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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Ben Parry, Essential Tone Poems, Gibbons' O clap your hands

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly.

Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Ian Skelly

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Well known musicians reveal their personal favourite performers.

1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five great symphonic tone poems.

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto no.1 in B flat major K.207 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    La Derniere valse

    Singer: Véronique Gens. Ensemble: I Giardini.
    • Alpha.
  • François Couperin

    Les baricades mistérieuses (Pièces de clavecin, Ordre no.6)

    Performer: Jean Rondeau. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • Erato.
  • Jan Hugo Vorisek

    Symphony in D major, Op. 24

    Orchestra: WDR Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • SONY.
  • Manuel de Falla

    7 Canciones Populares Espanolas (Nana)

    Performer: Yaniv d'Or. Performer: Ensemble NAYA.
    • Naxos.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Le rappel des oiseaux (Pieces de Clavecin)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • DG.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Quintet in B flat major Op.34 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in Major, K. 581 - Weber: Clarinet Quintet in B-Flat Ma.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 4.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Bassoon Concerto in G minor RV.495

    Performer: Peter Whelan. Ensemble: Jupiter. Director: Thomas Dunford.
    • ALPHA.
  • Fela Sowande

    Obangiji

    Performer: Richard Lea.
    • Liverpool Spectacular! Richard Lea plays the Organ of Liverpool Metropolitan Cat.
    • Priory.
    • 6.
  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Concierto Serenata (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Moretti. Orchestra: Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla. Conductor: Edmon Colomer.
    • ï.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.7 in E major D.729 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Münchner Symphoniker. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Solo Musica.
  • Hubert Parry

    I was glad

    Performer: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Performer: James Lancelot. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks.
    • Warner.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Sea and Sinbad's Ship (Scheherazade Op.35)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • LAWO.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja (The Magic Flute)

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Mozart: Tutto Mozart!: Bryn Terfel/Sir Charles Mackerras.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 12.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Étude-tableau in A minor, Op.39 no.2

    Performer: Howard Shelley.
    • The Complete Solo PianoMusic - Howard Shelley.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.
  • Traditional Catalan

    Song of the Birds

    Music Arranger: Pau Casals. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Ensemble: Cellos of the City of Birmingham Orchestra.
    • DECCA.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks (Pictures from an Exhibition)

    Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
  • Duke Ellington

    Solitude

    Music Arranger: Morton Gould. Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Chandos.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor, Op.66

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Chopin: Impromptus, Waltzes & Mazurkas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 001.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Sleep

    Performer: VOCES8.
  • Erik Satie

    Gnossienne

    Performer: Philharmonix.
    • DG.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    The Noonday Witch Op.108

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • SONY.
  • Nadia Boulanger

    Soir d'hiver

    Singer: Eugénie Lefebvre. Performer: Lucie Berthomier. Performer: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas.
    • harmonia mundi.
  • Lili Boulanger

    Nocturne

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.
    • Hyperion.
  • Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Trio Sonata no.5 in F major (Allegro)

    Ensemble: Collegium 1704. Performer: Václav Luks.
    • Accent.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Valse Triste (Kuolema Op.44)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Murder on the Orient Express (Overture, Waltz, Finale)

    Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart.

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  • Fri 7 Aug 2020 09:00

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