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- COTW (2013): J.S. Bach
- COTW (2011): J.S. Bach in Cothen
- COTW (2011): J.S. Bach in Weimar
- COTW (2008): J.S. Bach
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- Orchestral Suite No. 4 - DM
- Brandenburg Concertos 1, 3 & 6 - DM
- Brandenburg Concertos 2, 5 & 5 - DM
- Double Violin Concerto - DM
- Partita No. 4 in D - DM
- Preludes and Fugues - DM
- B Minor Mass - DM
- St Mark Passion - DM
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- Piano Concerto (Op. 38) & Piano Sonata (Op. 26) - DM
- Violin Concerto and Essay No. 1 for Orchestra - DM
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- Dance Suite - DM
- Divertimento - DM
- Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste - DM
- Quartet for String No. 2 (Op. 17) - DM
- COTW (2012): Ludwig van Beethoven - 1806 to 1812
- COTW (2011): Ludwig van Beethoven - Late Period
- COTW (2010): Ludwig van Beethoven - Years Of Crisis
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- Symphony No. 2 (Op. 36) - DM
- Symphony No. 3 in E flat major - DM
- Symphony No. 5 - DM (2013: 22mins)
- Symphony No. 5 - DM (2009: 55mins)
- Symphony No. 6 - DM
- Symphony No. 7 - DM (2007: 49mins)
- Symphony No. 7 - DM (2013: 20mins)
- Leonore Overture No. 1 (Op. 138) - DM
- Piano Concerto No. 3 - DM (2012: 21mins)
- Piano Concerto No. 3 - DM (2007: 52mins)
- Piano Concerto No. 4 - DM (2013: 22mins)
- Piano Concerto No. 4 - DM (2005: 26mins)
- Piano Concerto No. 4 - DM
- Triple Concerto - DM
- String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 - DM
- Cello Sonatas - DM
- Piano and Cello Sonata in C Major - DM
- Six Bagatelles (Op. 126) - DM
- Missa Solemnis in D - DM
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BERNERS, Lord
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- COTW (2012): Johannes Brahms - life and vocal music
- COTW (2008): Johannes Brahms - chamber and instrumental works
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- Symphony No. 1 - DM (2012: 22mins)
- Symphony No. 1 - DM (2008: 45mins)
- Symphony No. 2 - DM
- Symphony No. 3 - DM
- Symphony No. 4 - DM
- Variations on a Theme of Haydn (The St Anthony Choral) - DM
- Piano Concerto No. 2 - DM
- Violin Concerto - DM
- Piano pieces (Op. 118) - DM
- String Quartet in B Flat, Op. 67 - DM
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- Spring Symphony - DM
- Sinfonia da Requiem - DM (2013: 20mins)
- Sinfonia da Requiem - DM (2004: 37mins)
- Sea Interludes and Passacaglia - DM
- Cello Symphony - DM
- Nocturne (Op. 60) - DM
- Les Illuminations (Op. 18) - DM
- Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge - DM
- Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra (Op. 34) - DM
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- COTW (2012): Field & Chopin
- COTW (2008): Fryderyk Chopin (Early Years)
- COTW (2009): Fryderyk Chopin (Later Years)
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- Piano Preludes (Op. 28) - DM
- Piano Concerto No. 1 (Op. 11) - DM
- Mazurkas and Polonaises - DM
- Ballades - DM
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- Symphony No. 7 - DM
- Symphony No. 8 - DM
- Symphony No. 9 (From the New World) - DM
- American String Quintet - DM
- Overtures - DM
- Dvorak's Dumky Trio - DM
- The Golden Spinning Wheel (Op. 109) - DM
- Violin Concerto - DM
- Second Piano Quartet - DM
E
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- Enigma Variations - DM
- Symphony No. 1 - DM
- Symphony No. 2- DM
- Piano Concerto - DM
- In the South - DM
- Elgar: A Very English Composer - DM
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- COTW (2013): Handel in Italy
- COTW (2010): Handel - Musical borrowing
- COTW (2009): Handel - Oratorios
- COTW (2009): Handel in London
- COTW (2008): Handel - Musical walks
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- Messiah - Discovering Music
- Handel Operas - Discovering Music
- Handel's Israel in Egypt - Discovering Music
- Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne - Discovering Music
- Dixit Dominus - Discovering Music
- COTW (2012): Haydn - String Quartets
- COTW (2010): Joseph Haydn
- COTW (2009): Haydn - Operas
- COTW (2009): Joseph Haydn
Works:
- Op. 33 Quartets - DM
- Symphonies Nos. 22 and 92 - DM
- Symphony No. 60 in C major (Il Distratto) - DM
- Symphony No. 98 and Piano Variations - DM
- Symphony No. 100 in G major - DM
- Symphony No. 104 'The London' - DM
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HOLMES, Augusta
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HOROVITZ, Joseph
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JACOB, Gordon
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- COTW (2012): Liszt and his World
- COTW (2011): Franz Liszt
- COTW (2008): Franz Liszt
- COTW (2007): Liszt - Life in Letters
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- COTW (2011): Mahler - The Alma Years
- COTW (2010): Mahler - The Early Years
- COTW (2008): Mahler - The Final Years
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- Symphony No. 1 - DM
- Symphony No. 4 - DM
- Des Knaben Wunderhorn - DM
- Symphonies of Songs - DM
- Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection' - DM
- Das Lied von der Erde - DM
- Kindertotenlieder - DM
- Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen - DM
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- COTW (2011): Mendelssohn - Last Seven Years
- COTW (2009): Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn
- COTW (2009): Mendelssohn - Influences
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- Violin Concerto - DM
- Italian Symphony - DM
- Overtures - DM
- Piano Concerto No. 2 - DM
- Nocturne from a Midsummer Night's Dream - DM
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- COTW (2012): Away from Home
- COTW: Macleod's Mozart - Part 1
- COTW: Macleod's Mozart - Part 2
- COTW (2009): Vienna Years
- COTW (2007): Mozart
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- Serenade in C minor (K.388) - DM
- Sinfonia Concertante (K.364) - DM
- Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - DM
- Linz Symphony - DM
- Symphony No. 29 (K.201) - DM
- Symphony No. 39 in E flat (K.543) - DM
- Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K.550) - DM
- Symphony No. 41 'Jupiter' (K.551) - DM (2012: 21 mins)
- Symphony No. 41 'Jupiter' (K.551) - DM (2010: 44mins)
- Clarinet Quintet in A major (K. 581) - DM
- Dissonance Quartet (K.465) - DM
- Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor (K.466) - DM
- Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major (K.503) - DM
- Clarinet Concerto (K.622) - DM
- Last Piano Concerto (K.595) - DM
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- Clarinet Concerto (Op. 57) - DM
- Flute Concerto (FS 119) - DM
- Incidental music for Aladdin - DM
- Symphony No. 4 - DM
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- COTW: Sergei Prokofiev
- COTW (2013): Sergei Prokofiev - in Europe
- COTW (2010): Sergei Prokofiev - music for stage and screen
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- COTW (2013): Henry Purcell
- COTW (2011): Henry Purcell
- COTW (2009): Purcell - The Early Years
- COTW (2009): Purcell's contemporaries
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- COTW (2012): Rachmaninov and Medtner
- COTW (2009): Sergei Rachmaninov
- COTW (2007): Rachmaninov - The Late Romantic
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- Elegiac Trio No. 2 - DM
- Symphony No. 3 - DM
- Symphonic Dances - DM
- Piano Sonata No. 2 (Op. 36) - DM
- Isle of the Dead (Op. 29) - DM
- Third Piano Concerto - DM
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- Verklarte Nacht (Op. 4) - DM
- Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E major (Op. 9) - DM
- Pierrot Lunaire (Op. 21) - DM
- String Quartet No. 2 (Op. 10) & Five Pieces for Orchestra (Op. 16) - DM
- COTW (2012): Franz Schubert - part 1
- COTW (2012): Franz Schubert - part 2
- COTW (2011): Franz Schubert
- COTW (2010): Franz Schubert
- COTW (2008): Franz Schubert: Indian Summer
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- Trout Quintet - DM
- Lieder - DM
- Octet - DM
- Fragments
- Symphony No. 4 in C minor (D. 417) - DM
- Symphony No. 5 - DM (2013: 22mins)
- Symphony No. 5 - DM (2005: 32mins)
- Symphony No. 8 ('Unfinished' - D. 759) - DM
- Symphony No. 9 (Great) - DM
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- Symphony No. 4 in D minor (Op. 120) - DM
- Fantasy for Piano (Op. 17) - DM
- Piano Quintet - DM
- Symphony No. 3 (Rhenish) - DM
- Violin Concerto - DM
- Dichterliebe - DM
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- Symphony No. 4 - DM
- Symphony No. 5 - DM
- Symphony No. 8 - DM
- Symphony No. 9 - DM
- Cello Concerto No. 1 (Op. 107) - DM
- Piano Trios - DM
- String Quartet No. 8 - DM
- COTW (2011): Finnish Composers
- COTW (2009): Sibelius - The Rest is Silence (1925-1957)
- COTW (2007): Jean Sibelius
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- Symphony No. 4 - DM
- Tapiola (Op. 112) - DM
- Symphony No. 5 - DM
- The Swan of Tuonela, and Night Ride and Sunrise - DM
- Symphony No. 7 - DM
- Oceanides (Op. 73) and Pohjola's Daughter (Op. 49) - DM
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- Symphony of Psalms - DM
- Petrushka - DM (2013: 21mins)
- Petrushka - DM (2009: 38mins)
- Firebird Suite - DM (2009: 45mins)
- Fairy Tales: The Firebird - DM (2003: 28mins)
- Symphony in Three Movements - DM
- The Soldier's Tale - DM
- Pulcinella Suite - DM
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- Francesca da Rimini - DM
- Serenade for Strings - DM
- Symphony No. 4 - DM
- Symphony No. 5 - DM
- Symphony No. 6 Op. 74 - DM
- Tchaikovsky's Eighteenth-Century - DM
- Violin Concerto - DM
- Romeo and Juliet - DM
- Piano Concerto No. 1 - DM
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- Songs of Dov - DM
- Concerto for Double String Orchestra - DM
- Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli - DM
- Symphony No. 2 - DM
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- Symphony No. 5 - DM
- Vaughan Williams and the Lost Generation - DM
- Flos Campi - DM
- Mass in G Minor - DM
- Folk Music in Classical Music - DM
- Five Tudor Portraits - DM
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- Die Walkure - DM
- Tristan und Isolde (Act 3) - DM
- Siegfried Idyll and Warlock's Serenade - DM
- Wesendonck Lieder (WWV. 91) - DM
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Composer of the Week 
Discovering Music 
CD Review 
Proms 2013 
