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Friday with Ian Skelly - Nose Art, Stewart Lee, Schubert's Trout Quintet

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 and featured items

  • Alfredo Casella

    The Snake Woman (Prologue)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Chandos.
  • Erik Satie

    Je te veux

    Performer: Anne Queff茅lec.
    • ERATO.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Horn Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Ist mvt. Allegro

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • Before Mozart: Early Horn Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 501.
  • Amy Woodforde-Finden

    Kashmiri Song (4 Indian Love Lyrics)

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • In Praise of Woman.
    • HELIOS.
    • 017.
  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and Circumstance March No 2 in A minor, Op 39

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Elgar: Enigma Variations/Pomp and Circumstance Marches etc.: Ormandy/Barenboim/D.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Quintet in A major, D 667, 'Trout' (4th mvt)

    Performer: Christian Zacharias. Performer: Andreas Seidel. Performer: Ivo Bauer. Performer: Matthias Moosdorf. Performer: Christian Ockert. Ensemble: Leipziger Streichquartett.
    • Schubert: Piano Qunitet D 667.
    • MD&G.
    • 4.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe (Cantata no.34)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach Choruses - Gardiner.
    • SDG.
    • 1.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Much Ado About Nothing Suite, Op. 11

    Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg. Conductor: Marc Albrecht.
    • Pentatone.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Fantaisie, Op.79

    Performer: Sharon Bezaly. Performer: Roland P枚ntinen.
    • Cafe au Lait: Sharon Bezaly/Roland Pontinen.
    • BIS.
    • 14.
  • Time Traveller: Nose Art

    Duration: 02:14

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Nocturne in E flat major, Op 9 No 2

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • Chopin: Preludes/Nocturnes/Waltzes: Thibaudet.
    • Dal Segno.
    • 26.
  • Paul Dukas

    The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Musicales Actes Sud.
  • Claude Debussy

    Images - set 2 for piano, no.3; Poissons d'or

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quintet in E flat for piano and winds K 452 - 3rd mvt

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Performer: Neil Black. Performer: Thea King. Performer: Anthony Halstead. Performer: Graham Sheen.
    • Mozart / Beethoven: Quintets for Piano & Winds.
    • CBS Masterworks.
    • 6.
  • Improvisation

    颁补苍谩谤颈辞蝉

    Ensemble: Tembembe Ensamble Continuo. Ensemble: La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • El Nuevo Mundo: Fol铆as Criollas.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 12.
  • Cultural Inspirations: Stewart Lee on improvisation

    Duration: 04:31

  • Gabriela Montero

    Hallelujah (Improvisation on the Theme of the Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah)

    Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • EMI.
  • Witold Lutos艂awski

    Little Suite

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Prague Waltzes

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Dvorak: Legends: Prague Waltzes: Buadapest festival Orchestra / Ivan Fischer.
    • Phillips.
    • 16.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Roses from the South Op.388

    Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Linos Ensemble. Performer: Ryoko Morooka.
    • Capriccio.
  • Robert Parsons

    Ave Maria

    Director: Philip Cave. Choir: Magnificat Choir.
    • Where late the sweet birds sang: Latin Music form Tudor England.
    • Linn.
    • 3.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Concert champ锚tre (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Ton Koopman. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Conlon.
    • Poulenc: Organ concert/Piano concertos: Conlon.
    • Erato.
    • 4.
  • Richard Strauss

    Festliches Pr盲ludium, Op 61

    Performer: Peter Solomon. Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Z眉rich. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Strauss: Orchestral Works: Zinman.
    • Arte Nova Classics.
    • 23.

Broadcast

  • Fri 13 Apr 2018 09:00

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