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Friday with Ian Skelly - Life in Our New Century, Beethoven Septet Op 20, Ingrid Fliter

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly

Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. Today's starter is the last movement of Beethoven's Septet. Maybe your choice will be another work for an unusual combination of instruments, or maybe a piece of music also dedicated to Empress Maria Theresa?

1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history.

1050 Ian鈥檚 guest this week is the Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter , one of the world鈥檚 most exciting interpreters of the music of Chopin. She talks about the people, places and ideas that interest and influence her.

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's contemplation with a beautiful duet from Handel's oratorio Theodora.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Robert Schumann

    Toccata in C major, Op 7

    Performer: Freddy Kempf.
    • Schumann: Freddy Kempf plays.
    • BIS.
    • 22.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Bastien und Bastienne; Geh hin!

    Singer: Anna Lucia Richter. Singer: Alessandro Fisher. Orchestra: The Mozartists. Conductor: Ian Page.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Trio sonata in E flat major Op.2`11 (complete)

    Ensemble: Avison Ensemble. Director: Pavlo Beznosiuk.
    • Arcangelo Corelli Opus 2 and 4: Chamber Sonatas.
    • Linn.
    • 38-40.
  • Gustav Holst

    Scherzo, H192

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D minor, K 213

    Performer: John Williams. Music Arranger: John Williams.
    • Sony.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Septet (Op.20) in E flat major, 6th mvt; Andante con moto alla marcia - Presto

    Ensemble: Berlin Soloists.
    • Apex.
  • Claude Debussy

    搁锚惫别谤颈别

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.3: Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony in D minor, 'Youth'

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Rachmaninoff: Symphony no.1 etc: 大象传媒 Philharmonic/Noseda.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Fantaisie, Op.79

    Performer: Sharon Bezaly. Performer: Roland P枚ntinen.
    • Cafe au Lait: Sharon Bezaly/Roland Pontinen.
    • BIS.
    • 14.
  • Gra偶yna Bacewicz

    Overture for orchestra

    Orchestra: Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: 艁ukasz Borowicz.
    • CHANDOS.
  • John Adams

    Short Ride in a Fast Machine

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Oundjian.
    • Chandos.
    • CHSA5129.
    • 4.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    Henry VIII - incidental music for tenor, chorus and orchestra - March

    Orchestra: RT脡 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • Naxos.
    • 8.223461.
    • 8.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Rapsodie espagnole

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jean Martinon.
    • RCA.
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Septet in D minor, Op 74 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • CRD.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Septet in E flat major Op.65 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Valse Boh猫mienne; Valse Rustique (4 Characteristic Waltzes, Op.22)

    Orchestra: RT脡 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Leaper.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Orchestral Works.
    • NAXOS.
    • 6-7.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Chiome d'oro (Madrigals, Book 7)

    Singer: Anna Crookes. Singer: Clare Wilkinson. Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Director: Robert Hollingworth.
    • Monteverdi Fire and Ashes.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 12.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op 50 No 3

    Performer: Ingrid Fliter.
    • LINN.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto no.5 in D major (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • J.S.Bach: Brandenburg Concertos: Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • Naive.
    • 4.
  • George Gershwin

    Summertime (Porgy and Bess)

    Performer: Louis Armstrong. Singer: Ella Fitzgerald.
    • Verve.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon septimi toni 脿 8

    Performer: London Symphony Brass. Director: Eric Crees.
    • Gabrieli: Music for Brass Vol.3.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.
  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F major, D 803 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Fibonacci Sequence.
    • The Fibonacci Sequence - Schubert Octet.
    • Deux-Elles.
    • 3.
  • George Frideric Handel

    To thee, thou glorious son (Theodora)

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Singer: Robin Blaze. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Director: Nicholas Kraemer.
    • BIS.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Young Apollo, Op.16

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • Britten: Piano Concerto/Diversions/Young Apollo: Osborne/大象传媒 SSO/Volkov.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Tarquinio Merula

    Ciaconna

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico.
    • Il Giardino Armonica: Artist Portrait.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony no.8 in G major Op.88 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Christoph von Dohn谩nyi.
    • Decca.

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