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Your perfect classical playlist

Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

1000 Playlist starter 鈥� listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1030 Song of the Day 鈥� harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1115 Playlist reveal 鈥� a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1145 Slow Moment 鈥� time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

1230 Album of the Week

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in B flat major, BWV 1051 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock. Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Bach: Works for Orchestra: The English Concert/Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 7.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vocalise

    Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: Markus Becker.
    • Hyperion.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 6 in D major, 'Le matin' - 1st movement, - Adagio-Allegro

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Hungarica. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.
    • Haydn Symphonies 'Morning', 'Noon' and 'Evening'.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Nino Rota

    Nonetto: IV. Canzone con variazioni, allegretto calmo

    Performer: Daishin Kashimoto. Performer: Joaqu铆n Riquelme. Performer: Claudio Boh贸rquez. Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Paul Meyer. Performer: Fran莽ois Meyer. Performer: Gilbert Audin. Performer: Beno卯t de Barsony. Performer: Olivier Thiery.
    • Nino Rota: Chamber Music.
    • Alpha.
    • 10.

  • Arnold Bax

    Winter Legends (3rd & 4th mvts)

    Performer: Ashley Wass. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Bax: Winter Legends: Ashley Wass, Bournemouth SO, James Judd.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Tarantelle in A minor Op.6

    Performer: Sharon Bezaly. Performer: Harri M盲ki. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jean鈥怞acques Kantorow.
    • BIS.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Os justi

    Choir: Polyphony. Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Bruckner: Mass in E minor/Motets: Polyphony/Britten Sinfonia/Layton.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.

  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    The Street Leading to the Castle (Sinfonietta)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Janacek: Sinfonietta/Taras Bulba: Wiener Philharmoniker/Mackerras.
    • Decca.
    • 5.

  • Aaron Copland

    12 Poems of Emily Dickinson (Nature, the gentlest mother)

    Singer: Sanford Sylvan. Performer: David Breitman.
    • NONESUCH.

  • Nicolas Vallet

    Suite for four lutes

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg. Performer: Nigel North. Performer: Paul O鈥橠ette. Performer: Robert Meunier.
    • Three, Four and Twenty Lutes, Lindberg etc..
    • BIS.
    • 10.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No.8 in F major (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: 脕d谩m Fischer.
    • Beethoven: Complete Symphonies.
    • Naxos.
    • 401.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Polonaise in A major, Op 40 No 1, 'Military'

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Romantic Intermezzo, Op 69

    Orchestra: Philharmonia of Russia. Conductor: Dmitry Yablonsky.
    • NAXOS.

  • Henry Purcell

    Strike the Viol (Birthday Ode for Queen Mary)

    Singer: Tim Mead. Ensemble: Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien. Director: Fran莽ois Lazarevitch.
    • ALPHA.

  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    Sussex Landscape, Op. 27: III. Largo - Maestoso

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Roderick Cox.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 8.

  • George Butterworth

    Roving in the dew (11 Folk-songs from Sussex)

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Roderick Williams.
    • George Butterworth, Songs from A Shropshire Lad: Williams / Burnside.
    • Naxos.
    • 9.

  • John Ireland

    Prelude (A Downland Suite)

    Ensemble: Cory Band. Conductor: Philip Harper.
    • Doyen.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Dance in B major Op.72 no.9

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Nobel Prize Ceremony Music.
    • FINLANDIA.
    • 6.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Quartet in E minor, TWV 43:E2 (Tafelmusik 3, No 2)

    Performer: Karl Kaiser. Performer: Petra M眉llejans. Performer: Stefan M眉hleisen. Performer: Hille Perl. Performer: Lee Santata. Performer: Torsten Johann.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Ethel Smyth

    Concerto for violin, horn and orchestra - II. Elegy (In Memoriam)

    Performer: Richard Watkins. Performer: Sophie Langdon. Ensemble: Lontano. Conductor: Odaline de la Martinez.
    • Ethel Smyth Premiere Recordings.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

  • William Byrd

    Mass for 4 voices (Gloria)

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • The Tallis Scholars Sing William Byrd.
    • Gimell.
    • 7.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Sinfonietta in A major, Op 48

    Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Alberto Zedda.
    • Prokofiev/Debussy/Milhaud: Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne/Zedda.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 5.

  • Robert Schumann

    Arabeske in C major, Op 18

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    String Quintet in D Minor, G. 280: III. Fuga. Allegro giusto

    Performer: Jonian Ilias Kadesha. Performer: Ir猫ne Duval. Performer: Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad. Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Tim Posner.
    • Boccherini: Cello Concertos, Sonatas & Quintets.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Roman Carnival Overture

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • RCA.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in F sharp major, BWV 858 (Fugue)

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • J. S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier 1: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 2.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Rosen aus dem S眉den

    Ensemble: Soloists of L'opera National de Lyon. Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg.
    • Schoenberg/Kaiserwalzer and Other Transcriptions.
    • Erato.
    • 5.

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