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Wednesday with Ian Skelly - Steven Isserlis, Monteverdi's Zefiro Torna, Welsh National Opera

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Ian Skelly's guest is cellist Steven Isserlis.

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 key moments in the last century of classical music.

1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the cellist Steven Isserlis.

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

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Wed 20 Feb 2019 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    La fille aux cheveux de lin (Preludes, Book 1)

    Performer: Jorge Bolet.
    • Debussy: 16 Preludes: Bolet.
    • Decca.
    • 11.

  • Paul Dukas

    Villanelle

    Performer: Richard Watkins. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • The Romantic Horn.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 701.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No 1 in C major, BWV 1066 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • J.S.Bach: Les Quatre Ouvertures: Le Concert Des Nations, Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 6.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Rondo in G minor Op.94 for cello and piano

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • HYPERION.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Untitled

    Singer: Nigel Rogers. Singer: Ian Partridge. Singer: Christopher Keyte. Choir: Monteverdi鈥怌hor Hamburg. Performer: Colin Tilney. Director: J眉rgen J眉rgens.
    • Canti amorosi.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 5.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Triple Concerto in C Major for Piano, Violin and Cello, Op. 56: III. Rondo alla

    Performer: Gordan Nikolitch. Performer: Timothy Hugh. Performer: Lars Vogt. Conductor: Bernard Haitink. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Triple Concerto.
    • Lso Live.
    • 106.

  • John Dowland

    La Mia Barbara

    Performer: Paul O鈥橠ette.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Boris Ord

    Adam lay y-bounden

    Music Arranger: John Rutter. Choir: Choir of New College Oxford. Performer: Anna Noakes. Conductor: Edward Higginbottom.
    • Nativitas, A celebration of peace: Choir of New College, Oxford/Higginbottom.
    • Erato.
    • 2.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Wasps (Overture)

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Vaughan Williams: Orchestral works including Symphony no.3, The Wasps Overture,.
    • HALLE.
    • 7.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Orlando furioso - Sinfonia

    Ensemble: I Barocchisti. Conductor: Diego Fasolis.
    • Vivaldi: Orlando furioso, RV Anh. 84.
    • Dynamic.
    • 101.

  • Michael Nyman

    Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds (The Draughtsman's Contract)

    Performer: Valentina Lisitsa.
    • Valentina Lisitsa - Chasing Pianos.
    • Decca.
    • 13.

  • Claude Debussy

    La Mer - 3 symphonic sketches for orchestra: no.3; Dialogue du vent et de la mer

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Musicales Actes Sud.

  • Edward Elgar

    O wild west wind, Op 53 No 3

    Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Conductor: Stephen Westrop. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Elgar: Choral Songs: London Symphony Chorus/Handley.
    • Hyperion.
    • 17.

  • Robert Schumann

    Adagio and Allegro in A flat, Op 70

    Performer: Adam Laloum. Performer: Lise Berthaud.

  • Vincent Youmans

    Tea for Two

    Performer: Harpo Marx. Conductor: Ray Sinatra.
    • BMG.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.31 in D major 'Hornsignal' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • LINN.

  • Franz Schubert

    Das Wandern (Die Sch枚ne M眉llerin D.795)

    Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau. Performer: Gerald Moore.
    • Grosse Stimmen: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 12.

  • Florence Price

    Dances in the Canebrakes (Nimble Feet)

    Music Arranger: William Grant Still. Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen.
    • Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers.
    • Cedille.
    • 101.

  • Florence Price

    Dances in the Canebrakes (Tropical Noon)

    Music Arranger: William Grant Still. Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen.
    • Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers.
    • Cedille.
    • 102.

  • Florence Beatrice Price

    Dances in the Canebrakes (Arr. W.G. Still for Orchestra): No. 3, Silk Hat and Wa

    Composer: William Grant Still. Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen. Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta.
    • Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers.
    • Cedille.
    • 103.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Organ Concerto no. 5, Op.4`5

    Performer: Richard Egarr. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music.
    • Handel: Organ Concertos Op.4: AAM, Rechard Egarr.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Jennifer Higdon

    Piano Trio (1st mvmt, Pale Yellow)

    Performer: Anne Akiko Meyers. Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Adam Neiman.
    • NAXOS.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Sonata a 22 S.241 [1615 no.20]

    Ensemble: Berlin Brass. Director: Lucas Vis.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 1 in G minor

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Peter Nagy.
    • DECCA.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Courtly Dances (Gloriana)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Benjamin Britten: Works for Orchestra.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Wed 20 Feb 2019 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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