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Friday with Ian Skelly - Matt Haig, Venice in London

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.

3 hours

Music and featured items

  • Edward Elgar

    Bavarian Dance No 1

    Performer: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Performer: James Judd.
    • Elgar - Orchestral Minatures.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Laudate pueri

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Monteverdi: Messa a quattro voci - Vol I.
    • Coro.
    • 7.
  • Claude Debussy

    Pr茅ludes, Livre 1, L. 117: X. La Cath茅drale engloutie

    Performer: Matan Porat.
    • LUX.
    • Mirare.
    • 103.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A major, K.581 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Mozart, Brahms: Clarinet Quintets: Nash Ensemble.
    • CRD.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Bergamasca (Ancient Airs and Dances Suite no.2)

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Tzigane

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • EMI.
  • Caterina Assandra

    Haec dies

    Ensemble: La Villanella Basel.
    • O Dulcis Amor.
    • Ramee.
    • 3.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Study in E minor, Op 25 No 5

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 17.
  • Franz Schubert

    The Magic Harp (overture)

    Orchestra: L'Orfeo Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Michi Gaigg.
    • DHM.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon Septimi Toni A 8 (Ii)

    Ensemble: Royal Academy of Music. Ensemble: Juilliard School Brass. Conductor: Reinhold Friedrich.
    • Linn Records.
  • Georges Bizet

    Symphony No 1 in C major (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic.
    • CBS.
  • Time Traveller: Venice In London

    Duration: 02:41

  • Traditional Venetian

    La biondina in gondoleta

    Performer: Avi Avital. Performer: Ivano Zanenghi. Performer: Daniele Bovo. Performer: Lorenzo Feder. Performer: Fabio Tricomi. Singer: Juan Diego Fl贸rez.
    • Avi Avital Vivaldi.
    • DG.
    • 17.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    Go from my window

    Performer: Fran莽ois Joubert-Caillet. Ensemble: L鈥橝ch茅ron.
    • Orlando Gibbons: Fancies for the Viols.
    • Ricercar.
    • 18.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Introduction and Rondo capriccioso Op.28

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Janine Jansen.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Fantasia in C major H.17.4

    Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
    • WARNER.
  • Cultural Inspirations: Matt Haig on S.E.Hinton's "The Outsiders"

    Duration: 05:14

  • Aaron Copland

    Laurie's Song (The Tender Land)

    Singer: Dawn Upshaw. Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke鈥檚. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Dawn Upshaw: The World So Wide.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 1.
  • Enrique Granados

    Andaluza (Danzas espa帽olas Set 2)

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰.
    • Milos - The Guitar.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 16.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in D major RV.549

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • L'Estro Armonico.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
    • 1-3.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Rhapsody No 1 in B minor, Op 79

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Brahms Handel Variations - Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Benedetto Marcello

    Canon Triplex, 'In omnem terram exivit sonus eorum'

    Ensemble: VOCES8. Ensemble: Les Inventions.
    • Signum.
  • Henryk Miko艂aj G贸recki

    Symphony No 3, 'Sorrowful Songs' (2nd mvt)

    Singer: Dawn Upshaw. Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • ELEKTRA NONESUCH.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Nocturne (The Gadfly Suite, Op.97a)

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mirga Gra啪inyt臈鈥怲yla.
    • DECCA.
  • Robert Schumann

    Fantasy Pieces, Op.73

    Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Roland P枚ntinen.
    • BIS.

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