Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

Friday with Ian Skelly - Witch bottles, Jessie Burton, Mozart's Magic Flute overture

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, 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.

1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history.

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.

3 hours

Last on

Fri 2 Nov 2018 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

More episodes

Previous

Thursday with Ian Skelly - Musical comedy footnotes, Jessie Burton

Next

Monday with Suzy Klein and Stephen Fry

See all episodes from Essential Classics

Music Played

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream Op.61 (Scherzo)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.

  • William Byrd

    Vigilate

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Vigilate! Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 9.

  • Richard Strauss

    Piano Trio No. 2 in D Major III. Scherzo. Allegro assai

    Performer: Doren Dinglinger. Performer: Alexandre Vay. Performer: Daniel Blumenthal.
    • Strauss: Piano Quartet in C Major, Op. 13, TrV 137 & Piano Trio No. 2 in D Major.
    • CPO.
    • 7.

  • Charles Gounod

    Petite Symphonie (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Gounod/Bizet: Symphony no.1/L'Arlesienne: St Paul Chamber Orch/Hogwood.
    • Decca.
    • 8.

  • Karl Goldmark

    Scherzo in A Major, Op. 45

    Conductor: Fabrice Bollon. Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.
    • Goldmark: Symphonic Poems, Vol. 1.
    • CPO.
    • 5.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute (Overture)

    Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude and Fugue in F sharp major, Op 87 No 13

    Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Shostakovich The Preludes & Fugues Alexander Melnikov Piano.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Come in vano mare irato (Il Catone in Utica)

    Performer: Fabio Biondi. Singer: Vivica Genaux. Orchestra: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi.
    • Pyrotechnics: Vivaldi Arias.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 1.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Song of Destiny, Op 54

    Choir: San Francisco Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Decca.

  • Peteris Vasks

    String Quartet No 3

    Ensemble: Miami String Quartet.
    • Vasks - String Quartets.
    • Conifer.
    • 1.

  • Witold Lutos艂awski

    Variations on a theme of Paganini

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Rachmaninov:Suite No.2 /Ravel a Valse/Lutoslawski:/Paganini Variations - Argeric.
    • Philips.
    • 6.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in G major, Wq.173

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Gustav Holst

    Hark! Some wild trumpeter (The Mystic Trumpeter, Op 18)

    Singer: Susan Gritton. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Holst: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Scherzo humoristique, Op 19 No 2 (Six morceaux)

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Seasons / Six Pieces.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.

  • Charlotte Bray

    Agnus Dei (a reflection on Byrd's Agnus Dei from the Mass for 5 voices)

    Choir: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.

  • Aaron Copland

    El sal贸n M茅xico

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • DECCA.

  • Clara Schumann

    Le ballet des revenants, Op.5 no.4

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Waverley

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.

  • Claude Debussy

    Syrinx

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Quartet No 14 in A flat major, Op 105 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • Dvorak: String Quartets: Takacs Quartet.
    • Decca.
    • 12.

  • Hubert Parry

    I was glad

    Choir: The Choir of St George鈥檚 Chapel, Windsor Castle. Performer: Roger Judd. Conductor: Christopher Robinson.
    • HYPERION.

  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    Humoreske [for wind quintet]

    Ensemble: Les Vents Fran莽ais.
    • French Music for Winds.
    • WARNER.
    • 7.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.7 in A major Op.92 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Teldec.

Broadcast

  • Fri 2 Nov 2018 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

Our Classical Century

Our Classical Century

Radio 3 explores 100 key musical moments that shaped us, from 1918 to the present day.

Time Travellers: the podcast

Time Travellers: the podcast

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough presents quirky tales gathered from the corners of history.