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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Anna Chancellor, New Year New Music

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly.

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

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 As part of New Year New Music, Radio 3 presenter Verity Sharp introduces a favourite piece of music written since the millennium.

1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the actress Anna Chancellor.

1110 Essential Five 鈥 this week we suggest five essential Romantic violin concertos.

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Henry Purcell

    If music be the food of love

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Performer: Richard Campbell.
    • bis.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Saint Paul, Op.36 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs鈥惷塴ys茅es. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Mendelssohn: Paulus.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 01.
  • Max Bruch

    Kol nidrei Op.47 for cello

    Performer: Natalie Clein. Orchestra: 成人快手 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • Hyperion.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op.71 No.2 Hob III:70; I. Adagio

    Ensemble: Kitgut Quartet.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Erik Satie

    Jack in the Box

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
  • Richard Strauss

    Serenade in E flat

    Performer: Alexei Ogrintchouk. Ensemble: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Director: Alexei Ogrintchouk.
    • R. Strauss: Oboe Concerto, Serenade & Sonatina No. 2.
    • BIS.
    • 5.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O vis aeternitatis

    Music Arranger: Grete Pedersen. Performer: Gjermund Larsen. Performer: Bjorn Kjellemyr. Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.
    • BIS.
  • 脡mile Waldteufel

    The Skaters, Op.183

    • The Great Waltzes: The Essential Collection.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Thomas Alexander Erskine

    Lord Kelly's Reel

    Ensemble: Concerto Caledonia. Director: David McGuinness.
    • Linn.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Rondo capriccio in G major Op.129 'Rage over a Lost Penny'

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • DG.
  • Emily Hall

    Eternity

    Singer: Olivia Chaney.
    • bigo & twigetti.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G major, BWV 1049

    Performer: Enrico Onofri. Performer: Giovanni Antonini. Performer: Petr Zejfart. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • J.S. Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos; Il Giardino Armonico.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Percy Grainger

    Handel in the Strand

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Grainger: Solo Piano Music: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.
  • Leopold Mozart

    'Toy' Symphony in C major

    Ensemble: Kremerata Baltica. Director: Gidon Kremer.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Scott Joplin

    Elite Syncopations

    Performer: Joshua Rifkin.
    • Joplin: Piano Rags: Joshua Rifkin.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Ruckert-Lieder)

    Singer: Ruby Hughes. Orchestra: 成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Jac van Steen.
    • Clytemnestra: Orchestral Songs.
    • BIS.
    • 3.
  • Claude Debussy

    Fanfare Overture (King Lear orch Roger-Ducasse)

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
    • Simon Rattle on EMI Classics.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Franz Schubert

    Musical Moment in C sharp minor, D.780 no 4

    Performer: Ll欧r Williams.
    • Ll欧r Williams: Schubert, Vol. 1.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 8.
  • Enya

    May It Be

    Music Arranger: Matt Sheeran. Performer: VOCES8.
    • Enchanted Isle.
    • Decca Classics.
    • 4.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Violin Concerto in D minor, Op 47 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Thomas S酶nderg氓rd.
    • Sibelius Prokofiev: Violin Concerto.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • L茅o Delibes

    Waltz (Coppelia)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de l鈥橭p茅ra de Lyon. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • Delibes: Coppelia: Orchestre de l'opera de Lyon/Nagano.
    • Erato.
    • 2.
  • John Dowland

    Semper Dowland, semper dolens

    Performer: Paul O鈥橠ette.
    • John Dowland: Complete Lute Works, vol. 1-5: Paul O'Dette.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 21.
  • George Gershwin

    Promenade 'Walking the Dog'

    Music Arranger: Michael Tilson Thomas. Performer: Michael Tilson Thomas. Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic.
    • CBS.
  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    The Musical Snuff-Box, Op.32

    Orchestra: Mexico Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Enrique B谩tiz.
    • ASV.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Nocturne in G minor, Op.37 no.1

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.
    • Chopin: The Nocturnes: Maria Joao Pires.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    English Folk Song Suite

    Orchestrator: Gordon Jacob. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Naxos.

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  • Thu 9 Jan 2020 09:00

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