| Composer | Music |
| Handel | Julius Caesar (overture and opening chorus) |
| Verdi | Macbeth ("Vieni! t'affreta!") |
| Puccini | Tosca ("Tre sbirri, una carozza") |
| Barber | Medea (Medea's dance of vengeance) |
| Vaughan Williams | Scott of the Antartic (The Return) |
| Haydn | Nelson Mass (Kyrie) |
| Britten | Peter Grimes ("Let this be a holiday" "This unrelenting work") |
| Rossini | William Tell (overture) |
| Frederick Curzon | Robin Hood suite (March of the bowmen) |
| Copland | Billy the Kid (gunfight and following celebration dance) |
| Adams | Nixon in China ("Mr. premier, distinguished guests" "Cheers") |
| Bartok | Bluebeard's Castle (Fifth door: "Look, my castle gleams") |
| Gilbert and Sullivan | The Pirates of Penzance ("When the foeman bares his steel") |
| Richard Strauss | Ein Heldenleben (The hero's retirement from the world) |
Mr. Atkin is from Ramsbottom (formerly Holcombe Brook) G.S.