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Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture in Building a Library with Marina Frolova-Walker and Andrew McGregor

Marina Frolova-Walker choses her favourite version of Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet fantasy overture in Building a Library.

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Marina Frolova-Walker chooses her favourite version of Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture.

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Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fischer (conductor)
Channel Classics CCSSA21704

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Music Played

  • Gregorio Lambranzi

    Dances from the 'Ballet-school' (extract)

    Music Arranger: Th茅otime Langlois de Swarte. Music Arranger: Olivier Four茅s. Orchestra: Le Consort.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 8-12.
  • Claude Debussy

    Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune

    Music Arranger: David Walter. Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
  • Rufus Wainwright

    Dream Requiem (Darkness)

    Choir: Ma卯trise de Radio France. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Mikko Franck.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Rufus Wainwright

    Dream Requiem - Sequentia II. Mors stupebit

    Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Choir: Ma卯trise de Radio France. Choir: Ch艙ur de Radio France. Conductor: Mikko Franck.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Manuel de Falla

    In the Generalife (Nights in the Garden of Spain)

    Performer: Cl茅lia Iruzun. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Jac van Steen.
    • Somm.
  • Giovanni Sollima

    Il concerto perduto [after Vivaldi's Cello Concerto in E minor RV.787 'per Teresa'] (2nd mvt)

    Composer: Antonio Vivaldi. Performer: Giovanni Sollima. Performer: Federico Guglielmo. Ensemble: Il Pomo d鈥橭ro.
    • Erato.
  • Giles Swayne

    Riff-raff

    Performer: James McVinnie.
    • Pentatone.
  • B茅la Bart贸k

    String Quartet no.4 Sz 91 (5th mvt)

    Ensemble: Marmen Quartet.
    • BIS.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Exultate Deo

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Decca.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Missa Papae Marcelli (Kyrie)

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Decca.
  • Clara Schumann

    3 Romances Op.22 (no.1 in D flat major)

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Performer: Katia Lab猫que.
    • Viktoria Mullova & Katia Labeque - Recital.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1.
  • Kurt Weill

    The Seven Deadly Sins (Prologue)

    Singer: Magdalena Ko啪en谩. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins.
    • LSO Live.
    • 101.
  • Kurt Weill

    The Seven Deadly Sins (Sloth)

    Singer: Andrew Staples. Singer: Florian Boesch. Singer: Ross Ramgobin. Singer: Alessandro Fisher. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins.
    • LSO Live.
    • 102.

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