raine Conductor: John Williams (Randy Kerber – Celeste) Label: ATLANTIC 7567930865. | ||
| Gounod | "Ave Maria" | Yo Yo Ma/Bobby McFerrin Label: SONY SK48177. | ||
| Henry Purcell | "When I Am Laid in Earth" from Dido & Aeneas | Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), English Chamber Orchestra/Anthony Lewis Thurston Dart (harpsichord continuo) Label: Philips 4652532. | ||
| Bernard Herrmann | The Prelude from the soundtrack to Psycho | National Philharmonic Orchestra/Bernard Herrmann Label: UNICORN UKCD2021. | ||
| Stevie Wonder | "If It's Magic" | Stevie Wonder Label: MOTOWN 157357-2. | ||
| 20 Feb 2011 | John Sergeant | Mahler | Symphony No 4 in G (2nd movement excerpt) | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Lorin Maazel Label: CBS CD 39072. |
| Kurt Weill | "Alabama Song" (from The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny) | Lotte Lenya (vocal), with The Three Admirals and unnamed orchestra Label: NAXOS 8120831. | ||
| Harry Warren | 42nd Street | Ruby Keeler and chorus Label: LP UAG 29644. | ||
| Béla Bartók | String Quartet No 6 (1939) (II. Mesto – Marcia) | Takacs Quartet | ||
| Sergei Prokofiev | War and Peace (1943) the final patriotic chorus | Nikolay Okhotnikov (Kutuzov), Chorus and Orchestra of the Kirov Opera/Valery Gergiev Label: PHILIPS 434 097-2. | ||
| Shostakovich | String Quartet No. 8 (1960) (IV. Largo) | Fitzwilliam String Quartet Label: DECCA 421 475-2. | ||
| John Adams | "News has a kind of mystery" (from Nixon in China, Act I, scene 1) | James Maddalena (President Nixon), Sanford Sylvan (Chou En-lai), Thomas Hammons (Henry Kissinger), Orchestra of St Luke's/Edo de Waart Label: ELEKTRA NONESUCH 979 177-2. | ||
| 27 Feb 2011 | Douglas Gordon | Puccini | Vogliatemi bene, un bene piccolino"" (Madama Butterfly love duet, end of Act I) | Maria Callas (Butterfly), Nicolia Gedda (Pinkerton), Orchestra of La Scala, Milan/Herbert von Karajan Label: EMI 556298-2. |
| Mozart | Sinfonia Concertante in E falt, K364 (cadenza to the 1st movement) | Roi Shiloah (violin), Avri Levitan (viola) Label: Private recording, used with permission. | ||
| Joy Division | "Love will tear us apart" | The Oysterband Label: WESTPARK MUSIC 87105. | ||
| Bach | "Mein Freund ist mein" (from Cantata 140, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme) | Edith Mathis (sop), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bar), Munich Bach Orchestra/Karl Richter Label: DG 419 466-2. | ||
| Mogwai | "Black Spider" | Mogwai Label: WALL OF SOUND LC07800. | ||
| Cornelius Cardew | "The Croppy Boy" | Cornelius Cardew (piano) Label: B & L BLCD011. | ||
| Schubert | Erlkönig | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano) Label: EMI 456367-2. | ||
| 6 Mar 2011 | Amanda Vickery | Bach | Gigue (from the Cello Suite No 3 in C, BWV 1009) | Anne Gastinel (cello) Label: NAÏVE 5121. |
| Mozart | Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen (from Die Zauberflöte, Act 1) | Ruth Ziesack (Pamina), Michael Kraus (Papageno), Vienna PO/Sir Georg Solti Label: DECCA 433 210-2. | ||
| Britten | "O waly, waly" | David Daniels (counter tenor), Julius Drake (piano) Label: VIRGIN 545525-2. | ||
| Handel | La Réjouissance (from Music for the Royal Fireworks) | English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner Label: PHILIPS 464706-2. | ||
| Thomas Arne | "The soldier tir'd of war's alarms" (from Artaxerxes, Act 3) | Catherine Bott (Mandane), The Parley of Instruments/Roy Goodman Label: HYPERION CDA 67051/2. | ||
| Muzio Clementi | Sonata for piano Duet, Op. 6, No 1 (3rd movement, Presto) | Genevieve Chinn and Allen Brings (piano duet) Label: CENTAUR CRC 2046. | ||
| Anonymous work | The Housewife's Lament | Gwyneth Herbert (singer) Label: Private recording used with permission. | ||
| Francis Poulenc | Hommage à Edith Piaf (Improvisation No.15) | Gabriel Tacchino (piano) Label: EMI 762551-2. | ||
| Charlie Parker's Reboppers | "Blue in Green" (from Kind of Blue) | Mile Davis (trumpet), John Coltrane (tenor sax), Bill Evans (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Jimmy Cobb (drums) Label: COLUMBIA CK 64935. | ||
| Amy Winehouse | "Love is a losing game" | Amy Winehouse Label: ISLAND 1713041. | ||
| 13 Mar 2011 | Al Murray | Handel | Zadok the Priest | Choir of King's College Cambridge/The Academy of Ancient Music Stephen Cleobury Label: CDC5571402. |
| Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | 2nd movement from Scheherazade op. 35 (Symphonic Suite) | Berlin Philharmonic/Herbert Von Karajan Label: DG 4636142. | ||
| Philip Glass | Subterraneans' from Low Symphony | The Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra/Dennis Russell Davies Label: POINT 4381502. | ||
| Carl Orff | "Fortune plango vulnera" from Carmina Burana | St Clement Danes Grammar School Boys' Choir London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus/André Previn Label: EMI CDM5668992. | ||
| Elgar | "Nimrod" from The Enigma Variations op. 36 | Vienna Philharmonic/John Eliot Gardiner Label: DG 4632652. | ||
| Bach | Chorale from 'Gott is mein König' BWV 71 | Thomanerchor Leipzig, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Kurt Thomas Label: Classics 0092032BC. | ||
| Eric Coates | "The Dam Busters" | BBC Concert Orchestra/Sir Adrian Boult Label: BBC Radio Classics BBCRD9106. | ||
| 20 Mar 2011 | Monty Don | Bach | "Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen" (Opening chorus of the St Matthew Passion) | London Oratory Junior Choir, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner Label: ARCHIV 469 769-2. |
| Beethoven | Symphony No 3 in E-flat, Eroica (excerpt from 2nd movement Funeral march) | Philharmonia Orchestra/Otto Klemperer Label: EMI 567740-2. | ||
| Bach | Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F, BWV1046 | The English Concert/Trevor Pinnock Label: ARCHIV 423 492-2. | ||
| Henry Purcell | Drum Processional (Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary) | The King's Consort/Robert King Label: Hyperion CDA 66677. | ||
| Henry Purcell | "When I am laid in earth" (Dido & Aeneas, Act III) | Anne Sofie von Otter (Dido), The English Concert/Trevor Pinnock Label: ARKIV 427 624-2. | ||
| Beethoven | String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 (3rd movement, Molto Adagio, Heilige Dankgesang) | The Guarneri Quartet | ||
| Haydn | Symphony no 22 in E-flat, The Philosopher (1st movement, Adagio) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra/Adam Fischer Label: BRILLIANT 99925/6. | ||
| Tom Waits | Green Grass | Label: ANTI 66782. | ||
| 27 Mar 2011 | Nicole Krauss | Bach, Beethoven, Bill Evans, Ry Cooder and Jim Dickinson, Joanna Newsom, Mahler, N.A, Nicole Krauss | ||
| 3 Apr 2011 | Frances Fyfield | Bizet, Britten, John Ireland, John Masefield, Mendelssohn, Mussorgsky, Victor Borge, William Whiting and John Dykes | ||
| 10 Apr 2011 | Nicky Haslam | Bizet | 1st movement from Symphony in C | Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Sir Neville Marriner Label: EMI CDC5551182. |
| Alexander Borodin | "And This is My Beloved" from Kismet | Arranger: Wright/Forrest Alfred Drake, Doretta Morrow, Richard Kiley, Henry Calvin (The Original Broadway Cast) Label: KISMET COLUMBIA CK32605. | ||
| Tolstoy | Waltz for Piano in F major | Lera Auerbach (piano) Label: BIS CD1502. | ||
| Frank Loesser | "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year" | Deanna Durbin Label: MCA MCLD19183. | ||
| Gustave Charpentier | "Depuis le Jour" from Louise, Act III | Maria Callas (soprano), Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française/Georges Prêtre Label: EMI CDM5664662. | ||
| Erich Wolfgang Korngold | Rose Garden' from The Sea Hawk | BBC Philharmonic/Rumon Gamba Label: CHANDOS CHAN10438. | ||
| Eddie Condon | "Wherever There's Love" | Lee Wiley/Eddie Condon & His Orchestra Label: HAPPY DAYS 75605522622. | ||
| Puccini | "Vissi d'arte" from Tosca Act II | Lubja Welitch, Metropolitan Orchestra of New York/Max Rudolf Label: NIMBUS NI7959/60 CD2. | ||
| 24 Apr 2011 | Eric Knowles | Bach | Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G, BWV 1048 (1st movement) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner Label: PHILIPS 470 934-2. |
| Alexander Borodin | In the Steppes of Central Asia | Orchestre de la Suisse Romande/Enrest Ansermet Label: DECCA 444 389-2. | ||
| Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | The young prince and princess (from Sheherezade; 3rd movement excerpt) | New York Philharmonic Orchestra /Leonard Bernstein Label: SONY. | ||
| Sergei Prokofiev | The Wedding (from Lieutenant Kije) | Empire Brass Label: TELARC CD 80220. | ||
| Beethoven | Symphony No. 6 in F, Op. 68 (1st movement Pleasant feelings upon arrival in the countryside) | New York Philharmonic Orchestra/Leonard Bernstein Label: SONY SMK 47517. | ||
| Debussy | Arabesque No 1 | Gordon Fergus-Thompson (piano) Label: ASV PLT 8505. | ||
| Four Tops | Ask the lonely | The Four Tops Label: MOTOWN RECORDS 314530825-2. | ||
| 1 May 2011 | Olivia Williams | Bach | Prelude (from the Cello Suite in G, BWV) | Pablo Casals (cello) Label: EMI 566215-2. |
| Diego Ortiz | Laudate Dominum à 4 alternatim (Psalm 116) (from Ad Vesperas) | Cantar Lontano/Marco Mencoboni Label: EL 062319. | ||
