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Friday with Ian Skelly - Harrison Birtwistle, Battles on Ice, New Year New Music

Ian Skelly with the best in classical music, including music for New Year New Music that steps from the old to the new. Plus Sir Harrison Birtwistle's cultural inspirations.

Essential Classics with Ian Skelly and the best in classical music, including music for New Year New Music that steps from the old to the new.
0930 Your ideas for potential companion pieces for a well-known piece of music.
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history
1050 Composer, Sir Harrison Birtwistle on the things that have inspired and influenced him throughout his life and career.

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Fri 5 Jan 2018 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    Bavarian Dance no.3

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • NAXOS.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Concerto 脿 5 in F major, Op 9 No 10

    Performer: Andrew Manze. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Decca.

  • Yuri Shaporin

    Five Pieces for Cello and Piano op.25. Prelude

    Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Performer: Peter Limonov.
    • Champs Hill.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Rondo in B flat major for piano and orchestra, WoO 6

    Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • WARNER.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

    Singer: Ren茅e Fleming. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Renee Fleming: By Request.
    • Decca.
    • 9.

  • Anthony Holborne

    Muy linda

    Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Director: Bjarte Eike.
    • BIS.

  • Dag Wir茅n

    Serenade for Strings, Op. 11

    Orchestra: Stockholm Sinfonietta. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • A Swedish Serenade.
    • BIS.
    • 1-4.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio in E flat major, D.897, 'Notturno'

    Ensemble: The Florestan Trio.
    • Schubert: Piano Trio in B flat: Florestan Trio.
    • Hyperion.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Landkjenning

    Choir: Malm枚 kammark枚r. Choir: Lund Student Singers. Orchestra: Malm枚 SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.
    • Naxos.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Alexander Nevsky: The Battle on the Ice

    Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Choir: Kirov Theatre Chorus. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Philips.

  • Vincenzo Bellini

    Casta diva... Ah! bello a me ritorno (Norma)

    Singer: Joan Sutherland. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Joan Sutherland - Greatest Hits.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major K.297b (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: Diethelm Jonas. Performer: Bruno Schneider. Performer: Sergio Azzolini. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Hans Vonk.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Concertos: Sabine Meyer.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Anon

    Suite from Stagecoach

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Bateman.
    • SILVA SCREEN.

  • Julius Fucik

    奥颈苍迟别谤蝉迟眉谤尘别

    Performer: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: V谩clav Neumann.
    • WARNER APEX.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen (Cantata BWV.65)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • J.S. Bach, Cantatas Vol 18: Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 11.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Quintet in B flat major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Eric Le Sage. Ensemble: Les Vents Fran莽ais.
    • Warner.

  • Claude Debussy

    Danse boh猫mienne

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.3: Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    L'Adorazione dei Magi (Trittico Botticelliano)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 15.

  • Louis Couperin

    Pr茅lude 脿 l'imitation de Mr Froberger

    Performer: Richard Egarr.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Linda Catlin Smith

    Gravity

    Performer: Colin Tilney.
    • DOREMI.

Broadcast

  • Fri 5 Jan 2018 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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