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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: George Alagiah, Oxford pageant, Finzi's Eclogue

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 Musical Time Travellers 鈥� stories behind the music-making of the British Isles.

1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the journalist, writer and newsreader George Alagiah.

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

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Mon 9 Sep 2019 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Moments musicaux, Op.16 (No.6)

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • Rachmaninov: Preludes, Moments musicaux: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • Erato.
    • 17.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in D minor for two violins, BWV 1043 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Marieke Blankestijn. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • J.S.Bach: Concertos: Hope, Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Warner.

  • David Bruce

    Cymbeline: I. Sunrise

    Ensemble: Dover Quartet.
    • The North Wind Was a Woman: Chamber Works by David Bruce.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1.

  • John Williams

    Olympic Fanfare

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Cos矛 fan tutte (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Laudate Dominum for 5 voices, chor, 2vn, 4vdg/trb [1640]

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Singer: Evelyn Tubb. Singer: Nigel Rogers. Singer: Joseph Cornwell. Singer: David Thomas. Choir: Taverner Choir. Ensemble: Taverner Players. Conductor: Andrew Parrott.
    • Monteverdi: Selva Morae e Spirituale: Taverner Consort/Choir/Players/Andrew Parr.
    • EMI.
    • 5.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Eclogue in F major Op.10

    Performer: Tom Poster. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 17.

  • Marianna Martines

    Overture in C major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: La Floridiana. Conductor: Nicholeta Paraschivescu.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.

  • Jean Coulthard

    Bicycle Parade; The Departure (Excursion Ballet Suite)

    Orchestra: Symphony Nova Scotia. Conductor: Georg Tintner.
    • CBC.

  • 罢谤盲诲

    Cannie Hobbie Elliot

    Performer: The Unthanks.
    • Rabble Rouser.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 56, 'Scottish' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • LSO Live.

  • Duke Ellington

    Sophisticated Lady

    Music Arranger: Luther Henderson. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • American Music.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 303.

  • Donald Tovey

    Cello Concerto, Op 40 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Alice Neary. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: George Vass.
    • Toccata Classics.

  • Charles Gounod

    Meditation on the 1st Prelude of J.S. Bach

    Performer: Graham Johnson. Singer: Ann Murray.
    • HYPERION.

  • King Henry VIII of England

    Pastime with good company / H茅las madame

    Music Arranger: Elgar Howarth. Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • DECCA.

  • Richard Wagner

    Spinning Chorus (The Flying Dutchman)

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Louis Lortie.
    • Liszt at the Opera.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • Michael Torke

    Sky, Concerto for violin - 1st mvt

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sheep may safely graze

    Music Arranger: Gabriela Montero. Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • Gabriela Montero - Bach and Beyond.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 8.

  • Gerald Finzi

    The Salutation (Dies Natalis, Op 8)

    Singer: Wilfred Brown. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Finzi.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Egberto Gismonti

    Infancia

    Music Arranger: S茅rgio Assad. Performer: Odair Assad. Performer: S茅rgio Assad.
    • Saga dos Migrantes: Sergio and Odair Assad.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Bagatelles Op.47 (no.5)

    Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • Dvorak: String Quartets: Takacs Quartet.
    • Decca.
    • 5.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Rondo in B flat major for piano and orchestra, WoO 6

    Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Choral Fantasy, etc..
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.

  • Aaron Copland

    Street in a Frontier Town; Mexican Dance (Billy the Kid)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • RCA.

  • Charles Seeger

    John Hardy

    Ensemble: Sch枚nberg Ensemble. Conductor: Oliver Knussen.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Giuseppe Torelli

    Sonata 脿 5 no.1 in D major

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Newman.
    • Sony.

  • Howard Skempton

    Rise Up, My Love

    Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • First Drop.
    • Cantaloupe Music.
    • 1.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Mazurka in B flat major, Op 17 No 1

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Chopin: The Piano Sonatas: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 5.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia - suite Op.11

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.
    • BIS.

Broadcast

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