Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Holst's Uranus, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Bax's In Memoriam
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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Bastian Chilese
Canzon in echo 脿 8
Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.- Battaglie and Lamenti: 1600-1660 Monteverdi, Peri, Fontei, Strozzi.
- Alia Vox.
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Richard Strauss
Es gibt ein Reich (Ariadne auf Naxos)
Singer: Aga Mikolaj. Orchestra: WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne. Conductor: Karl Sollak.- CPO.
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Carl Nielsen
String Quartet No 4 in F major (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.- Carl Nielsen The Masterworks Volume 2.
- Da Capo.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Dumka, Op 59
Performer: Peter Donohoe.- Tchaikovsky: Solo Piano Works.
- SIGNUM.
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Gustav Holst
Uranus, the Magician (The Planets, Op 32)
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Choir: London Philharmonic Choir. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.- London Philharmonic Orchestra - Holst The Planets - Vladimir Jurowski Conductor.
- LPO.
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Suor Leonora d'Este
Angeli, archangeli, troni
Ensemble: Musica Secreta. Choir: Celestial Sirens. Director: Laurie Stras. Director: Deborah Roberts.- OBSIDIAN.
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Amilcare Ponchielli
The Meeting
Performer: Daniel Ottensamer. Performer: Ernst Ottensamer. Ensemble: Wiener Virtuosen.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Isaac Alb茅niz
Triana (Iberia Bk 2)
Performer: Yuja Wang.- Yuja Wang - Fantasia.
- DG.
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Dobrinka Tabakova
Suite in Old Style (1st mvt)
Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Vaiva Eidukaityt臈-Storastien臈. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras.- ECM New Series.
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John Dowland
Can she excuse my wrongs
Singer: Iestyn Davies. Performer: Thomas Dunford.- Dowland - The Art of Melancholy.
- Hyperion.
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Arnold Bax
St Patrick's Breastplate
Choir: Huddersfield Choral Society. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.- CHANDOS.
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Arnold Bax
Eire (In the faery hills)
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Vernon Handley.- Bax: Tone Poems Vol. 1: 大象传媒 Philharmonic/Handley.
- CHANDOS.
- 1.
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Arnold Bax
In Memoriam
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Vernon Handley.- CHANDOS.
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Franz Schubert
Trio in E flat major D.897 (Notturno) for piano and strings
Ensemble: Rautio Piano Trio.- Resonus.
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Manuel de Falla
Ritual Fire Dance (El amor brujo)
Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Eduardo Mata.- Music of Manuel De Falla: Simon Bolivar Symophony Orchestra, Mata, Senn.
- Dorian.
- 1.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
Leo (Zodiac)
Performer: Peter S枚derberg. Performer: Sven 脜berg.- ALICE MUSIC.
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Henry Purcell
What power art thou (King Arthur Z.628)
Singer: Stephen Varcoe. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Purcell - King Arthur.
- ERATO.
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Igor Stravinsky
Infernal Dance (The Firebird - Suite)
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.- Channel Classics.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Rondo in C major, K.373
Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Sir James MacMillan.- DG.
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Robert Parsons
Mr Parsons His Songe
Performer: Jakob Lindberg. Performer: Nigel North. Performer: Paul O鈥橠ette.- Three, Four and Twenty Lutes, Lindberg etc..
- BIS.
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Richard Wagner
Magic Fire Music (Die Walkure)
Singer: James Morris. Orchestra: Bavarian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- EMI.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Ballade no.1 in G minor Op.23
Performer: Murray Perahia.- Perahia Plays Chopin.
- Sony Classical.
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Orlando Gibbons
This is the record of John
Performer: Choir of St George's Chapel, Windsor. Performer: Luke Bond. Director: James Vivian.- HYPERION.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude & Fugue in E flat major, BWV.552 'St Anne'
Orchestrator: Arnold Schoenberg. Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.- Sony Classical.
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Claude Debussy
Des pas sur la neige (Preludes, Book 1)
Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.- Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.1: Bavouzet.
- Chandos.
- 6.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Octet in E flat major Op.20 (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.- Beethoven/Mendelssohn: Nash Ensemble.
- Wigmore Hall Live.
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Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau
Chaconne (Les Indes galantes)
Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- Rameau: Une Symphonie Imaginaire: Musiciens du Louvre/Minkowski.
- Archiv.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Prague Waltzes
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.- Dvorak: Legends: Prague Waltzes: Buadapest festival Orchestra / Ivan Fischer.
- Phillips.
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