Composers A to Z
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A
ADAMS, John
- Great Composers with Tom Service - Adams
- COTW (2012): John Adams
- COTW (2007): John Adams - early years
- John Adams - CD Review
Works:
- Chamber Symphony - DM
- Doctor Atomic Symphony - DM
- The Chairman Dances - SOM
- The Chairman Dances - DM
- City Noir - DM
- Nixon in China - PP
- Nixon In China - PMG
- The Wound Dresser - DM
ADDINSELL, Richard
ALBENIZ, Isaac
ARCADELT, Jacques
ARENSKY, Anton
ARNE, Thomas
ARNOLD, Malcolm
AVISON, Charles
B
BACEWICZ, Grażyna
BACH, J.S.
- COTW (2013): J.S. Bach
- COTW (2012): J.S. Bach
- COTW (2008): J.S. Bach
- COTW (2011): J.S. Bach in Cothen
- COTW (2011): J.S. Bach in Weimar
Works:
Orchestral
- Brandenburg Concertos 1, 3 & 6 - DM
- Brandenburg Concertos 2, 5 & 5 - DM
- Double Violin Concerto - DM
- Double Violin Concerto - BAL
- Orchestral Suites - BAL
- Orchestral Suite No. 4 - DM
Choral
- B Minor Mass - DM
- B Minor Mass - PMG
- St John Passion - PP
- St John Passion - BAL
- St Mark Passion - DM
- St Matthew Passion - PP
- St Matthew Passion - BAL
- St Matthew Passion - SOM
- Cantata No. 21 - BAL
Chamber
Keyboard
- Goldberg Variations - BAL
- Organ Music - BAL
- Partita No. 4 in D - DM
- Prelude and Fugue No. 1 - SOM
- Preludes and Fugues - DM
BALAKIREV, Mily Alexeyevich
BANTOCK, Granville
BARBER, Samuel
BARTOK, Béla
BEAMISH, Sally
BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van
- Great Composers with Tom Service - Beethoven
- COTW (2013): Ludwig van Beethoven
- COTW (2012): Ludwig van Beethoven - 1806 to 1812
- COTW (2011): Ludwig van Beethoven - Late Period
- COTW (2010): Ludwig van Beethoven - Years Of Crisis
Works:
Orchestral
- Symphony No. 1 - PMG
- Symphony No. 2 (Op. 36) - DM
- Symphony No. 2 - BAL
- Symphony No. 3 in E flat major - DM (video 2010: 43mins)
- Symphony No. 3 in E flat major - DM (audio)
- Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' - SOM
- Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' - PMG
- Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' and the French Revolution - PP
- Symphony No. 4 (Op. 60) - DM
- Symphony No. 4 (Op.60) - PMG
- Symphony No. 5 - DM (2013: 22mins)
- Symphony No. 5 - DM (2009: 55mins)
- Symphony No. 5 - PMG
- Symphony No. 6 - DM
- Symphony No. 6 - BAL
- Symphony No. 7 - DM (2007: 49mins)
- Symphony No. 7 - DM (2013: 20mins)
- Symphony No. 7 - SOM
- Symphony No. 7 - BAL
- Symphony No. 7 - PMG
- Symphony No. 8 - DM
- Symphony No. 9 - DM
- Symphony No. 9 - PP
- Symphony No. 9 - PMG
- 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. 5 (Emperor) - DM (2013: 22 mins)
- Triple Concerto - DM
- Triple Concerto - PMG
- Violin Concerto - BAL
Choral
Chamber
- Razumovsky Quartet, Op. 59 No. 3 - DM
- String Quartet No. 10 'Harp' (Op. 74) - BAL
- String Quartet - 'Serioso', Op. 95 - DM
- String Quartet in C# minor, Op. 131 - BAL
- String Quartet Op. 131 - SOM
- String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 - DM
- Grosse Fuge - DM
- Trio in Eb, Op. 38 - DM
- Trio in D, Op. 70 'The Ghost' - BAL
- Violin Sonatas - BAL
- Cello Sonatas - DM
- Piano and Cello Sonata in C Major - DM
Piano
- Piano Sonata, No. 4, Op. 7 - BAL
- Piano Sonata, Op. 106 'Hammerklavier' - DM
