Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Essential Haydn, Alexis Ffrench, Liszt's Mephisto Waltz
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 favourite performers.
1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five great pieces of music composed by Joseph Haydn.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
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Bohuslav Martinů
A Lobster Falls in Love with a Pearl (On Tourne)
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.- Supraphon.
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Darius Milhaud
Duo concertante Op.351
Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.- CHANDOS.
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Roxanna Panufnik
Kyrie (after Byrd)
Choir: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Franz Liszt
Mephisto Waltz no.2 S.515
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.- EMI.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio espagnol Op.34
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Doráti.- MERCURY.
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Gabriel Fauré
Les Beceaux (3 Songs Op.23)
Singer: Sabine Devieilhe. Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.- ERATO.
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Gabriel Fauré
Chanson d'Amour (2 Songs Op.27)
Singer: Sabine Devieilhe. Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.- ERATO.
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Charles Avison
Concerto in 4 parts in D major, Op.9`2
Performer: Pavlo Beznosiuk. Ensemble: Avison Ensemble.- The Avison Ensemble: Avison: Concerti Grossi, op. 9 & op. 10.
- Divine Art.
- 5.
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Karl Davydov
At the Fountain, Op.20 no.2
Performer: Leonid Gorokhov. Performer: Colin Stone.- Olympia.
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John Williams
Raiders March (Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark)
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: John Williams.- DG.
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Wynton Marsalis
Violin Concerto in D Major (1st mvt)
Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Cristian Măcelaru.- Decca.
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Herbert L. Clarke
The Debutante
Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. Director: Donald Hunsberger.- CBS.
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Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegel
Music Arranger: Franz Hasenöhrl. Performer: Stephen Stirling. Ensemble: Fibonacci Sequence.- The Fibonacci Sequence - Horn.
- Deux-Elles.
- 1.
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Charles Gounod
Bacchanalia (Faust)
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.- MERCURY.
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Giuseppe Tartini
Sonata in G minor B.g5 (Devil's trill) for violin and continuo (conclusion)
Performer: Gil Shaham. Performer: Jonathan Feldman.- DG.
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Thomas Adès
Powder Her Face - suite
Orchestra: The National Youth Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Daniel.- Ades: Tevot, Violin Concerto, Three Studies.
- EMI.
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Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in D major Op.64`5 'The Lark'
Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Luisa Miller (Overture)
Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Verdi: 7 Overtures: NPO, Chailly.
- Decca.
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Franz Schubert
Im Frühling, D.882
Singer: Margaret Price. Performer: Graham Johnson.- FORLANE.
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Andrzej Panufnik
Concerto Festivo (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrzej Panufnik.- UNICORN-KANCHANA.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Machs mit mir, Gott, nach deiner gut BWV.957
Performer: Christopher Herrick.- Bach - The Neumeister Chorales.
- Hyperion.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Piano Concerto no.1 in D flat major Op.10
Performer: Evgeny Kissin. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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