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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Bryn Terfel, Essential Shakespeare, Glass's Dance from Akhnaten

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 Well known musicians reveal their personal favourite performers.

1100 Essential Five 鈥� this week we bring you five pieces inspired by Shakespeare.

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

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Thu 3 Sep 2020 09:00
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Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Quintet in E flat major Op.16 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Eric Le Sage. Ensemble: Les Vents Fran莽ais.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

    Music Arranger: Jesse Diener-Bennett. Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Orchestra: The Knights. Conductor: Eric Jacobsen.
    • Golijov: Azul.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 102.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.98 in B flat major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Haydn: 7 "London" Symphonies: COE, Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Das Lied von der Erde (Der Trunkene im Fruhling)

    Singer: Robert Dean Smith. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Pastorale

    Performer: Emily Beynon. Performer: Andrew West.
    • HYPERION.

  • Philip Glass

    Akhnaten (Dance)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Takuo Yuasa.
    • NAXOS.

  • Henry Purcell

    Rejoice in the Lord alway, Z.49, 'Bell Anthem'

    Singer: Iestyn Davies. Singer: James Gilchrist. Singer: Neal Davies. Choir: Choir of St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Orchestra: St John's Sinfonia. Director: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • My Beloved Spake: Anthems by Purcell and Humfrey.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.

  • Claude Debussy

    Reflets dans l'eau (Images, Set 1)

    Performer: Jeremy Denk.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Symphony no.2 in G minor Op.34 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Lindberg.
    • Stenhammar: Symphony No. 2; Ett Drompsel.
    • BIS.
    • 3.

  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Recuerdos de viaje Op.71 (Rumores de la Caleta)

    Performer: Simeon Simov.
    • Spanish Guitar Masterpieces.
    • Naxos.
    • 101.

  • Florence Price

    Symphony no.1 in E Minor (Juba Dance)

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4.
    • Naxos.
    • 103.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Be not afraid (Elijah Op.70)

    Choir: Edinburgh Festival Chorus. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Paul Daniel.
    • Decca.

  • Meirion Williams

    Gwynfyd

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Performer: Annette Bryn Parri.
    • The Songs of Meirion Williams.
    • Sain.
    • 2.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Introduction, Theme and Variations

    Performer: Diego Dini Ciacci. Orchestra: Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto.
    • Italian Oboe Concertos: Diego Dini Ciacci.
    • CPO.
    • 5.

  • Maurice Jarre

    Building the Barn (Witness)

    Orchestra: City of Prague Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Bateman.
    • Silva Screen.

  • Richard Wagner

    Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla (Das Rheingold)

    Music Arranger: Leopold Stokowski. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jos茅 Serebrier.
    • Stokowski Transcriptions.
    • Naxos.
    • 301.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet no.9 in G minor, D.173 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • BIS.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Concerto no.22 in D minor Wq.22 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Ensemble: Potsdam Chamber Academy. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • C. P. E. Bach: Flute Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Henry Purcell

    Hole in the Wall [Hornpipe] (Abdelazer)

    Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Music Arranger: Barokksolistene. Performer: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene.
    • The Alehouse Sessions.
    • RUBICON.
    • 6.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Serenade to Music

    Singer: Soloists. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Matthew Best.
    • Hyperion.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Valse (Suite no.2 Op.17)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Lowell Liebermann

    Revelry

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Grant Llewellyn.
    • Lowell Liebermann: Revelry.
    • Albany Records.
    • 4.

  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F major D.803 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Anne Katharina Schreiber. Performer: Danusha Waskiewicz. Performer: Kristin von der Goltz. Performer: James Munro. Performer: Lorenzo Coppola. Performer: Teunis van der Zwart. Performer: Javier Zafra.
    • Schubert: Oktett.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 102.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle in C major Op.119 no.2

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Beethoven: Alfred Brendel plays, vol.4.
    • Vox Box.
    • 36.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Vetrate di Chiesa (San Gregorio Magno)

    Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Li猫ge. Conductor: John Neschling.
    • Respighi: Vetrate di chiesa, Il tramonto & Trittico botticelliano.
    • BIS.
    • 304.

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