Ian Skelly
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 Musicians recommend their favourite recordings.
1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we bring you five great performances by cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
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George Gershwin
Funny Face (Overture)
Orchestra: 成人快手 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Stephen Brooker.- 成人快手 Concert Orchestra.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
February, 'Carnaval' (The Seasons)
Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.- Hyperion.
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Eric Whitacre
Sleep
Performer: VOCES8. -
Charles-Valentin Alkan
Aesop's Feast, Op 39 No 12
Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.- Alkan: Grande Sonate; Sonatine; Le Festin D'Esope.
- Hyperion.
- 10.
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George Frideric Handel
Va tacito (Giulio Cesare)
Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.- Handel: Ombra mai fu: Andreas Scholl, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
- Harmonia Mundi.
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Derek Bourgeois
Serenade Op.22
Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Michael Antrobus.- Chandos.
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Frank Bridge
Fantasy Piano Quartet in F sharp minor
Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.- HYPERION.
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Astor Piazzolla
Romance del Diablo (Romance of the Devil) arr. Albonetti
Performer: Marco Albonetti. Orchestra: Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana.- Chandos.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Hamburger Ebbe und Fluth, TWV.55:C3 (excerpt)
Ensemble: Zefiro. Director: Alfredo Bernardini.- Zefiro.
- Ambroisie.
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Florence Price
Symphony No.3 in C minor 3rd mvt Juba
Orchestra: Women's Philharmonic. Conductor: Apo Hsu.- KOCH.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Four Pieces Op. 81 - II: Scherzo in A minor
Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.- ERATO.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Scherzi musicali; Quando l'alba in oriente (1607)
Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini.- 狈础脧痴贰.
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Leopold Godowsky
Ungeduld transc Godowsky
Performer: Rian de Waal.- Piano music by Leopold Godowsky.
- Hyperion.
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Albert Roussel
Le Festin de l'araignee (The Spider's Banquet); mvts 7-11
Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.- Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane/Le Festin de L'Araign茅e - 成人快手 Philharmonic/Tortelier.
- Chandos.
- 29-33.
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Stephen Sondheim
Sweeney Todd, Act 1: The Worst Pies in London
Singer: Angela Lansbury. Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Gemignani.- RCA.
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Alexander Glazunov
Concert waltz no.2 in F major Op.51
Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- Orfeo.
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Duke Ellington
Isfahan (Far East Suite)
Composer: Billy Strayhorn. Orchestra: The Duke Ellington Orchestra.- Bluebird.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Unaccompanied Cello Suite No.6 in D Major, BWV 1012: Allemande
Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma.- Six Evolutions.
- Sony Classical.
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Francis Poulenc
Suite pour piano
Performer: Pascal Rog茅.- DECCA.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major K.364 (1st mvt)
Performer: Vilde Frang. Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.- Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos 1, 5 & Sinfonia concertante.
- Warner Classics.
- 107.
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Wojciech Kilar
Agnus Dei
Choir: Chamber Choir Versija.- JADE.
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Charles Gounod
String Quartet in A major ii Allegretto
Ensemble: Quatuor Cambini-Paris.- Gounod: Complete String Quartets.
- 础辫补谤迟茅.
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Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in E major Kk.206
Performer: Murray Perahia.- Handel/Scarlatti: Piano Sonatas: Murray Perahia.
- Sony Classical.
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Claude Debussy
Ronde de printemps (Images)
Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.- Images, Jeux, La plus que lente.
- SFSMedia.
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Broadcast
- Mon 1 Feb 2021 09:00成人快手 Radio 3