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Ian Skelly with essential music for children and Smyth's The Wreckers

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

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

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

1010 Essential Symphony 鈥� a movement from the 成人快手 archive, plus the whole performance available online.

1100 Essential Five 鈥� this week we suggest five pieces of music for children.

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

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Fri 5 Jun 2020 09:00
成人快手 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in D for 3 horns and violin (1st mvt)

    Performer: Anthony Halstead. Performer: Christian Rutherford. Performer: Ra煤l D铆az. Performer: Simon Standage. Director: Simon Standage. Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90.
    • Telemann: Alster-Overture, Concerto in D etc.: CM90, Standage.
    • Chandos.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Nocturne in D flat major, Op.27 no.2

    Performer: Ingrid Fliter.
    • LINN.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Romeo and Juliet - Dance of the Knights

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Z眉rich. Conductor: Michail Jurowski.
    • Accentus.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor, Op 10 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Quintet; Clarinet Quintet.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.

  • Percy Grainger

    Molly on the Shore

    Ensemble: Kongelige norske marines musikkorps. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.
    • Grainger: Complete Music for Wind Band, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Ethel Smyth

    The Wreckers (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Gibson.
    • EMI.

  • Mauro Giuliani

    Guitar Concerto No.1 in A Major, Op.30: III. Polonaise (Allegretto)

    Performer: 脕ngel Romero. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Raymond Leppard.
    • Giuliani: Guitar Concertos No. 1&3, Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Richard Wagner

    Good Friday Music (Parsifal)

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.

  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Ornamental Air (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Collins.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 38 in D major, K 504, 'Prague'

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Matthias Pintscher.

  • Barbara Strozzi

    Che Si Puo Fare Op.8 no.6

    Singer: Simone Kermes. Ensemble: La magnifica comunit脿. Director: Enrico Casazza.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Sonata no.1 in G major Op.78 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Brahms Violin Sonatas.
    • DECCA.
    • 002.

  • Clara Schumann

    Loreley

    Singer: Susan Gritton. Performer: Eugene Asti.
    • Hyperion.

  • Thea Musgrave

    Turbulent Landscapes (The Shipwreck)

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.
    • NMC.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Pirates of Penzance (With cat-like tread)

    Librettist: William Gilbert. Ensemble: The D鈥橭yly Carte Opera Company. Conductor: John Pryce-Jones.
    • THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT.

  • William Lawes

    Royall consort suite no. 8 in C major

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Phantasm. Director: Laurence Dreyfus.
    • LINN.

  • Bill Evans

    Waltz for Debbie

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • Jean-Yves Thibaudet: Conversations with Bill Evans.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Benjamin Britten

    The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Fugue)

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

  • Jennifer Higdon

    All Things Majestic (Cathedrals)

    Orchestra: Nashville Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero.
    • Higdon: All Things Majestic, Viola Concerto & Oboe Concerto (Live).
    • Naxos.
    • 304.

  • Louis Couperin

    Suite in D minor - Sarabande

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Couperin: Dances From The Bauyn Manuscript.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

  • George Gershwin

    Rhapsody in Blue

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • DECCA.

  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Violin concerto no.10 in D major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Zhou Qian. Orchestra: Toronto Camerata. Conductor: Kevin Mallon.

  • Franz Schubert

    Heidenr枚slein, D 257

    Performer: Christoph Eschenbach. Singer: Ren茅e Fleming.
    • Renee Fleming - Schubert Lieder.
    • Decca.
    • 001.

  • Gustav Holst

    A Moorside Suite

    Performer: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Garry Cutt.
    • Chandos.

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