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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Nicolas Gombert
Ave Maria
Ensemble: Brabant Ensemble. Director: Stephen Rice.- Tribulato et angustia 鈥 Four and five part motets by Nicolas Gombert.
- Hyperion.
- 9.
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Edvard Grieg
4 Norwegian Dances Op.35 (no.3)
Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Petri Sakari.- CHANDOS : CHAN-9028.
- CHANDOS.
- 3.
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Paul Pabst
Piano Trio in A major, 'In memory of Antoine Rubinstein' (2nd mvt - Intermezzo)
Ensemble: Brahms Trio.- History of the Russian Piano Trio, Vol. 2.
- Naxos.
- 202.
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Ferde Grof茅
On the Trail (Grand Canyon Suite)
Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.- Copland, A.: Hoe Down / An Outdoor Overture / Billy the Kid Suite / Grofe, F.: O.
- Delos.
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Alma Mahler-Werfel
Laue Sommernacht (Five Songs, 1910)
Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Karen Cargill.- Alma and Gustav Mahler - Lieder.
- Linn Records.
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Johann Adolf Hasse
Enea in Caonia - Sinfonia (Part 2)
Orchestra: Enea Barock Orchestra. Conductor: Stefano Montanari.- Hasse: Enea in Caonia.
- CPO.
- 1.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Petite suite de concert Op 77 (4th mvt. La tarantelle fretillante)
Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Paul Freeman.- African Heritage Symphonic Series, Volume 1.
- CEDILLE.
- 5.
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Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
Generations: Sinfonietta No 2 (2nd mvt: Alla sarabande)
Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Paul Freeman.- African Heritage Symphonic Series volume III.
- Cedille Records.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata in C minor, Op.13, 'Path茅tique' (3rd mvt)
Performer: Steven Osborne.- Beethoven Piano Sonatas: 'Moonlight' 'Pathetique' 'Waldstein' Steven Osborne pia.
- Hyperion.
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Orfeo ed Euridice (Overture)
Music Arranger: Hector Berlioz. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- WARNER CLASSICS.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Septet in E flat major, Op 65
Performer: David Guerrier. Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: Esther Hoppe. Performer: B茅atrice Muthelet. Performer: Gautier Capu莽on. Performer: Janne Saksala. Performer: Frank Braley.- Virgin Classics.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony no.4 in A major Op.90 'Italian' (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.- Mendelssohn: Symphonies 1-5.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 04.
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Hildegard von Bingen
Kyrie
Ensemble: Oxford Camerata. Conductor: Jeremy Summerly.- NAXOS.
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Franz Anton Hoffmeister
Double bass quartet No 3 in D major (3rd mvt)
Performer: Niek de Groot. Performer: Minna Pensola. Performer: Antti Tikkanen. Performer: Tuomas Lehto.- Rossini: Sonatas for Strings Nos. 4-6 鈥 Hoffmeister: Double Bass Quartets Nos. 3.
- BIS.
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Jerome Moross
The Big Country (Main theme)
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Tony Bremner.- The Big Country.
- Silva Screen.
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Hubert L茅onard
Donkey and Driver
Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Thomas Ad猫s.- RCA.
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Alexander Borodin
In the Steppes of Central Asia
Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.- Sheherazade.
- PHILIPS.
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Hubert Parry
An English Suite (Prelude)
Orchestra: South-West German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim. Conductor: Douglas Bostock.- British Music for Strings I.
- CPO.
- 1.
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Cipriano de Rore
Ancor che col Partire
Performer: Liam Byrne. Performer: Valgeir Sigur冒sson. Performer: James McVinnie. Music Arranger: Richardo Rognono.- Concrete.
- Bedroom Community.
- 9.
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Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in D minor, K. 77
Performer: Ksenija Sidorova.- Ksenija Sidorova - Classical Accordion.
- Champs Hill.
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Johannes Brahms
Piano Quartet No 2 in A major, Op 26 (4th mvt)
Performer: Emanuel Ax. Performer: Isaac Stern. Performer: Jaime Laredo. Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma.- Brahms: Piano Quartets Opp. 25, 26 & 60: Ax/Stern/Laredo/Ma.
- Sony Classical.
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Franz Schubert
Hier auf den Fluren (Rosamunde)
Choir: Ernst Senff Choir. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto in D major, TWV 53:D2
Orchestra: La Stagione Frankfurt. Conductor: Michael Schneider.- CPO.
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Elisabetta Brusa
Wedding Song
Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. Conductor: Fabio Mastrangelo.- Brusa: Orchestral Works Vol.2.
- Naxos.
- 003.
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Wilhelm Stenhammar
Piano concerto No 1 in B flat minor, Op 1 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Love Derwinger. Orchestra: Malm枚 SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.- Bis.
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John Dowland
The Frog Galliard
Performer: Paul O鈥橠ette.- My Favourite Dowland.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 008.
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Georges Bizet
Symphony in C major (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.- Mirare.
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