A feast of great music
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.
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.
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Georges Bizet
Le Bal (Jeux d'enfants, Op.22)
Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque.- Bizet;Faure;Ravel.
- Philips.
- 12.
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William Walton
Portsmouth Point
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.- William Walton Symphonies & Concertos.
- Warner Classics.
- 4.
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Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
Trio sonata no. 3 in D major
Ensemble: The Bach Players.- Coviello.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Scherzo in D minor
Orchestra: Radio Filharmonisch Orkest Holland. Conductor: Edo de Waart.- Rachmaninov: Complete Symphonies and Orchestral Works: Edo de Waart.
- Exton.
- 5.
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James MacMillan
Mouth of the Dumb (Os mutorum)
Performer: Lucy Wakeford. Singer: Andrew Swait. Singer: Samantha Harris.- NMC.
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Edvard Grieg
To the Spring (Lyric Pieces, Op.43)
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.- EMI.
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Edward MacDowell
10 Woodland Sketches, Op. 51: No. 1, To a Wild Rose
Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.- MacDowell: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1.
- CHANDOS.
- 07.
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Fritz Kreisler
Tambourin chinois
Performer: Charlie Siem. Performer: Itamar Golan.- Between The Clouds.
- Signum Classics.
- 3.
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Karol Szymanowski
Concert Overture, Op 12
Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.- Chandos.
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Jacques Ibert
3 Pieces breves for wind quintet: No 1
Performer: Les Vents Français.- Warner Classics.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Marriage of Figaro: Overture
Orchestra: Concerto Köln. Conductor: René Jacobs.- Harmonia Mundi.
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Richard Strauss
Die Nacht
Performer: Roger Vignoles. Singer: Katarina Karnéus.- Song Recital.
- Warner Classics.
- 1.
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Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso in D major Op.6`4
Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz.- ʴÉ.
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Carlos Gardel
Por una cabeza
Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Alexander Sitkovetsky. Performer: Leonard Elschenbroich. Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Performer: Alexei Grynyuk.- DECCA.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 851 (The Well-tempered Clavier, Book 1)
Performer: Sir András Schiff.- ECM.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade, Op.35 (The Story of the Kalendar Prince)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Capricco Espagnol: Mackerras.
- Telarc.
- 2.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, Op 30 (Part 1: Introduction; You shall hear)
Orchestra: Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Choir: Welsh National Opera Chorus. Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn.- Coleridge Taylor: Hiawatha.
- ARGO.
- 1-2.
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Richard Strauss
Presentation of the Rose (Der Rosenkavalier)
Singer: Brigitte Fassbaender. Singer: Lucia Popp. Choir: Choir of the Bavarian State Opera. Orchestra: Bavarian State Orchestra. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.- Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier: Brigitte Fassbaender, Bavarian State Opera, Carlo.
- Orfeo.
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Robert Schumann
Einsame Blumen (Waldszenen, Op 82 No 3)
Performer: Sir András Schiff.- Robert Schumann: Geistervariationen.
- ECM New Series.
- 6.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Flos campi (closing section)
Performer: Lawrence Power. Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.- Hyperion.
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Maurice Ravel
String Quartet (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.- Debussy, Attahir, Ravel.
- ERATO.
- 11.
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Marianna Martines
Symphony in C Major (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Salzburger Hofmusik. Conductor: Wolfgang Brunner.- Martines: Symphony in C Major, Psalms 110 & 151.
- CPO.
- 201.
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Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Jacqueline du Pré. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli.- Elgar: Cello Concerto/Sea Pictures: Du Pre/Baker/LSO/Barbirolli.
- EMI.
- 3.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto in D major for trumpet and violin (3rd mvt)
Performer: Friedemann Immer. Performer: Reinhard Goebel. Orchestra: Musica Antiqua Köln.- Concertos pour Instruments à Vent (Ensemble : Musica Antiqua Köln - Direction :.
- Archiv Produktion.
- 22.
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Claude Debussy
Arabesque no.1 in E major
Performer: Pascal Rogé.- ONYX.
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Antonín Dvořák
Stabat Mater: I. Stabat Mater dolorosa
Singer: Ilse Eerens. Singer: Michaela Selinger. Singer: Maximilian Schmitt. Singer: Florian Boesch. Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Orchestra: Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.- Dvořák: Stabat Mater.
- Phi.
- 1.
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Johannes Brahms
Waltz in A flat major, Op.39 No.15;
Performer: Stephen Kovacevich.- PHILIPS.
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William Boyce
Symphony No.1 in B flat major
Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.- William Boyce: 8 Symphonies: The English Concert/Pinnock.
- Archiv Produktion.
- 4-6.
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Lili Boulanger
Attente
Performer: Edwige Herchenroder. Singer: Kitty Whately.- CHANDOS.
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Richard Birchall
Concerto for basset clarinet and orchestra (3rd mvt)
Performer: Michael Collins. Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra.- BIS.
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Herbert Howells
Nunc dimittis (Gloucester Service)
Performer: Jeremy Cole. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.- HYPERION.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto no.3 in D minor Op.30 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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