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Wednesday with Ian Skelly - Dobrinka Tabakova, Monteverdi Vespers, Bridget of Sweden

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. With guest this week, composer Dobrinka Tabakova.

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3 hours

Music Played

  • Giuseppe Torelli

    Sinfonia in C major G.33

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • AVIE.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Le Tombeau de Couperin (Toccata)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • decca.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Abduction from the Seraglio (Overture)

    Orchestra: La Cetra Barockorchester. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • C茅sar Franck

    Piano Quintet in F Minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Michel Dalberto. Ensemble: Novus String Quartet.
    • C茅sar Franck: Piano Works & Quintet.
    • 础辫补谤迟茅.
    • 8.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Vespro Della Beata Vergine [1610]

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • Monteverdi Vespers 1610.
    • Linn Records.
    • 1.
  • Ernesto Halffter

    Habanera

    Performer: Mats Lidstr枚m. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • Hyperion.
  • Erno Dohnanyi

    Symphonic Minutes Op.36

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • Dohnanyi: Symphony no. 2: 大象传媒 Philharmonic/Bamert.
    • Chandos.
    • 1-5.
  • Franz Schubert

    Moments musicaux, D 780 (No 4 in C sharp minor)

    Performer: Shai Wosner.
    • ONYX.
  • Franz Waxman

    Carmen fantasy

    Performer: Aleksey Semenenko. Performer: Inna Firsova.
  • George Butterworth

    On the idle hill of summer (Bredon Hill and other songs)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Iain Burnside.
    • George Butterworth, Songs from A Shropshire Lad: Williams / Burnside.
    • Naxos.
    • 15.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    In ecclesiis 脿 14

    Choir: I Fagiolini. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.
    • 1612 Italian Vespers: I Fagiolini/Robert Hollingworth.
    • Decca.
    • 17.
  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Evening Prayer (H盲nsel und Gretel)

    Singer: Rebecca Evans. Singer: Jennifer Larmore. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Engelbert Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel.
    • Chandos.
    • 15.
  • Agust铆n Barrios Mangor茅

    La Catedral [Benites R.: vol.1 p.58] [complete]

    Performer: Thibaut Garcia.
    • ERATO.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Alma Redemptoris Mater

    Choir: Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas.
    • DELPHIAN.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor, Op 73

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • DG.
  • Claude Debussy

    Feux d'artifice (Preludes, Book 2)

    Performer: Francesco Piemontesi.
    • 狈础脧痴贰.
  • Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully

    L'amour m茅decin (Chaconne)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Music at the Court of Versailles: Charpentier/Delalande/Lully/Rameau.
    • Erato.
    • 18.
  • Dorothy Howell

    The Moorings

    Performer: Lorraine McAslan. Performer: Sophia Rahman.
    • Dutton.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Coriolan Overture Op.62

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • TELDEC.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Bless the Lord, O my soul (Vespers, Op 37)

    Choir: Accentus. Choir: Eric Ericsons Kammark枚r. Director: Laurence Equilbey.
    • NAIVE.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quartet no.5 in E flat major Op.44`3 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • CHANDOS.

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  • Wed 27 Mar 2019 09:00

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