Thursday with Ian Skelly - Churchillian drift
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Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music. Today's music includes the Academic Festival Overture by Brahms, some waltzes by the "bad boy of music" George Antheil, and Nigel Kennedy playing a Bach violin concerto.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. Today - what would you pair with the "Fantasia on Greensleeves" by Vaughan Williams?
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history. Alun Withey investigates how many of Winston Churchill's famous quotations are actually by the great man himself.
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Robert Fuchs
Clarinet Quintet in E flat major Op.102 (Allegro scherzando)
Performer: Sebastian Manz. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.- AVI Music.
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Joseph Haydn
Die Feuersbrunst (Overture)
Orchestra: Haydn Sinfonietta Wien. Conductor: Manfred Huss.- BIS.
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George Antheil
Valentine Waltzes: No. 1, -
Performer: Judy Pang.- Antheil: Piano Music, Vol. 1.
- Toccata Classics.
- 601.
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George Antheil
Valentine Waltzes: No. 2, -
Performer: Judy Pang.- Antheil: Piano Music, Vol. 1.
- Toccata Classics.
- 602.
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George Antheil
Valentine Waltzes: No. 3, -
Performer: Judy Pang.- Antheil: Piano Music, Vol. 1.
- Toccata Classics.
- 603.
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George Frideric Handel
Qual farfalletta (Partenope)
Singer: Amanda Forsythe. Ensemble: Apollo鈥檚 Fire. Conductor: Jeannette Sorrell.- Avie AV2350.
- Avie.
- 5.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on Greensleeves
Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.- Sony.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041
Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.- Kennedy plays Bach with the Berlin Philharmonic.
- EMI Classics.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Romance (Suite No 2 for two pianos, Op 17)
Performer: Peter Donohoe. Performer: Martin Roscoe.- RACHMANINOV: Music for 2 Pianos.
- NAXOS.
- 6.
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Johannes Brahms
Academic Festival Overture
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.- Overtures: Cleveland Orchestra/Maazel.
- I.M.P..
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Time Traveller: Churchillian Drift
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Gabriel Piern茅
Scherzo-Caprice in D major, Op.25
Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Performer: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.- CHANDOS.
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Alexander Glazunov
Valse (5 Novelettes for string quartet, Op 15 No 4)
Ensemble: St. Petersburg String Quartet.- Glazunov: 5 Novelettes etc: St Petersburg String Quartet.
- Delos.
- 4.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on Greensleeves
Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.- Sony.
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George Butterworth
The Banks of Green Willow
Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.- Butterworth/Delius: English Rhapsody: Halle, Elder.
- Halle.
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Ferruccio Busoni
Seven Elegies (Turandots Frauengemach)
Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.- Busoni: Late piano music.
- Hyperion.
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Louise Farrenc
Piano Quintet in A minor Op.30 (4th mvt)
Ensemble: The Schubert Ensemble.- ASV.
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Erno Dohnanyi
Wedding Waltz (The Veil of the Pierrette Op.18)
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.- Dohnanyi: The Veil of Pierrette etc..
- Chandos.
- 21.
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Orlando Gibbons
The Silver Swan
Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble. Director: Paul Hillier.- English and Italian Renaissance Madrigals.
- Virgin.
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