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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: New Year New Music, Bax's The Happy Forest, Anna Chancellor

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 As part of New Year New Music, Radio 3 presenter Elizabeth Alker introduces a favourite piece of music written since the millennium.

1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the actress Anna Chancellor.

1110 Essential Five 鈥 this week we suggest five essential Romantic violin concertos.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Nais - Suire (Ouverture)

    Ensemble: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Claude Debussy

    Tarantelle styrienne for piano

    Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata No. 6, Op. 30, No. 1: III. Allegretto con variazioni

    Performer: Olivier Charlier. Performer: Emmanuel Strosser.
    • Beethoven: Sonates pour violon et piano.
    • Mirare.
    • 7.
  • Alberto Ginastera

    Malambo (Estancia, Op 8)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • Ginastera: Estancia etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 18.
  • Arnold Bax

    The Happy Forest

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Made In Britain.
    • Avie.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe (Cantata no.34)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach Choruses - Gardiner.
    • SDG.
    • 1.
  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Votive

    Ensemble: Wihan Quartet.
    • Kol Nidrei: Elegy For Pamela.
    • Nimbus Alliance.
    • 5.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Rondo 脿 la krakowiak in F major, op 14

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson. Orchestra: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Kazimierz Kord.
    • HYPERION.
  • Hugo Wolf

    Italian Serenade

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C major for 2 trumpets, RV.537

    Performer: Crispian Steele鈥怭erkins. Performer: John Thiessen. Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Jeanne Lamon.
    • Trumpet Music: Steele-Perkins, Taflemusik, Lamon.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9-11.
  • Ernest John Moeran

    In the Mountain Country

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Moeran: In the Mountain Country.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    The Sandman, and the Evening Prayer (Hansel & Gretel)

    Singer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Singer: Ileana Cotruba葯. Singer: Frederica von Stade. Choir: Children's Chorus Of Cologne Opera. Orchestra: G眉rzenich-Orchester K枚ln. Conductor: Sir John Pritchard.
    • Humperdinck: Hansel & Gretel.
    • CBS.
    • 11-12.
  • C茅cile Chaminade

    Carnival Waltz, Op.73

    Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Performer: Peter Jablonski.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    String Quartet no.2 in E flat major, Op.26 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
    • The Yiddish Cabaret.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 104.
  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Dances of Galanta

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Philips.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op.77 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Various: Violin Concerto; ETC / Kavakos, Chailly, Nagy.
    • DECCA.
    • 003.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in C sharp minor, K 247

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Murray Perahia plays Handel and Scarlatti.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 18.
  • Alexander Gretchaninov

    Strstnaya sedmitsa ["Passion week"] Op.58: Nine sili nebesniya......

    Choir: Russian State Symphony Capella. Conductor: Valery Kuzmich Polyansky.
    • The Seven Days Of Passion.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 6.
  • Joaqu铆n Turina

    Escena andaluza Op.7 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Nash Ensemble.
    • Turina Chamber Music The Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • John Ward

    Fantasia 脿 4 No 6

    Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • LINN.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony no.7 in D minor Op.70 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Dvorak: Symphonies no. 7 & 8: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra/Jansons.
    • EMI.

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  • Wed 8 Jan 2020 09:00

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