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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly

Ian Skelly with the best in classical music, plus this week's guest, novelist Matt Haig.

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 novelist Matt Haig, who talks about the books, places, culture and art that have inspired him.

Matt Haig is the bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and six highly acclaimed novels for adults, including How to Stop Time, The Humans and The Radleys. As a writer for children and young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal.

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Tue 3 Jul 2018 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music and featured items

  • Antonio Salieri

    Falstaff (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • Salieri: Symphonies, Ovtures and Variations.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.

  • Jacob Gade

    Tango jalousie

    Performer: Sakari Oramo. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • J. Gade: Tango jalousie.
    • Dacapo.
    • 1.

  • Alexander Scriabin

    Po猫me satanique in C Major, Op. 36

    Performer: Vadym Kholodenko.
    • Scriabin: Preludes, Etudes & Sonatas Nos. 4 & 5.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 15.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Crisantemi

    Ensemble: Signum Quartet.
    • Quartet Movements: Signum Quartett.
    • Capriccio.
    • 2.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Since we met (Waltz Suite for Orchestra)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Prokofiev: Waltz Suite: Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Neeme Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    O for the Wings of a Dove

    Performer: Andrew Lucas. Singer: Jeremy Budd. Choir: St Paul's Cathedral Choir. Conductor: John Scott.
    • Hyperion.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Prague Carnival

    Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic.
    • Smetana: Orchestral Works Vol. 1: 大象传媒 Phil, Noseda.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio in C minor and Rondeau in C major, K 617

    Performer: Philharmonisches Bl盲serquintett Berlin. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • BIS.

  • Lili Boulanger

    Psalm 24

    Singer: Julian Podger. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • DG.

  • Henryk Wieniawski

    Scherzo-tarantelle in G minor, Op.16

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Eduard Laurel.
    • Wieniawski, Sarasate: James Ehnes, Eduard Laurel.
    • CBC Records.

  • Time Traveller: Yeats and the Homunculus

    Duration: 02:26

  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Concerto in 7 parts no.3 in F major

    Ensemble: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Ottavio Dantone.
    • Scarlatti: 6 Concerti Grossi; Cello Sonatas.
    • Arts.
    • 8-12.

  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Sinfonietta (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • Chandos.

  • William Walton

    Set me as a seal upon thine heart

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Decca.

  • Geoffrey Burgon

    Nunc Dimittis

    Singer: Paul Miles-Kingston. Performer: Crispian Steele鈥怭erkins. Performer: Martin Neary.
    • EMI.

  • Franz Schubert

    Allegretto in C minor D.915

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Schubert: Piano Sonata D.845, Wandererfantasie D.760: Paul Lewis.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 11.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Circus Polka

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Cultural Inspirations: Matt Haig on the circus

    Duration: 04:36

  • Erik Satie

    Acrobates (Parade)

    Orchestra: New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • Satie 鈥� Parade, Mercure, Relache, Gymnop茅dies, Gnossiennes.
    • Helios.
    • 5.

  • Robert Schumann

    Genoveva (Overture)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

  • Tom谩s Luis de Victoria

    O quam gloriosum

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: James O鈥橠onnell.
    • Hyperion.

  • Claude Debussy

    Danse sacr茅e et danse profane

    Performer: Lisa Wellbaum. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DG.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Scherzo in D minor

    Orchestra: Imperial Music Choir. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Rachmaninov: Orchestral Works.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.

  • Anton Webern

    Langsamer Satz

    Performer: Quatuor Arod.

  • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

    Sonatina for piano duet

    Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard. Performer: Irina Kataeva.
    • Ligeti: Keyboard Works.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6-8.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Voi che sapete (The Marriage of Figaro)

    Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Orchestra: Lyon Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Kazushi Ono.
    • Diva Divo - Opera Arias: Joyce DiDonato.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 7.

  • Howard Hanson

    Symphony no.2 Op.30 'Romantic' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • Hanson: Symphony No.2.
    • Naxos.
    • 003.

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