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The Nutcracker Suite pas de deux.
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Paprika Plains by Joni Mitchell.
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Ed O'Brien
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I sang in Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem in a choir as a kid. The final movement, In Paradisum, is one of the most beautiful, seemingly simple pieces of music. So I’ll have that, please.
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An incredibly long one – maybe the entire St Matthew Passion – just so everybody would have to sit in the church for hours.
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