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Ian Skelly with the best in classical music. Plus actor Niamh Cusack reveals her cultural inspirations.
Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history
1050 Each day this week the actor Niamh Cusack, currently starring as Lady Macbeth with the RSC in Stratford, reveals the cultural influences that have inspired and shaped her life and career.
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Joseph Haydn
Trumpet Concerto in E flat major, H.7e.1 (3rd mvt)
Performer: H氓kan Hardenberger. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- Haydn, Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Hardenberger/Marriner.
- Philips.
- 12.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Polonaise in A flat major Op.53 'Eroica'
Performer: Maurizio Pollini.- Chopin: Polonaises: Maurizio Pollini.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Reynaldo Hahn
Piano Quartet No. 3 in G Major: IV. Allegro assai
Performer: Benjamin Baker. Performer: Adam Newman. Performer: Tim Lowe. Performer: James Baillieu. -
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Antonio Vivaldi
Bassoon Concerto in C major RV.471
Performer: Sergio Azzolini. Ensemble: L'Aura Soave Cremona. Conductor: Diego Cantalupi.- Vivaldi: Concertos for Bassoon Vol. 1: Sergio Azzolini.
- 16.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
String Quartet no.12 in F major Op.96 'American' (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Pavel Haas Quartet.- Dvorak String Quartets - Pavel Haas Quartet.
- Supraphon.
- 5.
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Leonard Bernstein
Divertimento
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.- Naxos.
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Clara Schumann
Three Romances for violin, Op 22
Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Performer: Alice Sara Ott.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Anton Bruckner
Locus iste
Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.- Bruckner: Mass in E minor/Motets: Polyphony/Britten Sinfonia/Layton.
- Hyperion.
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Time Traveller: JH Savigny - the enlightened razor maker
Duration: 02:13
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto in E minor for recorder, flute, strings and continuo
Ensemble: Camerata K枚ln.- Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
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Charles Ives
String Quartet No.1
Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet.- DG.
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Benjamin Britten
Moonlight (4 Sea interludes [from 'Peter Grimes'] Op.33a)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Steuart Bedford.Cultural Inspirations: Niamh Cusack on poetry
Duration: 04:12
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Dilys Elwyn-Edwards
The cloths of heaven
Singer: Bryn Terfel. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.- Bryn Terfel: Silent Noon - English Songs.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Joaqu铆n Turina
Piano Trio No 2 in B minor, Op 76
Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.- Philips.
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Edward Elgar
Cockaigne (In London Town) - Overture
Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.- BIS.
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Claude Debussy
Arabesque no.1 in E major
Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.- Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.3: Bavouzet.
- Chandos.
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Paul Hindemith
Overture to the Flying Dutchman as played on sight by a second-rate orchestra
Ensemble: Kocian String Quartet.- Praga.
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Paul Hindemith
Suite of French Dances: No.5 Bransle simple
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Jos茅 Serebrier.- ASV.
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Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer night's dream, Op.61 (Overture)
Performer: Boston Symphony Orchestra.- Mendelssohn: Overtures: LSO, Abbado.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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