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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Barbara Taylor Bradford, Holywell Music Rooms, Eller's Twilight

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 author Barbara Taylor Bradford.

1110 Essential Five 鈥� this week we suggest five essential pieces of music for Advent.

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

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Mon 9 Dec 2019 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Suite no.2 in C major Op.53 (Valse)

    Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • The Stuttgart Recordings.
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 602.

  • Nikita Koshkin

    24 Preludes & Fugues, Vol. 1: Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C Major

    • Nikita Koshkin: 24 Preludes & Fugues, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 101.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet No 20 in D major, K 499, 'Hoffmeister' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Alban Berg Quartett.
    • EMI.

  • Johann David Heinichen

    Concerto 脿 8 in C major

    Performer: Pieter Brulleman. Performer: Baldrick Deerenberg. Performer: Sabine d'Hont. Performer: Barbara Karst. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Conductor: Hartmut Haenchen.
    • Christmas Concertos - Kammerochestrer Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Heino Eller

    Twilight [Videvik] - symphonic poem

    Orchestra: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Olari Elts.
    • Eller: Symphonic Poems.
    • Ondine.
    • 301.

  • Anonymous

    Danse traditionnelle bulgare "Kopanitza"

    Performer: Georgi Varbanov.
    • Rhythm is in my heart.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 107.

  • Enrique Granados

    7 Valses Po茅ticos

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • DECCA.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in A minor BWV.1044 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach Cantatas: Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 18.

  • Heino Eller

    Twilight

    Orchestra: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Olari Elts.
    • Eller: Symphonic Poems.
    • Ondine.
    • 301.

  • Gabriel Piern茅

    Scherzo-caprice

    Performer: Stephen Coombs. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • Pierne: The Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra: Stephen Coombs, 大象传媒SSO, Corp.
    • Hyperion.

  • Gustav Holst

    Cotswold Symphony H.47 (3rd mvt; Scherzo)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Holst: Cotswolds Symphony.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Overture on Hebrew Themes

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Pastoral (Serenade Op.31)

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Radek Babor谩k. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Evening Prayer (H盲nsel und Gretel)

    Singer: Rebecca Evans. Singer: Jennifer Larmore. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Engelbert Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel.
    • Chandos.
    • 15.

  • Frederick Delius

    Sleigh Ride (Winter Night)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Delius in Norway.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 5.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Guitar Concerto, Op 67

    Performer: John Williams. Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: Elgar Howarth.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

  • Claude Debussy

    Les f茅es sont d'exquises danseuses (Preludes, Book 2)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.1: Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
    • 16.

  • George Enescu

    Romanian rhapsody no. 1 in A major Op.11`1

    Orchestra: MDR Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: Kristjan J盲rvi.
    • The Kristjan J盲rvi Sound Project - Balkan Fever.
    • Naive.
    • 1.

  • Judith Weir

    Drop down ye heavens from above

    Choir: Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas.
    • Advent at Merton: Choir of Merton College, Oxford.
    • Delphian.
    • 5.

  • William Byrd

    Rorate coeli for 5 voices

    Choir: Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • Advent at Merton.
    • Delphian.
    • 3.

  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet no. 2 in D major (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Borodin Quartet.
    • Borodin: String Quartets Nos. 1&2: Borodin Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.

  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    Humoreske

    Performer: Aulos Wind Quintet.
    • Koch Schwann.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    L'Adorazione dei Magi (Trittico Botticelliano)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 15.

  • Siri Dyvik

    Travel set

    Composer: Nils 脴kland. Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Conductor: Bjarte Eike.
    • The Alehouse Sessions.
    • RUBICON.
    • 9.

  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    Bagatelle Op.59`9

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • HYPERION.

  • Max Reger

    Scherzo (Romantic Suite)

    Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Lyon Opera Soloists.
    • Schoenberg: Kaiserwalzer and other Transcriptions: Soliste de l'Opera National d.
    • Erato.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Mon 9 Dec 2019 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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