- Piano Sonata, Op. 111 - BAL
- Six Bagatelles (Op. 126) - DM
Songs
BENJAMIN, George
BENNETT, William Sterndale
BERG, Alban
BERIO, Luciano
BERLIN, Irving
BERLIOZ, Hector
BERNERS, Lord
BERNSTEIN, Leonard
BIRTWISTLE, Harrison
BIZET, Georges
BOCCHERINI, Luigi
BOLOGNE, Joseph
BORODIN, Alexander
BOWLER, Laura
BRAHMS, Johannes
- COTW (2014): Johannes Brahms
- COTW (2012): Johannes Brahms - life and vocal music
- COTW (2008): Johannes Brahms - chamber and instrumental works
- Brahms and German Music - PP 2014
- The Real Brahms - PP 2011
Works:
Orchestral
- Symphony No. 1 - DM (2012: 22mins)
- Symphony No. 1 - DM (2008: 45mins)
- Symphony No. 2 - DM
- Symphony No. 2 - BAL
- Symphony No. 3 - DM
- Symphony No. 4 - DM
- Symphony No. 4 - PMG
- Piano Concerto No. 1 - BAL
- Piano Concerto No. 1 - PMG
- Piano Concerto No. 2 - DM (video 2003)
- Piano Concerto No. 2 - PMG
- Violin Concerto - DM
- Violin Concerto - PMG
- Double Concerto - PMG
- Variations on a Theme of Haydn (The St Anthony Choral) - DM
Choral
Chamber
- Piano Trio in B major Op. 8 - BAL
- Piano Quartet in G minor - BAL
- String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 51, No. 1 - BAL
- String Quartet in B Flat, Op. 67 - DM
- Clarinet Quintet - BAL
Piano
Songs
BRAY, Charlotte
BRIAN, Havergal
BRIDGE, Frank
BRITTEN, Benjamin
- COTW: Britten - the early years
- COTW: Britten 100 (2013)
- COTW: Benjamin Britten (2010)
- Britten 100 - PP
- Singing for Britten - Music Feature
- Britten's Choral Music - PP
Works:
Orchestral
- Spring Symphony - DM
- Spring Symphony - PMG
- 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
- Serenade - BAL
- Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge - DM
- Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra (Op. 34) - DM
- Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra (Op. 34) - BAL
Operas
- Albert Herring - OG
- Billy Budd - BAL
- Billy Budd - OG
- Death in Venice - OG
- Gloriana - OG
- A Midsummer Night's Dream - OG
- Owen Wingrave - OG
- Paul Bunyan - OG
- Peter Grimes - OG
- Peter Grimes - PMG
- The Rape of Lucretia - OG
- The Turn of the Screw - BAL
- The Turn of the Screw - OG
Choral
BRUCH, Max
BRUCKNER, Anton
BRYARS, Gavin
BUXTEHUDE, Dietrich
BYRD, William
C
CACCINI, Francesca
CAGE, John
CAMPRA, André
CARISSIMI, Giacomo
CARTER, Elliott
CASELLA, Alfredo
CAVALLI, Francesco
CHABRIER, Emmanuel
CHARPENTIER, Marc-Antoine
CHAUSSON, Ernest
CHEN, Yi
CHERUBINI, Luigi
CHOPIN, Fryderyk
CLEMENTI, Muzio
COATES, Eric
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR, Samuel
COPLAND, Aaron
CORELLI, Arcangelo
COUPERIN, François
COWARD, Noel
CRANE, Laurence
CUTLER, Joe
D
DAVIES, Tansy
DAVIS, Miles
DEAN, Brett
DEBUSSY, Claude
- COTW (2012): Claude Debussy
- COTW (2008): Claude Debussy
- COTW (2014): Debussy's Chamber Works
- Celebrating Claude Debussy - MM
Works:
- Images (for orchestra) - DM
- Images (for orchestra) - BAL
- Images (for piano) - BAL
- La mer - DM (video 2011)
- La mer - DM (2004)
- La mer - PMG
- Pelleas et Melisande - BAL
- Pelleas et Melisande - PP
- Pelleas et Melisande - PMG
- Estampes - SOM
- Jeux - PMG
- The Martyrdom of St Sebastian - PMG
DELALANDE, Michel-Richard
DELIUS, Frederick
D'INDY, Vincent
DITTERS VON DITTERSDORF, Carl
DONIZETTI, Gaetano
