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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Essential Entrances, Brigg Fair, Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly.

Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Percy Grainger

    Country Gardens

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Percy Grainger: In A Nutshell: Rattle.
    • EMI.
  • Luigi Cherubini

    2 Marches for the prefect of Eure-et-Loir

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.
  • Peteris Vasks

    White Landscape [Winter] (The Seasons)

    Performer: Alessandro Stella.
    • KHA.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Quartet in G minor, K 478 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Jean鈥怭hilippe Collard. Performer: Peter Zazofsky. Performer: Steven Ansell. Performer: Michael Reynolds. Ensemble: Muir Quartet.
    • Mozart - Quaturos pour piano et cordes, KV478, KV493 and KV546.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony no. 4 in A major Op.90 "Italian" (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Grand Fantasia and Toccata, Op. 38

    Performer: Louis Lortie. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Finzi - Cello Concerto, Eclogue etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 006.
  • Franz Schubert

    Heidenr枚slein, D 257

    Performer: Christoph Eschenbach. Singer: Ren茅e Fleming.
    • Renee Fleming - Schubert Lieder.
    • Decca.
    • 001.
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    String Quartet

    Ensemble: Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet.
    • Melomania.
    • Trouba disc.
    • 004.
  • Trad.

    Brigg Fair

    Performer: Joseph Taylor.
    • Unto Brigg Fair.
    • Leader Sound.
  • Frederick Delius

    Brigg Fair

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • English Rhapsody: Butterworth; Delius; Grainger.
    • Halle.
    • 7-11.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia Suite (Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Sibelius: Symphony No.5/Karelia Suite etc: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
    • Erato.
    • 4.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Capriccio italien Op.45

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Classic FM.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon)

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Teldec.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata in a minor K 310 (300d)

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • Lili Boulanger

    Au pied de mon lit (Clairi猫res dans le ciel)

    Singer: Katharina Konradi. Performer: Gerold Huber.
    • Gedankenverloren.
    • Genuin.
    • 901.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Spem in alium

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • Gimell.
  • Ross Edwards

    Concerto for alto saxophone and orchestra, 'Full Moon Dances' (4th mvt)

    Performer: Amy Dickson. Orchestra: Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Miguel Harth-Bedoya.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Moravian Dances

    Orchestra: Slovensk谩 filharm贸nia. Conductor: Libor Pe拧ek.
    • Janacek - Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 007.
  • William Boyce

    Symphony No.1 in B flat major

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • William Boyce: 8 Symphonies: The English Concert/Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 4-6.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Director: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
    • Piano Masterworks The World's Favourite Piano Classics.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

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