| Arvo Pärt | Tabula Rasa | Tasmin Little and Richard Studt (violins), Bournemouth Sinfonietta Label: CFP 575805-2. | ||
| Handel | The trumpet shall sound (from Messiah) | David Thomas (bass) The Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood Label: OISEAU LYRE 411 858-2. | ||
| Felix Mendelssohn | The Overture to Elijah | Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Paul Daniel Label: DECCA 455 688-2. | ||
| Vivaldi | Mandolin concerto in C (2nd movement, Largo) | Paul O'Dette (mandolin), The Parley of Instruments/Roy Goodman Label: HYPERION CDA 66160. | ||
| Mahler | Symphony No 2 (The Resurrection) [first movement, opening] | New York PO/Leonard Bernstein Label: SONY SX12K 89499. | ||
| Brahms | Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77 | Fritz Kreisler (violin), LPO/Sir John Barbirolli [recorded 1936] Label: EMI 265042-2. | ||
| 8 May 2011 | Ruth Goodman | Ferdinand Hérold | "A Clog Dance" from La Fille Mal Gardée Act I | Arranger: John Lanchbery Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/John Lanchbery Label: DECCA 4308492. |
| Henry Purcell | Symphony' from Act 4 of The Fairy Queen | The Symphony of Harmony & Invention (The Sixteen)/Harry Christophers Label: CORO 16005. | ||
| Sergei Prokofiev | "Dance of the Knights" from Romeo & Juliet Act I | London Symphony Orchestra/André Previn Label: EMI CDM5657212. | ||
| Philip Glass | "Knee Play 5" from Einstein on the Beach | The Philip Glass Ensemble/Michael Riesman Label: ELEKTRA NONESUCH 7559793232. | ||
| Handel | The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from Solomon | The English Concert/Trevor Pinnock Label: ARCHIV 4155182. | ||
| Lúnasa | The Floating Crowbar | Lunasa Label: GREEN LINNET GLCD1200. | ||
| Paganini | Caprice no 5 in A minor (from 24 Caprices Op. 1) | Itzhak Perlman (violin) Label: EMI CDC7471712. | ||
| Stravinsky | The Princesses' Round' from 'The Firebird | New York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein Label: SONY. | ||
| 15 May 2011 | Mike Leigh | Arthur Sullivan | I was once a Very Abandoned Person"" – from Ruddigore, Act II | Singer: Ann Drummond-Grant. Librettist: Gilbert, William Schwenck. Singer: Richard Watson. Orchestra: D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Isidore Godfrey. |
| Arthur Sullivan | The World is but a Broken Toy"" – from Princess Ida, Act II | Singer: Victoria Sladen. Librettist: Gilbert, William Schwenck. Singer: Thomas Round. Singer: Leonard Osborn. Singer: Jeffrey Skitch. Orchestra: D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Isidore Godfrey. | ||
| Charlie Parker's Reboppers | "Blue in Green" (from Kind of Blue) | Miles Davis Quintet (John Coltrane, tenor sax; Bill Evans, piano; Paul Chambers, bass, Jimmy Cobb, drums) Label: COLUMBIA LEGACY CK 64935. | ||
| Shostakovich | from Alone – film score | Singer: Irina Kataeva. Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald. | ||
| Shostakovich | Overture, Kuzmina Wakes and song Konechen, Konchen, tekhnikum (from film score for Odna (' | Irina Mataeva (soprano), Frankfurt RSO, conducted by Marc Fitz-Gerald Label: NAXOS 8570316. | ||
| Georges Delerue | "Le Tourbillon de la vie" – from Jules et Jim | Singer: Jeanne Moreau. | ||
| Georges Delerue | "Le Tourbillon de la vie" (from Jules et Jim) | Jeanne Moreau Label: WARNER FRANCE 5608 7743-2. | ||
| Gilbert & Sullivan | "I once was a very abandoned person" (from Ruddigore, Act II) | Richard Watson (Sir Despard) and Ann Drummond-Grant (Mad Margaret), The Orchestra of D'Oyly Carte, conducted by Isidore Godfrey | ||
| Gilbert & Sullivan | "The World is but a broken toy" (from Princess Ida, Act II) | Victoria Sladen (Princess Ida), Thomas Round (Hilarion), Leonard Osborn (Cyril), Jeffrey Skitch (Florian), D'Oyly Carte Opera and Orchestra, conducted by Isidore Godfrey | ||
| Jacques Offenbach | "Les oiseaux dans la charmille" – from The Tales of Hoffmann, Act II | Singer: Gianna D'Angelo. Orchestra: Paris Conservatoire Concert Society Orchestra. Conductor: André Cluytens. | ||
| Jacques Offenbach | "Les oiseaux dans la chamille" ("The song of the doll", The Tales of Hoffmann, Act II) | Gianna D'Angelo (Olympia), Orchestre de la Societé des Concerts du Conservatoire, conducted by André Cluytens Label: EMI CMS 763222-2. | ||
| Kurt Weill | "Ballad of Mack the Knife" – from The Threepenny Opera | Singer: Harald Paulsen. Librettist: Bertolt Brecht. | ||
| Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht | Moritat von Mack The Knife ('Ballad of Mack the Knife' from Die Dreigroschenoper, 'The Threepenny Opera' | Harald Paulsen (Mack the Knife), unknown orchestra and conductor (1928 recording) Label: CAPRICCIO 10346. | ||
| Beethoven | Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 – 3rd movement: Rondo | Itzhak Perlman. Orchestra: Philhamonia Orchestra. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini. | ||
| Beethoven | Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61 (3rd movement: Rondo (Allegro) excerpt) | Itzhak Perlman (violin), Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini Label: EMI CDM 556210-2. | ||
| Miles Davis | Blue in Green | Ensemble: Miles Davis Quintet. Composer: Bill Evans. | ||
| Mozart | Soave sia il vento"" – from Cosi fan tutte, Act I | Singer: Hillevi Martinpelto. Singer: Alison Hagley. Singer: Thomas S. Allen. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. | ||
| Mozart | Soave sia il vento (from Cosí fan tutte, Act I) | Hillevi Martinpelto (Fiordiligi), Alison Hagley (Dorabella), Thomas Allen (Don Alfonso), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conducted by Simon Rattle Label: EMI CDS 556170-2. | ||
| 22 May 2011 | Cathy Marston [3] | Shostakovich | Piano Concerto No 1, Op. 35 (second movement) | Dmitri Alexeev (piano), Philip Jones (trumpet), ECO/Jerzy Maksimiuk |
| Gabriel Prokofiev | Allegro Gavotte, "Snow Time2 (from Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra) | DJ Yoda & The Heritage Orchestra/Jules Buckley | ||
| Nina Simone | 2Wild is the Wind" | Nina Simone | ||
| Charles Ives | The Unanswered Question | Orpheus Chamber Orchestra | ||
| Robert Schumann | "Auf Einer Burg" (from Liederkreis, Op. 39) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) & Gerald Moore (piano) | ||
| Brahms | Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor, Op. 15 (excerpt from II, Adagio) | Hélène Grimaud (piano), Berlin Staatskapelle Orchestra/Kurt Sanderling | ||
| Dave Maric | Unspoken | Katia Labèque Band | ||
| Gus MacGregor | Lifeline | Gus MacGregor | ||
| 29 May 2011 | Max Beesley | Mozart | "Dies irae2 from Requiem in D minor KV626 | Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra/Leonard Bernstein Label: DG431041-2. |
| Schubert | "Ave Maria" | Elly Ameling (soprano)/Dalton Baldwin (piano) Label: DECCA 4625552. | ||
| Stravinsky | "The Shrove-Tide Fair" from Petrouchka | Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra/Paavo Järvi Label: TELARC CD80587. | ||
| Chopin | Prelude Op. 28, no. 4 | Terry King (cello), Shizue Sano (piano). Arranger: Copland Label: MUSIC & ARTS PROGRAMS OF AMERICA CD1076. | ||
| Bach | Prelude in C minor' from The Well Tempered Clavier Book 1 BWV 847 | Hélène Grimaud (piano) Label: DG 4777978. | ||
| Max Beesley | Music from 'The Emperor's Wife' soundtrack | Max Beesley (piano), The London Session Orchestra Label: Used by permission. | ||
| Liszt | Liebestraum no 3 | Yundi Li (piano) Label: DG 471 585-2. | ||
| Pat Metheny | Third Wind | Pat Metheny Group Label: GEFFEN 92414521. | ||
| 5 Jun 2011 | Sir Trevor McDonald | Elgar | Introduction and Allegro Op. 47 (excerpt) | Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli Label: EMI CDM7639552. |
| Verdi | Prisoners' Chorus from Nabucco Act III | Chorus & Orchestra of La Scala, Milan/Claudio Abbado Label: DG 4194872. | ||
| Handel | "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth" from Messiah | Margaret Marshall (soprano), English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner, Alastair Ross (organ) Label: PHILIPS 4122672. | ||
| Beethoven | 1st movement from Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61 (Excerpt) | Nigel Kennedy (violin), Sinfonie Orchester des NDR/Klaus Tennstedt (Cadenza by Fritz Kreisler) Label: EMI CDC7545742. | ||
| Aaron Copland | "Simple Gifts" from Appalachian Spring | London Symphony Orchestra/Aaron Copland Label: SONY CLASSICAL SMK60133. | ||
| Puccini | Recondita armonia' from Tosca Act I | Giuseppe Campora (Cavaradossi), Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma/Alberto Erede Label: LONDON 4402362. | ||
| Chopin | 3rd movement from Piano Concerto no. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 | Artur Rubinstein (piano), New Symphony Orchestra of London/Stanislaw Skrowaczewski Label: RCA RD85612. | ||
| 12 Jun 2011 | Amanda Foreman | Thomas Tallis | If ye love me | The Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips Label: GIMELL CDGIMB 450. |
| John Bull | Galliard (Britannica Musica no. 78) | Pierre Hantaï (harpsichord) Label: ASTREE E8543. | ||
| Vivaldi | Amor, hai vinto | Emma Kirkby (soprano), Mark Caudle (cello), Christopher Hogwood (harpsichord) Label: OISEAU LYRE 421 655-2. | ||
