Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Kathryn Rudge, Finzi's Proud Songsters, Essential Piano Studies
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.
Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Ian Skelly
0915 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 studies for the piano.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no.5 in C minor Op.67 (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.- Alia Vox.
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Jean Mouton
Domine, salvum fac regem
Choir: Diabolus in Musica. Director: Antoine Guerber.- Bayard Musique.
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Gerald Finzi
Proud Songsters (Earth and Air and Rain Op.15)
Singer: John Carol Case. Performer: Howard Ferguson.- Lyrita.
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Cecilia McDowall
Church Bells Beyond the Stars
Performer: John Kitchen.- DELPHIAN.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto in D major RV.208 'Il Grosso Mogul'
Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.- ALPHA.
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Samuel Akpabot
Scenes from Nigeria (Pastorale)
Performer: Marcus Eley. Performer: Lucerne DeSa.- But Not Forgotten: Music by African-American Composers for clarinet and piano.
- SONO LUMINUS.
- 6.
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Louise Farrenc
Symphony no.2 in D major (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Johannes Goritzki.- Farrenc: Symphony No. 2 - Overtures Nos. 1 & 2.
- CPO.
- 2.
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Frédéric Chopin
Waltz in C sharp minor, Op.64 no.2
Performer: Alice Sara Ott.- Chopin: Complete Waltzes.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 7.
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Ólafur Arnalds
Reminiscence
Performer: Alice Sara Ott. Performer: Viktor Orri Árnason. Performer: Björk Óskarsdóttir. Performer: Porarinn Baldursson. Performer: Unnur Jónsdóttir. Performer: Hallgrímur Jónas Jensson. Performer: Mari Samuelsen.- MERCURY.
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John Playford
Wallom Green (English Dancing Master)
Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Performer: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene.- Rubicon RCD1017.
- Rubicon.
- 1.
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Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85 (1st and 2nd mvts)
Performer: Jacqueline du Pré. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli.- EMI.
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Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in A minor Kk.109
Music Arranger: Anaïs Gaudemard. Performer: Anaïs Gaudemard.- Anaïs Gaudemard: Solo - harmonia nova #6.
- harmonia mundi.
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Elizabeth Maconchy
Ophelia's song
Singer: Caroline MacPhie. Performer: Joseph Middleton.- Stone Records.
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Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Le rappel des oiseaux (Pieces de Clavecin)
Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Alison Berry
Caged Bird
Performer: Fenella Humphreys.- Help Musicians.
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Benjamin Britten
Proud songsters (Winter Words)
Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.- Britten: Canticle 1/Michelangelo sonnets etc: Johnson/Johnson.
- Hyperion.
- 18.
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Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance no.1 in G minor
Music Arranger: Miskától Borzó. Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Christoph Koncz. Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Performer: Oszkár Ökrös. Performer: Stephan Koncz. Performer: Ödön Rácz.- DG.
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Franz Schubert
String Quartet in A minor D.804 'Rosamunde' (4th mvt)
Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.- Schubert: String Quartets.
- EMI.
- 4.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Etudes-tableaux Op.33 (nos. 2, 3 & 6)
Performer: Boris Giltburg.- NAXOS.
- 5, 6, 9.
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Nico Muhly
Senex puerum portabat
Choir: Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Performer: Merton Brass. Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas.- Delphian.
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Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco
Concerto a piu istrumenti in D major Op.5`6
Performer: Nadja Zwiener. Performer: Tuomo Suni. Performer: Joseph Crouch. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Harry Bicket.- Dall'Abaco, Porpora, Marcello, Tartini & Telemann: Concertos.
- Signum Classics.
- 1-5.
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Olivier Messiaen
Quartet for the End of Time (Louange a l'immortalite de Jesus)
Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Lucas Debargue.- SONY.
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Gabriel Pierné
Canzonetta Op.19
Music Arranger: Jelle Tassyns. Performer: Annelien Van Wauwe. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lille. Conductor: Alexandre Bloch.- Belle époque.
- PENTATONE.
- 301.
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Richard Strauss
5 Lieder, Op.41 Wiegenlied)
Singer: Kathryn Rudge. Performer: James Baillieu.- ѿý recording.
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Gioachino Rossini
The Thieving Magpie (Overture)
Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Rossini: 10 Overtures - Chailly.
- Decca.
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Broadcast
- Tue 15 Sep 2020 09:00ѿý Radio 3