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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Samuel Laycock, Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21, Essential Entrances

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.

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we suggest five essential grand musical entrances.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, Op 65 No 6 (Lyric Pieces)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Leif Ove Andsnes: Ballad for Edvard Grieg.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 8.
  • Arthur Honegger

    Pacific 231

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Sony.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Seal Lullaby

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Choir: Laudibus. Performer: Christopher Glynn. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Eric Whitacre: Light & Gold: Eric Whitacre.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F major, D.803 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Gaudier Ensemble.
    • Schubert: Octet: The Gaudier Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 21 in C major, K 467 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Anda G茅za. Orchestra: Camerata Academica of Salzburg Mozarteum. Director: Anda G茅za.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Dance in F major, Op.46 no.4

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Dvorak: Slavonic Dances, op.46 and op.72.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 4.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    L'Eraclito amoroso (Udite amanti)

    Ensemble: Fons Musicae. Singer: Dorothee Leclair.
    • Querstand.
  • Samuel Barber

    Night Flight, Op 19a

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Measham.
    • UNICORN-KANCHANA.
  • Meredith Monk

    Night Travel (from Atlas)

    Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Wayne Hankin.
    • ECM.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 21 in C major, K 467 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Anda G茅za. Orchestra: Camerata Academica of Salzburg Mozarteum. Director: Anda G茅za.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Waltz Theme (Murder on the Orient Express)

    Orchestra: Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Conductor: John Mauceri.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Traditional English

    The Railway / The Steamboat Quickstep

    Performer: John Kirkpatrick.
    • Banquet of Boxes - A celebration of the English Melodeon.
    • Mrs Casey Records.
    • 12.
  • Samuel Laycock

    Bowton's Yard

    Performer: Bob Diehl. Performer: Lesley Boardman. Singer: Harry Boardman.
    • Owdam Edge: Popular Song And Verse From Lancashire.
    • Topic Records.
    • 4.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Suite No 2 for two pianos, Op 17: Romance; Tarantelle

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Largo (2nd movement) from Violin Concerto in A major, Op.5 no.2

    Performer: Jean鈥怞acques Kantorow. Orchestra: Bernard Thomas Chamber Orchestra.
    • Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Violin Concertos.
    • ARION.
    • 005.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 21 in C major, K 467 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Anda G茅za. Orchestra: Camerata Academica of Salzburg Mozarteum. Director: Anda G茅za.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Simon Boccanegra: Act 1 Prelude and Come in quest'ora bruna

    Singer: Barbara Frittoli. Orchestra: Kansas City Symphony. Conductor: Constantine Orbelian.
    • Delos.
  • Jean-Baptiste Loeillet

    Trio Sonata in F Major, Op. 2 No. 2

    Ensemble: Epoca Barocca.
    • CPO.
  • William Denis Browne

    To Gratiana dancing and singing

    Performer: Roger Vignoles. Singer: Christopher Maltman.
    • Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel, Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad: Maltman, Vigno.
    • Hyperion.
  • Johan Halvorsen

    Entry of the Boyars

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade for 13 wind instruments in B flat major, K 361 (3rd mvt, Adagio)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.
  • Charles Koechlin

    3 Poems from The Jungle Book

    Singer: Iris Vermillion. Singer: Johan Botha. Singer: Ralf Lukas. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Koechlin - The Jungle Book.
    • RCA.
    • 01.
  • Joseph Haydn

    March, from Notturno No 1 in C major

    Ensemble: Mozzafiato. Ensemble: L鈥橝rchibudelli.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Ildebrando Pizzetti

    Violin Sonata in A major: second movement (Prayer for the Innocent)

    Performer: Elmar Oliveira. Performer: Robert Koenig.
    • ARTEK RECORDINGS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sull' aria...Che soave zefiretto (The Marriage of Figaro)

    Singer: Edith Mathis. Singer: Gundula Janowitz. Orchestra: German Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Bohm.
    • SONY.
  • Richard Wagner

    Albumbl盲tt f眉r Frau Betty Schott

    Performer: Ll欧r Williams.
    • Signum.
  • Arthur Honegger

    Mouvement symphonique No 2, 'Rugby'

    Orchestra: Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Decca.

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  • Fri 7 Feb 2020 09:00

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