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Ian Skelly with Essential Rhapsodies and Chopin's Raindrop Prelude

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

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

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we bring you five musical rhapsodies.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • George Lloyd

    John Socman (Overture)

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: George Lloyd.
    • George Lloyd: Overture: John Socman.
    • Troy.
    • 1.
  • Kate Whitley

    Ripples

    Performer: Hyeyoon Park. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
  • Joanna Lee

    Midnight Feast

    Performer: Hyeyoon Park. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Many Voices: 10 New Pieces for Violin.
    • NMC Recordings.
    • 801.
  • Jean Cras

    Suite en duo (Danse 脿 onze temps. Tr猫s anim茅)

    Performer: Fr茅d茅ric Chatoux. Performer: Emmanuel Ceysson.
    • After a dream.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 107.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Spartacus

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Chandos.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Prelude in D flat major 'Raindrop' (24 Preludes Op.28)

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Fur Elise, Piano Music by Beethoven, Chopin, etc.: Ashkenezy etc..
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Oboe d'amore concerto in E minor

    Performer: Carin van Heerden. Orchestra: Orfeo Baroque Orchestra. Director: Michi Gaigg.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No.92 in G major 'Oxford' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs.
    • Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 91 & 92: Rene Jacobs.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 5.
  • Max Reger

    Clarinet Quintet in A Major, Op. 146: II. Vivace

    Performer: Thorsten Johanns. Ensemble: Diogenes Quartett.
    • Reger: Clarinet Quintet in A Major, Op. 146 & String Sextet in F Major, Op. 118.
    • CPO.
    • 102.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Prelude in D flat major 'Raindrop' (24 Preludes Op.28)

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Fur Elise, Piano Music by Beethoven, Chopin, etc.: Ashkenezy etc..
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Messiah: Worthy is the Lamb - Amen

    Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Director: William Christie.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Henri Vieuxtemps

    Viola Sonata in B flat major Op.36 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.
    • Bel Canto: The Voice of the Viola.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 102.
  • Sir George Dyson

    Overture - At the Tabard Inn (The Canterbury Pilgrims)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: Tieteberga, RV 737: "Sento in seno ch'in pioggia di lagrime" (Lotario)

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Ensemble: Ensemble Matheus. Conductor: Jean鈥怌hristophe Spinosi.
    • Vivaldi: Heroes.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 112.
  • Claude Debussy

    Gardens in the Rain

    Performer: Isao Tomita.
    • RCA Red Seal.
  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Asturias (Suite espa帽ola)

    Music Arranger: John Williams. Performer: John Williams.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Michel Farinel

    Faronell's Division on a Ground (1684)

    Music Arranger: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Altre Follie 1500-1750: Hesperion XXI/Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 9.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.7 in A major Op.92 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 7-9: John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 2.
  • Gilbert Vinter

    Hunter's Moon

    Performer: David Pyatt. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite.
    • British Horn Concertos: Pyatt/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Braithwaite.
    • Lyrita.
  • Claude Debussy

    Premi猫re rhapsodie for clarinet and piano

    Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Roland P枚ntinen.
    • BIS.
  • Georges Bizet

    Petite Suite 'Jeux d'enfants'

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Bizet: Symphony in C etc.: Concertgebouw Orchestra/Haitink.
    • Philips.
    • 5.
  • Peteris Vasks

    The Lonely Angel

    Performer: Fenella Humphreys. Orchestra: Covent Garden Sinfonia. Conductor: Ben Palmer.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Recomposed by Max Richter.
    • Rubicon.
    • 113.
  • Anonymous Brazilian

    Tarambote

    Ensemble: Ensemble Turicum. Director: Luiz Alves da Silva. Director: Mathias Weibel.
    • K617.
  • Carter Pann

    SLALOM

    Orchestra: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • CSO Media.

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