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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Vasily Petrenko, Bax's Poisoned Fountain, Essential flute music

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 pieces of music written for the flute.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Piano Quartet no.1 in C minor Op.15 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Kathryn Stott. Ensemble: Hermitage String Trio. Ensemble: Hermitage String Trio.
    • Chandos.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.3 in D major Op.29 'Polish' (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • ONYX.
  • Arnold Bax

    The Poisoned Fountain

    Performer: Seta Tanyel. Performer: Jeremy Brown.
    • Bax: Piano Duos Jeremy Brown/Seta Tanyel.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Lera Auerbach

    Lullaby Op.66

    Choir: Allmänna Sången. Conductor: Maria Goundorina.
    • Femina moderna.
    • BIS.
    • 401.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Sinfonietta in A major Op.5 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • Prokofiev Symphonies Vol. II.
    • Onyx.
    • 9.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite no.3 in D major BWV.1068 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S.Bach: Brandenburg Concertos & Orchestra Suites: Bach Collegium Japan, Suzuki.
    • Bis.
    • 1.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Wind Quintet, Op.43 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
    • Carl Nielsen / Paul Taffanel - Wind Quintets.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1-4.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in D flat major, Op.27 no.2

    Performer: Ingrid Fliter.
    • LINN.
  • Lars‐Erik Larsson

    Little Serenade, Op.12

    Ensemble: Musica Vitae. Conductor: Wojciech Rajski.
    • Nordic Music Vol. 1.
    • BIS.
    • 5-8.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vespers, Op.37 (Glory Be To God)

    Choir: St. Petersburg Chamber Choir. Conductor: Николай Корнев.
    • DECCA.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet in C minor, D.703 'Quartettsatz'

    Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Jocelyn Pook

    How sweet the moonlight (The Merchant of Venice)

    Performer: Siobhán Armstrong. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Baroque String Quartet.
    • Decca.
  • Claude Debussy

    La cathédrale engloutie

    Orchestrator: Henry Wood. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite.
    • Orchestrations by Sir Henry Wood: London Philharmonic Orchestra/Braithwaite.
    • Lyrita.
    • 6.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Ondine (Gaspard de la nuit)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music: Steven Osborne, Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

    Singer: Renée Fleming. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Renee Fleming: By Request.
    • Decca.
    • 9.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Polovtsian Dances

    Choir: Czech Philharmonic Choir, Brno. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.
  • Daniel Kidane

    Aria Antica

    Performer: Hyeyoon Park. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Many Voices: 10 New Pieces for Violin.
    • NMC Recordings.
    • 4.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto in C major for flute and harp K.299 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Marie‐Pierre Langlamet. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart Flute Concertos Concerto For Flute And Harp.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Winter 2 (The Four Seasons)

    Composer: Max Richter. Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Raphael Alpermann. Orchestra: Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin. Conductor: André de Ridder.
    • DG.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony no.1 in C minor Op.68 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Brahms: Symphony No. 1 & Tragic Overture.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 2.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Dardanus - suite (Sommeil)

    Music Arranger: Simon Cox. Ensemble: Septura.
    • Music for Brass Septet 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 06.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op.76`5 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Amadeus Quartet.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • George Gershwin

    Variations on 'I got rhythm'

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue & Piano Concerto: Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

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  • Tue 29 Sep 2020 09:00

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