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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Gareth Malone, Good Duke Vaclav

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 choral maestro Gareth Malone.

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

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

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Boxing Day 2019 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    String Quartet in E minor (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Chandos.

  • Thomas Tallis

    Magnificat

    Choir: Fiori Musicali Choir. Director: Penelope Rapson.
    • Fiori Musicali.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no. 9 in C major H.1.9

    Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Alpha.

  • Barbara Strozzi

    Godere e tacere

    Ensemble: Orlando di Lasso Ensemble.
    • Libro di Madrigali - Strozzi.
    • Thorofon.
    • 005.

  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.

  • Joan Trimble

    Suite for Strings

    Orchestra: Irish Chamber Orchestra. Director: Fionnuala Hunt.
    • Black Box.

  • George Enescu

    Romanian Rhapsody No 2

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.
    • MERCURY.

  • Trad.

    Good King Wenceslas

    Composer: John Mason Neale. Music Arranger: Reginald Jacques. Choir: St. John's Cathedral Boys and Girls' Choir. Choir: St. John鈥檚 Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Donald Pearson.
    • Choral Music - Wade, J. / Rutter, J. / Grainger, P. / Head, M. / Leontovitch, M..
    • Delos.
    • 1801.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio in B flat 'Archduke' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Performer: Heinrich Schiff. Performer: Andr茅 Previn.
    • Beethoven: Archduke Trio: Previn, Mullova, Schiff.
    • Philips.
    • 5.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Clair de lune (2 Songs Op.46)

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Performer: Joseph Middleton.
    • A Verlaine Songbook.
    • BIS.
    • 25.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude and Fugue in A flat major, Op.87 no.17

    Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Shostakovich The Preludes & Fugues Alexander Melnikov Piano.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

    Singer: Lucia Popp. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Stefan Solt茅sz.
    • EMI.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Und wiewohl...; Mein Jesus schweigt...; Geduld! (from St Matthew Passion)

    Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Singer: Michael Chance. Singer: Howard Crook. Singer: Cornelius Hauptmann. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Johannes Brahms

    2 Rhapsodies Op.79 (no.1 in B minor)

    Performer: Barry Douglas.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Francesco Maria Veracini

    Overture No 3 in B flat major

    Orchestra: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Veracini: 5 Overtures: Musica Antiqua Koln/Goebel.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 11-15.

  • L茅o Delibes

    Copp茅lia (Prelude; Mazurka; Waltz)

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Delibes: The 3 Ballets: Richard Bonynge.
    • Decca.

  • Arvo P盲rt

    Kanon pokajanen

    Conductor: T玫nu Kaljuste. Choir: Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor.
    • Arvo P盲rt Symphony No.4.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 4.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quintet in C Major, D. 956: III. Scherzo & Trio

    Performer: Gautier Capu莽on. Ensemble: Quatuor 脡b猫ne.
    • Schubert: Quintet and Lieder.
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 103.

  • Jules Massenet

    Herodiade (Ballet Suite)

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jean-Yves Ossonce.
    • Naxos.

Broadcast

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    大象传媒 Radio 3

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