| Henry Purcell | Drunk as I live, boys... (The Fairy Queen, Act I) | David Thomas (The Drunken Poet), The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists/Sir John Eliot Gardiner Label: ARCHIV 419 221-2. | ||
| Handel | The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance (Israel in Egypt) | The Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra/Sir John Eliot Gardiner Label: ERATO 4509-99758-2. | ||
| John Field | Piano Concerto in A-flat major, Op. 31 (part of the 1st movement) | Míceál O'Rourke (piano), London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert Label: CHANDOS CHAN 9368. | ||
| Henry Bishop | Lo! Here the Gentle Lark | Kathleen Battle (soprano), Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute), Margo Garrett (piano) Label: SONY SK 53106 Tr19. | ||
| Samuel Coleridge-Taylor | Deep River | Virginia Eskin (piano) Label: KOCH 7056 | ||
| Mozart | Ill Wind | Arranger: Flanders and Swann Label: EMI CDP 7974662. | ||
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis (the opening) | RPO/André Previn Label: TELARC CD-80158. | ||
| 19 Jun 2011 | David Bintley | Mahler | Symphony No 2 (Resurrection) end of the Finale | Lee Venora (soprano) Jennie Tourel (mezzo-soprano), New York PO/Leonard Bernstein Label: SONY CLASSICAL SX12K 89499. |
| Stravinsky | Dance of the Coachmen and the Grooms (Petrushka) | LSO/Claudio Abbado Label: DG 453 085-2. | ||
| Verdi | Otello Act II Finale 'Sì, pel ciel marmareo giuro!' | Plácido Domingo (Otello), Sergei Leiferkus (Iago), Orchestra of the Opera, Bastille/Myung- Whun Chung Label: DG 439 805-2. | ||
| Britten | Prince of the Pagodas Act 2 Coda to the "Water" section | London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen Label: VIRGIN CLASSICS0777 7595782-2. | ||
| Bob Dylan | "Make you feel my love" (from the album Dylanesque) | Bryan Ferry Label: VIRGIN CDV 3026. | ||
| James Macmillan | "Verily I say unto thee, today thou shalt be with me in Paradise" (III from Seven Last Word | Polyphony, The Britten Sinfonia/Stephen Layton Label: HYPERION CDA 67460. | ||
| Frank Wess | Segue in C (from First Time! The Count meets the Duke) | Duke Ellington and his orchestra, Count Basie and his orchestra Label: CBS 450509-2. | ||
| Matthew Hindson | Westaway (from Violin Concerto No 1, 'Australian Postcards') | Naoko Miyamoto (violin), New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young Label: TRUST RECORDS TRI3004. | ||
| 3 Jul 2011 | Alex Horn | Mozart | 3rd movement 'Rondo' from Horn Concerto no 4 in E-flat major K495 | Barry Tuckwell – horn, Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Sir Neville Marriner Label: EMI CDM7695692. |
| Sergei Prokofiev | Music from Peter and the Wolf | Ben Kingsley (narrator), London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Charles Mackerras Label: CALA CACD1022. | ||
| Editus | Morning | Label: INTEMPO. | ||
| Victor Hely-Hutchinson | 3rd movement from Carol Symphony (Excerpt) | Pro Arte Orchestra/Barry Rose Label: EMI CDM7641312. | ||
| John Philip Sousa | Liberty Bell | The Regimental Band of the Parachute Regiment/ WOI L Tyler (Bandmaster) Label: BANDLEADER BNA5006. | ||
| Vivaldi | Concerto no 4 in F minor RV297 "Winter" from The Four Seasons | Viktoria Mullova (violin), Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Claudio Abbado Label: PHILIPS 4202162. | ||
| Cary Swinney | "Birdwatcher" | Label: JOHNSON GRASS RECORDS. | ||
| 10 Jul 2011 | Andrew Graham-Dixon | Wagner | Prelude to Das Rheingold (the opening of The Ring) | Oda Balsborg (Woglinde) Vienna PO/Sir Georg Solti |
| Beethoven | String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 (part of 3rd movement, Molto Adagio, Heilige Dankgesang) | The Guarneri Quartet Label: RCA 82876-55704-2. | ||
| Maceo Merriweather | Chicago Breakdown | Label: LP RCA PM 42039 LP2. | ||
| Bach | Chaconne (from the Partita No 2 in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004) | Nathan Milstein (violin) Label: DG 423 294-2. | ||
| Keith Jarrett | Staircase, part 3 | Label: ECM 1090/91. | ||
| Garland & Razaf | "In the mood" | Arranger: Glenn Miller Glenn Miler and his Orchestra | ||
| Schubert | Impromptu in E-flat, D899 No. 2 | Wilhelm Kempff (piano) Label: DG 459 412-2. | ||
| Sex Pistols – Paul Cook & Steve Jones | "Anarchy in the UK" | Label: VIRGIN CDVX 2086. | ||
| 17 Jul 2011 | Helen Dunmore | Stephen Foster | "Ah! May the Red Rose Live Always" | Thomas Hampson (baritone), Armen Guzelimian (piano), Kenneth Sillito (violin obbligato) Label: EMI CDC7540512. |
| Gluck | "What is Life" from Orfeo ed Euridice Act III | Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Malcolm Sargent Label: DECCA 4334702. | ||
| Traditional music | Bound for South Australia | Fisherman's Friends Label: Island 2766794. | ||
| Country Joe and the Fish | "The Fish" Cheer & "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag" | Label: VANGUARD VMD792662. | ||
| Schubert | 2nd movement from String Quintet in C major D956 (EXCERPT) | Melos Quartet/Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) Label: DG 4153732. | ||
| Gregorian Chant | Salve Regina – Ton Solennel I – Salut, ô Reine from Fêtes de la très Sainte Vierge | Choeur des Moines de Saint-Benoît-du-Lac/ Dom André Saint-Cyr Label: FORLANE 3005102. | ||
| Jean Sibelius | "Intermezzo" from Karelia Suite Op. 11 | Paavo Berglund/Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Label: EMI CZS5742002. | ||
| Mozart | Confutatis & Lacrimosa from Requiem KV 626 | English Baroque Soloists/Monteverdi Choir/ John Eliot Gardiner Label: PHILIPS 4201972. | ||
| Vampire Weekend | Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa | Label: XL VAMP1. | ||
| 24 Jul 2011 | Hugh Hudson | Richard Strauss | Morgen' Op. 27/4 | Jessye Norman (soprano), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig/Kurt Masur Label: PHILIPS 4110522. |
| Bach | Aria' from Goldberg Variations BWV 988 | Glenn Gould (piano) Label: CBS CD44868. | ||
| Thelonious Monk | Straight No Chaser' (Excerpt) | Thelonious Monk Quintet Label: HARMONIA MUNDI 2741365.66. | ||
| John Corigliano | War Lament from 'Revolution' soundtrack | National Philharmonic Orchestra/Harry Rabinowitz Label: VARESE SARABANDE 3020670002. | ||
| Elgar | Softly and Gently' from The Dream of Gerontius Op. 38 | Dame Janet Baker (The Angel), CBSO Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle Label: EMI CDS7495492. | ||
| Ravel | Lever du Jour from Daphnis and Chloe Suite no. 2 | New York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein, Schola Cantorium Label: CBS CD42541. | ||
| Vangelis | 5th movement from 'Methodea Music for NASA (excerpt) | Jessye Norman/Kathleen Battle, London Metropolitan Orchestra/Blake Neely, The National Opera of Greece Choir Label: SONY CLASSICAL SK89191. | ||
| McHugh/Fields | On The Sunny Side of the Street | Billie Holiday with The Eddie Heywood Trio Label: COMMODORE 624291. | ||
| 7 Aug 2011 | Simon Hopkinson | Michael Tippett | Magnificat' from Evening Canticles | The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/George Guest, Andrew Carwood (organ) Label: NIMBUS NI5335. |
| Frederick Delius | "On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring2 | English Chamber Orchestra/Daniel Barenboim Label: DG 4197482. | ||
| Rahsaan Roland Kirk | 2Serenade to a Cuckoo2 (Live) | Rahsaan Roland Kirk (flute), Ron Burton (piano), Henry 'Pete' Pearson (bass). Robert Shy (drums), Joe Texidor (percussion) Label: ATLANTIC. | ||
| Britten | "For I will consider my cat Jeoffry" + "For the mouse is a creature of great personal valour" | Roger Parker (treble), Michael Pearce (counter-tenor), Brian Runnett (organ)Recording: The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/George Guest | ||
| Aaron Copland | "Fanfare for the Common Man" | The London Philharmonic/Carl Davis Label: VIRGIN CLASSICS VC7907162. | ||
| Soft Machine | "Out-Blood-Rageous" (excerpt) | Label: Third COLUMBIA 4714072. | ||
| Messiaen | "O Sacrum Convivium!" | The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/George Guest Label: DECCA 4780353. | ||
| Jehan Alain | Litanies' from Trois Pieces | Thomas Trotter (organ) Label: ARGO 430 833-2. | ||
| 11 Sep 2011 | Stella Tillyard | Schubert | 1st movement from Piano Trio in B-flat Op. 99, D898 | Beaux Arts Trio Label: PHILIPS 4126202. |
| Sherman/Busch | Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh | Allan Sherman Label: RHINO R275771. | ||
| Bach | "Gigue" from Cello Suite no 1 in G major for Cello BWV 1007 | Pablo Casals (cello) Label: PEARL GEMS0045. | ||
| Kurt Weill | "Alabama Song" from Rise & Fall of the City of Mahagonny | Lotte Lenya with The Three Admirals and Orchestra Label: NAXOS 8120831. | ||
| Béla Bartók | 1st movement from Violin Concerto no 2 Sz112 | Itzhak Perlman (violin), London Symphony Orchestra/André Previn Label: EMI CDM5660602. | ||
| John Hardy | Symphony for Candlemas Eve | Oxford University Orchestra/Hugh MacDonald Label: Used by permission of composer and | ||
| Gluck | Che farò senza Euridice' from Orfeo ed Euridice Act III | Dietrich Fischer Dieskau (baritone), Munchener Bach-Orchester/Karl Richter Label: DG 4635002. | ||
| Beethoven | Prisoners' Chorus from Fidelio Act 1 | Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra/Otto Klemperer Label: EMI 5673642. | ||
