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Joe Hisaishi

HANA-BI

Conductor: Joe Hisaishi. Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker.

• Universal Music LLC.

Margaret Bonds

Bright Star (Arr. for String Quartet)

Ensemble: Her Ensemble.

• Her Ensemble.

Roderick Elms

Cantilena for Guitar and Orchestra

Performer: Carlos Bonell. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.

• Signum Records.

Eleanor Dunnet

Exhale

Ensemble: BBC Singers.

Alexander Glazunov

Chant du menestrel, Op. 71

Performer: Jamie Walton. Conductor: Okko Kamu. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

• Signum Records.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Four Charactertistic Waltzes, Op. 22: No. 1, Valse Bohemienne

Performer: Matthew Schellhorn. Performer: Maya Magub.

• CRD Records.

Eric Coates

By the Sleepy Lagoon

Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Penny.

• Naxos.

Dora Pejačević

Cello Sonata in E Minor, Op. 35: III. Adagio Sostenuto

Ensemble: Trio RoVerde.

• Brilliant Classics.

H. Leslie Adams

Contrasts: II. Lament

Performer: Rochelle Sennet.

• Albany Records.

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

Violin Concerto No. 2 in A Major, Op. 5: II. Largo

Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Ensemble: Mutter’s Virtuosi.

• Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

William Henry Harris

Faire is the Heaven

Ensemble: Tenebrae.

• Signum Records.

Lara Somogyi

aura

Composer: Jean‐Michel Blais. Performer: Lara Somogyi. Performer: Jean‐Michel Blais.

• Mercury Classics.

Frédéric Chopin

24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 4 in E Minor. Largo

Performer: Jan Lisiecki.

• Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Fantasia on Greensleeves

Performer: Jonathan Snowden. Performer: Skaila Kanga. Conductor: Christopher Warren‐Green. Orchestra: London Chamber Orchestra.

• Warner Classics.

Matthew Martin

Justorum animae

Conductor: Huw Williams. Choir: Bath Abbey Choir.

• CRD.

Emánuel Moór

Piano Trio in B-Flat Major, Op. 89: III. Adagio

Ensemble: Storioni Trio.

• CPO.

Fanny Mendelssohn

String Quartet in E-Flat Major: I. Adagio ma non troppo

Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.

• Warner Classics.

Aram Khachaturian

Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia

Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yuri Ahronovitch.

• LSO Live.

Ruth Gipps

Ambarvalia, Op. 70

Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.

• Chandos Records Limited.

Antonín Dvořák

Silhouettes, Op. 8, B. 98: No. 2 in D-Flat Major. Andantino

Performer: Jonas Vitaud.

• Mirare.

Dmitry Shostakovich

Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op. 102: II. Andante

Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.

• Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

Florence Price

Presbyterian Communion Service in F: I. Kyrie

Conductor: Stephen Caldwell. Choir: University of Arkansas Schola Cantorum.

• Hill Records.

Marin Marais

Pièces de viole, Livre 3, Suite No. 6 in G Minor: No. 87, Minuet

Performer: Clare O'Connell.

• Stone Records Ltd.

George Gershwin

Summertime

Composer: Arthur Marshall. Ensemble: Nexas Quartet.

• Da Vinci Classics.

Federico Moreno Torroba

Sonatina: II. Andante

Performer: Carlotta Dalia.

• Berlin Classics.

Clara Schumann

3 Lieder, Op. 12: No. 11, "Warum willst du and're fragen"

Performer: Felicitas M. A. Pielsticker.

• Andante Piano.

Gustav Holst

The Planets, Op. 32: II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace

Conductor: Daniel Harding. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

• BR-Klassik.

Ivor Gurney

5 Elizabethan Songs: No. 4, Sleep

Performer: Grace Davidson. Performer: Libby Burgess.

• Signum Records.

Olivier Messiaen

Préludes: I. La colombe

Performer: Jan Lisiecki.

• Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Violin concerto in G minor Op.80 (2nd mvt)

Performer: Elena Urioste. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.

• Decca Music Group Ltd..

Claude Debussy

Clair de lune

Performer: German Dmitriev. Performer: Houston Fry.

• Houston Fry.

Maurice Ravel

Antar (After N. Rimsky-Korsakov): No. 7, Allegretto

Performer: André Dussollier. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon.

• Naxos.

William Walton

Sonata for String Orchestra: III. Lento

Conductor: Edward Gardner. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.

• Chandos Records Limited.

Eric Whitacre

i thank you God

Choir: BBC Singers.