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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Debussy's Poissons d'or, Adrian Scarborough, Weelkes's Weakness

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 actor Adrian Scarborough.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Francis Poulenc

    Capriccio for two pianos

    Performer: Pascal Rog茅. Performer: Jean鈥怭hilippe Collard.
    • Poulenc: Piano music and chamber works: Pascal Roge.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Flute Sonata in E Minor, BWV 1034 (Arr. for Alto Recorder & Basso continuo): IV

    Performer: Michala Petri. Performer: Hille Perl. Performer: Mahan Esfahani.
    • J.S. Bach: Flute Sonatas BWVV 1030-1035 (Arr. for Recorder & Basso continuo).
    • OUR Recordings.
    • 18.
  • Cecilia McDowall

    Alma redemptoris Mater

    Ensemble: Marian Consort. Director: Rory McCleery.
    • Music For The Queen Of Heaven.
    • DELPHIAN.
    • 5.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.5 in B flat major D.485 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Z眉rich. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Schubert: Symphonies No. 5 & 6: Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Zinman.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 4.
  • Claude Debussy

    Poissons d'or (Images, Set 2)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete Works for Piano: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Concert waltz for orchestra no. 2 (Op.51) in F major

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Orfeo.
  • Harold Arlen

    Stormy Weather

    Singer: Sylvia McNair. Performer: Andr茅 Previn. Performer: David Finck.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Brass Quintet no.1, Op.73 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • Malcolm Arnold.
    • Decca.
    • 16.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Capriccio sinfonico

    Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.
  • Clara Schumann

    Romance, Op.22 no.3

    Performer: Jennifer Pike. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • Brahms/Schumann: Jennifer Pike/Tom Poster.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    The Ruler of the Spirits Op.27

    Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jean鈥怞acques Kantorow.
    • Weber: Overtures.
    • Bis.
    • 1.
  • Erik Satie

    d'Holothurie (Embryons d茅ss茅ch茅s)

    Performer: Anne Queff茅lec.
    • Satie: Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes & Sports et Divertissements: Anne Queffelec.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    La Poule (Concert en sextuor no.6 in G minor)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Rameau: Une Symphonie Imaginaire: Musiciens du Louvre/Minkowski.
    • Archiv.
    • 11.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Aquarium (Carnival of the Animals)

    Orchestra: Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse. Conductor: Michel Plasson.
    • EMI.
  • Nick Kenny

    Gone Fishin'

    Composer: Charles Kenny. Singer: Bing Crosby. Singer: Louis Armstrong.
    • 20 Golden Greats.
    • MCA.
    • 9.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Loving (Five Tango Sensations)

    Performer: Astor Piazzolla. Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.
    • Piazzolla: Five tango sensations: Kronos Quartet/Piazzolla.
    • Elektra Nonesuch.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Fantaisie-tableaux, Op.5 (Barcarolle)

    Performer: Andr茅 Previn. Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Rachmaninov: Suites 1&2: Ashkenazy/Previn.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 26 in E flat major, K 184

    Conductor: 脕d谩m Fischer. Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Vol.6: Danish National Chamber Orchestra/Fischer.
    • Dacapo.
  • Ola Gjeilo

    Serenity [O magnum mysterium]

    Choir: Swedish Chamber Choir. Performer: Jennifer Pike. Conductor: Simon Phipps.
    • Chandos.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Symphony in C minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Grieg: Symphonie / Altnorwegische Romanze U.A..
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Violin concerto: 2nd mvt Andante sostenuto

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth.
    • Onyx.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Che far貌 senza Euride (Orfeo ed Euridice)

    Performer: Janet Baker. Performer: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Raymond Leppard.
    • Phillips.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborado del gracioso (Miroirs)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Ravel: Sheherazade; Ma Mere l'Oye; La Valse: BSO/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.

Broadcast

  • Wed 23 Oct 2019 09:00

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