| Traditional music | Oi Oi Di Koilen (The Coal Dance) | Mishka Ziganoff (accordion) Label: CD7034 ARHOOLIE RECORDS. | ||
| Traditional music | Bella Ciao | Giorgio Gaber Label: DIGITAL PRESSURE/PEER SOUTHERN PROD. | ||
| 18 Sep 2011 | Aminatta Forna | Bach | Andante' from Italian Concerto in F (BWV971) | Alfred Brendel (piano) Label: PHILIPS 4544092. |
| Elgar | 1st movement from Cello Concerto in E minor Op. 85 | Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Yehudi Menuhin Label: PHILIPS 4163542. | ||
| Louis Armstrong/Jelly Roll Morton | "Wild Man Blues" | Dr Michael White (clarinet), Steve Pistorious (piano) Label: VERVE 5177772. | ||
| Sergei Prokofiev | Montagues and Capulets from Romeo and Juliet Ballet Suite Op. 64 | Philharmonia Orchestra/Efrem Kurtz Label: EMI CDZ7625302. | ||
| Ali Farka Touré | Sega' (trans The Grass Snake) Peul (of the Fula People) | Ali Farka Toure (njarka), Hamma Sankare (calabash), Oumar Toure (congas) Label: WORLD CIRCUIT WCD040. | ||
| Rodrigo Leão | "Ave Mundi" | Rodrigo Leão Label: COLUMBIA 4814532. | ||
| Tchaikovsky | 3rd movement from Piano Concerto no. 1 in B-flat minor Op. 23 | Andras Schiff (piano), Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Sir Georg Solti Label: DECCA 4172942. | ||
| 25 Sep 2011 | Simon Mawer | Hildegard von Bingen | "Colomba Aspexit" | Emma Kirkby (soprano), Gothic Voices, Doreen Muskett (symphony) Label: HYPERION CDA 66039. |
| Mozart | "Kyrie Eleison" [from the Great Mass in C minor, K427] | Sylvia McNair (soprano), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/Sir John Eliot Gardner; Label: PHILIPS 420 210-2. | ||
| Leoš Janáček | "A blown-away leaf" (from On the Overgrown Path, book 1) | Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) Label: VIRGIN CLASSICS VC 759639-2. | ||
| George Antheil | Ballet mécanique | Ivan Davis (piano), Rex Lawson (pianolist), The New Palais Royale Orchestra and Percussion Ensemble/Maurice Peress Label: MUSIC MASTERS 01612-67094-2. | ||
| Beethoven | Piano Sonata in C minor, Opus 111 [beginning of the 2nd movement] | Daniel Barenboim (piano) Label: DG 423 371-2. | ||
| Léo Ferré | Paname | Juliette Gréco (singer) with André Popp and his orchestra Label: POLYGRAM DISTRIBUTION 830 955-2. | ||
| Duke Ellington | "Mood Indigo" | Sidney Bechet and his New Orleans Feetwarmers Label: CLASSICS 860. | ||
| Vítezslava Kaprálová | Partita for String Orchestra & Piano, Op. 20 (1st movement, Allegro energico) | Jiří Skovajsa (piano), Symphony Orchestra of Brno/Frantisek Jilek Label: STUDIO MATOUS MK0049-2011. | ||
| 2 Oct 2011 | Michael Grandage | Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina | Kyrie' from Missa Pape Marcelli | The Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips (Director) Label: GIMELL CDGIM204. |
| Mozart | 3rd movement from Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-flat major K417 | Dennis Brain (Horn), Philharmonia Orchestra/Herbert von Karajan Label: EMI CDM5668982. | ||
| Shostakovich | 4th movement from Symphony no. 5 in D minor op. 47 | National Symphony Orchestra/Mstislav Rostropovich Label: DG 4394812. | ||
| Malcolm Arnold | 2nd movement from Concerto for Two Pianos & Orchestra Op. 104 | Phyllis Sellick/Cyril Smith (pianos), CBSO/Malcolm Arnold Label: EMI Classics CDM 760442. | ||
| Frank Loesser | "My Time of Day"/"I've Never Been In Love Before" | Ian Charleson/Julie Covington from the Original National Theatre Cast Recording Label: MUSIC FOR PLEASURE CDMFP5978. | ||
| Doug Hodge | "Wish I'd Found You First" | Doug Hodge Label: RIGHT BACK RECORDS RBRP002. | ||
| Daniel Evans | "Come Unto These Yellow Sands" – Incidental Music from The Tempest | Daniel Evans Label: By permission of composer and | ||
| Britten | Music from Billy Budd Act II sc ii | London Symphony Orchestra/Richard Hickox Label: VIRGIN CLASSICS 5190392. | ||
| 9 Oct 2011 | Margaret Mountford | Charles-Valentin Alkan, Chopin, Liszt, Schubert, Schubert, Verdi, Wagner, Wagner | ||
| 16 Oct 2011 | Lucinda Lambton | Bach | Brandenburg Concerto no 6 in B-flat (3rd movement, Allegro) | The Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood Label: OISEAU LYRE 414 187-2. |
| Julia Ward Howe | "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" | Reinald Werrenrath (baritone), Josef Pasternack (conductor) Label: VICTOR B-19377. | ||
| Mozart | Variations on "Ah, vous dirai-je Maman", K. 265 | Clara Haskil (piano) Label: DG 437 676-2. | ||
| Carl Maria von Weber | Overture to Oberon | Berlin PO/Herbert Von Karajan Label: DG 020 102-2. | ||
| Traditional music | "America the Beautiful" | Ray Charles Label: RHINO 605748. | ||
| Jacques Offenbach | Les oiseaux dans la charmille (The Tales of Hoffmann, Act 1) | Joan Sutherland (Olympia), Jacques Charon (Spalanzani), The Orchestra of the Suisse Romande/Richard Bonynge Label: DECCA 417 363-2. | ||
| Paganini | Violin Concerto No 1 in D (part of the 3rd movement, Rondo, allegro spiritoso) | Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Paris SO/Pierre Monteux Label: EMI CDH 565959-2. | ||
| Savoy Family Cajun Band | "J'ai passé devant ta porte" | Savoy Family Cajun Band Label: FESTIVALINK R 1691304. | ||
| 30 Oct 2011 | Trevor Phillips | Haydn | 1st movement from Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major | Wynton Marsalis (trumpet), National Philharmonic Orchestra/Raymond Leppard Label: CBS CD37846. |
| Handel | How silently, how slyly' from Julius Caesar Act I | Dame Janet Baker (Caesar), Orchestra of the English National Opera/Sir Charles Mackerras Label: EMI CDM7637242. | ||
| Traditional music | Because He Was a Bonny Lad | The Unthanks Label: EMI 6871222. | ||
| Thomas Tallis (excerpt) | Fantasia on a Theme | Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields/Neville Marriner Iona Brown, Trevor Connah (violins), Stephen Shingles (viola), Kenneth Heath (cello) Label: ARGO 4145952. | ||
| Traditional music | "Mawnin' Neighba" | The Cari Singers Label: Guest's private recording. | ||
| Tom Lehrer | The Elements | Tom Lehrer Label: RHINO R279831. | ||
| 6 Nov 2011 | Anoushka Shankar | Anoushka Shankar | Si no peurdo Vela (excerpt) | Anoushka Shankar Label: Traveller DG4779360. |
| Debussy | "Dr Gradus ad Parnassum" from Children's Corner | Philippe Entremont (piano) Label: SONY CLASSICAL SBK48174. | ||
| Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté | "Monsieur Le Maire de Niafunké" | Ali Farka Touré (guitar), Toumani Diabaté (kora), Olalekan Babalola (percussion) Label: WORLD CIRCUIT WCD072. | ||
| Gabriel Fauré | 2nd movement "Andantino" from Trio for Piano, Cello & Violin Op. 120 | Gil Shaham (violin), Akira Eguchi (piano), Brinton Smith (cello) Label: VANGUARD ATMCD1239. | ||
| Ravi Shankar | Karnãtaki (Raga Kirvãni) | Ravi Shankar (sitar), Kanai Dutta (tabla), Nodu Mullick (tampura) Label: BGO BGOCD115. | ||
| Erik Satie | Gymnopédie no 1 | Angela Brownridge (piano) Label: EMI CDEMX9507. | ||
| Gino D'Auri | "Recuerdo de la Alhambra" | Gino D'Auri Label: HEARTS OF SPACE 1034585. | ||
| Nick Cave | "Into My Arms" | Nick Cave (vocals, piano), Martyn P Casey (bass) Label: MUTE CDSTUMM142. | ||
| 13 Nov 2011 | Garry Fabian Miller | Pérotin | Beata viscera | The Hilliard Ensemble/Dir Paul Hillier (David James – countertenor) Label: ECM 8377512. |
| William Byrd | "Agnus Dei" from Mass for Four Voices | Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Sir David Willcocks Label: DECCA 4336752. | ||
| John Dowland | "Flow My Tears" | Alfred Deller (counter tenor), Desmond Dupré (lute) Label: HARMONIA MUNDI HM90215. | ||
| Traditional music | The Border Widow's Lament | June Tabor, Huw Warren (piano) Label: TOPIC TSCD543. | ||
| Antony and the Johnsons | "Hope There's Someone" | Antony & The Johnsons Label: ROUGH TRADE RTRADCD223. | ||
| Traditional music | "The Snow it melts the Soonest" | Anne Briggs Label: TOPIC TSCD7078. | ||
| Bach | "Sarabande" from English Suite no. 2 in A Minor BWV 807 | Murray Perahia (piano) Label: SONY CLASSICAL SK60277. | ||
| Grieg/Emanuel Geibel | "One day, my thought" from Six Songs Op. 48 | Anne Sofie Von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Bengt Forsberg (piano) Label: DG4375212. | ||
| 20 Nov 2011 | Joey DeFrancesco | Joey DeFrancesco | Donny's Tune | Joey DeFrancesco (organ), Ramon Banda (drums), Rick Zunigar (guitar) Label: HIGHNOTE HCD7226. |
| Bach | "Prelude" from Prelude and Fugue in D BWV 532 | Virgil Fox (organ) Label: MUSIC FOR PLEASURE MFP2096. | ||
| Jimmy Smith | "Blues for J" | Jimmy Smith (organ), Kenny Burrell (guitar), Grady Tate (drums) Label: VERVE 8256752. | ||
| Beethoven | 4th Movement from 'Symphony no 5 in C minor' op. 67 | West-Eastern Divan Orchestra/Daniel Barenboim Label: WARNER 2564627912. | ||
| Charlie Parker's Reboppers | "My Funny Valentine" | Miles Davis (trumpet), Herbie Hancock (piano), Ron Carter (bass), Tony Williams (drums) Label: SONY BMG 1211. | ||
| Debussy | "Clair de Lune" from Suite bergamasque | Martin Jones (piano Label: NIMBUS N15160. | ||
| Chopin | Nocturne no. 2 in E-flat major | Daniel Barenboim (piano) Label: DG 4314862. | ||
| Ray Charles | "Let the Good Times Roll" | Ray Charles/Count Basie Orchestra feat Joey DeFrancesco (organ) Label: CONCORD 7230026. | ||
