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A feast of great music

Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

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.

1115 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1145 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

1230 Album of the Week

3 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Polonaise (Eugene Onegin)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Philips.
  • Roman Hoffstetter

    String Quartet in F Major Op.3 no.5 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Alban Berg Quartett.
    • Hommage.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 13.
  • Dorothy Howell

    Three Divertissements (No 3)

    Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.
    • Dorothy Howell Orchestral Works.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 105.
  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op 9 No 2 (2nd mvmt, Adagio)

    Performer: Paolo Grazzi. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Artist Portrait: Il Giardino Armonico.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave)

    Orchestra: Irish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jörg Widmann.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor "Scottish" & The Hebrides - Jörg Widmann:.
    • Orfeo.
    • 1.
  • Sally Whitwell

    Road Trip

    Performer: Sally Walker. Performer: Sally Whitwell.
    • Women of Note.
    • ABC.
    • 09.
  • Juan García de Zéspedes

    Convidando está la noche

    Ensemble: The Harp Consort. Director: Andrew Lawrence‐King.
    • Missa Mexicana.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 16.
  • Josef Suk

    Serenade for Strings in E flat major, Op 6 (1st mvmt, Andante con moto)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Kodály: Hungarian Rondo, Summer Evening; Suk: Serenade for Strings in E-Flat Maj.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 8.
  • Florence Price

    Adoration

    Music Arranger: Jarle Storløkken. Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Ensemble: tenThing.
    • She Composes Like A Man.
    • Lawo Classics.
    • 4.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto in B flat major, K595 (3rd mvmt, Allegro)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Ensemble: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Gábor Takács‐Nagy.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Antonia Bembo

    Habbi pietà di me

    Singer: Céline Scheen. Director: Christina Pluhar. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata.
    • Wonder Women.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Ballade (King Christian II)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
    • ALPHA.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Béatrice et Bénédict (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Nocturne in D flat major, Op 9 No 2

    Performer: Nicholas McCarthy.
    • Solo.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon)

    Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Pachelbel/Handel/Vivaldi etc: The English Concert/Pinnock.
    • Archiv.
    • 10.
  • Peggy Stuart Coolidge

    The Blue Planet

    Orchestra: Westphalian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Siegfried Landau.
    • The Planets and the Cosmos in Classical Music.
    • Menuetto Classics.
    • 12.
  • Sally Whitwell

    Road Trip

    Performer: Sally Walker. Performer: Sally Whitwell.
    • Women of Note.
    • ABC.
    • 09.
  • John Adams

    Road Movies (1st mvmt, Relaxed Groove)

    Performer: Jennifer Koh. Performer: Reiko Uchida.
    • Violin Recital: Koh, Jennifer - Higdon, J. / Harrison, L. / Adams, J. / Ruggles,.
    • Cedille.
    • 1.
  • Jacques Ibert

    Symphonic Suite 'Paris' (1st mvmt, The Metro)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Ibert: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.
  • Benjamin Britten

    4 Cabaret Songs (No 4, Calypso)

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Ann Murray.
    • Schumann / Mahler / Britten.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 19.
  • Duke Ellington

    Happy Go Lucky Local

    Performer: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.
    • A Giant Among Giants. The Best from 1950 to 1965, Vol. 5.
    • Documents 2.
    • 1.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op 77 (3rd mvmt)

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Abbado: Brahms.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 110.
  • Scott Joplin

    Swipesy (cake walk)

    Performer: Dick Hyman.
    • Scott Joplin - Piano Works, 1899-1904.
    • RCA.
    • 3.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Serenade in A minor (4th mvmt, Romance)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Martin Yates.
    • Vaughan Williams: Early and Late Works, World Premiere Recordings.
    • Dutton Epoch.
    • 14.
  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Suite in D minor (Chaconne 'L'Inconstante')

    Performer: Marie van Rhijn.
    • Jacquet de La Guerre: L'inconstante.
    • Evidence (LTR).
    • 17.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op 125, 'Choral' (4th mvmt)

    Choir: Sing-Akademie Zurich. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado. Singer: Christiane Karg. Singer: Sophie Harmsen. Singer: Werner Güra. Singer: Florian Boesch.
    • Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 & Choral Fantasy.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 104.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Legend in B flat minor, Op 59 No 10

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Valerie Coleman

    Red Clay and Mississippi Delta

    Ensemble: Imani Winds.
    • eOne.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Étude in E major, Op 10 No 3

    Performer: Yunchan Lim.
    • Decca.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto Grosso in F major, Op 6 No 12

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Archiv.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    March (The Love for Three Oranges - suite)

    Orchestra: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Prokofiev: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 201.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Les chemins de l'amour

    Singer: Felicity Lott. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • Poulenc: Voyage a Paris: Felicity Lott/Graham Johnson.
    • Helios.
    • 30.
  • Sir Hamilton Harty

    The Fair Day (An Irish Symphony)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • An Irish Rhapsody: Ulster Orchestra/Handley/Thomson.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

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