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Thursday with Ian Skelly - Wagner, Gyles Brandreth, Viking Haircuts

Ian Skelly with the best in classical music, plus this week's guest, Gyles Brandreth.

Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history.
1050 This week Ian's guest is the writer, broadcaster, and former MP, Gyles Brandreth, who talks about some of the things that have inspired him throughout his life and career.

3 hours

Music and featured items

  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    Sarema (Overture)

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Alexander Zemlinsky 1871-1942.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Friedrich Benda

    Viola Concerto No. 1 in F Major, LorB 314: III. Rondeau

    Performer: Jean-Éric Soucy. Orchestra: Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Labadie.
    • Benda: Viola Concertos Nos. 1-3.
    • CPO.
    • 3.
  • Charles Tomlinson Griffes

    3 Fantasy Pieces, Op. 6: No. 3, Scherzo

    Performer: Drew Petersen.
    • Barber, Carter, Griffes & Others: Piano Works.
    • Steinway and Sons.
    • 3.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Sextet in C minor, Op 40 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Eric Le Sage. Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
    • Winds & Piano.
    • Warner.
    • 5.
  • Georges Bizet

    Symphony in C major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Prokofiev, Britten, Bizet: Symphonies: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Richard Wagner

    Träume (Wesendonck Lieder)

    Music Arranger: Felix Mottl. Singer: Nina Stemme. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • BIS.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Chaconne (Dardanus - suite)

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Canario (Fantasía para un gentilhombre)

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Milos Karadaglic - Aranjuez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony no.2 in E minor Op.27 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2: Budapest Festival Orchestra, Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 4.
  • Francisco Guerrero

    Regina caeli

    Performer: Andrew Lawrence‐King. Performer: Andrew van der Beek. Performer: James O’Donnell. Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: David Hill.
    • HELIOS.
  • Time Traveller: Viking Haircuts

    Duration: 02:20

  • Hubert Parry

    Cello Sonata in A major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Paul Watkins. Performer: Huw Watkins.
    • Chandos.
  • Henry Purcell

    Hail, bright Cecilia Z.328 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Gabrieli Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Archiv.
  • Franz Schubert

    Nacht und Träume, D 827

    Performer: Gerald Moore. Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau.
    • Schubert Lieder.
    • DG.
    • 003.
  • Edward Elgar

    Dream Children, Op 43 (No 2)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Decca.
  • Richard Strauss

    Morgen, Op 27 No 4

    Singer: Janet Baker. Performer: Gerald Moore.
    • Strauss: English Song: Dame Janet Baker.
    • EMI.
    • 26.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Octet in E flat major Op.20 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra.
    • BIS.
  • Cultural Inspirations: Gyles Brandreth on his love of Oscar Wilde

    Duration: 04:40

  • Richard Strauss

    Salome - opera in 1 act Op.54 [1903-5]: Sc.4; Dance of the seven veils

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Orfeo.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Ballade no.1 in G minor Op.23

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Perahia Plays Chopin.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Phantasy Quartet, Op 2

    Performer: François Leleux. Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Performer: Lawrence Power. Performer: Sebastian Klinger.
    • SONY.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Reverie Op 24

    Performer: Marie Luise Neunecker. Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Werner Andreas Albert.
    • Koch Schwann.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Insanae et vanae curae

    Choir: Tenebrae. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Mozart: Requiem.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in C major, Kk.340

    Performer: Pierre Hantaï.
    • Scarlatti: 22 sonatas for harpsichord: Pierre Hantai.
    • Naive.
    • 1.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    3 Dance episodes from 'On the town'

    Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Barber/Bernstein/Gershwin/Copland: Great American Showpieces.
    • Angel.
    • 7.

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  • Thu 2 Aug 2018 09:00

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