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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: The World's Worst Orchestra

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Music Played

  • Percy Grainger

    Country Gardens

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • John Dowland

    A Fancy

    Performer: Bernhard Hofst枚tter.
    • TYXart.

  • Richard Wagner

    Albumbl盲tt f眉r Frau Betty Schott

    Performer: Ll欧r Williams.
    • Signum.

  • Eric Coates

    Youth of Britain [The Princess Elizabeth] (The Three Elizabeths)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Reginald Kilbey.
    • Classics for Pleasure.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in B flat major, K 240

    Orchestra: Consortium Classicum.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (A German Requiem)

    Choir: Berlin Radio Choir. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    August (The Year)

    Performer: Lauma Skride.
    • Sony.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G major, BWV 1049

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • L'Oiseau Lyre.

  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    Introduction and Variations on 'Di tanti palpiti'

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Performer: Itamar Golan.
    • TELDEC.

  • Richard Wagner

    The Flying Dutchman (Overture)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Naive.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Impromptu in A flat major, Op 29

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin - The Piano Works, Preludes and Impromptus.
    • DECCA.
    • 27.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.4: 4th movement

    Singer: Lucia Popp. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Klaus Tennstedt.
    • EMI.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio in E flat major, D.897 'Notturno'

    Ensemble: Trio Fontenay.
    • Teldec.

  • George Gershwin

    Variations on 'I got rhythm' for piano and orchestra

    Performer: Orion Weiss. Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Gershwin: Piano Concerto: Weiss/Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra/Falletta.
    • NAXOS.
    • 005.

Broadcast

  • Fri 9 Aug 2019 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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