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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Martinu's Dance of the Bumble Bee, Essential flute music, Mary Bevan

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

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

0915 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 great pieces of music written for the flute.

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

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Fri 2 Oct 2020 09:00
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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Alessandro (Overture)

    Orchestra: The Brandenburg Consort. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • Handel: Arias and Duets from the era of 'The Rival Queens'.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor, Op.66

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Perahia Plays Chopin.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.

  • Philip Glass

    The Secret Agent

    Ensemble: Cello Octet Conjunto Ib茅rico. Conductor: Elias Arizcuren.

  • Bohuslav Martin暖

    Dance of the Bumblebee (Spalicek)

    Orchestra: Brno Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Conifer.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Overture on Hebrew themes Op.34

    Performer: Annelien Van Wauwe. Performer: Shirely Laub. Performer: Samuel Nemtanu. Performer: Marc Sabbah. Performer: Bruno Philippe. Performer: Lucas Blondeel.
    • Weinberg - Prokofiev.
    • GENUIN.
    • 8.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Academic Festival Overture

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • PHILIPS.

  • E虅riks Es虒envalds

    Rivers of Light

    Choir: Pacific Lutheran University Choir of the West. Conductor: Richard Nance.
    • There Will Come Soft Rains.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 04.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Sinfonia for strings in G minor

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • Venice by Night.
    • Avie.
    • 5-7.

  • Vladimir Peskin

    Trumpet Concerto No. 1 in C Minor: III. Allegro, scherzando

    Performer: Selina Ott. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Roberto Paternostro.
    • Arutiunian, Peskin & Desenclos: Trumpet Concertos.
    • Orfeo.
    • 203.

  • Bernhard Crusell

    Divertimento, Op.9

    Performer: Christopher O'Neal. Ensemble: Fibonacci Sequence.
    • Deux-Elles.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Chant D'Automne

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Sarah Walker.
    • CRD.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    5 Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'

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

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Song of the Flea

    Singer: John Tomlinson. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: David Parry.
    • Great Operatic Arias.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.

  • Claude Debussy

    Sonate en trio (Interlude)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Debussy: Les Chansons de Bilitis etc: The Nash Ensemble.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 5.

  • Thomas Arne

    Where the bee sucks (The Tempest)

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • The pure voice of Emma Kirkby.
    • Decca.
    • 8.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Re-invention No. 2 For Tenor Recorder

    Performer: Genevieve Lacey. Music Arranger: Elena Kats鈥怌hernin. Ensemble: Flinders Quartet.
    • Reinventions.
    • ABC Classics.
    • 1.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Bacchanale (Samson et Dalila)

    Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥� Philharmonie.
    • Saint-Saens: Organ Symphony/Danse Macabre: Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.

  • William Grant Still

    Romance

    Performer: Marcus Eley. Performer: Lucerne DeSa.
    • But Not Forgotten: Music by African-American Composers for clarinet and piano.
    • SONO LUMINUS.
    • 10.

  • Edvard Grieg

    4 Symphonic Dances Op.64 (no.3)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Grieg: Complete Music with Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Flute Sonata

    Performer: Patrick Gallois. Performer: Pascal Rog茅.
    • Decca.

  • Michael Haydn

    Violin Concerto in B flat major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Barnab谩s Kelemen. Orchestra: Erkel Ferenc Kamarazenekar. Director: Barnab谩s Kelemen.
    • J Michael Haydn: Violin Concertos (complete).
    • HUNGAROTON.
    • 003.

  • Oskar Nedbal

    Valse triste

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: V谩clav Neumann.
    • SUPRAPHON.

  • Gottfried Finger

    A Ground in D Minor

    Ensemble: La Cetra Barockorchester Basel. Conductor: Maurice Steger.
    • Mr Handel's Dinner.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 118.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Flight of the Bumblebee arr Palli

    Music Arranger: Ilkka P盲lli. Ensemble: Sinfonia Lahti Cello and Bass Ensemble.
    • Bassic Instincts.
    • BIS.
    • 21.

  • Granville Bantock

    The Pierrot of the Minute

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Bantock: The Song of Songs etc..
    • Hyperion.
    • 006.

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