DOVE, Jonathan
DOWLAND, John
DUNSTABLE, John
DUSSEK, Jan Ladislav
DVORAK, Antonin
- COTW (2013): Dvorak's life and works
- COTW (2010): Dvorak's operas
- COTW (2008): Dvorak in America
- COTW (2014): Dvorak's relationship with the British Isles
- COTW (2014): Dvorak's letters to the Royal Philarmonic Society
Works:
Orchestral
- Symphony No. 6 - BAL
- Symphony No. 7 - DM
- Symphony No. 7 - PMG
- Symphony No. 8 - DM
- Symphony No. 8 - BAL
- Symphony No. 9 'From the New World' - DM
- Symphony No. 9 'From the New World' - SOM
- Symphony No. 9 'From the New World' - PMG
- Violin Concerto - DM
- Cello Concerto - BAL
- Overtures - DM
- The Golden Spinning Wheel (Op. 109) - DM
- Slavonic Dances - BAL
Choral
Chamber
- American String Quartet Op. 96 - BAL
- American String Quintet Op. 97 - DM
- String Quartet Op. 106 - BAL
- Second Piano Quartet - DM
DYSON, George
E
ELGAR, Edward
- COTW (2013): Edward Elgar
- COTW (2011): Elgar and the Great War
- COTW (2009): Elgar and Landscape
- DM (2008): Elgar: A Very English Composer
- Elgar and Bantok in Birmingham - TM
- Elgar: Pump and Circumstance - TM
Works:
- Enigma Variations - DM
- Enigma Variations - SOM
- Enigma Variations - PMG
- Symphony No. 1 - DM
- Symphony No. 1 - PMG
- Symphony No. 2- DM
- Cello Concerto - DM
- Cello Concerto - BAL
- Piano Concerto - DM
- Violin Concerto - BAL
- In the South - DM
- In The South - PMG
- Intro & Allegro; Serenade for Strings - DM
- The Apostles - PMG
- Coronation Ode - TM
ENESCU, George
F
FALLA, Manuel de
FARRENC, Louise
FAURÉ, Gabriel
FINZI, Gerald
FITKIN, Graham
FRANCK, César
FRESCOBALDI, Girolamo
FUJIKURA, Dai
G
GABRIELI, Giovanni
GAL, Hans
GEMINIANI, Francesco
GERSHWIN, George
GESUALDO, Carlo
GINASTERA, Alberto
GLASS, Philip
GLAZUNOV, Aleksandr
GLIERE, Reinhold
GLUCK, Christoph
GOEHR, Alexander
GOUNOD, Charles
GOVES, Larry
GRAINGER, Percy
GRANADOS, Enrique
GRECHANINOV, Aleksandr
GRIEG, Edvard
GURNEY, Ivor
H
HALL, Emily
HANDEL, George Frideric
- COTW (2014): Handel - Music for Kings George I and II
- COTW (2013): Handel in Italy
- COTW (2012): Handel - Five Key Years
- COTW (2011): Handel - Italian Opera
- COTW (2010): Handel - Musical borrowing
- COTW (2009): Handel - Oratorios
- COTW (2009): Handel in London
- COTW (2008): Handel - Musical walks
Works:
Orchestral
Operas
- Handel Operas - DM
- Giulio Cesare - BAL
- Israel in Egypt - DM
- Judas Maccabeus - PMG
- Orlando - BAL
- Rinaldo - SOM
- Rinaldo - PMG
- Solomon - BAL
- Theodora - BAL
Choral
- Messiah - DM
- Messiah - SOM
- Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne - DMY
- Dixit Dominus - DM (video)
- Dixit Dominus - DM (audio)
Keyboard
HARVEY, Jonathan
HAYDN, Joseph
- COTW (2015): Haydn
- COTW (2013): Haydn - Trios
- COTW (2012): Haydn - String Quartets
- COTW (2010): Joseph Haydn
- COTW (2009): Haydn - Operas
- COTW (2009): Joseph Haydn
Works:
- Symphonies Nos. 22 and 92 - DM
- Symphony No. 60 in C major (Il Distratto) - DM
- Symphony No. 98 and Piano Variations - DM
- Symphony No. 99 - SOM
- Symphony No. 100 in G major - DM
- Symphony No. 100 in G major - BAL
- Symphony No. 101 'The Clock Symphony' - BAL
- Symphony No. 104 'The London' - DM
- Sinfonia Concertante - BAL
- Trumpet Concerto in Eb - DM
- String Quartets Op. 33 - DM
