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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Scarborough Spa Orchestra, Alain de Botton, Bruch's Scottish Fantasy

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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Tue 19 Nov 2019 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    Il ritorno di Tobia (Overture)

    Orchestra: Haydn Sinfonietta Wien. Conductor: Manfred Huss.
    • BIS.

  • Reynaldo Hahn

    Les 茅toiles

    Performer: Graham Johnson. Author: Th茅odore de Banville. Singer: Alice Coote.
    • Hyperion.

  • Erik Satie

    Je te veux (Chansons de cafe-concert)

    Singer: Alice Coote. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • Hyperion.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Sonatina (1959)

    Performer: Iyad Sughayer.
    • BIS.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E flat major (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor 脡b猫ne.
    • Virgin Classics.

  • Max Bruch

    Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra, Op 46 (Finale)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rory MacDonald.
    • Nicola Benedetti - Homecoming.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

  • Tom谩s Luis de Victoria

    O vos omnes

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Singer: Elin Manahan Thomas. Singer: Grace Davidson. Singer: Samuel Evans. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Santiago a cappella; Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 6.

  • Robert Lowry

    Shall we gather at the river

    Performer: Lucienne Renaudin Vary. Conductor: Bill Elliott. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Franz Schreker

    Dance (Romantic Suite Op.14)

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Schreker: The Birthday of the Infanta Suite, Prelude to a Drama & Romantic Suite.
    • Naxos.
    • 15.

  • Michel Farinel

    Faronell's Division on a Ground (1684)

    Music Arranger: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Altre Follie 1500-1750: Hesperion XXI/Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 9.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No 1 in D major, Op 25, 'Classical' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Prokofiev: Symphonies nos. 5 & 1: Tilson Thomas.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.

  • Leroy Anderson

    Belle of the Ball

    Orchestra: Leroy Anderson & His Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Leroy Anderson.
    • MCA Classics.

  • Eric Coates

    Calling All Workers

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • Hyperion.

  • Percy Whitlock

    Holiday suite for orchestra: Spade and Bucket polka

    Orchestra: RT脡 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Marco Polo.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Twelve Variations on 'See the conqu'ring hero comes'

    Performer: Daniel M眉ller鈥怱chott. Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Beethoven: Cello Sonata etc: Muller-Schott/Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Hamish MacCunn

    The Land of the Mountain and the Flood Op.3

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • MacCunn - Land of the Mountain and the Flood.
    • Hyperion.
    • 001.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness

    Music Arranger: Timothy Walker. Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • An Orkney Wedding.
    • LINN.
    • 8.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Four Scottish Dances (No 1, Strathspey)

    Conductor: Malcolm Arnold. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Malcolm Arnold: English, Irish, Scottish & Cornish Dances: LPO/Arnold.
    • Lyrita.
    • 15.

  • Richard Wagner

    Tr盲ume (Wesendonck-Lieder)

    Singer: Waltraud Meier. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥� Philharmonie. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • ERATO.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Scherzo No.4, Op.54

    Performer: Louis Lortie.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Candide (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • The Best 大象传媒 Proms Album in the World... Ever!.
    • Virgin.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Concerto in A minor (BWV.1041)

    Performer: Kati Debretzeni. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SOLI DEO GLORIA.

  • L茅on Bo毛llmann

    Suite gothique, Op. 25: III. Priere a Notre-Dame

    Performer: Joseph Nolan.
    • Organ Recital: Nolan, Joseph 鈥� Boellmann, L. / Elgar, E. / Thalben-Ball, G. / Li.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 3.

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Presto in C major

    Ensemble: Quatuor Diotima.
    • NAIVE.

  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    La verneuillete (Pi猫ces de clavecin, Ordre No 18)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Couperin: Keyboard Music 1: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ch'io mi scordi di te?, K.505

    Singer: Magdalena Ko啪en谩. Performer: Jos van Immerseel. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • ARCHIV.

Broadcast

  • Tue 19 Nov 2019 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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