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Ian Skelly with Essential Piano Duets and Copland's Appalachian Spring

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

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

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

1010 Essential Symphony – a movement from the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ archive, plus the whole performance available online.

1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five great pieces for piano duet.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Quintet in D major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: London Soloists Ensemble.
    • Vaughan Williams: Piano Quintet.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Romance in F major for violin and orchestra, Op 50

    Performer: Kyung-wha Chung. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Beethoven: Triple Concerto/Violin Romances: Chung Trio/Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Cyrillus Kreek

    The sun shall not smite you (Psalms of David)

    Choir: Vox Clamantis. Conductor: Jaan-Eik Tulve.
    • ECM.
  • Jean Françaix

    Wind Quartet

    Ensemble: Bergen Wind Quintet.
    • Francaix: Chamber Music for Winds: Bergen Wind Quintet.
    • Bis.
    • 10-13.
  • Aaron Copland

    Appalachian Spring

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • BMG.
  • Judith Bingham

    Gleams of a Remoter World

    Choir: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Singers. Conductor: David Hill.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in C major, Op.33`3 'The Bird' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Franz Schubert

    An die Musik, D 547

    Singer: Felicity Lott. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • Felicity Lott sings Schubert.
    • I.M.P. Classics.
    • 6.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No.8 in G major (Op.88)

    Ensemble: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • GB³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ.
  • Josef Suk

    Elegie Op.23

    Performer: Josef Suk. Performer: František Host. Orchestra: Sukův komorní orchestr.
    • Suk: Chamber Works.
    • Supraphon.
    • 13.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Exsultate, jubilate, K 165

    Singer: Barbara Hendricks. Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 14.
  • Franz Liszt

    Au bord d'une source (Années de pèlerinage I)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Murray Perahia Plays Franck & Liszt.
    • Sony.
    • 8.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Introduction; Sarabande of the Sons of God (Job - A Masque for Dancing)

    Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones. Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North.
    • Naxos.
  • Herbert Howells

    The House Of The Mind

    Ensemble: Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford. Performer: David Bednall. Director: Owen Rees.
    • The House Of The Mind.
    • SIGNUM.
    • 6.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata in C major for piano duet, K 521 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Imogen Cooper. Performer: Anne Queffélec.
    • Mozart: Piano works for four hands: Imogen Cooper & Anne Queffelec.
    • Ottavo.
    • 4.
  • Alessandro Marcello

    Oboe concerto in D minor

    Performer: Ewan Miller. Performer: Adrienne Black.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Infelice, Op 94

    Singer: Janet Baker. Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Brahms/Mendelssohn: Dame Janet Baker/Richard Hickox.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 6.
  • Clarence Cameron White

    Basque folk song

    Performer: Marcus Eley. Performer: Lucerne DeSa.
    • Sono Luminus.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Photography (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestra X. Conductor: Nicholas Kok.
    • NMC.
  • Richard Wagner

    Die Feen (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Wagner: Tristan und Isolde/Overtures; Neeme Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Sonata for clarinet and bassoon

    Performer: Richard Hosford. Performer: Ursula Leveaux.
    • Poulenc: Complete Chamber Music: Nash Ensemble.
    • HYPERION.
    • 13.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Salve Regina 1

    Singer: Véronique Gens. Singer: Gérard Lesne. Ensemble: Il Seminario Musicale.
    • Ombra Mai Fu: Gerard Lesne.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 8.

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  • Mon 11 May 2020 09:00

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