Greta Bradman brings you a beautiful playlist of music for the spring time.
Music
Gabriel Fauré: Pavane, Op. 50
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Matthias Bamert (conductor).
Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8 RV269 'Spring'
Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
Christian Sinding: Rustle Spring, Op 32/3
Joseph Cooper (piano)
Frederick Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, tone poem for orchestra (Pieces for small orchestra, No. 1), RT vi/19/1
San Francisco Symphon, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
Georg Pelēcis: All in the Past
Martin Fröst (clarinet), Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: April (The Seasons)
Leonard Grigoryan (guitar), Slava Grigoryan (guitar)
Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring: Suite
Australia Ensemble, Aaron Copland
Johann Strauss II: Frühlingsstimmen (Voices of Spring), waltz for orchestra, Op. 410
Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Ponkin
Sergei Rachmaninov: 'How fair this spot' Op 21 No 7
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Bedřich Smetana: Má Vlast (My Homeland): II. Vltava (Die Moldau)
Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Patrick Thomas
Dmitry Kabalevsky: Pieces for Children, for piano (in 3 books), Op. 27: A Little Song
Claire Edwardes (percussion)
Thomas Arne: Where the Bee sucks, there lurk I
Catherine Bott (soprano), The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman (director)
Lili Boulanger: D'un matin de printemps
Vienna Philarmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Brenda Gifford: Gambambara
Ensemble Offspring
William Barton, Richard Tognetti, Piers Burbrook de Vere: Spirit Voice of the Enchanted Waters
William Barton (didgeridoo, vocals), Richard Tognetti (violin), Australian Chamber Orchestra
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 38 'Spring'
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Sebastian Lang-Lessing
Franz Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: V. Frühlingstraum (A Dream of Springtime)
Simon Tedeschi (piano), Roger Benedict (viola)
Bright Sheng: Zodiac Tales (2016 Version): III. Three Lambs Under the Spring Sun
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Bright Sheng
Amy Beach: A Hermit Thrush at Morn, Op. 92, No. 2
Joanne Polk (piano)
Christopher Tin: A Hundred Thousand Birds
VOCES8, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Barnaby Smith
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano No. 5 in F major, Op. 24 'Spring': IV. Rondo. Allegro ma non troppo
Julian Libeer (piano), Lorenzo Gatto (violin)
Franz Liszt: Frühling (Spring)
Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano), Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
Edward Macdowell: To a Wild Rose, Op. 51/1 (Woodland Sketches)
New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Deep River
Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano), Braimah Kanneh-Mason (violin)
Edvard Grieg: Våren, Op. 33 No. 2 (Last Spring)
Iona Brown (violin, director), Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
Sally Whitwell: A Hundred Thousand Birds
Sally Whitwell (piano), VOX, Elizabeth Scott (conductor)
Amy Beach: Four Sketches Op. 15: III. Dreaming
Judith Herbert (cello), Diana Ambache (piano)
Amy Beach: Symphony in E minor, Op. 32 'Gaelic': II. Alla siciliana - Allegro vivace - Andante
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Chermerhorn (conductor)
Edvard Grieg: An den Frühling (To Spring), lyric piece for piano, Op. 43/6
Alice Sara Ott (piano)
Miriam Hyde: Brownhill Creek in Spring
Miriam Hyde (piano)
Peter Sculthorpe: Quamby: III. On High Hills
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills (conductor), Peter Sculthorpe (conductor)
Dora Pejačević: The Life of Flowers: II. Violets
Ekatarina Litvintseva (piano)
Max Richter: Vivaldi's Four Seasons Recomposed: Spring
Fenella Humphreys (violin), Covent Garden Sinfonia, Ben Palmer (conductor)
Ola Gjeilo: Pleni Sunt Caeli, The Ground
Tenebrae, The Chamber Orchestra of London
Amy Beach: From Grandmother's Garden, Op. 97
Joanne Polk (piano)
Antonio Vivaldi: Flute Concerto No. 3 in D major, Op. 10 RV428 'Il gardellino' (The Goldfinch): I. Allegro
Emamanuel Pahud (flute), Richard Tognetti (violin), Australian Chamber Orchestra
Traditional (Chinese): White Snow in the Spring Sunlight
Xuefei Yang (guitar)
Maria Grenfell: Di Primavera: II
Karin Schaupp (guitar), Claire Edwardes (marimba)
Hans Zimmer, David Fleming, Jacob Shea: Blue Planet II "Ducks and Currents"
Original Soundtrack Recording
Yiruma: Spring Waltz
Giacomo Scinardo (piano)