Friday with Ian Skelly - Michael Morpurgo, Handel's Harmonious Blacksmith, The Blondin Donkey
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Presented by Ian Skelly with guest Michael Morpurgo.
Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Our Classical Century - 100 pieces celebrating 100 key moments in classical music in the last century. bbc.co.uk/ourclassicalcentury
1050 This Christmas week, the former Children's Laureate and prolific author Michael Morpurgo shares his cultural inspirations.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
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Gian Francesco Malipiero
The Coffee House (Tre commedie goldoniane)
Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. Conductor: Christian Benda.- Naxos.
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Richard Strauss
Schlagobers-Walzer (Schlagobers Op.70)
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- Strauss: Schlagobers, Munchen: Detroit SO/Jarvi.
- Chandos.
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Arthur Bliss
Metamorphic Variations (Cool Interlude)
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.- Bliss: Meditations on a Theme by John Blow.
- Naxos.
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John Blow
Ground in G Minor
Ensemble: La R锚veuse. Conductor: Florence Bolton. Conductor: Benjamin Perrot.- Circa 1700: Purcell & his Generation.
- Mirare.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Violin Concerto in A minor, Op 53 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Julia Fischer. Orchestra: Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman. -
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George Frideric Handel
The Harmonious Blacksmith (Keyboard Suite no.5 in E major HWV.430)
Performer: Trevor Pinnock.- The Harmonious Blacksmith - Favourite Harpsichord Pieces: Pinnock.
- Archiv Produktion.
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Josef Myslivecek
Overture in A major
Orchestra: Concerto K枚ln. Director: Werner Ehrhardt.- Il Divino Boemo.
- Archiv Produktion.
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Der Schneemann (Prelude; Serenade)
Performer: Heinz Haunold. Orchestrator: Alexander von Zemlinsky. Orchestra: Bruckner Orchestra of Linz. Conductor: Caspar Richter.- Korngold Orchestral Music.
- ASV.
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Igor Stravinsky
Scherzo Fantastique Op.3
Orchestra: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.- Stravinsky: Firebird Suite: St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra/Ashkenazy.
- Decca.
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George Frideric Handel
The Harmonious Blacksmith (Keyboard Suite no.5 in E major HWV.430)
Performer: Trevor Pinnock.- The Harmonious Blacksmith - Favourite Harpsichord Pieces: Pinnock.
- Archiv Produktion.
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Gabriel Faur茅
Valse-caprice no. in A major Op.30
Performer: Angela Hewitt.- Faure Piano Music.
- Hyperion.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A Musical Joke, K 522 (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Daniel Fran莽ois Esprit Auber
The Bronze Horse - Overture
Orchestra: Orchestre R茅gional de Cannes. Conductor: Wolfgang Dorner.- Naxos.
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Hubert L茅onard
Donkey and Driver
Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Thomas Ad猫s.- RCA.
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Charles Gounod
Symphony no.1 in D major (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.- Gounod/Bizet: Symphony no.1/L'Arlesienne: St Paul Chamber Orch/Hogwood.
- Decca.
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Franz Schubert
5 Minuets, D. 89: No. 3
Ensemble: Modigliani Quartet.- Portraits.
- Mirare.
- 107.
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Fran莽ois Couperin
Les Barricades Mysterieuses
Performer: Blandine Verlet.- ASTREE.
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George Butterworth
A blacksmith courted me (11 Folk-songs from Sussex)
Singer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Iain Burnside.- George Butterworth, Songs from A Shropshire Lad: Williams / Burnside.
- Naxos.
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Alexander Mosolov
The Iron Foundry Op.19
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Decca.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Nulla in mundo pax sincera, RV 630
Singer: Elin Manahan Thomas. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Harry Christophers.- Eternal Light: Elin Manahan-Thomas.
- Heliodor.
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R. P. Weston
Good Byee
Composer: Bert Lee. Performer: Charles Chilton.- Decca.
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Michael Head
A Blackbird Singing (Over the rim of the moon)
Singer: Sharon Carty. Performer: Andreas Frese.- GENUIN.
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Amy Beach
From Blackbird Hills Op.83
Performer: Kirsten Johnson.- Amy Beach: Piano Music Volume 3.
- GUILD.
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Paul McCartney
Blackbird
Music Arranger: Lubos Krticka. Ensemble: Wihan Quartet.- The Beatles - arranged by Lubos Krticka for String Quartet.
- NIMBUS.
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Percy Grainger
Handel in the Strand
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- The Grainger Edition, Vol.2 - Orchestral Works.
- Chandos.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Oboe Quartet in F major, K 370
Performer: Alexei Ogrintchouk. Performer: Boris Brovtsyn. Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Kristina Blaumane.- BIS.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
The Great Doxology (Vespers, Op 37)
Choir: Phoenix Chorale. Choir: Kansas City Chorale. Conductor: Charles Bruffy.- Chandos.
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Joaqu铆n Rodrigo
Canario (Fantas铆a para un gentilhombre)
Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.- Milos Karadaglic - Aranjuez.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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William Wigthorpe
Rowland
Ensemble: English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble. Conductor: William Lyons.- Flower of Cities All - Music in London 1580-1620.
- DEUX-ELLES.
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Giovanni Sollima
Violoncelles, vibrez! for 2 cellos and string orchestra
Performer: Gautier Capu莽on. Performer: Beno卯t Grenet. Orchestra: Paris Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Douglas Boyd.- Intuition.
- Erato.
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