| 4 Dec 2011 | Henry Sandon | Thomas Tomkins | "O, that the salvation were given" | Choir of New College, Oxford/Edward Higginbottom, David Burchell (organ) Thomas Carey & Christopher Neale (trebles), Michael Morton & Jeremy Burrows (basses) Label: CRD 3467. |
| Henry Purcell | "Strike the viol" (Come ye sons of art away) | Oriana Concert Orchestra/Alfred Deller (counter tenor) Label: VANGUARD 08 5060. | ||
| Bach | Brandenburg Concerto No 3 (1st movement) | The Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood Label: OISEAU LYRE 414 187-2. | ||
| Elgar | Ave verum corpus, Op. 2, No. 1 | Worcester Cathedral Choir/Christopher Robinson, Harry Bramma (organ) Label: His Master's Voice CBD 3660. | ||
| Britten | Nocturne (The splendour falls on castle walls, Tennyson) (from the Serenade for tenor, hor | Peter Pears (tenor), Dennis Brain (horn), Boyd Neel Orchestra/Benjamin Britten Label: DECCA 425 996-2. | ||
| Lennox Berkeley | The Lord is my shepherd | Benjamin Durrant (treble), Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/Christopher Robinson, Jonathan Vaughn (organ) Label: NAXOS 8.557277. | ||
| Leonard Bernstein | America (from West Side Story) | Marilyn Cooper (Rosalia), Chita Rivera (Anita), Original Broadway cast recording, Max Goberman (musical director) Label: COLUMBIA CK 32603. | ||
| Noël Coward | Nina (aka Senorita Nina, or Nina from Argentina) | Noel Coward (vocals), Piccadilly Theatre Orchestra/Mantovani Label: EMI CDP 7971572. | ||
| 11 Dec 2011 | Dan Stevens | Mozart | Requiem in D minor, K. 626: Lacrimosa | The Hanover Band & Chorus/Roy Goodman Label: NIMBUS NI 5241. |
| Traditional Congolese | Sanctus (from the Missa Luba) | Les troubadours de roi Baudouin Label: EL ACMEM136CD. | ||
| William Byrd | Kyrie (from the Mass for 4 voices) | Oxford Camerata/Jeremy Summerly Label: NAXOS 8550574. | ||
| Gabriel Fauré | In Paradisum (from the Requiem) | Maitrise de Paris & Accentus, Orchestre National de France/Laurence Equilbey Label: NAIVE 5137. | ||
| Philip Glass | Koyaanisqatsi (from the film Koyaanisqatsi) | Albert De Ruiter (the voice of Koyaanisqatsi), orchestra conducted by Michael Reisman Label: ISLAND IMCD98. | ||
| Peter Bellamy | "Courting Too Slow" (from the album Bellow) | John Spiers & Jon Boden Label: FELLSIDE RECORDINGS FECD175. | ||
| Gregorio Allegri | Miserere | The Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips Label: GIMELL CDGIM 339. | ||
| Bach | "Largo ma non tanto" (from the Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043) | Daniel Hope and Marieke Blankestijn (violins), Chamber Orchestra of Europe Label: WARNER 2564 62545-2. | ||
| Johnny Mercer (words), Jerome Kern (music) | "I'm Old Fashioned" | Chet Baker (vocals), Kenny Drew (piano), George Morrow (bass), Philly Joe Jones (drums) Label: RIVERSIDE OJCCD-303-2. | ||
| 25 Dec 2011 | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Narrator | "Love Never Dies" from Love Never Dies (excerpt) | Katherine Jenkins Label: DECCA 5336610. |
| Sergei Prokofiev | "Cinderella's Departure for the Ball" from Cinderella Act I | Cleveland Orchestra/Vladimir Ashkenazy Label: DECCA 4101622. | ||
| Britten | "Dawn" from Sea Interludes (Peter Grimes op. 33) | London Symphony Orchestra/Steuart Bedford Label: COLLINS CLASSICS 10192COL. | ||
| Puccini | Music from La Boheme Act II | Placido Domingo (Rodolfo), Montserrat Caballé (Mimi), Sherrill Milnes (Marcello), Judith Biegen (Musetta), Ruggero Raimondi (Colline), Vicente Sardinero (Schaunard), Nico Castel (Alcindoro), The John Alldis Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra/Georg Solti Label: RCA 80371. | ||
| Shostakovich | 1st movement from Cello Concerto no 1 in E-flat major op. 107 | Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy Label: SONY CLASSICAL MHK63327. | ||
| Leonard Bernstein | Prologue | The original soundtrack recording (conducted by Johnny Green) Label: CBS 4676062. | ||
| Rachmaninov | "How Fair This Spot" from 12 Songs Op. 21 no 7 | Anna Netrebko (soprano), Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre/Valery Gergiev Label: DG 4776384. | ||
| Sergei Prokofiev | 3rd movement from Piano Sonata no 7 in B-flat major op. 83 | Martha Argerich (piano) Label: Live in the Concertgebouw (EMI). | ||
| Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II | "Some Enchanted Evening" from South Pacific | Giorgio Tozzi (from the Original Soundtrack Recording) | ||
| Date | Guest | Composer | Title | Performer / Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Jan 2012 | Tamara Rojo | Tchaikovsky | Swan Lake (Prologue to Act I) | London Symphony Orchestra/André Previn Label: EMI CDS 749531-2. |
| Mahler | "The Song of the Earth" [Das Lied von der Erde] (end of last song, Der Abschied) | Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Bernard Haitink Label: PHILIPS 432 279-2. | ||
| Rodion Shchedrin | Torero and Carmen (from Carmen Suite) | Russian National Orchestra/Mikhael Pletnev Label: DG 471 136-2. | ||
| Arvo Pärt | "Spiegel im Spiegel" | Tasmin Little (violin), Martin Roscoe (piano) Label: VIRGIN VTDCD408. | ||
| Bach | Variation 25 (from the Goldberg Variations) | Murray Perahia (piano) Label: SONY SK 89243. | ||
| Elgar | Cello Concerto in E minor (first movement) | Jacqueline Du Pré (cello), LSO/John Barbirolli Label: EMI 567341-2. | ||
| Traditional music | Granada | Paco de Lucia, Andres Battista and Maolo San Lucar (guitars) Label: DIVUCSA MUSIC 2197. | ||
| 26 Feb 2012 | Tacita Dean | Henry Purcell | Sound the Trumpet (Come ye Sons of Art) | Alfred & Mark Deller, The Deller Consort Label: VANGUARD 08506071. |
| Gregorio Allegri | Miserere | Choir of King's College Cambridge/Sir David Willcocks Treble Soloist: Roy Goodman Label: DECCA 4211472. | ||
| Shostakovich | 2nd movement from Sonata no. 4 for Cello & Piano in D minor (op. 40) | Stephen Isserlis (cello), Olli Mustonen (piano) Label: RCA 09026684372. | ||
| Ravel | 1st movement from Sonatine | Robert Casadesus (piano) Label: SONY CLASSICAL MP2K46733. | ||
| Leoš Janáček | 1st movement from String Quartet no 2 | Smetana Quartet (In Prague Concert). Label: SUPRAPHON CO1130. | ||
| Miklós Rózsa | "Generique" from Providence | from the original motion picture soundtrack Label: CAM CSE085. | ||
| Neil Young | "Like A Hurricane" (live) | Neil Young Label: WARNERS 7599272332. | ||
| 11 Mar 2012 | Trevor Peacock | Antonín Dvořák | 1st movement of Symphony no. 8 in G major (op. 88) | Philharmonia Orchestra/Andrew Davis Label: CBS M2YK45618. |
| William Walton | "Babylon was a great city" from Belshazzar's Feast | John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus/André Previn Label: EMI CDC7476242. | ||
| Ravel | Prélude' from 'Le tombeau de Couperin | Anne Queffélec (piano) Label: VIRGIN CLASSICS VC7592332. | ||
| Ernest Tomlinson | "Dick's Maggot" from First Suite of English Folk-Dances | Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra/Ernest Tomlinson Label: MARCO POLO 8223513. | ||
| Thomas Tallis | Fantasia on a Theme (excerpt) | London Philharmonic Orchestra/Vernon Handley Label: CFP CDCFPSD4754. | ||
| George Gershwin | "Gone" from Porgy & Bess | Cbs 4509852 Label: Miles Davis (Orchestra dir by Gil Evans). | ||
| Shostakovich | 1st movement from Symphony no. 10 (op. 93) (excerpt) | Emi Cdc7473502 Label: Philharmonia Orchestra/Simon Rattle. | ||
| Alain Romans | "Quel temps fait-il a Paris" from M. Hulot's Holiday | The original soundtrack recording Label: POLYGRAM 8369832POLYG. | ||
| 18 Mar 2012 | Paul Scharner | Mozart, Verdi, Grieg, Beethoven, Johann Strauss II, Mozart | ||
| 8 Apr 2012 | Caroline Quentin | Britten, Chopin, Canteloube, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Enrique Granados Arr. Andrés Segovia, Tchaikovsky | ||
| 15 Apr 2012 | Keith Grant | Vaughan Williams, Arne Nordheim, Sibelius, Einojuhani Rautavaara, John McLeod, Britten, Wagner | ||
| 22 Apr 2012 | Steven Berkoff | Darius Milhaud | La Creation du Monde (excerpt) | |
| Britten | "I Know a Bank" (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 1) | |||
| Sergei Prokofiev | "The Death of Tybalt" (Romeo and Juliet) | |||
| Traditional music | Refuge & Seven-fold Offering (Buddhist Vajra Chant) | |||
| Beethoven | Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 111 (2nd movement, excerpt) | |||
| Traditional Balinese | "The Monkey Dance" (Bacak) | |||
| Paul Dessau | "The Marching Song" (Mother Courage) | |||
| Richard Rodgers | "My Funny Valentine" | |||
| 6 May 2012 | Lord Ashdown | Strauss, Elgar, Beethoven, Puccini, Aleksa Šantić, Mozart | ||
| 13 May 2012 | Craig Revel Horwood | Mozart | Don Giovanni (Overture) | |
| Puccini | La Boheme (Musetta's Waltz-Song) | |||
| Astor Piazzolla & Osvaldo Pugliese | "La Yumba" / "Adios Nonino" | |||
| Narrator | "As If We Never Said Goodbye" (Sunset Boulevard) | |||
| Verdi | La Traviata (Prelude: Act 1) | |||
| Henry Krieger | "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" (Dreamgirls) | |||
| Lehár | Meine Lippen die kussen so Heiss (Giuditta) | |||
| Sting | Fields of Gold | |||
| 20 May 2012 | Tessa Hadley | Monteverdi | "Pur to miro, pur to godo" (final duet from L'Incoronazione di Poppea) | Helen Donath (Poppea), Elisabeth Södeström (Nero), Concentus Musicus, Vienna/ Nikolaus Harnoncourt Label: TELDEC 8.35247. |
| Geoff Nichols | Hulot | Avon Cities Jazz Band Label: AVON CITIES ACCD50. | ||
