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Wednesday with Ian Skelly - Fur Elise, Tudor posture, Si芒n Phillips

Ian Skelly with the best in classical music, plus this week's guest, actress Sian Phillips.

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 This week Ian's guest is the actress and writer Si芒n Phillips, who talks about some of the things that have inspired her throughout her life and career.

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Wed 27 Jun 2018 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music and featured items

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water music - suite in G major HWV.350

    Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Water Music / Fireworks Music (English Baroque Soloists feat. conductor: John El.
    • Philips.
    • 13-16.

  • Clara Schumann

    Scherzo No. 2 in C minor, Op. 14

    Performer: Sophie Pacini.
    • In Between.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.

  • Franz Liszt

    Reitermarsch, from 4 Marches by Franz Schubert, S.363

    Conductor: Martin Haselb枚ck. Orchestra: Wiener Akademie.
    • Liszt: The Sound of Weimar 鈥� Die Orchesterwerke im Originalklang.
    • Gramola Records.

  • William Byrd

    Vigilate

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Signum.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle in A minor, WoO 59, 'F眉r Elise'

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Beethoven: Bagatelles: Steven Osborne.
    • Hyperion.
    • 30.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    La Boutique Fantasque (Nocturne; Galop)

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

  • Santiago de Murcia

    Folias espa帽olas

    Performer: William Carter.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso Op.28

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Nicola Benedetti: Fantasie.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 3.

  • Bastian Chilese

    Canzon in echo 脿 8

    Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Battaglie and Lamenti: 1600-1660 Monteverdi, Peri, Fontei, Strozzi.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 5.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Jolly Rutterkin (5 Tudor Portraits)

    Singer: John Shirley鈥怮uirk. Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Vaughan Williams: 5 Tudor Portraits: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.

  • Time Traveller: Tudor Posture

    Duration: 02:28

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in G major for 2 mandolins, RV 532

    Performer: Giovanni Scaramuzzino. Performer: Sonia Maurer. Orchestra: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi.
    • Vivaldi: Concert Per Mandolini: Europa Galante, Gabio Biondi.
    • Virgin Veritas.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Os Justi

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in A major, Op.118 no.2

    Performer: Emanuel Ax.
    • Brahms: Handel Variations - Amanuel Ax, Piano.
    • Sony.
    • 29.

  • Robert Schumann

    String Quartet in A major, Op 41 No 3 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Zehetmair Quartett.
    • Robert Schumann: Zehetmair Quartett.
    • ECM.
    • 8.

  • Cultural Inspirations: Dame Sian Phillips on training to be an actress

    Duration: 04:24

  • Wilfred Josephs

    I Claudius (main title)

    Orchestra: United Kingdom Symphony Orchestra.
    • RCA Victor.

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Syncopation

    Performer: Jack Liebeck. Performer: Katya Apekisheva.
    • HYPERION : CDA-68040.
    • HYPERION.
    • 2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Marriage of Figaro (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • DG.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Piano Trio No 1 in B flat major, Op 21 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Gould Piano Trio.
    • Dvorak: Piano Trios: Gould Piano Trio.
    • Champs Hill.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita for solo violin No.2 in D minor (BWV.1004); Chaconne

    Performer: Thomas Dunford. Music Arranger: Thomas Dunford.
    • ALPHA.

  • L茅o Delibes

    Sous le d么me 茅pais (Lakm茅)

    Singer: Ren茅e Fleming. Singer: Susan Graham. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Sebastian Lang-Lessing.
    • Guilty Pleasures.
    • Decca.
    • 9.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony no.5 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.

  • William Byrd

    Non vos Relinquam

  • Jean Sibelius

    Kullervo Op.7 (Kullervo leaves for the war)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1-7, Kullervo, Pohjola's Daughter, The Oceanides.
    • Lso Live.
    • 13.

Broadcast

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