Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Adrian Scarborough, Oramics in the Oast House, Brahms's FAE Scherzo
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 – stories behind the music-making of the British Isles.
1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the actor Adrian Scarborough.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
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Music Played
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Florence Price
Song for Snow
Performer: Paul Shaw. Choir: VocalEssence. Conductor: Philip Brunelle.- Got the Saint Louis Blues.
- Clarion.
- 003.
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Jacques Offenbach
Boule de neige: Overture & "Divorce Waltz"
Singer: Karine Deshayes. Orchestra: Rouen Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Jean-Pierre Nicolas.- Alpha.
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Gustav Holst
Invocation
Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.- HYPERION.
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Francesco Geminiani
Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op.7`2
Ensemble: The Purcell Quartet. Ensemble: The Purcell Band.- Geminiani: La Folia.
- Helios.
- 17-19.
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Johannes Brahms
Scherzo in C minor (F.A.E. Sonata)
Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Alexander Melnikov.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Isaac Albéniz
Asturias (Suite española)
Music Arranger: John Williams. Performer: John Williams.- SONY CLASSICAL.
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Hans Pfitzner
Das Käthchen von Heilbronn (Overture)
Orchestra: Berlin Staatskapelle. Conductor: Otmar Suitner.- EDEL CLASSICS.
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Maurice Ravel
Sonatine for piano
Performer: Angela Hewitt.- Hyperion.
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George Frideric Handel
Total Eclipse (Samson)
Singer: Joshua Ellicott. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.- Linn.
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Carl Maria von Weber
Clarinet Concertino in E flat major, Op 26
Performer: Maximiliano MartÃn. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Janiczek.- Linn.
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Michael Tippett
Divertimento on Sellinger's Round (2nd mvt)
Performer: Lucy Gould. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Director: Neville Marriner.- Tippett: Concerto for double string orchestra: Marriner.
- EMI.
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Clara Schumann
Romance, Op 22 No 1
Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Sebastian Knauer.- DG.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Chorale Prelude BWV687 'Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir'
Performer: György Kurtág. Performer: Márta Kurtág.- Jatekok and Bach Transcriptions.
- ECM.
- 2.
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Gabriel Jackson
Salve Regina
Singer: Laura Oldfield. Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.- Gabriel Jackson: Not no faceless angel: Polyphony/Layton.
- Hyperion.
- 10.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Sextet in D major Op.110 (4th mvt)
Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili. Performer: Dora Schwarzberg. Performer: Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg. Performer: Lyda Chen. Performer: Jorge Andres Bosso. Performer: Enrico Fagone.- Live from the Lugano Festival 2009, Martha Argerich and friends.
- EMI Classics.
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George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.- DECCA.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ave verum corpus, K 618
Choir: Tenebrae. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nigel Short.- Mozart: Requiem.
- Warner Classics.
- 15.
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Jules Massenet
Je suis seul... Ah! fuyez, douce image (Manon)
Singer: Vittorio Grigolo. Orchestra: RAI National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Evelino Pidò.- The Romantic Hero.
- SONY CLASSICAL.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Quintet in B flat major (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.- CRD.
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William Alwyn
Overture in the Form of a Serenade
Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson. Choir: London Chorus. Singer: Micaela Haslam.- Dutton.
Broadcast
- Mon 21 Oct 2019 09:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3