Monday with Ian Skelly - Brahms Intermezzo, dressing well, Sakari Oramo
Ian Skelly with the best in classical music, plus this week's guest, the conductor Sakari Oramo
Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music, including an orchestral arrangement of Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales , an overture by Haydn's pupil Marianna Martines, and a gorgeous Ave Maria by Rachmaninov.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. Today we start with Brahms' emotive Intermezzo in A Major.
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history. John-Henry Clay with advice on how not to dress like a barbarian.
1050 This week Ian鈥檚 guest is Sakari Oramo, the Chief Conductor of the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra. He talks about some of the places, people and ideas that have inspired him throughout his life and career.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's contemplation.
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Carl Nielsen
Dance of the Cockerels (Maskarade)
Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Sch酶nwandt.- DaCapo.
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Franz Joseph Strauss
Empfindungen am Meere, Op. 12
Performer: Tillmann H枚fs. Performer: Akiko Nikami.- Air.
- Genuin.
- 501.
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Franz Schubert
Symphony no.5 in B flat major, D.485 (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- Schubert: 8 Symphonies: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Abbado.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 8.
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Georgs Pel膿cis
Flowering Jasmine
Performer: Gidon Kremer. Performer: Andrei Pushkarev. Orchestra: Kremerata Baltica. Director: Gidon Kremer.- NONESUCH.
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Johannes Brahms
Intermezzo in A major (6 Pieces Op.118)
Performer: H茅l猫ne Grimaud.- Brahms: Piano music: Helene Grimaud.
- Regis.
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Wilhelm Stenhammar
Serenade in F major Op.31 (Finale)
Orchestra: Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Lindberg.- BIS.
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George Frideric Handel
Zadok the priest, HWV 258
Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Orchestra: The English Concert. Performer: Simon Preston. Director: Trevor Pinnock.- Handel: Coronation Anthems: Preston, Pinnock.
- Archiv Produktion.
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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.
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Johannes Brahms
Intermezzo in A major (6 Pieces Op.118)
Performer: H茅l猫ne Grimaud.- Brahms: Piano music: Helene Grimaud.
- Regis.
- 12.
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Kurt Atterberg
A V盲rmland Rhapsody Op.36
Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- CHANDOS.
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Time Traveller: How Not To Dress Like A Barbarian by John-Henry Clay
Duration: 01:54
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Charles Gounod
O Dieu! que de bijoux... Ah! je ris (Faust)
Singer: Sumi Jo. Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Giuliano Carella.- Les bijoux, French arias: Sumi Jo/English Chamber Orchestra/Carella.
- Erato.
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Hector Berlioz
Waverley
Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.- Chandos.
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Modest Mussorgsky
Une larme
Performer: Margaret Fingerhut.- Russian Piano Music: Margaret Fingerhut.
- Chandos.
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Clara Schumann
Romance in G minor, Op 22 No 2
Performer: H茅l猫ne Boschi. Performer: Annie Jodry.- Clara Schumann Piano Works.
- CALLIOPE.
- 014.
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Robert Schumann
Romance in F sharp major, Op. 28 no. 2
Performer: Alicia de Larrocha.- Decca Eloquence.
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Bernhard Crusell
Quartet No 3 in D major for clarinet and strings, Op 7 (4th mvt)
Performer: Kari Kriikku. Performer: Sakari Oramo. Performer: Tuula Riisalo. Performer: Lea Pekkala. Ensemble: Avanti! Quartet.- Crusell: Complete Clarinet Quartets.
- Ondine.
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Cultural Inspirations: Sakari Oramo on The Baltic Sea
Duration: 04:12
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Jean Sibelius
Karelia Suite (Intermezzo)
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.- Sibelius: Symphony No.5/Karelia Suite etc: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
- Erato.
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Maurice Ravel
Valses nobles et sentimentales arr for orchestra
Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.- Yannick Nezet-Seguin Ravel Rotterdam Phiharmonic Orchestra.
- EMI Classics.
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Giovanni Pacoloni
Passamezzo milanese
Performer: Jakob Lindberg. Performer: Nigel North. Performer: Paul O鈥橠ette.- Three, Four and Twenty Lutes, Lindberg etc..
- BIS.
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Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in E flat major Op.33`2 'Joke' (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Casals Quartet.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Romance in F minor
Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Inon Barnatan.- Decca.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Ave Maria (Vespers)
Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Graham Ross.- Veni Emmanuel: Music for Advent.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 21.
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Marianna Martines
Sinfonia (Overture) in C major
Ensemble: La Floridiana. Director: Nicoleta Paraschivescu.- Marianna Martines: Il Primo Amore.
- Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
- 1-3.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita no.3 in E major BWV.1006 (Gigue)
Performer: Viktoria Mullova.- Bach: 6 Sonatas & Partitas.
- Onyx.
- 10.
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Malcolm Williamson
Tarantella (Sinfonietta)
Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.- Williamson: Orchestral Works, Volume 1.
- Chandos.
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