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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Elgar's Third Symphony, Frank Skinner

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music presented Ian Skelly. Our guest this week is broadcaster, writer and comedian Frank Skinner.

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 writer, actor, comedian and presenter Frank Skinner.

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

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Fri 5 Jul 2019 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Jean Sibelius

    Lemminkainen's Return

    Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leif Segerstam.
    • ONDINE.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo for Violin and Orchestra in B flat, K269

    Performer: Christian Tetzlaff. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Mozart: The 5 Violin Concertos.
    • ERATO.
    • 17.

  • Clara Schumann

    Scherzo, Op.10

    Performer: Elena Gaponenko.
    • Hommage 脿 Vienne.
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 101.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Lord, thou hast been our refuge

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Performer: Douglas Tang. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Director: Stephen Cleobury.
    • KINGS COLLEGE CHOIR.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony no.1 in D major 'Classical'

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

  • George Gershwin

    Summertime (Porgy and Bess)

    Performer: Anne鈥怱ophie Mutter. Performer: Andr茅 Previn.
    • Simply Anne-Sophie.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Anon.

    惭补谤颈锄谩辫补濒辞蝉

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar. Singer: B茅atrice Mayo-Felip.
    • NAIVE.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in A minor for recorder, two violins and continuo, RV108

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

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Suite in Old Style (4th & 5th mvts)

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Vaiva Eidukaityt臈-Storastien臈. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras.
    • String Paths.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 008.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Locus iste

    Choir: Tenebrae. Director: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Anthony Payne

    Time's Arrow

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • nmc.

  • Edward Elgar

    Symphony No 3

    Composer: Anthony Payne. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Six Variations in F major, Op 34

    Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.
    • Beethoven: Variations: Cedric Tiberghien.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 5.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite: Praeludium

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Grieg: Holberg Suite/Tchaikovsky: String Serenade: Orheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pulcinella (Gavotta con due variazioni)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Stravinsky: Complete Ballets and Symphonies: Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, r.
    • Decca.

  • Georges Bizet

    Symphony in C major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka鈥怭ekka Saraste.
    • Ravel: Mother Goose, Bizet: Symphony in C.
    • Virgo.

  • Bob Dylan & The Band

    All Along The Watchtower (Live)

    • COLUMBIA.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-flat major, BWV.998, BV B.36 (1915)

    Performer: Wolf Harden. Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni.
    • NAXOS.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    Fandango (Guitar Quintet no. 4 in D major G.448)

    Performer: Giangiacomo Pinardi. Ensemble: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi.
    • Boccherini: Quintets: Europa Galante.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 4.

  • Franz Liszt

    Les pr茅ludes

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Philips.

  • John Dowland

    Lachrimae verae

    Ensemble: Sit Fast Viol Consort.
    • Evidence EVCD034.
    • Evidence.
    • 7.

  • Benjamin Britten

    The Big Chariot; The Old Lute (Songs of the Chinese)

    Performer: John Williams. Singer: Wilfred Brown.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.94 in G major H.1.94 'Surprise' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Introduction and Rondo capriccioso Op.28

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Janine Jansen.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Fri 5 Jul 2019 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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