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Wednesday with Ian Skelly - A Clockwork Blackbird, Griff Rhys Jones, Beethoven's Bagatelle No 1

The best in classical music, plus Griff Rhys Jones' cultural inspirations.

Essential Classics - the best in classical music. With Ian Skelly.

0930 Your ideas for potential companion pieces for a well-known piece of music.
1010 Time Traveller - a quirky slice of cultural history.
1050 Griff Rhys Jones on the things that have inspired and influenced him throughout his life and career.

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Wed 27 Dec 2017 09:00
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Music Played

  • Jean Fran莽aix

    Sonatine

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • WARNER.

  • Johannes Brahms

    4 Ballades Op.10 for piano: no.1 in D minor 'Edward'

    Performer: Nelly Akopian-Tamarina.
    • Pentatone.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Va tacito (Giulio Cesare)

    Singer: Janet Baker. Performer: Frank Lloyd. Orchestra: The English National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Handel: Julius Caesar (highlights): Mackerras.
    • EMI.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Trumpet Overture in C major, op. 101

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle in E flat major, Op 33 No 1

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Beethoven: Bagatelles: Steven Osborne.
    • Hyperion.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quartet for oboe and strings (K.370) in F major

    Performer: Neil Black. Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Quintet/Horn Quintet/Oboe Quartet: Academy of St. Martin in the.
    • Philips.
    • 8.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    American Overture

    Orchestra: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Exton.

  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Trio in G minor, Op.17 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Antje Weithaas. Performer: Tanja Tetzlaff. Performer: Gunilla S眉ssmann.
    • AVI Music.

  • Henry Purcell

    Suite from Abdelazer

    Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Director: Roy Goodman.
    • The Complete Ayres for the Theatre.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Fantasie in F minor for piano duet, D 940

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Franz Schubert Piano Duets; Steven Osbourne / Paul Lewis.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Queen of Spades (Act 3, Sc 1-2)

    Performer: Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir. Singer: Misha Didyk. Singer: Tatiana Serjan. Singer: Larissa Diadkova. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • BR Klassik: 900129.
    • BR Klassik.
    • 1.

  • Edward Elgar

    Harmony No.4 'The Farmyard'

    Ensemble: Athena Ensemble.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 83 in G minor, 'The Hen'

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Sigiswald Kuijken.
    • Virgin.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in G major, Op 79, 'The Cuckoo'

    Performer: Rudolf Buchbinder.
    • Sony.

  • Herbert Howells

    Take him, earth, for cherishing

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Constant Lambert

    Prize Fight

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Lambert: Piano concerto (1924): 成人快手CO, Wordsworth.
    • ASV.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet in D major, K.155

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • DG.

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  • Wed 27 Dec 2017 09:00
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