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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.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.5 in C minor Op.67 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Jean Mouton

    Domine, salvum fac regem

    Choir: Diabolus in Musica. Director: Antoine Guerber.
    • Bayard Musique.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Proud Songsters (Earth and Air and Rain Op.15)

    Singer: John Carol Case. Performer: Howard Ferguson.
    • Lyrita.
  • Cecilia McDowall

    Church Bells Beyond the Stars

    Performer: John Kitchen.
    • DELPHIAN.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in D major RV.208 'Il Grosso Mogul'

    Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • ALPHA.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in C sharp minor, Op.64 no.2

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Chopin: Complete Waltzes.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • 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.
  • John Playford

    Wallom Green (English Dancing Master)

    Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Performer: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene.
    • Rubicon RCD1017.
    • Rubicon.
    • 1.
  • 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.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in A minor Kk.109

    Music Arranger: Anaïs Gaudemard. Performer: Anaïs Gaudemard.
    • Anaïs Gaudemard: Solo - harmonia nova #6.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 2.
  • Elizabeth Maconchy

    Ophelia's song

    Singer: Caroline MacPhie. Performer: Joseph Middleton.
    • Stone Records.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Le rappel des oiseaux (Pieces de Clavecin)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Alison Berry

    Caged Bird

    Performer: Fenella Humphreys.
    • Help Musicians.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Proud songsters (Winter Words)

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • Britten: Canticle 1/Michelangelo sonnets etc: Johnson/Johnson.
    • Hyperion.
    • 18.
  • 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.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet in A minor D.804 'Rosamunde' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • Schubert: String Quartets.
    • EMI.
    • 4.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Etudes-tableaux Op.33 (nos. 2, 3 & 6)

    Performer: Boris Giltburg.
    • NAXOS.
    • 5, 6, 9.
  • Nico Muhly

    Senex puerum portabat

    Choir: Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Performer: Merton Brass. Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas.
    • Delphian.
  • 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.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    Quartet for the End of Time (Louange a l'immortalite de Jesus)

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Lucas Debargue.
    • SONY.
  • 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.
  • Richard Strauss

    5 Lieder, Op.41 Wiegenlied)

    Singer: Kathryn Rudge. Performer: James Baillieu.
    • ѿý recording.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Thieving Magpie (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Rossini: 10 Overtures - Chailly.
    • Decca.
    • 10.

Broadcast

  • Tue 15 Sep 2020 09:00