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Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason with a special selection of music for summer

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Music Played

  • Meredith Monk

    Early Morning Melody (Transcr. Parkin for Soprano Saxophone)

    Performer: Jess Gillam.
    • TIME.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Claude Debussy

    Piano Trio in G major: 1st mvmt

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Edgar Moreau. Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • ERATO.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Great Mass in C Minor, K. 427 (417a): III. Credo - Et incarnatus est

    Singer: Arleen Augér. Singer: Barbara Bonney. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart: Great Mass in C Minor, K. 427.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 11.

  • Edvard Grieg

    2 Melodies, Op. 53: No. 2, Det forste mode (The First Meeting)

    Orchestra: Malmö SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.
    • Grieg: Complete Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 100.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: II. Allemande

    Performer: David Watkin.
    • Resonus Classics.

  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite (3rd mvt: Minuet)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • John Ireland: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness (arr for violin, guitar, accordion & cello)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Plínio Fernandes. Performer: Samuele Telari. Performer: Thomas Carroll. Music Arranger: Paul Campbell.
    • Violin Café.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Valse triste, Op. 44

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Masterpieces in Miniature.
    • SFS Media.
    • 9.

  • Cecilia McDowall

    I know that my Redeemer liveth

    Choir: Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford. Director: Owen Rees.
    • A New Heaven.
    • Signum Records.
    • 6.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: III. Poco allegretto

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.

  • Frank Bridge

    4 Short Pieces: No. 2: Spring Song (Version for cello and piano)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • BIS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

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

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Pekka Kuusisto.
    • Beethoven & Stravinsky: Violin Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.

  • Charles Gounod

    Meditation sur le 1er prelude de Bach (Ave Maria)

    Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Anastasia Kobekina.
    • Ave Maria (Meditation on the Prelude by J. S. Bach).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    4 Impromptus, Op. 90, D. 899: No. 2 in E-Flat Major: Allegro

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Schubert: Impromptus Opp.90 & 142.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 2.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Messe solennelle H 20: II. Gloria

    Orchestra: Le Concert Spirituel. Conductor: Hervé Niquet.
    • Berlioz: Messe Solennelle.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 3.

  • Eric Whitacre

    The Seal Lullaby (Arr. Parkin for Instrumental Ensemble)

    Ensemble: Kanneh-Masons.
    • The Kanneh-Masons.
    • Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd..
    • 21.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto: 1st mvt

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.
    • SIMAX.

  • Leoš Janáček

    Pohadka, JW VII/5: I. Con moto

    Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Performer: Jâms Coleman.
    • Pohadka - Tales from Prague to Budapest.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor

    Romance for Violin, Op. 39: I. Larghetto

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 22.

  • Dora Pejačević

    2 Nocturnes Op 50 (no.1)

    Performer: Katia Labèque.
    • 55.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony no.2 in E minor Op.27 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2.
    • Lso Live.
    • 2.

  • Edmund Finnis

    String quartet no.3 (Devotions)

    Ensemble: Solem Quartet.
    • Delphian Records.

  • Edward Elgar

    Sospiri

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mirga Gražinytė‐Tyla.
    • DG.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major D. 435 I. Allegro

    Conductor: Paavo Järvi. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Schubert: Symphonies No. 5 & No. 6.
    • Sony Music Labels Inc..
    • 5.

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