- String Quartets Op. 33 - BAL
HAYDN, Michael
HENZE, Hans Werner
HERBERT, Matthew
HEROLD, Ferdinand
HERRMANN, Bernard
HILDEGARD von Bingen
HINDEMITH, Paul
HOLLOWAY, Robin
HOLMES, Augusta
HOLST, Gustav
HONEGGER, Arthur
HORNE, David
HOROVITZ, Joseph
HOWELLS, Herbert
HUMMEL, Johann Nepomuk
HUMPERDINCK, Engelbert
I
IBERT, Jacques
IRELAND, John
IVES, Charles
J
JANAČEK, Leoš
JOMMELLI, Niccolo
JOPLIN, Scott
JOSQUIN
K
KAPRÁLOVÁ, Vítězslava
KHACHATURIAN, Aram
KODÁLY, Zoltán
KOECHLIN, Charles
KORNGOLD, Erich Wolfgang
KURTÁG, György
L
LAM, Fung
LAMBERT, Constant
LASSUS, Orlande de
LEHAR, Ferencz
LIGETI, György
LIM, Liza
LISZT, Franz
- COTW (2012): Liszt and his World
- COTW (2011): Franz Liszt
- COTW (2008): Franz Liszt
- COTW (2015): Liszt - Symphonic Poems
- COTW (2007): Liszt - Life in Letters
- Liszt - PP
- Liszt - MM
Works:
Orchestral
Piano
- Annees De Pelerinage, Book One - BAL
- Annees De Pelerinage, Book Two - BAL
- The Fountains of the Villa d'Este - SOM
- Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 - SOM
LLOYD, George
LOCATELLI, Pietro
LOEWE, Frederick
LULLY, Jean-Baptiste
M
MACDOWELL, Edward
MACMILLAN, James
MAHLER, Gustav
- Introducing Mahler
- COTW (2014): Mahler - Childhood in Bohemia
- COTW (2010): Mahler - Early Works
- COTW (2011): Mahler - The Alma Years
- COTW (2008): Mahler - The Final Years
Works:
Symphonies
- Symphony No. 1 - DM
- Symphony No. 1 - PMG
- Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection' - DM
- Symphony No. 2 - Proms Plus
- Symphony No. 2 - PMG
- Symphony No. 4 - DM
- Symphony No. 5 - DM
- Symphony No. 5 - PP
- Symphony No. 5 - PMG
- Symphony No. 6 - BAL
- Symphony No. 6 - PMG
- Symphony No. 7 - DM
- Symphony No. 7 - PMG
- Symphony No. 8 - BAL
- Symphony No. 9 - PMG
- Symphony No. 10 - BAL
- 'Symphonies of Songs' pt1 - DM
- 'Symphonies of Songs' pt2 - DM
Vocal
MARTIN, Frank
MARTINŮ, Bohuslav
MASCAGNI, Pietro
MASSENET, Jules
MATTHEWS, Kaffe
MAXWELL DAVIES, Peter
MCCABE, John
MEDTNER, Nikolai
MENDELSSOHN, Fanny
MENDELSSOHN, Felix
- COTW (2014): Mendelssohn - Early Years
- COTW (2011): Mendelssohn - Last Seven Years
- COTW (2009): Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn
- COTW (2009): Mendelssohn - Influences
Works:
Orchestral
- Symphony No. 3 'Scottish' - DM
- Symphony No. 4 'Italian' - DM
- Piano Concerto No. 2 - DM
- Piano Concertos - Proms Plus
- Violin Concerto - DM
- Violin Concerto - PMG
- Concerto in Dm for Violin and Piano - DM
- Overtures - DM
- Fingal's Cave - SOM
- Nocturne from a Midsummer Night's Dream - DM
Choral
MENOTTI, Gian Carlo
MEREDITH, Anna
MESSIAEN, Olivier
MEYERBEER, Giacomo
MILHAUD, Darius
MINGUS, Charles
MOERAN, Ernest John
MOLITOR, Claudia
MONK, Meredith
MONTEVERDI, Claudio
MORTON, Jelly Roll
MOSZKOWSKI, Moritz
MOZART, Leopold
MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus
- COTW (2014): Five key years
- COTW (2012): Away from Home
- COTW: Macleod's Mozart - Part 1
- COTW: Macleod's Mozart - Part 2
- COTW (2009): Vienna Years
- COTW (2007): Mozart
- DM: Mozart the Improviser
- Proms Plus: Mozart's Vienna
Works:
Orchestral
- Symphony No. 25 in G minor - BAL
- Symphony No. 29 (K.201) - DM
- Symphony No. 36 'Linz' - 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: 44 mins)
