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Wednesday with Ian Skelly - Bartok's Romanian Dances, Blaguaridana, Stewart Lee

Ian Skelly with the best in classical music. Plus comedian Stewart Lee talks about his 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 comedian, writer, director and jazz fan Stewart Lee talks about the cultural influences that have inspired and shaped his life and career.

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Wed 11 Apr 2018 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music and featured items

  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Introduction and Tarantelle, Op 43

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Performer: Ian Brown.
    • EMI.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    March for a Spartakiade (4 Marches Op.69)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Russian Wind Band Classics: RNCM Wind Orchestra / Rundell.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.

  • Juan de Araujo

    Silencio

    Ensemble: Ex Cathedra. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Fire Burning In Snow.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major, Op 19 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Lars Vogt. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4.
    • Ondine.
    • 3.

  • Francis Poulenc

    惭茅濒补苍肠辞濒颈别

    Performer: Franziska Lee.
    • L'Heure exquise.
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 11.

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Romanian Folk Dances for orchestra

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Bartok: Orchestral Works Vol.1: Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer.
    • Philips.
    • 8.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    4 African dances, Op.58 - no.2, Andantino molto sostenuto e dolce

    Performer: John Fadial. Performer: Andrew Harley.

  • An-Lun Huang

    Saibei Dance (Saibei Suite no. 2)

    Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen.
    • Delights & Dances.
    • CEDILLE RECORDS.
    • 1.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Piano Quartet Movement in A minor

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Paul Neubauer. Performer: David Finckel. Performer: Wu Han.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON : 479 4609.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 001.

  • Franz Schubert

    Rosamunde (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

  • Time Traveller: Blaguardiana

    Duration: 02:17

  • Joseph Haydn

    Variations in F minor (un piccolo divertimento)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Haydn Piano Sonatas Vol.4.
    • Chandos.
    • 006.

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Sonata for two pianos and percussion (3rd mvt)

    Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien. Performer: Fran莽ois-Fr茅d茅ric Guy. Performer: Colin Currie. Performer: Sam Walton.
    • Bartok - Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion & other works.
    • Hyperion.
    • 16.

  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    The Saws (Lachian Dances)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: V谩clav Neumann.
    • Supraphon.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in G major for viola d'amore and harpsichord, K 91

    Performer: Valerio Losito. Performer: Andrea Coen.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.

  • Cultural Inspirations: Stewart Lee on Shirley Collins

    Duration: 03:44

  • Trad.

    The Rich Irish Lady / Jeff Sturgeon

    Performer: Pete Cooper. Performer: Dave Arthur. Music Arranger: Shirley Collins. Music Arranger: Ian Kearey. Music Arranger: Dave Arthur. Music Arranger: Pete Cooper. Singer: Shirley Collins.
    • Lodestar.
    • Domino.
    • 009.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Lieutenant Kije Suite, Op 60

    Singer: Andrei Bondarenko. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Prokofiev - Symphony No 6 etc..
    • Bis.
    • 004.

  • Alma Mahler-Werfel

    Die stille Stadt

    Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Karen Cargill.
    • LINN.

  • Alma Mahler-Werfel

    Laue Sommernacht (Five Songs, 1910)

    Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Karen Cargill.
    • Alma and Gustav Mahler - Lieder.
    • Linn Records.
    • 3.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Concerto for 2 pianos in D minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Monica Bard. Performer: Rica Bard. Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland鈥怭falz. Conductor: Ariane Matiakh.
    • Francaix Poulenc.
    • Capriccio.
    • 012.

  • David Popper

    Dance of the Elves

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Thomas Ad猫s.
    • RCA.

  • Alberto Ginastera

    Panambi - Ballet suite

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon. Conductor: David Robertson.
    • Ginastera - Orchestral Works.
    • Naive.
    • 013.

Broadcast

  • Wed 11 Apr 2018 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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