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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Holst鈥檚 Military Band Suite No 1, Strange Historical Deaths, Celia Imrie

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly.

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 actress and author Celia Imrie

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

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Fri 31 May 2019 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Reynaldo Hahn

    A Chloris

    Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Performer: Eugene Asti.
    • The Exquisite Hour.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
    • 009.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in F major K.138

    Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: G谩bor Tak谩cs鈥怤agy.
    • Chandos.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Nocturne in F minor, Op.55/1

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • NIFC.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Nocturne in F minor, Op.55/2

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • NIFC.

  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    Sonata in E minor, Op 3 No 6

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Performer: G枚ran S枚llscher.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 8.

  • Gustav Holst

    Suite No.1 for military band

    Ensemble: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • CHANDOS.

  • 脡lisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Trio sonata no. 3 in D major

    Ensemble: The Bach Players.
    • Coviello.

  • Claude Debussy

    Les parfums de la nuit (Ib茅ria)

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

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565

    Performer: Robert Quinney.
    • CORO.

  • Franz Schubert

    Standchen [Leise Flehen]

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Mendelssohn etc: Songs without words: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Johan Svendsen

    Romeo og Juliet Op.18

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Svendsen: Orchestral Works Vol. 1: Thorsen / BPO / Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

  • Gustav Holst

    A Moorside Suite

    Performer: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Garry Cutt.
    • Chandos.

  • Thomas Newman

    Second Best Exotic

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Capriccio italien Op.45

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

  • William Schuman

    To all, to each (3 Carols of Death)

    Conductor: Stephen Cleobury. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge.
    • Bernstein/Copland: Chichester Psalms/In the beginning: Cleobury.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.

  • Franz Schubert

    Violin Sonata in D major, D 384, 'Sonatina'

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.
    • Hyperion.

  • Gerald Finzi

    The Fall of the leaf - elegy in D minor Op.20

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.

  • Florence Price

    Dances in the Canebrakes

    Performer: Althea Waites.
    • CAMBRIA.

  • George Enescu

    Orchestral Suite No 3 in D major, Op 27, 'Villageoise' (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky.
    • Chandos.

Broadcast

  • Fri 31 May 2019 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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