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Tuesday with Ian Skelly - Psychic self-defence, Elgar Cello Concerto

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0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. Today, one of the most iconic pieces for the cello - Elgar's brooding, melancholic and powerful Cello Concerto. Other musical highlights include Stanford's sublime choral miniature The Blue Bird, and lush romanticism from Rachmaninov - the Adagio from his Symphony No.2.
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Music Played

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Dance in G minor, Op 46 No 8

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Dvorak: Complete Slavonic Dances: RSNO, Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.

  • Padre Antonio Soler

    Keyboard Sonata no.90 in F sharp minor

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's Spanish Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The Blue Bird (8 Partsongs Op.119)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Music of the Spheres.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 15.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: IV. Allegro

    Conductor: K谩lm谩n Berkes. Orchestra: Gy艖ri Filharmonikus Zenekar.
    • Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3.
    • Naxos.
    • 204.

  • Billy Mayerl

    Look Lively

    Performer: Susan Tomes.
    • Loose Elbows - Susan Tomes plays the piano music of Billy Mayerl.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 6.

  • Edward Elgar

    Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85

    Performer: Paul Watkins. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.

  • Franz Schubert

    Heimliches Lieben, D 922

    Performer: Melvyn Tan. Singer: Nancy Argenta.
    • Schubert: Songs: Nancy Argenta/Melvyn Tan.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 18.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony no.2 in E minor Op.27 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2: Budapest Festival Orchestra, Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 3.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    6 Variations on 'Mio caro Adone', K 180

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 18.

  • Time Traveller: Psychic Self Defence

    Matthew Sweet - Psychic Self Defence

  • William Vincent Wallace

    Maritana - overture

    Orchestra: RT脡 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Proinns铆as 脫 Duinn.
    • Naxos.

  • Nicola Matteis

    Ground after the Scotch humour (Suite in F major)

    Performer: Pamela Thorby. Ensemble: Palladian Ensemble.
    • An Excess of Pleasure & The Winged Lion: Palladian Ensemble.
    • Linn.
    • 23.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Cello concerto No 1 op 107: i. Allegretto

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mirga Gra啪inyt臈鈥怲yla.
    • Inspiration.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Invitation to the Dance, Op.65

    Performer: Hamish Milne.
    • CRD.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    La Triomphante (Nouvelles suites de pi猫ces de clavecin)

    Performer: Calefax Reed Quintet.
    • MDG.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Va pensiero (Nabucco)

    Choir: Chorus of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Voices from Heaven: Cecilia Bartoli, Andrea Bocelli, Bryn Terfel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.

Broadcast

  • Tue 14 Aug 2018 09:00
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