- Symphony No. 41 'Jupiter' (K.551) - BAL
- Sinfonia Concertante (K.364) - DM
- Clarinet Concerto (K.622) - DM
- Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major (K.453) - BAL
- Piano Concerto No. 19 in F Major (K.459) - BAL
- Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor (K.466) - DM
- Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major (K.467) - DM
- Piano Concerto No.24 in C Minor (K. 491) - DM
- Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major (K.503) - DM
- Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major (K.503) - PMG
- Last Piano Concerto (K.595) - DM
Operas
- Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail - CDR
- The Magic Flute - DM
- The Marriage of Figaro - DM
- The Marriage of Figaro - BAL
- The Marriage of Figaro - PMG
- Dove Sono from The Marriage of Figaro - SOM
Choral
Chamber
- Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - DM (video 2011)
- Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - DM (audio 2011)
- String Trio in Eb (K.563) - BAL
- Dissonance Quartet (K.465) - DM
- String Quintet in G Minor (K.516) - DM
- Clarinet Quintet in A major (K.581) - DM (2013: 21 mins)
- Clarinet Quintet in A major (K.581) - DM (2002: 43 mins)
- Serenade No. 10 'Gran Partita' - SOM
- Serenade in C minor (K.388) - DM
- Mozart Serenades - DM
Piano
MUSSORGSKY, Modest
MYASKOVSKY, Nicolai
N
NEWMAN, Chris
NIELSEN, Carl
NYMAN, Michael
O
OCKEGHEM, Johannes
OFFENBACH, Jacques
P
PACHELBEL, Johann
PAGANINI, Nicolò
PAISIELLO, Giovanni
PALESTRINA, Giovanni Pierluigi da
PANUFNIK, Andrzej
PANUFNIK, Roxanna
PARRY, Sir Hubert
PART, Arvo
PERGOLESI, Giovanni Battista
PIAZZOLLA, Ástor
PORTER, Cole
POULENC, Francis
PREVIN, Andre
PROKOFIEV, Sergei
PUCCINI, Giacomo
PURCELL, Henry
- COTW (2013): Henry Purcell
- COTW (2011): Henry Purcell
- COTW (2009): Purcell - The Early Years
- COTW (2009): Purcell's contemporaries
- BAL: Henry Purcell's songs
Works:
- Dido and Aeneas - DM (video)
- Dido and Aeneas - DM (audio)
- The Fairy Queen - BAL
- An Evening Hymn - SOM
- Hail! Bright Cecilia - BAL
- Various (The English Viol Consort) - DM
Q
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There are no composers on this list whose surname begins with Q
R
RACHMANINOV, Sergei
- COTW (2012): Rachmaninov and Medtner
- COTW (2009): Sergei Rachmaninov
- COTW (2007): Rachmaninov - The Late Romantic
Works:
- Symphony No. 2 - DM
- Symphony No. 2 - BAL
- Symphony No. 2 - PP
- Symphony No. 3 - DM
- Symphonic Dances - DM
- Symphonic Dances - PMG
- Piano Concerto No. 2 - PMG
- Piano Concerto No. 3 - DM (42 mins)
- Piano Concerto No. 3 - DM (20 mins)
- Isle of the Dead (Op. 29) - DM
- Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini - PMG
- Rachmaninov's Choral Music - PP
- The Bells - PP
- The Bells - PMG
- Elegiac Trio No. 2 - DM
- Piano Sonata No. 2 (Op. 36) - DM
RAMEAU, Jean-Philippe
RAN, Shulamit
RAUTAVAARA, Einojuhani
RAVEL, Maurice
- COTW: Ravel and His World
- COTW: Maurice Ravel
- Ravel: The man behind the music
- Ravel Day on Radio 3
- Ravel's Bolero: An early sign of dementia? - TM
Works:
Orchestral
- Piano Concertos - DM
- Piano Concerto in G - DM (video)
- Piano Concerto in G - PMG
- Piano Concerto for the Left Hand - DM (video)
