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Tuesday with Ian Skelly - The paintings of Peter Lely, Marin Alsop, Tchaikovsky's The Seasons

Ian Skelly with the best in classical music. Plus conductor Marin Alsop on the people, places and ideas that inspire her.

Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music

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Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist to follow the gently rocking barcarolle that is June from Tchaikovsky's piano cycle The Seasons

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Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history. Today, Dr Nandini Das delves into the story behind a particular grand reformation portrait

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Each day this week the trail-blazing internationally renowned conductor Marin Alsop talks to Ian about the people, places and ideas that have inspired her throughout her life and career. Today, she talks with Ian about the writer Thomas Mann.

3 hours

Music and featured items

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Joyeuse marche

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Tortelier's French Bonbons: 大象传媒 Philharmonic/Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in G major, RV 151, 'Concerto alla rustica'

    Director: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Vivaldi: Alla Rustica Concerti: The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock.
    • Archiv.
    • 1-3.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in A Hob XV No.35

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Gli equivoci in amore: Sinfonia & prologue

    Singer: Francesca Aspromonte. Ensemble: Il Pomo d鈥橭ro. Director: Enrico Onofri.
    • Pentatone.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    June: Barcarolle (The Seasons Op.37b)

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Tchaikovsky - The Seasons.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Vltava (no.2 of M谩 vlast)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Smetana/Dvorak/Brahms/Borodin: Chicago SO/Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Moment musical in B minor, Op 16 No 3

    Performer: Andrei Gavrilov.
    • EMI.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Prelude, Fugue and Riffs

    Performer: Benny Goodman. Ensemble: Columbia Jazz Band. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Sony.
  • Time Traveller: Two Children Singing

    Duration: 03:17

  • Paul Hindemith

    Mathis der Maler; Prelude - Concert of Angels

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubel铆k.
    • EMI.
  • Louis鈥怌laude Daquin

    No毛l sur les fl没tes

    Performer: Marie鈥怌laire Alain.
    • Daquin/Balbastre/Noels A L'orgue d'uzes/Christmas Organ Music Marie-Claire Alain.
    • Erato.
    • 7.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Barcarolle No 11 in G minor, Op 105

    Performer: Jean鈥怭hilippe Collard.
    • Faure: Les 13 Barcarolles.
    • EMI.
    • 11.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Barcarolle no.3 in G flat major Op.42

    Performer: Jean鈥怭hilippe Collard.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Vissi d'arte (Tosca)

    Singer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Pritchard.
    • Opera Arias: Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Puccini, Mozart.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 11.
  • Cultural Inspirations: Marin Alsop on Thomas Mann's 'Doctor Faustus'

    Duration: 03:01

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Weihnachtsmusik (Christmas Music)

    Ensemble: Taverner Players. Director: Andrew Parrott.
    • Christmas Carols.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 014.
  • Ethel Smyth

    The Wreckers (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Gibson.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Robert Schumann

    Kinderszenen, Op 15

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Kinderszenen / Kreisleriana.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1-13.
  • Alessandro Stradella

    La Susanna - Da chi spero aita, o cieli

    Singer: Emanuela Galli. Ensemble: Ensemble Aurora. Conductor: Enrico Gatti.
    • Glossa.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Valse-Scherzo, Op.34

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.
    • Pentatone.
  • Antoine Reicha

    Andante No.1 in E flat major

    Ensemble: Philharmonisches Bl盲serquintett Berlin.
    • BIS.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Romanze in F major, Op 118 No 5

    Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • Brahms: 2 Rhapsodies Op.79, Klavierstucke Opp.117-119, Radu Lupu.
    • Decca.
    • 10.

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