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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Villa-Lobos' As tr锚s Marias, Essential Entrances, The most difficult composer?

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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.

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Tue 4 Feb 2020 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Gustav Holst

    Symphony in F major, Op. 8 'The Cotswolds': IV. Finale

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Naxos.

  • Franz Schubert

    Fr眉hlingstraum (Winterreise)

    Performer: Christoph Eschenbach. Singer: Matthias Goerne.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in D Minor, Hob. XV:23: I. Molto Andante

    Ensemble: Oberon Trio.
    • Duality.
    • CAvi-music.
    • 101.

  • Pietro Locatelli

    Concerto grosso in F major Op.1`7

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • Harmonia mundi.

  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    As Tres Marias

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scheherazade (The Story of the Kalendar Prince)

    Conductor: Lorin Maazel. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Scheherazade.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.

  • Lillie Harris

    Margaret

    Choir: NYCGB Fellowship Octet.
    • Young Composers Scheme.
    • NMC Recordings.
    • 401.

  • George Lloyd

    Symphony no.6 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: George Lloyd.
    • George Lloyd: Overture, 'John Socman'; Sixth Symphony; Tenth Symphony (November.
    • Albany Troy.
    • 4.

  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    As Tres Marias

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.

  • Max Bruch

    8 Pieces for cl, vla (cello) & pf (harp) (Op.83),no.3 in C# min;Andante con moto

    Performer: Ralph Manno. Performer: Guido Schiefen. Performer: Liese Klahn. Ensemble: ensemble incanto.
    • Johannes Brahms/Max Bruch.
    • EBS.
    • 7.

  • Joseph Holbrooke

    Piano Concerto No 1, Op 52, 'The Song of Gwyn ap Nudd' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Hamish Milne. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Hyperion.

  • John Kirkpatrick

    Hammersmith Flyover

    • Free Reed.

  • Joseph Holbrooke Trio

    Mappin

    • Tzadik.

  • Joseph Holbrooke

    Horn Trio in D, Op 28 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Kerenza Peacock. Performer: Mark Smith. Performer: Robert Stevenson.
    • Naxos.

  • Joseph Holbrooke

    Pandora

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: George Vass.
    • J Holbrooke, Symphony no.4: RLPO/RSNO/Wallfisch/Vass.
    • Epoch.
    • 8.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto polonois in G major

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    12 Variations on 'Ah! Vous dirais-je, maman' K.265

    Performer: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • ECM New Series.

  • Ivor Gurney

    Scherzo

    Performer: David Fr眉hwirth. Performer: Henri Sigfridsson.
    • AVIE.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Masques et bergamasques

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Chandos.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Octet in E flat major Op.20 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra.
    • BIS.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Aida (Act 2: excerpt)

    Choir: Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Ensemble: Kneller Hall Trumpeters. Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Verdi: Choruses, Overtures, Ballet Music: Muti.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Hans G谩l

    Oboe Sonata Op.85 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Viola Wilmsen. Performer: Kimiko Imani.
    • G谩l, Martinu, Haas, Jan谩cek & Slavicky: Oboe & Piano.
    • CAvi Music.
    • 107.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Concerto 脿 5 in B flat major, Op.7`3

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • Italian Concertos; Alison Balsom, Scottish Ensemble.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.

  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Les Ombres Errantes (Pieces de clavecin - ordre no.25)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio for glass harmonica, K 356

    Performer: Thomas Bloch.
    • Naxos.

  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Suite espa帽ola (Sevilla)

    Music Arranger: John Williams. Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰.
    • Milo拧: The Guitar.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.

  • Moritz Moszkowski

    脡tincelles (8 Morceaux caracteristiques Op.36)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.

  • Edward German

    Nell Gwyn (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Made in Britain: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, John Wilson.
    • Avie.

Broadcast

  • Tue 4 Feb 2020 09:00
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