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Thursday with Ian Skelly - Sea Monkeys, Niamh Cusack

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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Thu 5 Apr 2018 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music and featured items

  • Manuel de Falla

    Farruca (The Three-Cornered Hat Suite No 2)

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰. Music Arranger: Michael Lewin.

  • John Jenkins

    Pavan in D minor

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Signum.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Othello - Suite, Op.79

    Orchestra: RT脡 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Leaper.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, orchestral works.
    • MARCO POLO.
    • 15.

  • Guillaume Bouzignac

    Te Deum

    Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Director: William Christie.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    An die ferne Geliebte

    Performer: Gerold Huber. Singer: Christian Gerhaher.
    • Christian Gerhaher Ferner Geliebte Beethoven Berg Haydn Schonberg.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • George Gershwin

    Rhapsody in Blue

    Performer: George Gershwin. Ensemble: Columbia Jazz Band. Director: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • CBS.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O Jerusalem aurea civitas

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Choir: Gothic Voices.
    • HYPERION.

  • Time Traveller: Sea Monkeys

    Duration: 02:11

  • Blues Brothers

    Peter Gunn theme

    • The Blues Brothers.
    • Warner.
    • 2.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Sonata a quattro No.3 in C

    Ensemble: I Musici.
    • DECCA ELOQUENCE.

  • Robert Schumann

    Dichterliebe, Op 48

    Performer: Alfred Brendel. Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau.
    • Philips.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Rosen aus dem S眉den

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

  • Cultural Inspirations: Niamh Cusack on "Au Revoir Les Enfants"

    Duration: 03:42

  • Franz Schubert

    Moments musicaux, D 780 (No 2 in A flat major)

    Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
    • Great Pianist of the 20th Century: Andras Schiff.
    • Philips.
    • 8.

  • Amy Beach

    Piano Trio in A minor, Op.150

    Ensemble: Ambache Chamber Ensemble.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata No 82, 'Ich habe genug'

    Performer: Douglas Boyd. Singer: Olaf B盲r. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Schreier.
    • J.S. Bach: Cantatas Nos.56, 82 and 158.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 10.

  • Edvard Grieg

    March of the Trolls (Lyric Pieces, Book 5)

    Performer: Mikhail Pletnev.
    • Greig Piano Music: Mikhail Pletnev.
    • Regis.

  • Georges Bizet

    L'Arl茅sienne Suite No 2

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Naive.

Broadcast

  • Thu 5 Apr 2018 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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