| Béla Bartók | 6 Romanian Folk Dances [BB68, Sz56], Nos 1, 2 and 6 | Zoltan Kocsis (piano) Label: PHILIPS 478 2364. | ||
| Schubert | Piano Trio in E-flat major, D.929 (2nd movement) | Renaud Capuçon. Gautier Capuçon. Frank Braley Les Musiciens Label: HARMONIA MUNDI CD 1951047. | ||
| Bob Dylan | "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" | Bob Dylan Label: COLUMBIA COL CD 32390. | ||
| Richard Strauss | Metamorphosen | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Herbert von Karajan Label: DG 410 892-2. | ||
| Mozart | "Ah chi mi dice mai…" (Terzetto from Don Giovanni, Act I) | Kiri Te Kanawa (Donna Elvira), Ruggero Raimondi (Don Giovanni), José Van Dam (Leporello) Orchestra of the Paris Opera, /Lorin Maazel Label: CBS M3K35192. | ||
| Beethoven | String Quartet in B-flat, op. 130 (II. Presto) | Amadeus Quartet Label: DG 423 473-2. | ||
| Duke Ellington | "Backward Country Boy Blues" | Duke Ellington (piano), Charlie Mingus (bass), Max Roach (drums) Label: BLUE NOTE 538227-2. | ||
| 27 May 2012 | Matthew Fort | Mozart, Schubert, Gerald Finzi, Verdi, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Rossini, Charles-Valentin Alkan | ||
| 3 Jun 2012 | Carol Ann Duffy | Chopin | Etude in E major, Op. 10, no. 3 | |
| Mozart | Tamino Mein! (Die Zauberflote) | |||
| Engelbert Humperdinck | The Sandman and Prayer scene (Hansel und Gretel) | |||
| Mozart | Le Nozze di Figaro (Act IV Finale) | |||
| Traditional Irish | "Danny Boy" | |||
| Bach | Concerto in D minor for 2 violins, BWV 1043 (2nd movement) | |||
| David Rose | The Stripper | |||
| 10 Jun 2012 | Celia Imrie | Shostakovich | Piano Concerto No. 2 in F, Op. 102 (2nd movement: Andante) | |
| Brahms | Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77 (Finale) | |||
| Josef Suk | Love Song, Op. 7 no. 1 | |||
| Gustave Charpentier | "Depuis le jour" (Louise) | |||
| Sergei Prokofiev | Cinderella's Waltz (Cinderella, Act 1) | |||
| Puccini | Vissi d'arte (Tosca, Act II) | |||
| John Barry | "Diamonds are Forever" | |||
| 17 Jun 2012 | David Phillip | Traditional music | "Go Down Moses2 | Louis Armstrong. |
| Verdi | La Donna e mobile (Rigoletto) | Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini. Singer: Plácido Domingo. | ||
| Puccini | Recondita Armonia (Tosca) | Singer: Beniamino Gigli. | ||
| Verdi | "Va Pensiero" (Nabucco) | Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti. Choir: Ambrosian Singers. | ||
| Scott Joplin | Treemonisha (Overture & Act 3 Aria) | Orchestra: Houston Grand Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Gunther Schuller. Singer: Willard White. | ||
| Dave Brubeck | "Blue Rondo a la Turk" | Ensemble: The Brubeck Brothers. | ||
| Traditional music | "How Great Thou Art" | Singer: Mahalia Jackson. | ||
| 24 Jun 2012 | D.R. Thorpe | Wagner, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Strauss, Sibelius, Britten, Butterworth | ||
| 1 Jul 2012 | Brian Blessed | William Walton | 4th movement from Symphony no 1 in B-flat minor | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Vladimir Ashkenazy Label: DECCA 4337032. |
| Ravel | "Lever du Jour" from Daphnis et Chloé (Suite no 2) | London Symphony Orchestra/Louis Fremaux Label: COLLINS CLASSICS EC10242. | ||
| Leoš Janáček | 1st movement from Sinfonietta | Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Václav Neumann Label: SUPRAPHON 1120002. | ||
| Wagner | Final moments from Götterdämmerung | Rita Hunter (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles Mackerras Label: CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE CDCFP4670. | ||
| Holst | "Neptune, the Mystic" from The Planets Op. 32 by Holst | Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus/James Levine Label: DG 4297302. | ||
| Jean Sibelius | Finale' from Symphony no. 2 in D, op. 43 | City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle Label: EMI CDM7641202. | ||
| 8 Jul 2012 | Judith Kerr | Julia Kerr | "Der Chronoplan" | |
| Mozart | Don Giovanni (Final Scene) | |||
| Moshe Stern | "El Malei Rachamim" (Jewish Memorial Prayer) | |||
| Beethoven | Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92 (2nd movement: Allegretto) | |||
| Holst | Mars (The Bringer of War) from The Planets – Suite, op.32 | |||
| Sergei Prokofiev | "Dance of the Knights" (Romeo and Juliet) | |||
| Mozart | Kyrie (Mass in C minor, K.427) | |||
| 15 Jul 2012 | Mark Wallinger | Tchaikovsky, Procol Harum, Shostakovich, Schubert, Copland, Bach, Allegri | ||
| 22 Jul 2012 | Anne Reid | Ralph Vaughan Williams | The Wasps – Overture | |
| John Ireland | April | |||
| Liszt | "Un Sospiro" (Etudes de concert, no.3) | |||
| Eric Coates | Springtime in Angus: Elizabeth of Glamis (Three Elizabeths Suite) | |||
| Meredith Willson | "My White Knight" (The Music Man) | |||
| Ennio Morricone | "Deborah's Theme" ( Once Upon a Time in America ) | |||
| Bill Evans | Children's Play Song | |||
| 29 Jul 2012 | Sir Adrian Cadbury | Beethoven | Symphony No.1 (1st movement) | |
| Puccini | "Che gelida manina" (La Boheme) | |||
| Mozart | "Non piu andrai" (Regimental slow march of the Coldstream Guards) | |||
| Elizabeth Poston | "Jesus Christ the apple tree" | |||
| Simon Jeffes | "Air a danser" | |||
| Verdi | "Va pensiero" (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves, Nabucco) | |||
| Sergei Prokofiev | "Kije's Wedding" (Lieutenant Kije Suite) | |||
| Chopin | Prelude in D-flat major (Raindrop) Op. 28 no.15 | |||
| 5 Aug 2012 | Vangelis | Debussy | Sonata for flute, viola and harp (3rd mov) | |
| Stravinsky | The Rite of Spring (opening) | |||
| Bach | Prelude (Suite No.1 in G major, BWV.1007) | |||
| Rachmaninov | Variation No. 18 (Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini) | |||
| Wagner | Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act 1 | |||
| Mozart | Flute and Harp Concerto in C, K.299 (2nd mov) | |||
| George Gershwin | "Gone" (Porgy and Bess), arr. Gil Evans | |||
| 12 Aug 2012 | Es Devlin | Britten | "Welcome Wanderer" (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 1) | |
| Traditional music | "Ghiore Dos" (Teasing) | |||
| Wagner | Verwandlungsmusik (Transformation Music) (Parsifal) | |||
| Kanye West | "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" | |||
| Berlioz | "Trojan March" (Les Troyens) | |||
| Kate Bush | "The Man with the Child in his Eyes" | |||
| Leoš Janáček | "Odesli" (Jenufa) | |||
| Keith Jarrett | The Koln Concert (Part 1, excerpt) | |||
| Bob Dylan | "I Shall Be Released" | |||
| 19 Aug 2012 | Miriam Margolyes | Rossini | "Nacqui all'affano... non piu mesta" (Cenerentola) | |
| Schubert | Piano Quintet in A (Trout)(4th movement) | |||
| Mozart | "Der Holle Rache" (Die Zauberflote) | |||
| Secunda | "Adonay, Adonay" (Kol Nidrei) | |||
| Elgar | Cello Concerto in E minor (1st movement) | |||
| Hubert Parry | "Jerusalem" | |||
| Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé | Barcelona | |||
| 16 Sep 2012 | Fay Weldon | Handel | All we like sheep (Messiah) | |
| Wagner | Siegfried (Act 3, opening) | |||
| Sergei Prokofiev | The Burial of Kije (Lieutenant Kije) | |||
| Handel | "Angels ever bright and fair" (Theodora) | |||
| Bach | "O du von Gott erhohte Kreatur" (Cantata No. 121) | |||
| Charles Ives | "The Cage" | |||
| Nick Fox | "In the name of the Mother" | |||
| 23 Sep 2012 | Joe Wright | Trad arr Burgess, Max Richter, Anoushka Shankar, Dario Marianelli, Ravi Shankar & Philip Glass, Leoš Janáček, Beethoven | ||
| 7 Oct 2012 | Michele Roberts | Bach | "Gloria Patri" (Magnificat in D, BWV243) | Ensemble: La Chapelle Royale. Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe. |
| Bach | Sarabande (Cello Suite No.1 in G, BWV.1007) | Pau Casals. | ||
| Jacques Brel | "La Chanson des vieux amants" | Singer: Jacques Brel. | ||
| Bob Dylan | "Tangled up in Blue" | Singer: Bob Dylan. | ||
| Handel | "Oh Thou that tellest good tidings to Zion" (Messiah) | Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult. Singer: Kathleen Ferrier. | ||
| Handel | Sorga pure dall'orrido averno (Donna che in ciel di tanta luce splendi, HWV.233) | Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. | ||
| Hildegard von Bingen | Ave generosa | Singer: Margaret Philpot. Choir: Gothic Voices. Conductor: Christopher Page. | ||
| Tiago Machado | Poetas | Singer: Mariza. | ||
| 14 Oct 2012 | Arlene Phillips | Leonard Bernstein | Dance At The Gym | |
| Tchaikovsky | Sleeping Beauty (Act 2, sc. 1 excerpt) | |||
| Narrator | Variations (Theme and variations 1–4) | |||
| Claude-Michel Schönberg | "Bring Him Home" (Les Miserables) | |||
| Mozart | Lacrimosa (Requiem, K626) | |||
| Ferdinand Herold & John Lanchbery | Clog Dance (La Fille mal gardee) | |||
| Philip Glass | Dance 9 (In the Upper Room) | |||
| Johann Pachelbel | Canon in D | |||
| Juan Larenza | Flores del Alma | |||
| 21 Oct 2012 | Sir Tim Smit | Dave Brubeck | Blue Rondo a la Turk | |
| Beethoven | Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 no. 2 (Moonlight)(1st movement) | |||
| Vladimir Cosma | "Promenade Sentimentale" (Diva) | |||
| Alfredo Catalani | "Ebben, Ne andro lontano" (La Wally) | |||
| Chopin | Polonaise in A-flat Op. 53 (Eroica) | |||
| Rachmaninov | Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini | Alexander Gavrylyuk. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic. | ||