- Alborada Del Gracioso - BAL
- Bolero (video with commentary)
- Daphnis and Chloe - Ravel Day
- Daphnis and Chloe - PMG
- Mother Goose - DM
- La Valse - DM
- La Valse - BAL
Piano
REBEL, Jean-Féry
REICH, Steve
REIZENSTEIN, Franz
RESPIGHI,Ottorino
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, Nikolai
RODRIGO, Joaquín
ROSSINI, Gioachino
ROUSSEL, Albert
RUBBRA, Edmund
RUTTER, John
S
SAINT-SAENS, Camille
SALIERI, Antonio
SAMMARTINI, Giovanni and Giuseppe
SATIE, Erik
SCARLATTI, Alessandro
SCHNITTKE, Alfred
SCHOENBERG, Arnold
SCHUBERT, Franz
- COTW (2014): Franz Schubert
- COTW (2013): Schubert's Interior Life
- 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
Works:
Orchestral
- Symphony No. 4 in C minor (D. 417) - DM
- Symphony No. 4 in C minor (D. 417) - BAL
- Symphony No. 5 - DM (2013: 22mins)
- Symphony No. 5 - DM (2005: 32mins)
- Symphony No. 8 'Unfinished' (D. 759) - DM
- Symphony No. 8 'Unfinished' - DM
- Symphony No. 9 (Great) - DM
Chamber
Piano
- Piano Trio No. 1 - BAL
- Impromptus D. 899 - BAL
- Sonata in C minor D. 958 - BAL
- Arpeggione Sonata - BAL
Vocal
SCHUMAN, William
SCHUMANN, Clara
SCHUMANN, Robert
- COTW (2013): Robert Schumann
- COTW (2010): Robert Schumann
- COTW (2014): Schumann and literature
- COTW (2008): Robert and Clara Schumann
Works:
- Symphony No. 1 - BAL
- Symphony No. 2 - BAL
- Symphony No. 3 (Rhenish) - DM
- Symphony No. 4 in D minor (Op. 120) - DM
- Violin Concerto - DM
- Etudes symphoniques - BAL
- Fantasy for Piano (Op. 17) - DM
- Piano Quintet - DM
- Piano Trio No. 1 - BAL
- Carnaval - TM
- Dichterliebe - DM
- Kreisleriana - SOM
- Kreisleriana - BAL
- Myrthen - BAL
- The Paradise And The Peri - BAL
SCHUTZ, Heinrich
SCRIABIN, Alexander
SHEPPARD, John
SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri
Works:
- Symphony No. 4 - DM
- Symphony No. 5 - DM
- Symphony No. 5 - BAL
- Symphony No. 7 'Leningrad' - SOM
- Symphony No. 7 'Leningrad' - PMG
- Symphony No. 7 'Leningrad' - TM
- Symphony No. 8 - DM
- Symphony No. 8 - BAL
- Symphony No. 9 - DM
- Symphony No. 10 - BAL
- Symphony No. 10 - PP
- Cello Concerto No. 1 (Op. 107) - DM
- Violin Concerto No. 1 - PMG
- Piano Trios - DM
- String Quartet No. 8 - DM
SIBELIUS, Jean
- COTW (2013): Jean Sibelius
- COTW (2009): Sibelius - The Rest is Silence (1925-1957)
- COTW (2007): Jean Sibelius
- PP: Sibelius's Love of Nature
Works:
- Symphony No. 2 - DM (2011: 22mins)
- Symphony No. 2 - DM (2007: 43mins)
- Symphony No. 2 - BAL
- Symphony No. 3 - BAL
- Symphony No. 3 - PMG
- Symphony No. 4 - DM
- Symphony No. 5 - DM (audio)
- Symphony No. 5 - DM (video 2010: 50mins)
- Symphony No. 5 - BAL
- Symphony No. 7 - DM (2013: 20mins)
- Symphony No. 7 - DM (2006: 33mins)
- Symphony No. 7 - BAL
- Symphony No. 7 - PMG
- Tapiola (Op. 112) - DM
- The Swan of Tuonela, and Night Ride and Sunrise - DM
- Oceanides (Op. 73) and Pohjola's Daughter (Op. 49) - DM
SKALKOTTAS, Nikos
SKEMPTON, Howard
SMETANA, Bedrich
SMYTH, Ethel
SONDHEIM, Stephen
STEVENS, Bernard
STRADELLA, Alessandro
STRAUSS, II, Johann
STRAUSS, Richard
- COTW (2014): Richard Strauss
- COTW (2012): Richard Strauss
- COTW (2010): Richard Strauss
- COTW (2009): Richard Strauss
- PP: Strauss and the Voice
- SF: Who Was Richard Strauss?
