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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Letters from the Truce, Gareth Malone

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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Fri 27 Dec 2019 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Missa Papae Marcelli (Sanctus - Benedictus)

    Music Arranger: Simon Cox. Ensemble: Septura. Conductor: Matthew Knight.
    • Music for Brass Septet, Vol. 4.
    • Naxos.
    • 13.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No.5 in E minor Op.64: III. Valse: Allegro moderato

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • DECCA.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Fantasy and Fugue in C major, K 394

    Performer: Dejan Lazi膰.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Tenor Tuba Concerto in B flat minor (2nd mvt)

    Music Arranger: David Childs. Music Arranger: Rodney Newton. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Ben Gernon. Performer: David Childs.
    • The Symphonic Euphonium II.
    • Chandos.
    • 02.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet in D minor, D.810 'Death and the Maiden' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    Northern Lights

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Decca.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in G flat major, Op 23 No 10

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • The Rachmaninov Experience.
    • Warner Classics and Jazz.
    • 16.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture in D major (Tafelmusik, 2nd production)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Director: Petra M眉llejans. Director: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    6 Bagatelles, Op. 126: No. 6 in E-Flat Major

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Hyperion.

  • Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Neeme J盲rvi

    Norsk Festouverture, Op 16

    • Johan Halvorsen Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 007.

  • George Gershwin

    Rhapsody in Blue

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • DECCA.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Quartet No. 1 In E Minor (From My Life) For Strings

    Ensemble: Pavel Haas Quartet.
    • SUPRAPHON : SU-4172-2.
    • SUPRAPHON.
    • 001.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Tarantelle in A flat major, Op 43

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 12.

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    String Quartet No 4 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet.
    • 111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 6.

  • Michel Corrette

    Tous les bourgeois de Ch芒tres

    Performer: Ga毛tan Jarry. Music Arranger: Marc鈥怉ntoine Charpentier. Choir: Les Pages du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles. Director: Ga毛tan Jarry.
    • Ch芒teau de Versailles Spectacles.

  • Lin鈥怣anuel Miranda

    Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story (closing scene of Hamilton)

    Conductor: Alex Lacamoire. Singer: Phillipa Soo.
    • Atlantic.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in C major, HWV 318, 'Alexander's Feast'

    Ensemble: Berlin Academy for Early Music.
    • Handel: Ombra mai fu: Andreas Scholl/Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Danse infernale (The Firebird)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Russian Masterpieces: SNO, LSO, Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in C major, H XV 27 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: The Florestan Trio.
    • Haydn: Piano Trios, Vol.1: The Florestan Trio.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata No.3 in C major, BWV.1005; Adagio

    Performer: Thomas Zehetmair.
    • ECM.

  • The Beatles

    Abbey Road Medley (attacca)

    Music Arranger: Peter Breiner. Orchestra: Peter Breiner and His Orchestra.
    • Naxos.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail - 'Constanze, dich wiederzusehen'

    Singer: Peter Schreier. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Otmar Suitner.
    • Berlin Classics.

  • Gra偶yna Bacewicz

    Waltz (Children's Suite)

    Performer: Ewa Kupiec.
    • hanssler classic.

  • Gustav Holst

    A Winter Idyll

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Atherton.
    • Lyrique.

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