| Frederick Loewe | "I Could Have Danced All Night" (My Fair Lady) | |||
| Thelonious Monk | "Round Midnight" | |||
| 28 Oct 2012 | Dame Linda Partridge | Chopin | Les Sylphides (No.2: Nocturne) | |
| Bizet | "L'Amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Carmen, Act 1) | |||
| Britten | Missa Brevis, Op. 68 (Kyrie) | |||
| Béla Bartók | "Duke Bluebeard's Castle" (3rd and 4th Doors) | |||
| Wagner | Das Rheingold (Prelude) | |||
| Philip Glass | Glassworks (Opening) | |||
| Johann Joachim Quantz | Flute Concerto in G major (1st movement: Allegro) | |||
| 11 Nov 2012 | Dan Snow | Jean Sibelius | Symphony No. 2, Op. 43 (3rd movement) | |
| Mozart | Clarinet Quintet in A (K.581)(2nd movement) | |||
| Trevor Jones | Promentory (The Last of the Mohicans) | |||
| Traditional Welsh | "Suo gan" | |||
| Beethoven | Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral)(Finale) | |||
| Elgar | "Nimrod" (Enigma Variations, Op. 36) | |||
| Tchaikovsky | 1812 Overture (excerpt) | |||
| 18 Nov 2012 | Charles Williams | Monteverdi | Duo Seraphim (Vespers of 1610) | |
| Messiaen | "Abime des Oiseaux" (Quartet for the End of Time) | |||
| Domenico Modugno | "Volare" | |||
| Mozart | Serenade in C minor, K388 (1st movement) | |||
| Brahms | "Ruf zu Maria" (Marienlieder, Op. 22) | |||
| Alban Berg | Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 5 (No. 1) | |||
| Berlioz | Lacrymosa (Grande Messe des Morts) | |||
| 25 Nov 2012 | Thomas Keneally | Mozart | Requiem in D minor, K. 626: Lacrimosa | |
| Elgar | Violin Concerto in B minor, Op.61 (2nd movement, excerpt) | |||
| Bach | "Zion Hort die Wachter Singen" (Cantata No. 140) | |||
| John Williams | Schindler's List – Main Theme | Itzhak Perlman. Conductor: John Williams. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Label: MCA. | ||
| Handel | "Lascia ch'io pianga" (Rinaldo) | |||
| Percy Grainger | "Colleen Dhas" | |||
| Filippo Azzaiolo | "Chi passa per 'sta strada" | |||
| Joseph Canteloube | Bailero (Songs of the Auvergne) | |||
| 2 Dec 2012 | Sir John Major | Johann Strauss II | Overture: Die Fledermaus | |
| George Ware & Noel Coward | "The Boy I love is up in the gallery"/"Mad about the boy" | |||
| George Botsford | "Black and White Rag" | |||
| Gounod | "Ave Maria" | |||
| Aram Khachaturian | Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus) | |||
| Jacques Offenbach | "Conduisez-moi vers celui qui j'adore" (Robinson Crusoe) | |||
| Britten | Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Theme) | |||
| Maurice Jarre | "Lara's Theme" (Doctor Zhivago) | |||
| Richard Rodgers | "This Nearly Was Mine" (South Pacific) | |||
| 9 Dec 2012 | Caroline Charles | Ali Farka Touré | Bonde | |
| Beethoven | Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61 (2nd movement, excerpt) | |||
| Louis Moreau Gottschalk | "La Gallina" (Cuban Dance) | |||
| Shostakovich | Waltz (Jazz Suite No.1) | |||
| George Gershwin | "Strike Up the Band" | |||
| Erik Satie | Gymnopedie No.1 | |||
| Mozart | Andante in C, K.315 | |||
| Richard Strauss | "September" (Four Last Songs) | |||
| Dany Carvalho | Tchintchirote | |||
| 23 Dec 2012 | Diana Rigg | Tchaikovsky | Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 (1st movement, excerpt) | |
| Schubert | Piano Quintet in A (Trout)D667 (4th movement) | |||
| Sting | "Fields of Gold" | |||
| Erik Satie | Gymnopedie No.1 | |||
| Felix Mendelssohn | Overture: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) | |||
| Anonymous work arr. Philip Ledger | 2Away in a Manger" | |||
| 30 Dec 2012 | Simon Hoggart | Beethoven, Tallis, Piers Hellawell, Berlioz, Donizetti, Wagner, Mozart | ||
| Date | Guest | Composer | Title | Performer / Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Jan 2013 | Stephen Tompkinson | Joaquín Rodrigo & Trevor Jones | "En Aranjuez con tu Amor" (Concierto de Aranjuez) | |
| Tchaikovsky | The Nutcracker (Act 1, tableau II) | |||
| Sergei Prokofiev | Peter and the Wolf (opening) | |||
| Scott Joplin | Solace: A Mexican Serenade | |||
| Booker T. Jones | "Soul Limbo" | |||
| Mozart | Requiem in D minor, K. 626: Lacrimosa | |||
| Cole Porter | "Now You Has Jazz" (High Society) | |||
| 13 Jan 2013 | Orhan Pamuk | Mozart | Piano Concerto No.21 in C, K.467 – 2nd movement (andante) | |
| Peppino di Capri | Melancolie | |||
| Tchaikovsky | 1812 Overture (excerpt) | |||
| Dede Efendi | "Yine Bir Gul-nihal" | |||
| Chopin | Funeral March from Piano Sonata No. 2 in B minor, op. 35 (arr. Elgar) | |||
| Shigeru Umebayashi | Yumeji's Theme from In the Mood for Love | |||
| Mahler | Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor – 4th movement (excerpt) | |||
| Amy Winehouse and Mark Ronson | "Back to Black" | |||
| 27 Jan 2013 | Lucy Hughes-Hallett | Anonymous work | Iqbalni-I-Yawm (Chant for Holy Thursday) | Singer: Marie Keyrouz. Choir: Choir of St Julien-Le-Pauvre. |
| Debussy | Gloire (The Martyrdom of St Sebastian, 5th window, excerpt) | Choir: Narrator: Felicia Montealagre. – Choral Art Society. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. | ||
| Handel | "V'adore pupille" (Giulio Cesare) | Singer: Barbara Schlick. Orchestra: Concerto Köln. Conductor: René Jacobs. | ||
| Mick Jagger | "Under my Thumb" | Music Group: The Rolling Stones. Composer: Keith Richards. | ||
| Monteverdi | Orfeo (Act II, excerpt) | Singer: Jennifer Larmore. Singer: Laurence Dale. Orchestra: Concerto Vocale. Conductor: René Jacobs. | ||
| Verdi | Otello (Act 1, sc. iii, excerpt) | Singer: Jon Vickers. Singer: Mirella Freni. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. | ||
| 3 Feb 2013 | Sir George Young MP | Arthur Sullivan | "When the foeman bares his steel" (Pirates of Penzance, Act II) | |
| Verdi | "Dio, che nell'alma infondere" (Don Carlos, Act II, sc. 1) | |||
| Haydn | "Et resurrexit" (Nelson Mass) | |||
| Mozart | "Il mio tesoro" (Don Giovanni, Act II, sc. 2) | |||
| Donizetti | "Cum sancto spiritu" (Messa di Gloria) | |||
| Schubert | Quartettsatz in C minor, D.703 | |||
| Scott Joplin | "Maple Leaf Rag" | |||
| Johann Nepomuk Hummel | Octet Partita in E-flat (Finale: Vivace assai) | |||
| 17 Feb 2013 | Fiona Sampson | Felix Mendelssohn | Octet in E-flat major, Op.20 (1st movement, excerpt) | |
| Béla Bartók | Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste, Sz.106 (2nd movement) | |||
| Traditional music | "Gde si bilo jare moje" [Where is my little goat] | |||
| Bach | Partita no.3 in E major (Prelude) | |||
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | "Bredon Hill" (On Wenlock Edge) | |||
| Beethoven | String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 (5th movement) | |||
| 3 Mar 2013 | Jared Diamond | Bach | Jesu meine Freude, BWV.610 | |
| Beethoven | Violin Sonata in G, Op. 96 (3rd movement: Scherzo) | |||
| Bach | Fugue in E-flat major BWV.552 (St Anne) | |||
| Schubert | Erlkonig D.328 | |||
| Brahms | Sextet in B-flat major, Op. 18 (2nd movement: Theme and variations) | |||
| Bach | "Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft" (from Cantata no. 50) | |||
| C. P. E. Bach | Magnificat (Opening chorus) | |||
| Richard Strauss | Fruhling (Four Last Songs) | |||
| 31 Mar 2013 | Dame Janet Suzman | Bach | Contrapunctus 13 (The Art of Fugue) | |
| Shostakovich | Prelude and Fugue in A minor, Op. 87 no. 2 | |||
| Ravel | Forlane (Le Tombeau de Couperin) | |||
| Bach | Allemande (Cello Suite no. 1 in G, BWV.1007) | |||
| William Byrd | Hughe Ashton's Ground | |||
| Henry Purcell | Chaconne (King Arthur) | |||
| Traditional music | "Qongqothwane" (Xhosa wedding song) | |||
| Monteverdi | "Tu sei morta" (L'Orfeo) | |||
| Leonard Bernstein | West Side Story (Prologue) | |||
| 14 Apr 2013 | Declan Donnellan | Beethoven | Overture: The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43 | |
| Traditional music | "The Irish Washerwoman" | |||
| Traditional music | "Siege of Ennis"/"Mason's Apron" | |||
| Shostakovich | Symphony No.5 | |||
| Ferdinand Hérold | Colas' Solo (Pas de deux, La Fille Mal Gardee) | |||
| Stephen Sondheim | "Sunday" (Sunday in the Park with George) | |||
| Adolphe Adam | Giselle (Finale, Act I) | |||
| Henry Mancini | "Moon River" | |||
| Traditional music | Batucada: Olha a Virada | |||
| 21 Apr 2013 | Aleksandar Hemon | Traditional music | Jutros mi je ruza Procvjetala | |
| Bach | "Blute nur, du liebes Herz" (St Matthew Passion) | |||
| David Bowie | "Heroes" | |||
| Charles Mingus | "Boogie Stop Shuffle" | |||
| Duke Ellington | "Isfahan" (Far East Suite) | |||
| Mahler | Symphony No. 5 (3rd movement: Adagietto) | |||
| 12 May 2013 | Jonathan Hyde | Shostakovich | Piano Trio in E minor, Op.67 (1st movement) | |
| Bizet | "Je dis que rien ne m'epouvante" (Carmen, Act III) | |||
| Stravinsky | Apollon musagete (excerpt) | |||
| Gabriela Quintero & Rodrigo Sanchez | "Diablo Rojo" | |||
| Britten | Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10 (excerpt) | |||
| Handel | "Care Selve" (Atalanta) | |||
| Michael Price & Dan Walsh | "Ain't No Love" | |||
| Traditional music | "I Know Where I'm Going" | |||
| 19 May 2013 | Harriet Harman | Béla Bartók | "Duke Bluebeard's Castle" (Fifth Door) | |
| Mozart | Serenade in B-flat, K.361 (3rd movement: Adagio) | |||
| Reynaldo Hahn | A Chloris | |||
