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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Hadley's Hills, Ravel's Bolero, Adrian Scarborough

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

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    The Gadfly Suite Op.97a (Galop)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Shostakovich: Film Music Vol.2: 大象传媒 Philharmonic/Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    The Bells Op.35 (The Silver Sleigh Bells)

    Music Arranger: Daniil Trifonov. Performer: Daniil Trifonov.
    • DG.
  • Cecilia McDowall

    Church Bells Beyond the Stars

    Performer: John Kitchen.
    • DELPHIAN.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Ave Maris Stella (Vespers 1610)

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • Linn Records CKD569.
    • Linn Records.
    • 2.
  • Jules Massenet

    Nuit d'Espagne

    Performer: J茅r么me Ducros. Singer: Philippe Jaroussky.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
  • Maurice Ravel

    叠辞濒茅谤辞

    Conductor: Pierre Boulez. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Ravel: Bolero: Berliner Philharmoniker, Boulez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 15.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Sinfonia di concerto grosso no.12 in C minor 'La Geniale'

    Ensemble: Europa Galante. Performer: Fabio Biondi.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    2nd movement; Lively (Horseplay for ensemble)

    Ensemble: Continuum. Conductor: Philip Headlam.
    • Wallen: The Girl in my Alphabet.
    • AVIE.
    • 9.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Tit for Tat

    Performer: Benjamin Britten. Singer: John Shirley鈥怮uirk.
    • Benjamin Britten: Song Cycles.
    • Decca.
    • 19-23.
  • Patrick Hadley

    The Hills

    Singer: Robert Lloyd. Choir: Cambridge University Music Society Chorus. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Philip Ledger.
    • EMI.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Quartet No 12 in F major, Op 96, 'American' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Amadeus Quartet.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    叠辞濒茅谤辞, Op.19

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 4.
  • 脡mile Waldteufel

    The Skaters

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • SONY.
  • Franz Schubert

    An die Musik, D.547

    Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau. Performer: Gerald Moore.
    • Schubert: Complete Songs: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Arvo P盲rt

    Symphony no.4 'Los Angeles' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • Arvo P盲rt Symphony No.4.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Organ (Trio) Sonata in E minor, BWV.528

    Music Arranger: Florilegium. Ensemble: Florilegium. Director: Ashley Solomon.
    • Bach: Organ Trio Sonatas.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 10-12.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.31 in D major K.297 'Paris'

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • LINN.
  • Samuel Barber

    String Quartet in B minor, Op 11 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet.
    • Barber: String Quartet: Emerson String Quartet.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • Alice Mary Smith

    Andante

    Performer: Angela Malsbury. Ensemble: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • Chandos.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    String Quartet No 1, Op 49: III Allegro molto

    Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Sally Beamish

    Seavaigers (Haven)

    Performer: Chris Stout. Performer: Catriona McKay. Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • McKay Stout Music.

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