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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Alain de Botton, Hadley's Kinder Scout, Max Priatel's Hidden Voices

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 philosopher and author Alain de Botton.

1110 Essential Orchestral Showstoppers 鈥� one each day.

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

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Mon 18 Nov 2019 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in E flat major, Wq. 179 (H654) - first movement

    Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Zacharias.
    • MDG.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Venetian Gondola Song (Songs Without Words book 1 Op.19)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mendelssohn: Lieder Ohne Worte: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

  • George Gershwin

    It ain't necessarily so

    Performer: Nicolas Dautricourt. Performer: Pascal Schumacher. Performer: Knut Erik Sundquist.
    • Porgy and Bess Revistited.
    • Orchid.
    • 08.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scheherazade op 35 arr Gilson. i. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship

    Performer: Simon Trpceski.
    • Onyx.

  • Philip Glass

    Akhnaten (Act 2, Sc 3: The City)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Takuo Yuasa.
    • Philip Glass: Violin Concerto.
    • Naxos.
    • 9.

  • Marin Marais

    Chaconne in C major (Pi猫ces en trio, 1692)

    Performer: William Hunt. Ensemble: The Purcell Quartet.
    • Marin Marais 'La folia' & other music for viols and violins The Purcell Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.

  • Alexander Alexandrovich Alyabiev

    The Nightingale

    Singer: Natalie Dessay. Orchestra: Berlin Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Sch酶nwandt.
    • Vocalises - Natalie Dessay.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.

  • Manning Sherwin

    A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

    Music Arranger: Regis Danillon. Performer: Piers Lane.
    • Piers Lane goes to town.
    • HYPERION.
    • 11.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Quartet in F major, Op 96, 'American' (Finale)

    Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
    • Dvorak: Quatuor op. 96 "Americain": Jerusalem Quartet.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 4.

  • Antonio Salieri

    Concerto in C major for flute and oboe (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Susan Milan. Performer: David Theodore. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.

  • Conlon Nancarrow

    Study no.6

    Music Arranger: Yvar Mikhashoff. Ensemble: Ensemble Modern. Performer: Ingo Metzmacher.
    • RCA.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata no.5 in F major, Op.24, 'Spring' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: Frank Braley.
    • Beethoven, The Complete Sonatas For Violin And Piano: Capucon, Braley.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 1.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    On Wenlock Edge

    Performer: Graham Johnson. Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Ensemble: The Duke Quartet.
    • Naxos.

  • Alan Hovhaness

    Symphony No 2, Op 132, 'Mysterious Mountain' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.
    • Williams: The Five Sacred Trees: Leclair/London Symphony Orchestra/Williams.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.

  • Peggy Seeger & Ewan MacColl

    The Manchester Rambler

  • Florian Leopold Gassmann

    Philosophy and Love (overture)

    Orchestra: Eclipse Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Sylvia Alimena.
    • Gassmann: Opera Overtures.
    • Naxos.
    • 007.

  • Robert Schumann

    Tr盲umerei (Kinderszenen Op.15)

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Kinderszenen / Kreisleriana.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.

  • Jutta Rahmel

    Levoton syd盲n

    Ensemble: Sibelius-Akatemian Folk Big Band.
    • Quadrille from Another Life.
    • Sibelius Academy.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue in G major 'A la gigue', BWV.577

    Performer: Peter Hurford.
    • J.S. Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor.
    • HMV Classics.
    • 4.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan and Ludmila (Overture)

    Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila, Kirov Opera / Gergiev.
    • Philips.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Trio in B flat major D.471

    Ensemble: Trio Zimmermann.
    • Trio Zimmermann plays Mozart鈥檚 Divertimento.
    • BIS.
    • 7.

  • Mar铆a Huld Markan Sigf煤sd贸ttir

    Oceans

    Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dan铆el Bjarnason.
    • Concurrence.
    • Sono Luminus.
    • 3.

  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Canta dolce il rosignolo (La gloria di Primavera)

    Singer: Simone Kermes. Ensemble: Le Musiche Nove. Director: Claudio Osele.
    • Simone Kermes - Colori D'Amore - Le Musiche Nove; Claudio Osele.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.

  • John Ireland

    Bagatelle

    Performer: Lucy Gould. Performer: Benjamin Frith.
    • Ireland: Piano Trios.
    • Naxos.
    • 9.

  • Otto Nicolai

    The Merry Wives of Windsor (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Kaleidoscope: An Orchestral Extravaganza: Mackerras, LSO.
    • Mercury.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Mon 18 Nov 2019 09:00
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