Ian Skelly with Elin Manahan Thomas, Walton's Portsmouth Point, essential Halloween music
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 鈥 this week we bring you five great pieces of music for Halloween
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Robert Schumann
Widmung
Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Tom Poster.- Champs Hill Records.
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Jean Sibelius
Scherzo for strings
Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.- Sibelius: Orchestral Works: Vanska/Jarvi.
- BIS.
- 6.
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Hildegard von Bingen
O virtus sapientiae
Ensemble: Sequentia.- Hildegard Von Bingen: Symphoniae: Sequentia.
- DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
- 8.
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William Walton
Portsmouth Point - overture
Orchestra: 成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.- Chandos.
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George Frideric Handel
Concerto grosso in D major Op.3`6
Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen. Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen.- CPO.
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Dilys Elwyn-Edwards
Y Griafolen [The Rowan]
Singer: Elin Manahan Thomas. Performer: Jocelyn Freeman.- Mae Hiraeth yn y M么r.
- T欧 Cerdd Records.
- 13.
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Leonard Bernstein
Prologue (West Side Story)
Performer: Gwendolyn Masin. Ensemble: Melisma Saxophone Quartet. Music Arranger: Henk Huizinga.- Bernstein: West Side Story (Arr. H. Huizinga for Violin & Saxophone Quartet) [Li.
- Orchid Classics.
- 1.
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Franz Schubert
Rondo in A major, D.951
Performer: Paul Lewis. Performer: Steven Osborne.- Franz Schubert Piano Duets; Steven Osborne / Paul Lewis.
- Hyperion.
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Eric Whitacre
I carry your heart with me
Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.- UNQUIET.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
3 Symphonic dances Op.45 (no.2)
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- Warner Classics.
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Richard Strauss
Heimliche Aufforderung Op.27`3
Singer: Steve Davislim. Orchestra: Orchestra Victoria. Conductor: Simone Young.- Melba.
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Francis Poulenc
Piano Concerto (1st mvt)
Performer: Pascal Rog茅. Orchestra: London Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Warren鈥怗reen.- Ravel - Faur茅 - Poulenc - Ibert.
- Signum Classics.
- 301.
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Lord Berners
Hornpipe (The Triumph of Neptune)
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.- EMI.
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Doreen Carwithen
Suffolk Morris: Ritmico (Suffolk Suite)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- Carwithen: Orchestral Music.
- Chandos.
- 008.
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Charles Villiers Stanford
Drake's Drum (Songs of the Sea, Op.91)
Singer: Gerald Finley. Choir: 成人快手 National Chorus of Wales. Orchestra: 成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- Chandos.
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Arthur Sullivan
H.M.S. Pinafore (Overture)
Orchestra: Orchestra of Scottish Opera. Conductor: Richard Egarr.- Gilbert & Sullivan: HMS Pinafore.
- LINN.
- 1.
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Joseph Haydn
Mass in D minor H.22.11 'Nelson Mass' (Agnus Dei)
Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- Haydn: Nelson Mass, Arianna e Naxos, Berenice che fai?.
- DECCA.
- 11.
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Claude Debussy
Pour le piano (Toccata)
Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.- Debussy, Preludes etc.: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
- Decca.
- 21.
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Caroline Shaw
Second Essay: Echo
Ensemble: Calidore String Quartet.- Babel: Schumann, Shaw, Shostakovich.
- Signum Classics.
- 6.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Symphony in F Major, Wq.175
Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Director: Bernhard Forck.- Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 - C.P.E. Bach: Symphonies, Wq 175 & 183/17.
- harmonia mundi.
- 101.
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Modest Mussorgsky
A Night on the Bare Mountain
Orchestrator: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.- Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition etc.: Jansons.
- EMI Classics.
- 16.
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An-Lun Huang
Prelude in C minor, Op.5 no.2
Performer: Xing Rong.- An-lun Huang: Piano Music.
- Toccata Classics.
- 102.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Andante (Variations) in E major Op.81`1
Ensemble: Elias String Quartet.- ASV.
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Reynaldo Hahn
La Barcheta (Venezia)
Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.- Souvenirs De Venise.
- Helios.
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Emil von Sauer
Piano Concerto no.1 in E minor (3rd mvt)
Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lawrence Foster.- Scharwenka/Sauer: Piano Concertos: Hough/CBSO/Foster.
- Hyperion.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Song to the Moon (Rusalka)
Music Arranger: Gordon Langford. Performer: Phillip McCann. Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Major Peter Parkes.- The World's Most Beautiful Melodies.
- Chandos.
- 7.
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William Byrd
Fantasia no.1 in G minor a 4 [1611]
Ensemble: Phantasm.- LINN.
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Hugo Wolf
Italian Serenade
Performer: Nardo Poy. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.- Deutsche Grammophon.
Broadcast
- Wed 28 Oct 2020 09:00成人快手 Radio 3