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Friday with Ian Skelly - Bolcom's Graceful Ghost, Paul Whitehouse, Skeddadle

Ian Skelly with the best in classical music, plus this week's guest, actor and comedian Paul Whitehouse.

Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
Music today includes Beethoven's slightly eccentric Fantasia for piano, chorus and orchestra, a charming trio by Madeleine Dring and Louis Vierne's "Carillon de Westminster.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. Today we start with William Bolcom's charming rag "Graceful Ghost".
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history - Bob Nicholson looks at the enthusiastic take-up of American slang terms in 19th century Britain.
1050 Each day this week the actor, writer and comedian Paul Whitehouse, creator of unforgettable characters in The Fast Show and in his series with Harry Enfield, talks about the people, music and ideas that have inspired him over the years. Today he talks about a memorable childhood trip behind the Iron Curtain, as his family joined his opera-singer mother who was on tour with the Welsh National Opera.

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Fri 15 Jun 2018 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music and featured items

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Mazurek in E minor Op.49

    Performer: Anne鈥怱ophie Mutter. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • Dvorak: Violin Concerto; Romance; Mazurek; Humoresque.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.

  • Frank Bridge

    Valse intermezzo

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Bridge: Orchestral works vol.5: 大象传媒 NOW/Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 14.

  • Turlough O'Carolan

    Si bheag, si mhor

    Performer: David Power. Ensemble: Camerata Kilkenny.
    • RTE Lyric FM.

  • Johann Christian Bach

    Symphony in G minor, Op.6`6

    Ensemble: Les Violons du Roy. Conductor: Bernard Labadie.
    • Dorian.

  • William Bolcom

    The Graceful Ghost (No.1 of his Three Ghost rags)

    Performer: William Bolcom.
    • NONESUCH.

  • William Bolcom

    The Graceful Ghost (Three Ghost Rags)

    Ensemble: The Ying Quartet.
    • Quartz.

  • George Enescu

    Romanian rhapsody no. 1 in A major Op.11`1

    Orchestra: MDR Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: Kristjan J盲rvi.
    • The Kristjan J盲rvi Sound Project - Balkan Fever.
    • Naive.
    • 1.

  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    Ch么ro no.1

    Performer: Carlos Bonell.
    • The Private Collection: Carlos Bonell.
    • Upbeat Classics.
    • 4.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.5 in B flat major, D.485 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Schubert: Symphonies no.5 & 6: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Time Traveller: Skedaddlemania

    Duration: 02:35

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Running Set

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Vaughan Williams: Piano Concert.
    • Naxos.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Concerto a 5 in F major Op.9`3

    Performer: Anthony Robson. Performer: Catherine Latham. Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90. Director: Simon Standage.
    • Chaconne.

  • Scott Joplin

    Solace [A Mexican Serenade]

    Performer: William Bolcom.
    • Euphonic Sounds - The Scott Joplin Album.
    • OMEGA.
    • 12.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Rag-time

    Ensemble: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43: Finale

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.

  • Cultural Inspirations: Paul Whitehouse on East Berlin

    Duration: 04:08

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Va, pensiero, sull'ali (Nabucco)

    Librettist: Temistocle Solera. Orchestra: Orchestra of Welsh National Opera. Conductor: Sir Richard Armstrong. Orchestra: Welsh National Opera Orchestra.
    • Verdi: Chorus of Hebrew Slaves - Favourite Choruses & Overtures.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 110.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Choral Fantasy in C minor, Op 80

    Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Harnoncourt - Beethoven.
    • Warner.
    • 5-6.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Symphony in A major

    Orchestra: L鈥橭rfeo Barockorchester. Orchestra: L鈥橭rfeo Barockorchester. Director: Michi Gaigg.
    • CPO.

  • John Dowland

    Time stands still

    Performer: David Ponsford. Singer: Simon Ponsford.
    • NIMBUS.

  • Madeleine Dring

    Trio for flute, oboe and piano

    Performer: Nancy Ruffer. Performer: John Anderson. Performer: Helen Crayford.
    • Dutton.

  • Louis Vierne

    Carillon de Westminster

    Performer: Olivier Latry.
    • 狈础脧痴贰.

Broadcast

  • Fri 15 Jun 2018 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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