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Wednesday with Ian Skelly - Jessie Burton, Halloween foods, Wagner's Flying Dutchman overture

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music for Halloween, presented by Ian Skelly. Ian's guest is novelist Jessie Burton.

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

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. Today, for Halloween, a spooky operatic classic: the overture to Wagner's Flying Dutchman - a ghostly ship doomed to haunt the high seas. Other devilish music today includes Liszt's Mephisto Waltz No.1, but it's not all goblins and witches - there's Mozart's vibrant Piano Concerto No.14 and Rachmaninov's romantic Cello Sonata too.

1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history. Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough on Halloween Food.

1050 Ian鈥檚 guest this week is the novelist Jessie Burton (鈥淭he Miniaturist鈥�, 鈥淭he Muse鈥�) 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 to Rautavaara's Flute Concerto "Dances with the Winds"

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Music Played

  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    Baba-Yaga, Op.56

    Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.

  • William Walton

    The Wise Virgins (Sheep may safely graze)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Louis Fr茅maux.
    • WARNER.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Sonata in D Major, K. 306: III. Allegretto

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Mozart: Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 103.

  • Henryk Miko艂aj G贸recki

    Totus Tuus

    Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • Universal.

  • Richard Wagner

    The Flying Dutchman (Overture)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Naive.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Allegro assai in A flat major (Six Melodies, No 1)

    Performer: B茅atrice Rauchs.
    • BIS.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in G major Op.3`3

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Performer: Rachel Brown. Director: Richard Egarr.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Cello Sonata in G minor (4th mvt)

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Emanuel Ax.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 21 in E minor

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • DECCA.

  • Time Traveller: Halloween Food by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough

  • Aaron Copland

    Morning on the Ranch (The Red Pony)

    Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Copland: Four dances from Rodeo: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra/Falletta.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 70 No. 1, "Ghost" (2nd mvt) II. Largo assai ed espressivo

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: Mischa Maisky.
    • Martha Argerich - Chamber.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 208.

  • Heinrich Marschner

    Der Vampyr (overture)

    Orchestra: WDR Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Helmuth Froschauer.
    • CAPRICCIO.

  • Carl Tausig

    The Ghost Ship, Op 1b

    Performer: Michael Lewin.
    • Piano Phantoms.
    • Sono Luminus.
    • 004.

  • Jessie Burton on her passion for the works of Hilaire Belloc

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 14 in E flat major, K 449

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

  • Jules Massenet

    March of the Princesses (Cendrillon Suite)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Brilliant Classics.

  • Richard Strauss

    Neapolitanisches Volksleben (Aus Italien Op.16)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Richard Strauss: Aus Italien, Four Songs: Jarvi.
    • Chandos.

  • Einojuhani Rautavaara

    Flute Concerto "Dances with the Winds" (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dima Slobodeniouk.
    • Khachaturian & Rautavaara: Flute Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 303.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in E flat major, D.899 no.2

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • Schubert: Live: Imogen Cooper.
    • Avie.
    • 2.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    When the night wind howls (Ruddigore)

    Librettist: W. S. Gilbert. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Choir: Radiok枚ren. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Daniel.
    • Bryn Terfel: Bad Boys; Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.

  • Franz Liszt

    Mephisto Waltz No.1 'The Dance in the Village Inn'

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • PHILIPS.

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  • Wed 31 Oct 2018 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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