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Wednesday with Ian Skelly - The last drop, Mendelssohn's Wedding March, Ruth Padel

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly.
With guest, poet, novelist and author Ruth Padel.

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 Ian鈥檚 guest this week is the poet, novelist and author Ruth Padel, who reveals the people, places and ideas that have inspired her throughout her life and career.

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Polonaise in E flat major, B.100

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.
    • Dvorak: Slavonic Dances etc.: RPO/Detroit SO/Dorati.
    • Decca.
    • 15.
  • Granville Bantock

    Hamabdil

    Performer: Paul Watkins. Performer: Huw Watkins.
    • British works for cello and piano, vol.1: Paul Watkins/Huw Watkins.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.
  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    24 Caprices, Op. 1, MS 25 (Arr. M. Skoryk for Orchestra): No. 24 in A Minor. Tem

    Composer: Myroslav Skoryk. Orchestra: Lviv International Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Zemtsov.
    • Paganini: 24 Caprices, Op. 1, MS 25 (Arr. M. Skoryk for Orchestra).
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 124.
  • Franz Schubert

    Rondo in A major D.951

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • DG.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Wedding March (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op 61)

    Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs鈥惷塴ys茅es. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream: Herreweghe.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 7.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet movement in B flat major K.516c

    Orchestrator: Robert Levin. Performer: Martin Fr枚st. Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Boris Brovtsyn. Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Torleif Thed茅en.
    • Mozart - Clarinet Concerto; Kegelstatt Trio - Martin Fr枚st.
    • BIS.
    • 7.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Nisi Dominus HWV 238

    Singer: Diana Montague. Singer: John Mark Ainsley. Singer: Simon Birchall. Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Orchestra: Orchestra of Westminster Abbey. Director: Simon Preston.
    • Archiv.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Wedding March (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op 61)

    Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs鈥惷塴ys茅es. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream: Herreweghe.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 7.
  • Max Reger

    Scherzo (Romantic Suite)

    Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Lyon Opera Soloists.
    • Schoenberg: Kaiserwalzer and other Transcriptions: Soliste de l'Opera National d.
    • Erato.
    • 2.
  • Edwin York Bowen

    Three Serious Dances, Op 51 (No 2)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's English Piano Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.
  • Johann Adam Hiller

    Die Jagd (Overture)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Blomstedt 1998-2005 in Leipzig: Blomstedt/Gewandhaus orchestra.
    • Querstand Records.
  • Hubert Parry

    The Birds: Bridal March

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • Lyrita.
  • Derek Bourgeois

    Serenade Op.22

    Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Michael Antrobus.
    • Chandos.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Quartet in E minor, TWV 43:E2 (Tafelmusik 3, No 2)

    Performer: Karl Kaiser. Performer: Petra M眉llejans. Performer: Stefan M眉hleisen. Performer: Hille Perle. Performer: Lee Santata. Performer: Torsten Johann.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op 131 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • ZIG ZAG.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude in E minor (Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, bk.1 no.10) BWV.855

    Performer: Brad Mehldau.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Brad Mehldau

    After Bach: Flux

    Performer: Brad Mehldau.
    • NONESUCH.
  • William Walton

    Henry V - Suite

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • DECCA : 448 134 2.
    • DECCA.
    • 11.
  • Doreen Carwithen

    Piano Concerto (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Howard Shelley. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Doreen Carwithen. Work incl. Overture (ODTAA), Suffolk suite and others.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Bassoon Concerto in F major arr for trumpet (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sergei Nakariakov. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras. Conductor: Saulius Sondeckis.
    • Echoes from the Past: Nakariakov/Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra/Sondeckis.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, Op 65 No 6 (Lyric Pieces)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Alexandre Tharaud: Autograph.
    • Erato.
    • 7.
  • Ermanno Wolf鈥怓errari

    L'Amore Medico (Overture)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Chandos.

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  • Wed 24 Oct 2018 09:00

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