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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Liszt's Mazeppa, Marjory Kennedy Fraser, George Alagiah

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. Today's starter is a death-defying wild horse ride - Liszt's Mazeppa. Other musical highlights include a new recording of Brahms's serene German Requiem, and, as the leaves start to fall, Vivaldi's depiction of Autumn.

1010 Musical Time Travellers 鈥� stories behind the music-making of the British Isles. Davina Shum on Marjory Kennedy-Fraser in the Hebrides.

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. A beautiful 17th century lament by Francesca Caccini.

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Fri 13 Sep 2019 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Oh had I Jubal's lyre (Joshua)

    Singer: Magdalena Ko啪en谩. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.
    • 111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 10.

  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de matin Op.15`2

    Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Performer: Peter Pettinger.
    • Elgar: Violin sonata etc: Kennedy/Pettinger.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Parysatis - incidental music: Airs de ballet

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Saint-Sa毛ns: Africa.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 202.

  • Johannes Brahms

    A German Requiem - Selig sind

    Choir: Radiok枚ren. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 101.

  • Percy Grainger

    The Brisk Young Sailor (A Lincolnshire Posy)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Franz Liszt

    Transcendental Study No 4 in D minor, 'Mazeppa'

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 4.

  • Grace Williams

    Calm Sea in Summer (Sea Sketches)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: David Atherton.
    • Grace Williams: Fantasia On Welsh Nursery Tunes, Carillons, Penillion, Trumpet C.
    • Lyrita.
    • 17.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A Major K.581 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in Major, K. 581 - Weber: Clarinet Quintet in B-Flat Ma.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 204.

  • Portishead

    Sour Times

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰. Music Arranger: S茅rgio Assad. Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.
    • Decca.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont Overture

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

  • Time Traveller: Davina Shum on Marjory Kennedy Fraser

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Hebrides Overture

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gabriel Chmura.
    • DG.

  • Traditional Scottish

    An Eriskay Lullaby

    Performer: Sioned Williams. Singer: Lisa Milne.
    • Hyperion.

  • Traditional Scottish

    An Eriskay Love Lilt

    Performer: Sioned Williams. Singer: Lisa Milne.
    • Hyperion.

  • William Walton

    Symphony no.1 in B flat minor (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

  • Franz Schubert

    Erlk枚nig, D 328

    Performer: Oleg Maisenberg. Music Arranger: Franz Liszt.
    • DG.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Oh Maria, Maria! (Mazeppa)

    Orchestra: State Academy Symphony Orchestra of Russia. Conductor: Constantine Orbelian.
    • Singing of Love.
    • Delos.
    • 901.

  • Franz Waxman

    Taras Bulba (The Ride of the Cossacks)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Mauceri.
    • The Genius of Film Music: Hollywood Blockbusters 1960s鈥�1980s.
    • LPO.
    • 5.

  • George Alagiah on Nelson Mandela

  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op 44 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Ensemble: Cleveland Quartet.
    • Schumann - Quintet for Piano and Strings in E-flat, Op.44.
    • RCA.
    • 5.

  • Miriam Makeba

    Nongqongqo (To Those We Love)

    Performer: Miriam Makeba.
    • An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba.
    • RCA Victor.
    • 4.

  • James McMillan

    Ave maris stella

    Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • A Rose Magnificat.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 5.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in F major RV.293 'Autumn'

    Performer: Fabio Biondi. Ensemble: Europa Galante.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 7.

  • Iiro Rantala

    September (My Finnish Calendar)

    Performer: Iiro Rantala.
    • Act.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Nocturne in G minor, Op 15 No 3

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Chopin: The Complete Nocturnes and Impromptus: Angela Hewitt, piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Scherzo capriccioso

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Dvorak - Symphony no.6.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.

Broadcast

  • Fri 13 Sep 2019 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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