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Wednesday with Ian Skelly - Niamh Cusack, Into the unknown, Sinding's Rustle of spring

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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Wed 4 Apr 2018 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music and featured items

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Waltz Suite, Op.110 (Since we met)

    Orchestra: Sao Paolo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 / Waltz Suite.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.

  • Franz Liszt

    12 Songs (S.558) transc. for piano, no.2; Auf dem Wasser zu singen (D.774)

    Composer: Franz Schubert. Performer: Barry Douglas.
    • Chandos.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concert aria for bass voice, double bass and orchestra, K. 612 "Per questa bella

    Performer: Grigory Krotenko. Singer: Ilya Mazurov. Orchestra: Barocco Concertato. Conductor: Maria Krestinskaya.
    • Travels with Goliath, In the footsteps of Josef K盲mpfer.
    • RUBICON.
    • 110.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Concertino in G major for cor anglais

    Performer: Diego Dini Ciacci. Orchestra: Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto.
    • CPO.

  • Christian Sinding

    The Rustle of Spring, Op.32 no.3

    Performer: Joseph Cooper.
    • The World of The Piano: Ashkenazy, Schiff, Lupu.
    • Decca.
    • 13.

  • Sir Hamilton Harty

    In the Antrim Hills (An Irish Symphony)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Giovanni Sollima

    Sonnets et rondeaux: II. -

    Ensemble: Alkemia Quartet.
    • Sollima: 4 Strings.
    • Dynamic.
    • 302.

  • Henry Purcell

    King Arthur Suite (extract)

    Music Arranger: Alison Balsom. Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • EMI.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 1 in D major, 'Titan' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubel铆k.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 1: Kubelik.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.

  • Time Traveller: Into The Unknown

    Duration: 02:17

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Toward the unknown region

    Choir: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Choir: Waynflete Singers. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Hill.
    • Vaughan Williams/Walton: O clap your hands: Choir of Winchester Cathedral/David.
    • ARGO.
    • 2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Aria)

    Performer: Dmitry Sitkovetsky. Performer: Yuri Zhislin. Performer: Luigi Piovano.
    • J S Bach Goldberg Variations 15 Sinfonias The Art Of Transcription.
    • Nimbus.

  • Edvard Grieg

    To the Spring, Op 43 No 6 (Lyric Pieces)

    Performer: Andrei Gavrilov.

  • Louis鈥怌laude Daquin

    Le coucou (Harpsichord Suite no.3)

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock.
    • The Harmonious Blacksmith (harpsichord: Trevor Pinnock).
    • Archiv.
    • 011.

  • C茅cile Chaminade

    6 Concert Studies - book 1 Op.35 (Automne)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's French Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.

  • Julius Fucik

    Florentiner-Marsch Op.214

    Ensemble: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: John Anderson.
    • Brassed off.
    • RCA.
    • 11.

  • Cultural Inspirations: Niamh Cusack on short stories

    Duration: 04:33

  • George Gershwin

    Short Story

    Performer: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • CBS.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Variations on a theme by Haydn, Op 56a

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Brahms: 4 Symphonies: Berlin Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Drake's Drum (Songs of the Sea, Op.91)

    Singer: Gerald Finley. Choir: 大象传媒 National Chorus of Wales. Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • Ermanno Wolf鈥怓errari

    Idillo-concertino in A major, Op.15 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Andrea Tenaglia. Orchestra: Orchestra sinfonica di Roma. Conductor: Francesco La Vecchia.
    • Complete Wind Concertos.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.

  • Thomas Armstrong

    Sinfonietta for small orchestra

    Conductor: Paul Daniel. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Armstrong: Orchestral and choral works: LPC/LPO/Daniel.
    • Chandos.

  • Margaret Hubicki

    Rigaudon (Lonely Mere and Rigaudon)

    Performer: Robert Max. Performer: Leyland Kirby.
    • Chandos.

  • Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger

    Toccata arpeggiata (Libro primo d'intavolatura di chitarrone)

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • Music for a while, Baroque Melodies: Anne Sofie von Otter.
    • Archiv.
    • 16.

  • Sergei Bortkiewicz

    Concerto No 1 in B flat major, Op 16 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Stephen Coombs. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk.
    • Arensky and Bortkiewicz - Piano Concertos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.

Broadcast

  • Wed 4 Apr 2018 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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