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Friday with Ian Skelly - Cave of Harmony, Saint-Saens, Gyles Brandreth

Ian Skelly with the best in classical music, plus this week's guest, Gyles Brandreth.

Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music, including Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, a beautiful "Credo" by Gavin Bryars and a suite of waltzes by French composer Melanie Bonis.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. Today music to complement the shimmering "Aquarium" from "Carnival of the Animals" by Saint-Saens.
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history. Matthew Sweet tells of an unusual London nightclub run by none other than the Bride of Frankenstein...
1050 This week Ian's guest is the writer, broadcaster, and former MP, Gyles Brandreth, who talks about some of the things that have inspired him throughout his life and career. Today Gyles waxes lyrical about the city of Edinburgh.

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Fri 3 Aug 2018 09:00
成人快手 Radio 3

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Music and featured items

  • Franz Krommer

    Concerto in E flat major for 2 Clarinets, Op 35 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Andrzej Godek. Performer: Barbara Borowicz. Orchestra: Huberman Philharmonic Czestochowa. Conductor: Adam Klocek.
    • Dux.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    The Creatures of Prometheus trancr. for piano. Finale

    Performer: Leslie Howard.
    • Heritage.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Silete venti, HWV.242 (Date serta)

    Singer: Grace Davidson. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music.
    • Vivaldi & Handel.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 104.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Valse m茅lancolique (Suite No 3 in G major, Op 55)

    Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Tchaikovsky: Complete Orchestral Suites: Stuttgart RSO, Marriner.
    • Brilliant.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Aquarium (Carnival of the Animals)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • Sir Charles' Precious Music Box 1, Groves, Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • DENON.
    • 22.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 73 in D major, 'La chasse' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Gavin Bryars

    Credo (A Worcester Ladymass)

    Ensemble: Trio Medi忙val.
    • ECM.

  • Le贸 Weiner

    Ballad for viola and orchestra, Op 28

    Performer: Mate Szucs. Orchestra: Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Val茅ria Cs谩nyi.
    • NAXOS.

  • Siri Dyvik

    Travel set

    Composer: Nils 脴kland. Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Conductor: Bjarte Eike.
    • The Alehouse Sessions.
    • RUBICON.
    • 9.

  • Time Traveller: The Cave Of Harmony

    Duration: 02:09

  • Eric Coates

    Covent Garden (London (London every day) suite)

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Performer: Rumon Gamba.
    • Chandos.

  • Mel Bonis

    Suite en forme de valses

    Orchestra: Bucharest Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Beno卯t Fromanger.
    • Chant de Linos.

  • Claude Debussy

    Poissons d'or (Images, Set 2)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete Works for Piano: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.

  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets, Op 32 (Neptune, the Mystic)

    Orchestra: National Youth Orchestra. Choir: CBSO Youth Chorus. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Holst: The Planets / Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra.
    • Chandos.
    • 16.

  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    Sonata in A minor, Op 3 No 4

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Performer: G枚ran S枚llscher.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 6.

  • Cultural Inspirations: Gyles Brandreth on the City of Edinburgh

    Duration: 04:59

  • [traditional]

    The Dean Brig o' Edinburgh; Banks Hornpipe

    Composer: James Scott Skinner. Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Phil Cunningham.
    • 顿贰颁颁础鈥�.

  • Samuel Barber

    Violin Concerto, Op.14

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • DECCA.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Mazurka in B flat major Op.32

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Hyperion.

  • Thomas Tomkins

    When David heard that Absalom was slain

    Ensemble: Gesualdo Six. Conductor: Owain Park.
    • English Motets.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in F major, K 138

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Jane Glover.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 14.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony no.3 in E flat major, Op.97 'Rhenish' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Schumann: Complete Symphonies: John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Fri 3 Aug 2018 09:00
    成人快手 Radio 3

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