Ian Skelly with Gabriel Prokofiev's Spheres, essential fireworks music, Rebecca Afonwy-Jones
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 favourite performers.
1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five great pieces of fireworks music.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
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            Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Die Schauspieldirektor K.486 (Overture)
Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Raphaël Pichon.- Libertà! Mozart & the opera.
 - harmonia mundi.
 - 201.
 
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            Don Macdonald
Moonset
Ensemble: Papagena.- SOMM.
 
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            Jean Sibelius
Karelia Suite Op.11 (Alla marcia)
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.- Sibelius: Symphony No.5/Karelia Suite etc: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
 - Erato.
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            Gabriel Prokofiev
Spheres
Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: German Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Simon Halsey.- Deutsche Grammophon.
 
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            Claude Debussy
Danse sacree et danse profane
Performer: Lavinia Meijer. Ensemble: Amsterdam Sinfonietta.- Voyage.
 - Sony Classical.
 - 13-14.
 
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            Franz Schubert
Impromptu in A flat major D.899 no.4
Performer: Paul Lewis.- Schubert: Piano Sonatas D.840, 850 & 894, Impromptus D.899: Paul Lewis.
 - Harmonia Mundi.
 
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            Georg Philipp Telemann
Overture in F major, TWV.55:F16
Ensemble: Florilegium.- Channel Classics CCS 38616.
 - Channel Classics.
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            Richard Strauss
Schlagobers-Walzer (Schlagobers Op.70)
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- Strauss: Schlagobers, Munchen: Detroit SO/Jarvi.
 - Chandos.
 - 5.
 
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            Nadia Boulanger
3 Pieces for cello and piano
Performer: Matt Haimovitz. Performer: Mari Kodama.- PENTATONE.
 
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            Herman Bellstedt
Napoli
Performer: Roger Webster. Performer: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Nicholas J Childs.- Essential Dyke Vol. III: Black Dyke Band, Nicholas J Childs.
 - Doyen.
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            Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto in G major (2nd mvt)
Performer: Philip Fowke. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Serge Baudo.- Classics for Pleasure.
 
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            Johann Sebastian Bach
Höchster, schau' in Gnaden an (Cantata no.63)
Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- J.S. Bach, Cantatas Vol 18: Gardiner.
 - Soli Deo Gloria.
 - 7.
 
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            Rued Langgaard
Music of The Spheres (Like The Twinking of Stars)
Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.- Dacapo.
 
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            Ola Gjeilo
The Spheres
Choir: Tenebrae. Orchestra: The Chamber Orchestra of London. Director: Nigel Short.- Ola Gjeilo.
 - Decca.
 - 002.
 
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            Heitor Villa‐Lobos
New York Skyline
Performer: Nelson Freire.- DECCA.
 
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            Agostino Steffani
Sfere amiche (Niobe, regina di Tebe)
Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Director: Stephen Stubbs. Orchestra: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra. Director: Paul O’Dette.- ERATO.
 
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            Nitin Sawhney
River Pulse
Performer: Anoushka Shankar. Performer: Nitin Sawhney. Performer: Ian Burdge. Performer: Pirashanna Thevarajah.- Traces of you.
 - DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
 
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            Igor Stravinsky
Scherzo Fantastique, Op.3
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.- DG.
 
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            Claude Debussy
Feux d'artifice (Preludes, Book 2)
Performer: Francesco Piemontesi.- Ïշ.
 
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            Duke Ellington
Sophisticated Lady
Music Arranger: Luther Henderson. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- American Music.
 - Warner Classics.
 - 303.
 
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            Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in G minor for 2 cellos, RV.531
Performer: Christophe Coin. Performer: Paolo Beschi. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.- Vivaldi: 'Il Proteo'.
 - Teldec.
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            Isaac Albéniz
Sevilla (Suite Espanola no.1 Op.47)
Music Arranger: Michael Krein. Ensemble: Krein Saxophone Quartet.- Saxophone Classics.
 
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            Johannes Brahms
Piano Quartet no.2 in A major Op.26 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Marc‐André Hamelin. Ensemble: Leopold String Trio.- Hyperion.
 
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            William Byrd
Mass for 5 voices (Sanctus; Benedictus)
Choir: Stile Antico.- The Phoenix Rising.
 - Harmonia Mundi.
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            Leos Janáček
Sinfonietta (5th mvt)
Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.- Great Orchestral Showpieces, Vol.1.
 - Philips.
 - 5.
 
 
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