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Monday with Ian Skelly - Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, Mary Lucas's Concrete Boathouse, Simon Armitage

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly, with guest, the poet Simon Armitage.

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

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. This morning's starter is Mendelssohn's magical overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream. Other musical highlights today include a characterful performance of Haydn's String Quartet Op.33 No.6, and Tchaikovsky's sunny Capriccio italien.

1010 Time Traveller 鈥� a quirky slice of history. Kate Romano on Mary Lucas's Concrete Boathouse.

1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the poet, playwright and novelist Simon Armitage

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

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Mon 21 Jan 2019 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    La R茅jouissance (Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV.351)

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Director: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Handel: Water & Fireworks Music: London Classical Players, Norrington.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 22.

  • Madeleine Dring

    Trio for flute, oboe & piano (2nd mvt, Andante semplice)

    Performer: Nancy Ruffer. Performer: John Anderson. Performer: Helen Crayford.
    • British Music for Flute, Oboe & Piano.
    • Dutton.
    • 004.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550: 4th mvt - Allegro assai

    Conductor: Andrew Manze. Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 40 & 41 (Live).
    • PENTATONE.
    • 104.

  • Jean Sibelius

    2 Serenades Op.69 (no.1 in D major)

    Performer: Pekka Kuusisto. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta.
    • Ondine.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Vespro della beata Vergine (1610): Lauda Jerusalem

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • LINN.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Overture, Op 21)

    Conductor: John Nelson. Orchestra: Ensemble orchestral de Paris.
    • Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream; Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, John Nelso.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No 1 in G major, BWV 1007 (Allemande)

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma.
    • J. S. Bach, The Cello Suites: Yo-Yo Ma.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.

  • Claude Debussy

    Feux d'artifice (Preludes, Book 2)

    Orchestrator: Colin Matthews. Orchestra: 贬补濒濒茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • 贬补濒濒茅.

  • Franz Schubert

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

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • Schubert, Live, Volume 3: Imogen Cooper.
    • Avie.
    • 1.

  • Percy Grainger

    Country Gardens

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Percy Grainger: In A Nutshell: Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Time Traveller: Mary Lucas andthe Concrete Boathouse by Kate Romano

  • Edmund Rubbra

    Symphony No 5 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • Mary Lucas

    Lament

    Performer: Rudolf Dunbar. Performer: Mary Lucas.
    • Octacros.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Piano Concerto No 5 in F major, Op 103, 'Egyptian'

    Performer: Louis Schwizgebel. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Aparte : AP-112.
    • Aparte.
    • 4.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon and Gigue in D

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • TELDEC.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Oberon (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Overtures: London Classical Players/Norrington.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Theme and Variations for piano from String Sextet, Op 18 No 1

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Mozart/Liszt/Brahms/Mendelssohn: Theme and Variations: Brendel.
    • Philips.
    • 4.

  • Simon Armitage on his love of The Bourne Identity

  • John Powell

    Faces without Names (The Bourne Ultimatum)

    Conductor: Gavin Greenaway.
    • Decca.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op 33 No 6

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Le carnaval romain

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

  • Nicola Porpora

    Alto giove (Polifemo)

    Performer: Jan Vogler. Orchestra: La Folia Barockorchester. Director: Robin Peter M眉ller.
    • Sony.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Iolanthe (Overture)

    Orchestra: D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra. Conductor: John Pryce-Jones.
    • Gilbert and Sullivan Overtures: Various performers.
    • TER.
    • 4.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Capriccio italien Op.45

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Classic FM.

Broadcast

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