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Tuesday with Ian Skelly - Rulers' pets, Simon Armitage, Korngold's Garden Scene from Much Ado About Nothing

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Ian Skelly's guest is poet Simon Armitage.

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

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Time Traveller 鈥� a quirky slice of history.

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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Tue 22 Jan 2019 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Belkis, Queen of Sheba (The Dance of Belkis at Dawn)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Respighi: Belkis Queen of Sheba and Metamorphoseon.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Overture in D major H.1a.7

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • BR Klassik : 40357-190010-2.
    • BR Klassik.
    • 1.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Nocturne in E-Flat Minor, Op. 33 No. 1

    Performer: Nicolas Stavy.
    • Faur茅: Piano Works.
    • BIS.
    • 1.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Beati quorum via, Op 38 No 3

    Performer: Robert Quinney. Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • A New Heaven, The Sixteen.
    • UCJ.
    • 4.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Sinfonietta in A major, Op 48 (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Alberto Zedda.
    • Prokofiev/Debussy/Milhaud: Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne/Zedda.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 9.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Much Ado About Nothing (Garden scene)

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: J茅r么me Ducros.
    • Capriccio - Violin Pieces.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 15.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe (Cantata no.34)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach Choruses - Gardiner.
    • SDG.
    • 1.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz in A flat, Op 64 No 3

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • Chopin: Waltzes: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • Helios.
    • 8.

  • Michael Tippett

    Fantasia concertante on a theme of Corelli

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Performer: Vesna Stankovic Moffatt. Performer: Marieke Blankestijn. Performer: William Conway. Conductor: Douglas Boyd.
    • Lachrymae: Music for Strings.
    • Warner Apex.
    • 4.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio in C minor and Rondeau in C major, K 617

    Performer: Philharmonisches Bl盲serquintett Berlin. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • BIS.

  • Charles Gounod

    Waltz from Faust

    Conductor: Richard Hayman.
    • French Ballet Favourites.
    • Naxos.
    • 17.

  • Lars鈥怑rik Larsson

    A Winter's Tale Suite, Op 18

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Stig Westerberg.
    • Swedish Society.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon duodecimi toni 脿 10, C178

    Ensemble: Wallace Collection. Conductor: Simon Wright.
    • Gabrieli and St.Marks: Venetian Brass Music: The Wallace Collection/Wallace/Wrig.
    • Nimbus.
    • 1.

  • C茅cile Chaminade

    Chaconne, Op 8

    Performer: Peter Jacobs.
    • Chaminade: Piano Music - 1, Peter Jacobs.
    • Helios.
    • 1.

  • Louis Lefebure-Wely

    March in F

    Performer: Robert Poyser.
    • Priory.

  • Franz Schubert

    Die Zauberharfe D.644 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • BIS.

  • Lili Boulanger

    D'un Vieux Jardin

    Performer: Judith Pfeiffer.
    • DREYER GUIDO.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    The Rock

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, The Isle of the Dead, The Rock.
    • Avie.
    • 5.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Samson, Act 1, 2: 'Total Eclipse'

    Singer: Mark Padmore. Ensemble: The English Concert. Director: Andrew Manze.
    • As Steals The Morn: Handel Arias & Scenes For Tenor.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 7.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony no.8 in G major Op.88 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Sony.

  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    On an Overgrown Path, Bk.1 (The Little Owl has not Flown)

    Performer: Charles Owen.
    • Leos Janacek: Piano music: Charles Owen.
    • Somm New Horizons.
    • 12.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Sh茅h茅razade, ouverture de f茅erie

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Ravel: Ma M猫re l'Oye, Le tombeau de Couperin & Sh茅h茅razade, ouverture de f茅erie.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 13.

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    大象传媒 Radio 3

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