| Stravinsky | The Rite of Spring (Sacrificial Dance) | |||
| Leonard Bernstein | Symphonic Dances: West Side Story (Mambo) | |||
| Richard Rodgers | "People Will Say We're in Love" (Oklahoma) | |||
| Britten | The Turn of the Screw (Act 1, sc. 8: At Night) | |||
| 26 May 2013 | Bruce Munro | Mozart | Ave verum corpus, K618 | |
| Beethoven | Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 (1st movement) | |||
| Joaquín Rodrigo | Concierto de Aranjuez (1st movement) | |||
| Einojuhani Rautavaara | "Melancholy" (Cantus Arcticus, Op. 61) | |||
| Samuel Sebastian Wesley | "Lead me, Lord" (Praise the Lord, O my soul) | |||
| Sergei Prokofiev | "Morning Serenade" (Romeo and Juliet, Act III) | |||
| Johann Strauss | "The Blue Danube", Op. 314 | |||
| 2 Jun 2013 | Gwyneth Lewis | Brahms | Alto Rhapsody, extract | |
| Verdi | Bella Figlia d'amore, from Rigoletto | |||
| Bach | Agnus Dei (Mass in B minor) | |||
| Francis Poulenc | Dialogues des Carmelites (Act 3, tableau 4: Salve Regina) | |||
| Charles Trenet | La Mer | |||
| Mozart | "Soave sia il vento", from Cosi fan Tutte | |||
| Béla Bartók | String Quartet No. 1 (3rd movement: Allegro vivace) | |||
| Traditional Welsh | "Lisa Lân" | |||
| 9 Jun 2013 | Sean O'Brien | Schubert | Die Stadt (Schwanengesang) | |
| Johnny Mercer | "Too Marvellous for Words" | |||
| Joseph Kosma | "Autumn Leaves" | |||
| Steve Reich | "America Before the War" (Different Trains) | |||
| Lowell George | "Spanish Moon" | |||
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | "I have trod the upward and the downward slope" (Songs of Travel) | |||
| Sergei Prokofiev | "The Battle on the Ice" (Alexander Nevsky) | |||
| Debussy | Dialogue du vent et de la mer (La Mer) | |||
| 23 Jun 2013 | Paul Muldoon | Cole Porter | "You're the Top" | |
| Cecil Frances Alexander | "There is a Green Hill Far Away" | |||
| Mark-Anthony Turnage | "Fractured Lines" | |||
| Stravinsky | No Word from Tom – Act 1, sc.3 from The Rake's Progress | |||
| Hamilton Harty | "Polka", from A John Field Suite | |||
| Kurt Weill | "September Song" | |||
| Donnacha Dennehy | "That The Night Come: These are the Clouds", from Gra agus Bas | |||
| James Alan Hetfield, Lars Ulrich & Kirk L. Hammett | "Enter Sandman" | |||
| 30 Jun 2013 | Rufus Wainwright | Walter Donaldson | "My Baby Just Cares for Me" | |
| Harold Arlen | "Come Rain or Come Shine" | |||
| Francesco Corbetta | Sarabande La Victoire | |||
| Messiaen | L'Ange se prepare a jouer de la viole (St Francois d'Assise) | |||
| Jules Massenet | Meditation (Thais) | |||
| Kurt Weill | "Surabaya Johnny" | |||
| Verdi | "Rex Tremendae" (Requiem) | |||
| Berlioz | "L'Absence" (Les Nuits d'Ete) | |||
| Manuel de Falla | "Ritual Fire Dance" (El Amor Brujo) | |||
| 7 Jul 2013 | Ruth Rogers | Mozart | Sonata in C, K.545 (2nd movement – Andante) | |
| Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Agnes and the Boy (Written on Skin) | |||
| Woody Guthrie | "This Land is Your Land" | |||
| Beethoven | Symphony No. 7 in A, Op.92 (4th movement – Allegro con brio) | |||
| Traditional music | Hush Little Baby | |||
| Mozart | Laudate Dominum (Solemn Vespers, K.339) | |||
| Schubert | Piano Quintet in A, D 667 (Trout)(3rd movement – Scherzo) | |||
| Bob Dylan | Girl From The North Country | |||
| Mozart | "Finch'han dal vino" (Don Giovanni) | |||
| 14 Jul 2013 | Robert Macfarlane | Chopin | Berceuse in D-flat major, Op. 57 | |
| Messiaen | "Abime des Oiseaux" (Quartet for the End of Time) | |||
| Brahms | Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 (4th movement: Rondo alla Zingarese) | |||
| Traditional Scottish | Gaelic Psalms | |||
| Modest Mussorgsky | "A Night on a Bare Mountain" | |||
| Mahler | "Der Trunkene im Fruhling" (Das Lied von der Erde) | |||
| 21 Jul 2013 | Lord Sacks | Paul Simon | "America" | |
| Bach | Concerto in D major for two violins, BWV.1043 (1st movement) | |||
| Tchaikovsky | 1812 Overture (excerpt) | |||
| Thomas Newman | "Brooks was here" (The Shawshank Redemption) | |||
| Beethoven | Cavatina (String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 130)(excerpt) | |||
| Stravinsky | "The Shrovetide Fair" (Petrushka) | |||
| Mahler | Symphony No. 4 (3rd movement: Ruhevoll, excerpt) | |||
| Stephen Glass, Raymond Goldstein & Stephen Levey | Ashrei | |||
| 4 Aug 2013 | Jocelyn Bell Burnell | Verdi | Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves (Nabucco) | |
| Bedřich Smetana | Vltava (Ma Vlast) | |||
| Rachmaninov | Magnificat (All Night Vigil, Op.37) | |||
| Henry Purcell | "When I am Laid in Earth" (Dido and Aeneas) | |||
| Arvo Pärt | Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten | |||
| Haydn | "The Heavens are Telling" (The Creation) | |||
| Jean Sibelius | "At the Castle Gate" (Pelleas et Melisande) | |||
| Arthur Sullivan | Opening Dance (Pineapple Poll) | |||
| 11 Aug 2013 | Adam Nicolson | Sergei Prokofiev | Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 | |
| Joseph Canteloube | Bailero (Chants d'Auvergne) | |||
| Mozart | Symphony No.41 (Jupiter)(2nd movement: Andante Cantabile) | |||
| Ewan MacColl | "The first time ever I saw your face" | |||
| Eric Whitacre | "Lux Aurumque" | |||
| Traditional music | "Bi Lamban" | |||
| Felix Mendelssohn | The Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave) Op. 26 | |||
| 18 Aug 2013 | Sally Davies | Rossini | "Cujus animam gementem" (Stabat Mater) | |
| Beethoven | "Gott! Welch Dunkel hier!" (Fidelio, Act 2) | |||
| Mozart | "A Man in search of Truth and Beauty" (The Magic Flute) | |||
| Wagner | "So sterben wir" (Tristan & Isolde, Act 2) | |||
| Brahms | Sextet No. 1 in B-flat (1st movement: Allegro ma non troppo) | |||
| Freddie Mercury | "Bohemian Rhapsody" | |||
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | Suite for Viola and Small Orchestra (Prelude) | |||
| 15 Sep 2013 | Philip French | Felix Mendelssohn | Symphony No. 4 in A (Italian)(1st movement) | |
| Ray Henderson | "Button up your Overcoat" | |||
| Beethoven | String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131 (6th movement: Adagio quasi un poco andante) | |||
| Grieg | "In the Hall of the Mountain King" (Peer Gynt) | |||
| Miles Davis | Generique (Ascenseur pour l'echafaud) | |||
| Leonard Bernstein | Symphonic Suite: On the Waterfront (excerpt) | |||
| Wagner | "Ride of the Valkyries" (Die Walkure) | |||
| Stravinsky | The Rite of Spring (Introduction) | |||
| Harry Partch | Ulysses at the Edge (excerpt) | |||
| 29 Sep 2013 | Beeban Kidron | Mieczyslaw Weinberg | Martha's Aria (The Passenger) | |
| Wagner | "Liebestod" (Tristan und Isolde) | |||
| John Williams | Jaws (Main Title and First Victim) | |||
| Rachel Portman | Oranges are not the Only Fruit (Main title) | |||
| John Barry | "Sea of Death" (Swept from the Sea) | |||
| Jay Gorney | "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" | |||
| Bach | Toccata in E minor, BWV 914 | |||
| 13 Oct 2013 | Rory Kinnear | Traditional music | Big Rock Candy Mountain | |
| Haydn | Trumpet Concerto in E-flat, Hob Vlle/1 (Andante) | |||
| Beethoven | Violin Sonata No. 10 in G, Op. 96 (Adagio Espressivo) | |||
| Cole Porter | "It's All Right With Me" | |||
| Béla Bartók | Piano Concerto No. 3, Sz 119 BB127 (Adagio Religioso) | |||
| Alfred Schnittke | Choir Concerto (4th movement) | |||
| Bach | "Was willst du dich" (Cantata BMV 8; Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben?) | |||
| 27 Oct 2013 | Chris Mullin | Traditional music | "Ly con sao" | |
| Kathryn Tickell | "Our Kate/The Welcome Home" | |||
| Handel | Organ Concerto in B-flat, Op.7 no.3 | |||
| Mozart | Mass in C Minor, K427 (Credo) | |||
| Traditional music | "Aya Ngena" | |||
| Traditional music | Padmakara (Selwa) | |||
| Chopin | Nocturne in B-flat minor, Op.9 no.1 | |||
| Mozart | Mass in C, K.317 (extract) | |||
| The Rolling Stones | "You Can't Always Get What You Want" | |||
| 3 Nov 2013 | Roddy Doyle | Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | Quae Moerebat (Stabat Mater) | |
| George Formby | "Leaning On A Lamp Post" | |||
| Brian Eno | An Ending – Ascent (Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks) | |||
| Michael Nyman | After Extra Time (Part 1) | |||
| Mozart | Requiem in D minor, K.626 (excerpt) | |||
| Harry Woods | "River Stay Away from my Door" | |||
| Steve Reich | "After the War" (Different Trains) | |||
| 1 Dec 2013 | Laura Mvula | Debussy | Cakewalk (Children's Corner) | |
| Laura Mvula | "Make Me Lovely" (Sing to the Moon) | |||
| Elgar | Introduction and Allegro, Op. 47 (excerpt) | |||
| Joe Cutler | Music for Cello and Strings (Bartlebooth) | |||
| Eric Whitacre | "i thank you god for most this amazing day" | |||
| Michael Tippett | Concerto for Double String Orchestra (1st movement: Allegro con brio) | |||
| Nina Simone | "Four Women" | |||
| William Walton | "Jubilate Deo" | |||
| Miles Davis | "Flamenco Sketches" | |||
| 29 Dec 2013 | Hugh Masekela | Bach | Contrapunctus IX (The Art of Fugue) | |
| Harold Arlen | "Ill Wind" | |||
| Ralph Rainger | "Easy Living" | |||
| Bill Carey | "You've Changed" | |||
| Hugh Masekela | "Bring him back home" | |||
| Miles Davis | "All Blues" (Kind of Blue) | |||
| Ravel | "Rigaudon" (Le Tombeau de Couperin) | |||
| Hoagy Carmichael | "Rockin' Chair" | |||