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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

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Robert Schumann

    Widmung

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • Champs Hill Records.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Scherzo for strings

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.
    • Sibelius: Orchestral Works: Vanska/Jarvi.
    • BIS.
    • 6.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O virtus sapientiae

    Ensemble: Sequentia.
    • Hildegard Von Bingen: Symphoniae: Sequentia.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 8.
  • William Walton

    Portsmouth Point - overture

    Orchestra: 成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Chandos.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in D major Op.3`6

    Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen. Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
    • CPO.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Franz Schubert

    Rondo in A major, D.951

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Franz Schubert Piano Duets; Steven Osborne / Paul Lewis.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Eric Whitacre

    I carry your heart with me

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • UNQUIET.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    3 Symphonic dances Op.45 (no.2)

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Richard Strauss

    Heimliche Aufforderung Op.27`3

    Singer: Steve Davislim. Orchestra: Orchestra Victoria. Conductor: Simone Young.
    • Melba.
  • 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.
  • Lord Berners

    Hornpipe (The Triumph of Neptune)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • EMI.
  • Doreen Carwithen

    Suffolk Morris: Ritmico (Suffolk Suite)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Carwithen: Orchestral Music.
    • Chandos.
    • 008.
  • 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.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    H.M.S. Pinafore (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Scottish Opera. Conductor: Richard Egarr.
    • Gilbert & Sullivan: HMS Pinafore.
    • LINN.
    • 1.
  • 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.
  • Claude Debussy

    Pour le piano (Toccata)

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • Debussy, Preludes etc.: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 21.
  • Caroline Shaw

    Second Essay: Echo

    Ensemble: Calidore String Quartet.
    • Babel: Schumann, Shaw, Shostakovich.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 6.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • An-Lun Huang

    Prelude in C minor, Op.5 no.2

    Performer: Xing Rong.
    • An-lun Huang: Piano Music.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 102.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Andante (Variations) in E major Op.81`1

    Ensemble: Elias String Quartet.
    • ASV.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    La Barcheta (Venezia)

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • Souvenirs De Venise.
    • Helios.
    • 13.
  • 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.
    • 7.
  • 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.
  • William Byrd

    Fantasia no.1 in G minor a 4 [1611]

    Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • LINN.
  • Hugo Wolf

    Italian Serenade

    Performer: Nardo Poy. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

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  • Wed 28 Oct 2020 09:00

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