
Relax into the day with classical
Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1030 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1100 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
1230 Album of the Week
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Hugo Alfvén
Shepherd Girl's Dance (The Mountain King Op.37)
Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.- World Encores: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra/Jansons.
- EMI Classics.
- 3.
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Jacques Offenbach
Barcarolle (The Tales of Hoffmann)
Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Singer: Stéphanie d'Oustrac. Choir: Chœur des Musiciens du Louvre. Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- Anne Sofie von Otter sings Offenbach.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 8.
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Béla Bartók
Transylvanian dances Sz.96
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.- Bartok: Orchestral Works Vol.1: Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer.
- Philips.
- 15.
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John Tavener
Dhyana - a song for Nicola
Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.- DG.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Concerto no.1 in E major for 2 pianos (3rd mvt)
Performer: Marielle Labèque. Performer: Katia Labèque. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.- Mendelssohn: Concerto for 2 Pianos & Orchestra: Katia & Marielle Labeque / Bychk.
- Philips.
- 3.
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William Walton
Siesta
Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.- Hyperion.
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Johann Strauss II
Tales from the Vienna Woods, Op 325
Performer: Anton Karas. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.- Johann Strauss: Famous Waltzes: Boskovsky.
- Decca.
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Robert Schumann
Vanitas vanitatum (5 Pieces in the Popular Style)
Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott.- Songs from the Arc of Life.
- Sony Classical.
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Johann David Heinichen
Concerto for 3/4 recorders, strings & continuo (S.211)
Performer: Pieter Brulleman. Performer: Baldrick Deerenberg. Performer: Sabine d'Hont. Performer: Barbara Karst. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Conductor: Hartmut Haenchen.- Christmas Concertos - Kammerochestrer Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach.
- Sony Classical.
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John Pickard
Verlaine Songs: V. L'heure exquise
Singer: Emma Tring. Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.- John Pickard: Symphonies 2 & 6; Verlaine Songs.
- BIS.
- 6.
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Enrique Granados
7 Valses Poéticos
Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.- DECCA.
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Léo Delibes
Coppélia Suite (Prelude; Mazurka)
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Carl Davis.- Famous Ballet Music.
- Brilliant Classics.
- 11.
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William Byrd
The Bells
Performer: Michele Pasotti. Performer: Flora Papadopoulos. Ensemble: Il Caleidoscopio Ensemble.- Lawes: New Old Albion.
- Brilliant Classics.
- 13.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major K.364 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Vilde Frang. Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.- Warner.
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Henry Purcell
Chacony in G Minor Z.730
Ensemble: Chelys Consort of Viols.- Purcell: Fantazias.
- BIS.
- 801.
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Arnold Bax
Mediterranean
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.- Seascapes.
- Chandos.
- 2.
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Ivor Gurney
Sleep (5 Elizabethan Songs)
Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Julius Drake.- EMI.
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Geoffrey Burgon
Brideshead Revisted (title theme)
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Burgon.- VIRGIN.
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Astor Piazzolla
Libertango
Music Arranger: Jorge Calandrelli. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Néstor Marconi. Performer: Antonio Agri. Performer: Horacio Malvicino. Performer: Leonardo Marconi. Singer: Héctor Console.- SONY CLASSICAL.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata in E flat major BWV.1031 (3rd mvt)
Music Arranger: Andrew Balio. Performer: Andrew Balio. Performer: Bruce Bengtson.- Soli Deo Gloria: Bach transcriptions for Trumpet and Organ.
- Delos.
- 503.
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Otto Nicolai
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Overture)
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Lance Friedel.- Naxos.
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Nicola Porpora
Vaghi amori (La festa d'Imeneo)
Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.- Decca.
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Domenico Scarlatti
Domingo
Music Arranger: Aleksander Dębicz. Performer: Aleksander Dębicz. Performer: Łukasz Kuropaczewski.- Warner.
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Maurice Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé Suite no.2
Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.- Yannick Nezet-Seguin Ravel Rotterdam Phiharmonic Orchestra.
- EMI Classics.
- 1.
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Cheryl Frances-Hoad
O come, let us sing unto the Lord
Choir: Sansara. Conductor: Meghan Quinlan.- CONVIVIUM.
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Gabriel Pierné
Scherzo-Caprice in D major, Op.25
Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Performer: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.- CHANDOS.
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Michel Legrand
The Windmills of Your Mind (From "The Thomas Crown Affair")
Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: Duncan Ward.- Les choses de la vie - Cinema 2.
- Warner Music UK Limited.
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George Frideric Handel
Concerto grosso in D major Op.3`6
Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Handel: Concerti Grossi Op.3: English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner.
- Apex.
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Franz Schubert
An die Musik, D.547
Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau. Performer: Gerald Moore.- Schubert: Complete Songs: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Ferenc Farkas
Chorea (5 Ancient Hungarian Dances)
Performer: Janna Huneke. Performer: Sarah Devonald. Performer: Mark Lacey. Performer: Tim Swanwick. Performer: Alec Forshaw.- Harmoniemusik.
- The Classical Recording Company.
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Alexander Glazunov
Mazurka-Oberek in D major
Performer: Chloë Hanslip. Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov.- Hyperion.
Broadcast
- Wed 29 May 2024 09:30ѿý Radio 3