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Ian Skelly with The Lass of Richmond Hill, Essential Trumpet Concertos, Monteverdi's Loveliest Nightingale

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.

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1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we suggest five essential trumpet concertos.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 49 in F minor 'La passione', Presto (Finale)

    Performer: Joseph Haydn. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Richard Egarr.
    • Birth of the symphony: Handel to Haydn.
    • AAM RECORDS.
    • 017.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Oboe Sonata in D major, Op 166

    Performer: Gareth Hulse. Performer: Ian Brown.
    • HYPERION.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Oblivion, arranged for Violin & Strings

    Performer: Katherine Hunka. Orchestra: Irish Chamber Orchestra.
    • Piazzolla, Schubert & Schnittke: Works for Violin & Chamber Orchestra.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 7.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Dolcissimo uscignolo [Loveliest nightingale]

    Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Director: Paul Agnew.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Rhapsody in A flat major, Op.45 No.3

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in A minor, K 511

    Performer: Fou Ts'ong.
    • Mozart: Great Piano Works: Fou Ts'Ong.
    • Carlton Classics.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Wedding March (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op 61)

    Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs鈥惷塴ys茅es. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Herreweghe.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Nick Drake

    Time Has Told Me

    • Island Records.
  • James Hook

    The Lass of Richmond Hill

    Singer: Joseph Cornwell. Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Director: Peter Holman.
    • Fairest Isle - A New National Songbook: Bott/Cornwell/Parley of Instruments/Holm.
    • Hyperion.
  • Gustav Holst

    Good Friday (Six Choruses, Op 53)

    Performer: Diana Cummings. Choir: Holst Singers. Orchestra: The Holst Orchestra. Conductor: Hilary Davan Wetton.
    • Holst: The Evening Watch: Holst Singers & Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No.3 in E flat major (Op.97) "Rhenish"

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • GB成人快手.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Cello Concerto in A minor, RV 419

    Performer: Christophe Coin. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • NAIVE.
  • Pau Casals

    Song of the Birds (El Cant del Ocells)

    Performer: Pau Casals. Orchestra: Prades Festival Orchestra.
    • CBS.
  • Cl茅ment Janequin

    Le chant des oiseaux

    Performer: Ensemble Cl茅ment Janequin.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Claude Debussy

    Petite suite

    Music Arranger: Henri B眉sser. Orchestra: Lyon Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Jun M盲rkl.
    • NAXOS.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Nocturne

    Performer: Andrew Matthews-Owen.
    • Halo, Music for Piano.
    • NIMBUS ALLIANCE.
    • 20.
  • Alexander Arutunyan

    Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra

    Performer: Maurice Murphy. Ensemble: Consort of London. Director: Robert Haydon Clark.
    • Collins Classics.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite in F major, HWV 348, 'Water Music' (Aria)

    Conductor: Nicholas McGegan. Orchestra: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale.
    • Handel: Water Musick: Nicholas McGegan.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Songs My Mother Taught Me (with Nightingales)

    Performer: Beatrice Harrison.
    • HMV.
  • Tom谩s Luis de Victoria

    Lamed (Lamentations of Jeremiah - Good Friday)

    Conductor: Peter Phillips. Choir: Tallis Scholars.
    • Victoria: Lamentations of Jeremiah. The Tallis Scholars.
    • Gimell.
    • 5.
  • Hugo Wolf

    Italian Serenade arr for strings

    Orchestra: Saito Kinen Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Dvorak, Bartok, Wolf: Saito Kinen, Ozawa.
    • Philips.
    • 6.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Study in A flat major, Op.25 no.1

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Chopin: Etudes Op.10 & Op.25: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 20.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony in D minor, 'Youth'

    Orchestra: Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • DECCA.

Broadcast

  • Fri 10 Apr 2020 09:00

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