Friday with Ian Skelly - Stephen Mangan, Kreisler Prelude and Allegro, Fake news
Ian Skelly with the best in classical music, plus this week's guest, actor Stephen Mangan.
Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0915 New releases featuring music by Gesualdo and Rameau
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. The starter today is Kreisler's Prelude and Allegro, which he originally ascribed to the 18th century Italian composer Gaetano Pugnani. Today's programme also includes Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Teodor Currentzis with a bold take on Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, and Luciano Berio arranging the music of Brahms.
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history. Today Bob Nicholson introduces the compulsive 19th century fraudster Viscount Percy Vernon Gordon de Montgomery.
1050 This week Ian鈥檚 guest is the actor Stephen Mangan, best known for his roles in 鈥淕reen Wing鈥�, 鈥淚鈥檓 Alan Partridge鈥� and 鈥淓pisodes鈥�, and recently 蜜芽传媒 television鈥檚 鈥淭he Split鈥�. He talks about some of the things that have inspired him throughout his life and career.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's contemplation with chamber music by Franz Schubert.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Folk Festival (The Gadfly Suite, Op.97a)
Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Decca.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Rondo in A minor, K.511
Performer: Francesco Piemontesi.- 狈础脧痴贰.
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Emmanuel Chabrier
Joyeuse Marche
Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- Chabrier: Orchestral Works.
- Chandos.
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Carlo Gesualdo
Tristis est anima mea (Tenebrae responses for Maundy Thursday)
Ensemble: Les Cris de Paris. Conductor: Geoffroy Jourdain.- Melancholia.
- harmonia mundi.
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Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau
Prologue: Overture (Dardanus Suite)
Orchestra: Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Barthold Kuijken.- The Lully Effect.
- Naxos.
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Fritz Kreisler
Praeludium and Allegro in the style of Gaetano Pugnani
Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: John Lenehan.- Partners in Time: Tasmin Little, John Lenehan.
- BIS.
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Alberto Ginastera
Dances from Estancia, Op 8a
Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.- DG.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Sarabande & Gigue arr. for 2 guitars (English Suite No 4 in F major, BWV 809)
Music Arranger: Goran Krivokapi膰. Music Arranger: Danijel Cerovi膰. Ensemble: Montenegrin Guitar Duo.- Bach: English Suites Nos. 4-6 (Arr. for 2 Guitars).
- Naxos.
- 104.
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Richard Strauss
Wiegenlied, Op 41 No 1
Singer: Anne Schwanewilms. Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.- R. Strauss: Don Juan; Lieder; Macbeth.
- Halle.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Trio in E flat major, Op.1`1 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Peter Cropper. Performer: Moray Welsh. Performer: Martin Roscoe.- Beethoven Piano Trios.
- Sonimage.
- 002.
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Time Traveller: Fake News by Bob Nicholson
Duration: 02:09
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Bernard Herrmann
Citizen Kane (Overture)
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Herrmann.- Decca.
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Orlando Gibbons
Lord Salisbury's Pavane & Galliard
Performer: Sophie Yates.- CHACONNE.
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Robert Schumann
The Bride of Messina, Op 100
Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Heinz Holliger.- AUDITE.
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Reynaldo Hahn
Le Bal de Beatrice d'Este (6th mvt)
Ensemble: Harmonie Ensemble New York. Conductor: Steven Richman.- Salute to France.
- Music and Arts Programs of America.
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Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.61 (Scherzo)
Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs鈥惷塴ys茅es. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.- Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream: Herreweghe.
- Harmonia Mundi.
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Richard Wagner
The Ring - An Orchestral Adventure (Brunnhilde's Sacrifice)
Music Arranger: Henk de Vlieger. Orchestra: Baltic Sea Philharmonic. Conductor: Kristjan J盲rvi.- Sony : 88985360682.
- Sony.
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Cultural Inspirations: Stephen Mangan on "Noises Off" by Michael Frayn
Duration: 05:02
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Claudio Monteverdi
Laudate Dominum Secondo (Selva morale e spirituale)
Choir: Cantus C枚lln. Ensemble: Concerto Palatino. Conductor: Konrad Jungh盲nel.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Orchestra: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.- Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto / Stravinsky: Les Noces.
- Sony.
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Nadia Boulanger
Les heures claires (Le ciel en nuit s'est d茅pli茅)
Performer: Angela Gassenhuber. Singer: Melinda Paulsen.- Trouba Disk.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Symphony in E major, Wq 182 No 6
Orchestra: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester. Director: Wolfram Christ.- C.P.E. Bach - Hamburger Sinfonien WQ.182.
- Hanssler Classic.
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Franz Schubert
Octet in F major, D 803 (2nd mvt)
Performer: J枚rg Widmann. Performer: Dag Jensen. Performer: Sybille Mahni. Performer: Isabelle van Keulen. Performer: Veronika Eberle. Performer: Rachel Roberts. Performer: Tanja Tetzlaff. Performer: Yasunori Kawahara.- Schubert Widmann Octets.
- CAvi-music.
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Ruth Crawford Seeger
Risselty rosselty
Ensemble: Sch枚nberg Ensemble. Conductor: Oliver Knussen.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Kate Loder
12 Studies - Book 2, No 1 in C major
Performer: Ian Hobson.- Toccata Classics.
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Johannes Brahms
Sonata in F minor for clarinet and orchestra, Op 120 No 1 (4th mvt)
Music Arranger: Luciano Berio. Performer: Fausto Ghiazza. Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Berio 鈥� Orchestral transcriptions - Chailly.
- Decca.
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