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Friday with Ian Skelly - Chilly Gonzales, Ravel's Bolero

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Ian Skelly's guest is Chilly Gonzales.

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

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. Today, one of the most hummable tunes ever - Dvorak's charming Humoresque. Other music highlights this morning include Cesar Franck's thrilling - and chilling - tone poem Le Chasseur Maudit, and the dramatic finale of Shostakovich's Symphony No.12 "The year 1917".

1010 Our Classical Century - 100 pieces celebrating 100 key moments in classical music in the last century. bbc.co.uk/ourclassicalcentury. Today, Kate Molleson on Ravel's Bolero.

1050 This week's guest is the Grammy-winning pianist, composer and entertainer Chilly Gonzales, who鈥檒l be talking about the people, places and ideas that mean the most to him - today it's tennis player John McEnroe.

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

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Fri 30 Nov 2018 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Polonaise (A Life for the Tsar)

    Choir: Bolshoi Chorus. Orchestra: Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Lazarev.
    • Russian Opera Choruses.
    • Erato.
    • 7.

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Rondo all'ungherese, Op.107 no.6

    Performer: Howard Shelley.
    • Hummel 鈥� Piano Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 15.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Contrapunctus V (The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080)

    Ensemble: Delian::Quartet.
    • Cantai.
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 106.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Quartet No 12 in F major (American) arr. for wind quintet (4th mvt)

    Music Arranger: David Walter. Ensemble: Ensemble Ouranos.
    • Ligeti, Nielsen & Dvorak: Woodwind Quintets.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 113.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C major, RV 558, 'con molti strumenti'

    Ensemble: Europa Galante. Conductor: Fabio Biondi.
    • Vivaldi: Concerti Per Mandolini: Europa Galante.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 1.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Humoresque in G flat major, Op.101`7

    Performer: Anne鈥怱ophie Mutter. Performer: Ayami Ikeba. Music Arranger: Fritz Kreisler.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Trio Sonata No 4 in B flat major

    Ensemble: Aura Musicale. Director: Bal谩zs M谩t茅.
    • CHR. W. Gluck The Seven Trio Sonatas Aura Musicale.
    • Hungaroton Classic.
    • 10.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade no.1 in D major, Op.11 (6th mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Philips.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Suite in Old Style (4th & 5th mvts)

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Vaiva Eidukaityt臈-Storastien臈. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras.
    • String Paths.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 008.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Scherzo No 4 in E major, Op 54

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • DECCA.

  • Our Classical Century: Kate Molleson on Ravel's Bolero

  • Maurice Ravel

    Bol茅ro arr for piano

    Performer: Rudolph Ganz.
    • Bellaphon.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Bolero

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Donald Runnicles.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Menuetto

    Orchestra: Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leif Segerstam.
    • Sibelius: Belshazzar's Feast, Overture in E, Scene de Ballet and other works.
    • Naxos.

  • Tobias Hume

    The Virgin's Muse

    Ensemble: Concerto Caledonia. Director: David McGuinness.
    • DELPHIAN.

  • Henryk Wieniawski

    L茅gende, Op 17

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: Piers Lane. Music Arranger: August Wilhelmj.
    • EMI.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Euryanthe (Overture)

    Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jean鈥怞acques Kantorow.
    • Weber: Overtures: Tapiola Sinfonietta/Kantorow.
    • BIS.
    • 006.

  • Chilly Gonzales on being inspired by tennis player John McEnroe

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No 1 in B flat major, K 207 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Warner.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Piangero la sorte mia (Giulio Cesare)

    Singer: Simone Kermes. Ensemble: Lautten Compagney. Conductor: Wolfgang Katschner.
    • BERLIN CLASSICS.

  • Franz Schubert

    3 Pieces D.946 (no.3)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Hyperion.

  • Edward Elgar

    Ave verum corpus, Op 2 No 1

    Conductor: Edward Higginbottom. Choir: Choir of New College Oxford.
    • The Victorian and Edwardian Anthem: Choir of New College Oxford/Higginbottom.
    • CRD.
    • 2.

  • C茅sar Franck

    Le chasseur maudit

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Franck: Symphony in D Minor: Muti.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 1 in C major, Op 15 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
    • Sony.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No.12 in D minor The Year 1917 - 3rd and 4th mvt

    Orchestra: Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth.
    • BIS.

Broadcast

  • Fri 30 Nov 2018 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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