
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.
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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.
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Reynaldo Hahn
La Derniere valse
Singer: Véronique Gens. Ensemble: I Giardini.- Alpha.
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François Couperin
Les baricades mistérieuses (Pièces de clavecin, Ordre no.6)
Performer: Jean Rondeau. Performer: Thomas Dunford.- Erato.
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Jan Hugo Vorisek
Symphony in D major, Op. 24
Orchestra: WDR Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.- SONY.
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Manuel de Falla
7 Canciones Populares Espanolas (Nana)
Performer: Yaniv d'Or. Performer: Ensemble NAYA.- Naxos.
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Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Le rappel des oiseaux (Pieces de Clavecin)
Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.- DG.
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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.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Bassoon Concerto in G minor RV.495
Performer: Peter Whelan. Ensemble: Jupiter. Director: Thomas Dunford.- ALPHA.
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Fela Sowande
Obangiji
Performer: Richard Lea.- Liverpool Spectacular! Richard Lea plays the Organ of Liverpool Metropolitan Cat.
- Priory.
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Joaquín Rodrigo
Concierto Serenata (3rd mvt)
Performer: Isabelle Moretti. Orchestra: Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla. Conductor: Edmon Colomer.- ï.
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Franz Schubert
Symphony no.7 in E major D.729 (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Münchner Symphoniker. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.- Solo Musica.
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Hubert Parry
I was glad
Performer: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Performer: James Lancelot. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks.- Warner.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Sea and Sinbad's Ship (Scheherazade Op.35)
Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.- LAWO.
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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.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Étude-tableau in A minor, Op.39 no.2
Performer: Howard Shelley.- The Complete Solo PianoMusic - Howard Shelley.
- Hyperion.
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Traditional Catalan
Song of the Birds
Music Arranger: Pau Casals. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Ensemble: Cellos of the City of Birmingham Orchestra.- DECCA.
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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.
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Frédéric Chopin
Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor, Op.66
Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.- Chopin: Impromptus, Waltzes & Mazurkas.
- Hyperion.
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Eric Whitacre
Sleep
Performer: VOCES8. -
Erik Satie
Gnossienne
Performer: Philharmonix.- DG.
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Antonín Dvořák
The Noonday Witch Op.108
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- SONY.
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Nadia Boulanger
Soir d'hiver
Singer: Eugénie Lefebvre. Performer: Lucie Berthomier. Performer: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas.- harmonia mundi.
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Lili Boulanger
Nocturne
Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.- Hyperion.
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Jan Dismas Zelenka
Trio Sonata no.5 in F major (Allegro)
Ensemble: Collegium 1704. Performer: Václav Luks.- Accent.
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Jean Sibelius
Valse Triste (Kuolema Op.44)
Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Richard Rodney Bennett
Murder on the Orient Express (Overture, Waltz, Finale)
Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart.
Broadcast
- Fri 7 Aug 2020 09:00ѿý Radio 3