Works:
Orchestral
- Also sprach Zarathustra - DM
- Alpine Symphony - DM
- Alpine Symphony - BAL
- Alpine Symphony - PMG
- Oboe Concerto - BAL
- Divertimento - DM
- Don Quixote - DM
- Heldenleben - PMG
- Metamorphosen - DM
- Four Last Songs - DM
- Four Last Songs - PMG
Operas
- Die Agyptische Helena - OG
- Arabella - OG
- Ariadne auf Naxos - OG
- Ariadne auf Naxos - BAL
- Daphne - OG
- Elektra - OG
- Elektra - PP
- Feuersnot - OG
- Die Frau Ohne Schatten - OG
- Die Liebe der Danae - OG
- Der Rosenkavalier - OG
- Der Rosenkavalier - PP
- Der Rosenkavalier - BAL
- Salome - SOM
- Salome - OG
Chamber
STRAVINSKY, Igor
Works:
- Firebird Suite - DM (2009: 45mins)
- Fairy Tales: The Firebird - DM (2003: 28mins)
- Firebird Suite - BAL
- The Firebird - PP
- The Firebird - PMG
- Les Noces - SOM
- Oedipus Rex - TM
- Petrushka - DM (2013: 21mins)
- Petrushka - DM (2009: 38mins)
- Petrushka - BAL
- Pulcinella Suite - DM
- The Rite of Spring - DM
- The Rite of Spring - SOM
- The Rite Of Spring - PMG
- The Rite Of Spring - TM
- The Soldier's Tale - DM
- The Soldier's Tale - BAL
- Symphony in Three Movements - DM
- Symphony of Psalms - DM
SUK, Josef
SULLIVAN, Arthur
SVENDSEN, Johan
T
TALLIS, Thomas
TANEYEV, Sergei
TAVENER, John
TCHAIKOVSKY, Pyotr
- COTW (2013): Tchaikovsky
- COTW (2010): Tchaikovsky - the 'lost decade'
- COTW (2009): Tchaikovsky - years 1876-1890
Works:
Orchestral
- Symphony No. 3 - BAL
- Symphony No. 3 - PP
- Symphony No. 4 - DM
- Symphony No. 4 - PMG
- Symphony No. 5 - DM
- Symphony No. 5 - PMG
- Symphony No. 6 'Pathetique' - DM (2013: 20mins)
- Symphony No. 6 'Pathetique' - DM (2007: 43mins)
- Symphony No. 6 'Pathetique' - PMG
- Manfred Symphony - DM
- Manfred Symphony - PP
- Piano Concerto No. 1 - DM
- Piano Concerto No. 1 - BAL
- Violin Concerto - DM
- Orchestral Suite No. 3 - BAL
- Serenade for Strings - DM
- Francesca da Rimini - DM
- Hamlet Fantasy Overture - BAL
- Romeo and Juliet - DM
- Swan Lake - SOM
- Swan Lake - PMG
Operas
Piano
TELEMANN, Georg Philipp
TIPPETT, Sir Michael
TUULIKKI, Hanna
TURNAGE, Mark-Anthony
U
None
There are no composers on this list whose surname begins with U
V
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, Ralph
- COTW - Ralph Vaughan Williams - His Later Years (2013)
- COTW - Ralph Vaughan Williams - Operas (2008)
- Vaughan Williams and the Lost Generation - DM
Works:
- Symphony No. 2 'London' - PP
- Symphony No. 4 - BAL
- Symphony No. 5 - DM
- Symphony No. 5 - PMG
- Symphony No. 6 - DM
- Symphony No. 7 'Sinfonia Antartica' - DM
- Symphony No. 9 - BAL
- On Wenlock Edge and The Lark Ascending - DM
