Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Essential Haydn, Steven Devine
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1100 Essential Five 鈥� this week we bring you five great pieces of music composed by Joseph Haydn.
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Edward Elgar
The Wild Bears (The Wand of Youth Suite no.2)
Orchestra: Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- Elgar: The Starlight Express: Welsh National Opera Orchestra/Mackerras.
- Argo.
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Erik Satie
Danses de travers, no.2 from Pi猫ce froide
Performer: David Greilsammer.- Naive.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Fantasia in D minor, Wq 117/4
Performer: David Greilsammer.- Naive.
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Erik Satie
Danses de travers, no.3 from Pi猫ce froide
Performer: David Greilsammer.- Naive.
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Jan Ladislav Dussek
Messe Solemnelle - Gloria
Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Richard Egarr. Choir: Academy of Ancient Music Chorus.- AAM Records.
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Anthony Hedges
Humber Keel Hornpipe (Scenes from the Humber)
Orchestra: RT脡 Sinfonietta. Conductor: Anthony Hedges.- Hedges: British Light Music: RTE Sinfonietta/Hedges.
- Naxos.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto no.2 in F major BWV.1047
Ensemble: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.- J.S.Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1, 2, 3: Reinhard Goebel.
- Archiv Produktion.
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Eric Whitacre
Lux aurumque
Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.- Decca.
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Franz Schubert
Sonata In B Flat Major D.960 For Piano
Performer: Krystian Zimerman.- Schubert: Piano Sonatas D959 and D960.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Gustav Holst
March (A Moorside Suite)
Performer: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Garry Cutt.- Brass From The Masters Vol. 2:.
- Chandos.
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Emmanuel Chabrier
Bourr茅e fantasque
Orchestrator: Felix Mottl. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- Chabrier: Orchestral Works: Jarvi.
- Chandos.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quintet no.4 in G minor K516
Performer: Timothy Ridout. Ensemble: Quatuor Arod. -
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Dreamers鈥� Circus
Bubbles in Central Park
Performer: Dreamers鈥� Circus.- Vertical Records.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Aria da capo)
Performer: Steven Devine.- J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations: Devine.
- Chaconne.
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Pixinguinha
Vou Vivendo
Music Arranger: Radam茅s Gnattali. Ensemble: Camerata Brasil.- EMI.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Sea and Sinbad's Ship (Scheherazade Op.35)
Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.- LAWO.
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Alfonso X el Sabio
Saltarello [Cantigas de Santa Maria no.77-119]
Performer: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.- Orient - Occident 1200-1700.
- Alia Vox.
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Percy Grainger
The Lost Lady Found (A Lincolnshire Posy)
Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.- Grainger: Works for Wind Orchestra: RNCM WInd Orchestra, Reynish, Rundell.
- Chandos.
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Percy Grainger
Brigg Fair for tenor and chorus
Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Singer: Robert Johnson. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- The music of Percy Grainger: Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner.
- Philips.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
La Tarantelle Fretillante from Petite Suite de Concert, Op.77
Orchestra: RT脡 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Leaper.- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, orchestral works.
- MARCO POLO.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.- WARNER.
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Joseph Haydn
The heavens are telling (The Creation)
Singer: Sylvia McNair. Singer: Michael Schade. Singer: Gerald Finley. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists.- Haydn: The Creation: John Eliot Gardiner.
- Archiv Produktion.
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Meredith Monk
Ellis Island
Performer: Ursula Oppens. Performer: Bruce Brubaker.- ECM.
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George Gershwin
Cuban Overture
Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.- Barber/Bernstein/Gershwin/Copland: Great American Showpieces.
- EMI.
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Paul McCartney
Junk
Ensemble: The Loma Mar Quartet.- Decca.
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Peter Gregson
Found
Performer: Peter Gregson.- SONO LUMINUS.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and fugue (BWV 846) in C major
Performer: Angela Hewitt.- Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier: Angela Hewitt.
- Hyperion.
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Fran莽ois Franc艙ur
Symphonies pour le Festin Royal du Comte d'Artois (Suite No 1: Overture)
Ensemble: Ensemble Stradivaria. Director: Daniel Cuiller.- Francois Francoeur/Jean-Philippe Rameau: Suites de Simphoines: Daniel Cuiller.
- Cypres.
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Gy枚rgy Ligeti
Romanian Concerto
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Jonathan Nott.- WARNER.
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