Petroc Trelawny is a classical music radio and television broadcaster. He has contributed to the Spectator, Irish Times and BBC Music Magazine. Since 1998, he has been a presenter on BBC Radio 3.

Dr Gareth Moore is the author of over 200 puzzle and brain-training titles for both children and adults, including The Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book (Trapeze), Enigma: Crack the Code (Michael O’Mara) and The Penguin Book of Puzzles (Michael Joseph). His books have sold in excess of 5 million copies in the UK alone, and have been published in over 35 different languages. He is also a director of the World Puzzle Federation, which oversees the World Puzzle Championships, and a director of the UK Puzzle Association. Find him online at [...].

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William Byrd – Mass for Five Voices (c.1540-1623)
Henry Purcell – King Arthur (1659-1695)
Edward Elgar – Piano Quintet (1857-1934)
*Ethel Smyth – The Wreckers (1858-1944)
Gustav Holst – Hammersmith (1874-1934)
**Samuel Coleridge Taylor – The Song of Hiawatha (1875-1912)
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony No 3 Pastoral (1872-1958)
*Grace Williams – Penillion (1906-1977)
*Imogen Holst – Suite for Solo Viola (1907-1984)
Benjamin Britten – Night Mail (1913-1976)
*Doreen Carwithen – One Damn Thing After Another (1922-2003)
*/**Errolyn Wallen TBA (b. 1958)
Thomas Adès – The Tempest / Arcadiana? (b.1971)RussiaPiotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker (1840-1893)
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherazade (1844-1908)
Dmitri Shostakovich – Moscow Cheryomushk (1906-1975)United States
*Amy Beach TBA (1867-1944)
Charles Ives – Three Places in New England (1874-1954)
*/**Florence Price – Symphony No.1 in E minor (1887-1953)
**William Grant Still – Symphony No.1 Afro-American (1895-1978)
Aaron Copland – Appalachian Spring (1900-1990)
*Ruth Crawford Seeger – Three Songs to poems by Carl Sandburg (1901-1953)
Elliott Carter Epigrams (1908-2012)
Samuel Barber – Adagio for Strings (1910-1981)
John Cage – 4’33” (1912-1992)
Steve Reich – Different Trains (b.1936)
*Jennifer Higdon – Scenes from the Poet’s Dreams (b.1962)Germany/Austria *Hildegard of Bingen – Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum (1098-1179)
Johann Sebastian Bach – Coffee Cantata (1685-1750)
Franz Joseph Haydn –Symphony No.45 in F sharp minor Farewell (1732-1809)
*Mariana Martines – Il primo amore (1744-1812)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Abduction from the Seraglio (1756-1791)
Beethoven – Piano Sonata No.14 Moonlight (1770-1827)
Carl Maria von Weber – Oberon. (1786-1826)
Franz Schubert – Winterreise (1797-1828)
Felix Mendelssohn – Elijah (1809-1847)
Robert Schumann – Liederkreis (1810-1856)
Franz Liszt – Nuages gris (1811-1886)
Richard Wagner – Siegfried Idyll (1813-1883)
*Clara Schumann – Piano Trio in G minor (1819-1896)
Johannes Brahms – Double Concerto in A minor (1833-1897)
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No.3 (1860-1911)
Richard Strauss – Oboe Concerto (1864-1949)
*Johanna Senfter TBA (1871-1961)
Arnold Schoenberg – Pierrot Lunaire (1874-1951)
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Helikopter-Streichquartett (1928-2007)Central Europe
Antonín Dvöák – Cello Concerto (1841-1904)
Leoš Janáek – String Quartet No.2 Intimate Letter (1854-1928)
Bela Bartók – Piano Concerto No.3 (1881-1945)France
*Élizabeth Jacquet de La Guerre TBA 1665-1729)
**Josef Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges – Aline et Dupré (1745-1799)
Hector Berlioz – Symphonie fantastique (1803-1869)
Camille Saint-Saëns – Symphony No.3 Organ Symphony (1835-1921)
*Cecile Chaminade – Automne (1857-1944)
Claude Debussy – La Mer (1862-1918)
Maurice Ravel – Concerto for the Left Hand (1875-1937)
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*Barbara Strozzi – Che si può fare (1619-1677)
Antonio Vivaldi – L’estro harmonico (1678-1741)
Giuseppe Verdi – String Quartet (1813-1901)
Giacomo Puccini – Il trittico (1858-1924)
Carlo Gesualdo. TBA (1566-1613)Nordic Lands Jean Sibelius – Lemminkäinen Suite (1865-1957)
*Elfrida Andrée - TBA (1841-1929)
Edvard Grieg – Piano Concerto in A minor (1843-1907)
Einojuhani Rautavaara – Cantus Arcticus (1928-2016)
*Kaija Saariaho – L’ amour de loin (1952-2023)Classical Music’s New World*Chiquinha Gonzaga (Brazil) TBA (1847-1935)
Heitor Villa-Lobos (Brazil) – Bachianas Brasileiras (1887-1959)
*Peggy Glanville-Hicks (Australia) – Etruscan Concerto (1912-1990)
**Tru Takemitsu (Japan)– Black Rain (1930-1996)
**Tan Dun (China) – Marco Polo (b.1957)
*/**Unsuk Chin (S Korea)– Alice in Wonderland (b.1961)
Brett Dean (Australia) – Hamlet The ExilesGeorge Frideric Handel – Messiah (1685-1759)
Frédéric Chopin – Polonaise fantaisie (1810-1849)
Sergei Rachmaninov – Symphonic Dances (1873-1943)
Igor Stravinsky – Le sacre du printemps (1882-1971)
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