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Friday with Ian Skelly - By any other name, Bernard MacLaverty

Ian Skelly presents the best in classical music, and author Bernard MacLaverty talks about the cultural influences that have shaped and inspired him throughout his career.

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 author Bernard MacLaverty talks about the cultural influences that have inspired and shaped his life and career.

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Fri 4 May 2018 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music and featured items

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in F major RV.433 'La tempesta di mare'

    Performer: Lucie Horsch. Orchestra: Amsterdam Vivaldi Players.
    • Decca.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Les animaux mod猫les Suite - Le petit jour

    Orchestra: RT脡 National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jean-Luc Tingaud.
    • Poulenc: Les biches Suite, Les animaux mod猫les Suite & Sinfonietta.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.

  • Sally Beamish

    Seavaigers (Haven)

    Performer: Chris Stout. Performer: Catriona McKay. Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • McKay Stout Music.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in A flat major D.899 no.4

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Schubert: Piano Sonatas D.840, 850 & 894, Impromptus D.899: Paul Lewis.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 4.

  • Georges Auric

    Roman Holiday - Main Title

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bernas.
    • Orchid.

  • Richard Strauss

    Im Abendrot (4 Last Songs)

    Singer: Jessye Norman. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Kurt Masur.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Bagatelles Op.47 (no.5)

    Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • Dvorak: String Quartets: Takacs Quartet.
    • Decca.
    • 5.

  • Enrique Granados

    Allegro de concierto

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • Granados: Goyescas: Ohlsson.
    • Hyperion.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wachet Auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV.645

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Edgar Meyer. Performer: Chris Thile.
    • Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer's Bach Trios.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 005.

  • Claude Debussy

    Sir猫nes (Nocturnes for Orchestra)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Debussy: Nocturnes/La Mer/Jeux: Boulez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.

  • Time Traveller: By Any Other Name

    Duration: 02:07

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 4 in G major, Op 58 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Reynaldo Hahn

    A Chloris

    Performer: Roger Vignoles. Singer: Susan Graham.
    • Reynaldo Hahn: La Belle Epoque: Graham/Vignoles.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (R眉ckert-Lieder)

    Singer: Janet Baker. Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • Mahler: Kindertotenlieder - 5 R眉ckertlieder - Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Niccol貌 Jommelli

    Sinfonia in E flat major [The Periodical Overtures in 8 parts]

    Orchestra: Concerto K枚ln. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado.
    • El Maestro - Farinelli.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 19.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Jazz Suite No 2 (Little Polka)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Shostakovich: The Jazz Album - Brautigam, Masseurs.
    • Decca.
    • 12.

  • Cultural Inspirations: Bernard MacLaverty on Belfast young writers.

    Duration: 05:09

  • Percy Grainger

    When the World was Young for two pianos

    Performer: Penelope Thwaites. Performer: John Lavender.
    • Grainger: Piano Music for Four Hands Vol.1: Thwaites/Lavender.
    • Pavillion.
    • 5.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto no. 4 in D major K.218 - 1st mvt

    Performer: Nikolaj Znaider. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nikolaj Znaider.
    • LSO.

  • Georgs Pel膿cis

    Flowering Jasmine

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Performer: Andrei Pushkarev. Orchestra: Kremerata Baltica. Director: Gidon Kremer.
    • NONESUCH.

  • Richard Wagner

    The Mastersingers of Nuremberg: Prelude

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.

  • Granville Bantock

    Song to the Seals

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's English Piano Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.

  • Thomas Selle

    Veni Sancte Spiritus

    Choir: Vox Luminis. Conductor: Lionel Meunier.
    • Ricercar.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no. 5 in E Minor Op.64: 4th mvt; Finale

    Conductor: Manfred Honeck. Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5.
    • EXTON.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Fri 4 May 2018 09:00
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