- Flos Campi - DM
- Job: A Masque for Dancing - PP
- Mass in G Minor - DM
- Folk Music in Classical Music - DM
- Five Tudor Portraits - DM
VERDI, Giuseppe
- COTW (2013): Verdi 200
- COTW (2012): Giuseppe Verdi
- COTW (2010): Verdi - the Operas
- COTW (2008): Verdi and his supporters
- Verdi's Orchestral Writing - PP
- Verdi 200 - MM
- Verdi and Wagner - MM
- Verdi and Shakespeare - Night Waves
- Verdi the Opera Director - Music Feature
Works:
- Aida - OG
- Alzira - OG
- Aroldo - OG
- Attila - OG
- Don Carlos - OG
- Ernani - OG
- Falstaff - OG
- Giovanna d'Arco - OG
- I Due Foscari - OG
- I Lombardi - OG
- I Masnadieri - OG
- I Vespri Siciliani - OG
- Il Corsaro - OG
- Il Trovatore - OG
- Jerusalem - OG
- La battaglia di Legnano - OG
- La Forza del Destino - OG
- La Traviata - OG
- La Traviata - SOM
- Macbeth - OG
- Nabucco - OG
- Oberto - OG
- Rigoletto - BAL
- Otello - DM
- Otello - OG
- Otello - BAL
- Requiem - PP
- Requiem - PMG
- Rigoletto - OG
- Rigoletto - DM
- Rigoletto - BAL
- 'Risorgimento' operas - Sunday Feature
- Simon Boccanegra - OG
- Stiffelio - OG
- Te Deum - DM
- Un Ballo In Maschera - OG
- Un Ballo In Maschera - BAL
- Un Giorno di Regno - OG
VICTORIA, Tomas Luis de
VILLA-LOBOS, Heitor
VIVALDI, Antonio
VOLANS, Kevin
W
WAGNER, Richard
- COTW: Wagner and His World (2013)
- COTW: Richard Wagner (2011)
- Wagner 200 - MM
- Verdi and Wagner - MM
- Wagner in France - TM
- British Wagnerism - TM
Works:
- Die Feen - OG
- The Flying Dutchman - OG
- Gotterdammerung - OG
- Gotterdammerung - PP
- Das Liebesverbot - OG
- Lohengrin - OG
- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - OG
- Die Meistersinger Overture - PMG
- Parsifal - OG
- Parsifal - BAL
- Parsifal - PP
- Das Rheingold - OG
- Das Rheingold - PP
- Rienzi - OG
- Siegfried - OG
- Siegfried - PP
- Siegfried Idyll and Warlock's Serenade - DM
- Siegfried Idyll - BAL
- Siegfried Idyll - PMG
- Tannhauser - OG
- Tannhauser - PP
- Tannhauser - BAL
- Tristan und Isolde - OG
- Tristan und Isolde (Act 3) - DM
- Tristan und Isolde - SOM
- Tristan und Isolde - BAL
- Die Walkure - OG
- Die Walkure - DM
- Die Walkure - PP
- Wesendonck Lieder (WWV. 91) - DM
WALLIN, Rolf
WALTON, William
WARLOCK, Peter
WAXMAN, Franz
WEBER, Carl Maria von
WEBERN, Anton
WEILL, Kurt
WEINBERG, Mieczyslaw
WEIR, Judith
WESLEY, Samuel
WILLIAMS, John
X
None
There are no composers in this list whose surnames begin with X
Y
None
There are no composers in this list whose surnames begin with Y
Z
ZELENKA, Jan
ZEMLINSKY, Alexander
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