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Beethoven (85)
Schubert (67)
J.S. Bach (66)
Mozart (63)
Mahler (52)
Richard Strauss (48)
Brahms (45)
Schumann (42)
Verdi (42)
Wagner (37)
Less chosen *†
Bruch (5)
Byrd (5)
Philip Glass (5)
Gluck (5)
Victor Herbert (5)
Hindemith (5)
Lutoslawski (5)
Ó Riada (5)
Rimsky-Korsakov (5)
Johann Strauss (5)
Szymanowski (5)
Various (5)
Weinberg (5)
Ina Boyle (6)
Franck (6)
Gorecki (6)
Reynaldo Hahn (6)
Mussorgsky (6)
Pergolesi (6)
Pärt (6)
Rossini (6)
Suk (6)
John Williams (6)
Bizet (7)
Dohnányi (7)
John F. Larchet (7)
Monteverdi (7)
Offenbach (7)
Pfitzner (7)
Schoenberg (7)
Weber (7)
Bartok (8)
Bellini (8)
Poulenc (8)
Smetana (8)
Grieg (9)
Stanford (9)
Vivaldi (9)
Fauré (10)
Janacek (10)
Nielsen (10)
* Results may be skewed by the fact that musical items are listed individually in the database (e.g. individual Schubert songs).
† Composers with 5 to 10 entries are shown here. Several others have been chosen fewer times, including a long list with only one entry. Rather than include those once-onlys here, you can use this link to view/download a PDF which shows them.
Recent Presentations
6th August 2022 : Roy
Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 19 in F major K.459
Murray Perahia, English Chamber Orchestra
Recorded 21 September 1983
30th July 2022 : July Concert 2022
Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings op. 31 (1943)
Eamonn Mulhall (tenor), Alessio Allegrini (horn), MACH Orchestra conducted by Diego Matheuz
Dermot's first item in first part of Concert programme. YouTube video. Recorded during the Festival Musica sull’ Acqua in Colico, Italy (date unknown).
Weber: Bassoon Concerto in F major op. 75 (1811)
Sergio Azzolini, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra conducted by Christian Zacharias
Dermot's second item in first part of Concert programme. YouTube video. Concert dates from 11th January 2005.
Weber: 'Der Freischütz' op. 77 : Huntsmen’s Chorus from Act III of Opera
Chorus and Orchestra of Hamburg Opera conducted by Leopold Ludwig
Dermot's third item in first part of Concert programme. YouTube video. Recorded in 1968.
Stenhammar: Serenade in F major op. 31 (1911-13, revised 1919)
Gothenburg Symphony conducted by Herbert Blomstedt
Jim's (second-half) contribution to Concert programme. Recorded at public performances at the Gothenburg Concert Hall in June 2014. BIS recording, released in November 2018. 7th February 2021 was the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth. 8th July was Herbert Blomstedt's 95th birthday.
23rd July 2022 : Éamon
Franck: Prelude, Chorale and Fugue in B minor op. 21
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Franck: Prelude, Fugue and Variations in B minor op. 18 (trans. Harold Bauer)
Nikolai Lugansky (piano)
The 200th anniversary of César Francks's birth is on 10th December
9th July 2022 : Séamus
Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 3 in A minor op. 56 ('Scottish')
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra conducted by Herbert Blomstedt
25th June 2022 : Ken (Theme: Four gay composers for Pride Day)
Ethel Smyth: The Wreckers: Overture
BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo
Barber: Violin Concerto: II. Andante
Gil Shaham, London Symphony Orchestra conducted by André Previn
Bernstein: Mass: A Simple Song
René Fleming (soprano), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andreas Delfs
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings: IV. Finale (Tema russo). Andante – Allegro con spirito
Academy of St Martin in the Fields conducted by Neville Marriner
18th June 2022 : Éamon
Wagner: Götterdämmerung: Act I Prologue (Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey); Siegfried's Funeral March and Finale (Act III Scenes 2 and 3)
Cleveland Orchestra conducted by George Szell
1968 recording. 27th June is the 125th anniversary of George Szell's birth.
11th June 2022 : Tom F
Bernstein: 'Candide': Selections from operetta (final revised version 1989)
Jerry Hadley, June Anderson, Adolph Green, Nicolai Gedda, Della Jones, Kurt Ollmann, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus conducted by Leonard Bernstein
YouTube video recording of a concert performance in the Barbican in December 1989
28th May 2022 : Dermot
Debussy: La Mer
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink
YouTube video. Recording of performance in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw in March 2009.
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