Mstislav Rostropovich plays the Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007. Filmed at the Basilique Sainte Madeleine, Vézelay, Yvonne, France in 1991.
Jordi Savall leads Le Concert des Nations and La Capella Reial de Catalunya in a performance of Claudio Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo. The concert opens with a Toccata and continues with a Ritornello, and Montserrat Figueras, as La Musica, singing "Dal mio Permesso amato." The venue is the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona.
John Eliot Gardiner leads the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists in "Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage," the opening chorus of the first cantata in Bach's Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248).
Lynne Dawson sings from Handel's Messiah: 16 Rejoice greatly, o daughter of Zion - 17 Then shall the eyes of the blind - 18 He shall feed his flock. Stephen Cleobury conducts the Brandenburg Consort.
Mstislav Rostropovich plays the Sarabande from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007. Filmed at the Basilique Sainte Madeleine, Vézelay, Yvonne, France in 1991.
Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward read excerpts from Dawkins's "The God Delusion": The Argument from Beauty.
Klaus Mertens sings the bass aria "Mache dich, mein Herze, rein" from Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Ton Koopman leads the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.
Kishori Amonkar sings "Rang So Rang Milaaye," a drut khyal composition in Raag Bhimpalasi and Taal Ektaal. From a live performance in Kensington Town Hall, London, April 2000.
Barbara Bonney (Sophie) and Anne Howells (Octavian) sing "Ist ein Traum" from the Finale of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. Georg Solti conducts the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Joan Sutherland sings "Let the bright Seraphim" from Handel's oratorio Samson.
"Let the bright Seraphim in burning row
Their loud uplifted angel trumpets blow . . ."
Was the above the source of Alex's line "Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones" in A Clockwork Orange, by the author and composer Anthony Burgess?
![Montserrat Figueras sings \"Dal mio Permesso\" from L\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/EdHFxkd7s0s/2.jpg "Montserrat Figueras sings \\"Dal mio Permesso\\" from L\")
![Bach - \"Jauchzet, frohlocket\" - Monteverdi Choir, Gardiner](http://img.youtube.com/vi/ggm0SZCWKZo/2.jpg "Bach - \\"Jauchzet, frohlocket\\" - Monteverdi Choir, Gardiner")
![Lynne Dawson sings \"Rejoice greatly, o daughter of Zion\"](http://img.youtube.com/vi/z1xlYIoekE8/2.jpg "Lynne Dawson sings \\"Rejoice greatly, o daughter of Zion\\"")
![Rostropovich plays the Sarabande from Bach\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/ZXnujMPt30Q/2.jpg "Rostropovich plays the Sarabande from Bach\")
![Lynne Dawson sings \"I know that my redeemer liveth\"](http://img.youtube.com/vi/qtU1c5JZf0k/2.jpg "Lynne Dawson sings \\"I know that my redeemer liveth\\"")
![Kishori Amonkar sings \"Rang So Rang Milaaye\"](http://img.youtube.com/vi/jI1mzbtzl4g/2.jpg "Kishori Amonkar sings \\"Rang So Rang Milaaye\\"")
![Barbara Bonney and Anne Howells sing \"Ist ein Traum\"](http://img.youtube.com/vi/QCB3QQ1paU4/2.jpg "Barbara Bonney and Anne Howells sing \\"Ist ein Traum\\"")
![Joan Sutherland sings \"Let the bright Seraphim\" from Samson](http://img.youtube.com/vi/8nZmdreKkss/2.jpg "Joan Sutherland sings \\"Let the bright Seraphim\\" from Samson")
