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Thursday with Ian Skelly - Tafl, 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.

3 hours

Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Air with variations, 'The Harmonious Blacksmith' (Suite no. 5 in E major HWV.430)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Handel/Scarlatti: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • Hugo Alfv茅n

    Festspel Op.25

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Niklas Will茅n.
    • Naxos.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Laut verk眉nde unsre Freude (Little Masonic Cantata), K. 623

    Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens. Choir: Chor der Kolner Akademie. Orchestra: Cologne Academy Orchestra. Singer: John Heuzenroeder. Singer: David Geier. Singer: Mario Borgioni.
    • Mozart: Masonic Works 鈥 Cantatas & Funeral Music.
    • BIS.
    • 101.
  • Scott Joplin

    Magnetic Rag

    Music Arranger: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Andr茅 Previn.
    • Joplin: The Easy Winner & Other Rag-Time Music.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Morning (Peer Gynt, Op 23)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • DECCA.
  • Henry Purcell

    King Arthur (Overture)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Hengelbrock.
    • Purcell: Instrumental Musik: Freiburger Barockorchester.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 14.
  • Franz Schubert

    Octet, D.803: VI. Andante molto - Allegro

    Ensemble: Wiener Oktett.
    • DECCA.
  • Michael Nyman

    Chasing sheep is best left to shepherds (The Draughtsman's Contract)

    Orchestra: Michael Nyman Band.
    • Argo.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

    Performer: Peter Hurford.
    • J. S. Bach: Great Organ Works: Peter Hurford.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Time Traveller: The Viking game of Tafl, by Eleanor Barraclough

  • Arthur Bliss

    Checkmate (Finale)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • A Colour Symphony.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op.114

    Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Torleif Thed茅en. Performer: Roland P枚ntinen.
    • BIS.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    Godere e tacere

    Ensemble: Orlando di Lasso Ensemble.
    • Libro di Madrigali - Strozzi.
    • Thorofon.
    • 005.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Daphnis et Chlo茅 Suite no.2 (Lever du jour)

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Yannick Nezet-Seguin Ravel Rotterdam Phiharmonic Orchestra.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (Dawn)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.
  • Richard Strauss

    Morgen, Op 27 No 4

    Singer: Dorothea R枚schmann. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • Portraits.
    • Sony.
    • 14.
  • Stewart Lee on being inspired by comedian Ted Chippington

  • Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Comedians' Galop (The Comedians, Op 26)

    Performer: Kirill Kondrashin. Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra.
    • RCA Living Stereo.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in E flat major, Op 33 No 2, 'The Joke' (Finale)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Mass: Part 4, Confession

    Choir: Morgan State University Choir. Choir: Peabody Children's Chorus. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • NAXOS.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Trio sonata in G major Op.3`6

    Ensemble: Avison Ensemble.
    • Linn.
  • Jean Sibelius

    2 Serenades Op.69 (no.1 in D major)

    Performer: Anne鈥怱ophie Mutter. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • Percy Grainger

    Handel in the Strand

    Performer: Philip Martin. Orchestra: Bournemouth Sinfonietta. Conductor: Kenneth Montgomery.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Cello Concerto in B minor Op.104 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • Alisa Weilerstein Dvorak.
    • DECCA.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Thu 12 Apr 2018 09:00

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