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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Essential Tone Poems, Kathryn Rudge, Ibert's Ports of Call

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

  • Edmond Dédé

    Mephisto Masque

    Orchestra: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Rosenberg.
    • Naxos.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata in D major for 2 pianos K.448 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky.
    • Mozart: Sonatas for piano duet: Argerich/Rabinovitch.
    • Apex.
    • 3.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Silent Woods (From the Bohemian Forest Op.68)

    Music Arranger: Lothar Niefind. Music Arranger: Gunter Ribke. Performer: Kian Soltani. Ensemble: Cellists of the Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • DG.
  • Traditional

    Barbara Allen

    Performer: Shirley Collins.
    • Domino.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Rag-Mazurka (Les biches)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Paris 1920: Orchestre de PAris/Semyon Bychkov.
    • Philips.
    • 6.
  • Jacques Ibert

    Escales (Valencia)

    Performer: Juliana Koch. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Vergnügte Ruh', beliebte Seelenlust (Cantata no.170)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Performer: Collegium Vocale Orchestra. Director: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • J.S. Bach: Cantates pour alto: Scholl/Orchestre du Collegium Vocale/Herreweghe.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.
  • Peter Howells

    Fancy Fish

    Composer: Dick Mills. Performer: Peter Howells. Performer: Dick Mills.
    • Silva Screen.
  • Delia Derbyshire

    Mattachin

    Ensemble: The ѿý Radiophonic Workshop.
    • ѿý.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Romance Op.11

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 12.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Paysage (10 Pièces Pittoresques)

    Performer: Alain Planès.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Mendelssohn/Bruch - Violin Concertos; Romance: Janine Jansen.
    • Decca.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Art Thou Troubled (Rodelinda)

    Singer: Kathleen Ferrier. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent.
    • Decca.
  • Jennifer Higdon

    Blue Cathedral

    Orchestra: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Spano.
    • Rainbow Body.
    • TELARC.
    • 4.
  • John Foulds

    Impressions of Time and Place (Isles of Greece Op.48)

    Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • J Foulds, Keltic Suite: ѿý Concert Orchestra/Corp.
    • Epoch.
    • 6.
  • Isaac Albéniz

    Sevilla (Suite Española no.1 Op.47)

    Performer: Alicia de Larrocha.
    • Albeniz: Iberia; Navarra; Suite Espanola - Larrocha.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in G major, Op 77 No 1 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Alban Berg Quartett.
    • EMI.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Young Apollo Op.16

    Performer: Peter Donohoe. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.
  • Nicola Porpora

    Carlo il Calvo (Overture)

    Ensemble: Concerto Köln. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • El Maestro - Farinelli.
    • Archiv.
    • 2.
  • Arnold Bax

    Tintagel - symphonic poem

    Orchestra: Halle. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Halle.
  • John Field

    Kamarinskaya

    Performer: Míċeál O'Rourke.
    • O'ROURKE:Miceal: Piano Works/Field.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 8.
  • Juan García de Zéspedes

    Convidando está la noche

    Ensemble: Ex Cathedra Choir. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • New World Symhonies.
    • HYPERION.
    • 15.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg variations BWV.988 (Aria)

    Performer: Peter Serkin.
    • Private recording.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony no.5 in E flat major Op.82 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
    • BIS.
  • Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen

    Shine you no more

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • ECM.
  • Francisco Guerrero

    Maria Magdalene

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

Broadcast

  • Thu 6 Aug 2020 09:00

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