
Friday with Ian Skelly - Cave of Harmony, Saint-Saens, Gyles Brandreth
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, including Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, a beautiful "Credo" by Gavin Bryars and a suite of waltzes by French composer Melanie Bonis.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. Today music to complement the shimmering "Aquarium" from "Carnival of the Animals" by Saint-Saens.
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history. Matthew Sweet tells of an unusual London nightclub run by none other than the Bride of Frankenstein...
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. Today Gyles waxes lyrical about the city of Edinburgh.
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Music and featured items
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Franz Krommer
Concerto in E flat major for 2 Clarinets, Op 35 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Andrzej Godek. Performer: Barbara Borowicz. Orchestra: Huberman Philharmonic Czestochowa. Conductor: Adam Klocek.- Dux.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
The Creatures of Prometheus trancr. for piano. Finale
Performer: Leslie Howard.- Heritage.
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George Frideric Handel
Silete venti, HWV.242 (Date serta)
Singer: Grace Davidson. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music.- Vivaldi & Handel.
- Signum Classics.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Valse mélancolique (Suite No 3 in G major, Op 55)
Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- Tchaikovsky: Complete Orchestral Suites: Stuttgart RSO, Marriner.
- Brilliant.
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Camille Saint‐Saëns
Aquarium (Carnival of the Animals)
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.- Sir Charles' Precious Music Box 1, Groves, Philharmonia Orchestra.
- DENON.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No 73 in D major, 'La chasse' (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Gavin Bryars
Credo (A Worcester Ladymass)
Ensemble: Trio Mediæval.- ECM.
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Leó Weiner
Ballad for viola and orchestra, Op 28
Performer: Mate Szucs. Orchestra: Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Valéria Csányi.- NAXOS.
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Siri Dyvik
Travel set
Composer: Nils Okland. Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Director: Bjarte Eike. Conductor: Bjarte Eike.- The Alehouse Sessions.
- RUBICON.
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Time Traveller: The Cave Of Harmony
Duration: 02:09
Eric Coates
Covent Garden (London (London every day) suite)
Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Rumon Gamba.- Chandos.
Mel Bonis
Suite en forme de valses
Orchestra: Bucharest Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Benoît Fromanger.- Chant de Linos.
Claude Debussy
Poissons d'or (Images, Set 2)
Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.- Debussy: Complete Works for Piano: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
- Chandos.
Gustav Holst
The Planets, Op 32 (Neptune, the Mystic)
Orchestra: National Youth Orchestra. Choir: CBSO Youth Chorus. Conductor: Edward Gardner.- Holst: The Planets / Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra.
- Chandos.
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Niccolò Paganini
Sonata in A minor, Op 3 No 4
Performer: Gil Shaham. Performer: Göran Söllscher.- 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
- Deutshe Grammophon.
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Cultural Inspirations: Gyles Brandreth on the City of Edinburgh
Duration: 04:59
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The Dean Brig o' Edinburgh; Banks Hornpipe
Composer: James Scott Skinner. Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Phil Cunningham.- ٷ䴡 .
Samuel Barber
Violin Concerto, Op.14
Performer: Joshua Bell. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.- DECCA.
Gabriel Fauré
Mazurka in B flat major Op.32
Performer: Kathryn Stott.- Hyperion.
Thomas Tomkins
When David heard that Absalom was slain
Ensemble: Gesualdo Six. Conductor: Owain Park.- English Motets.
- Hyperion.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in F major, K 138
Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Jane Glover.- Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
- EMI Classics.
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Robert Schumann
Symphony no.3 in E flat major, Op.97 'Rhenish' (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Schumann: Complete Symphonies: John Eliot Gardiner.
- Archiv Produktion.
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Broadcast
- Fri 3 Aug 2018 09:00ѿý Radio 3