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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Alice Shaw at The Vic Rooms, 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. Today's starter - Mussorgsky's chilling Night on Bare Mountain. Other musical highlights include the finale of Nielsen's Symphony No.5, and Mozart's sunny Horn Concerto No.4.

1010 Musical Time Travellers 鈥� stories behind the music-making of the British Isles. The Victoria Rooms, Bristol.

1100 Essential Five 鈥� this week we suggest five essential grand musical entrances. Today, the terrifying entrance of the ghostly Commendatore in Mozart's Don Giovanni.

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

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Music Played

  • Richard Wagner

    Lohengrin (Act 3 Prelude)

    Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • PROFIL.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Whispered lullaby

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Evelyn Chang.
    • AVIE.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in G minor, RV 315, 'Summer'

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Director: Christian Curnyn.
    • Nicola Benedetti: Italia.
    • Decca.
    • 16.

  • Nadia Boulanger

    脡coutez la chanson bien douce

    Singer: Cyrille Dubois. Performer: Tristan Ra毛s.
    • Lili et Nadia Boulanger: M茅lodies.
    • 础辫补谤迟茅.
    • 104.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no. 12 in E major H.1.12: 3rd movement; Finale (Presto)

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • ALPHA.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    A Night on the Bare Mountain

    Orchestrator: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition etc.: Jansons.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 16.

  • Crist贸bal de Morales

    Jubilate Deo omnis terra

    Choir: Contrapunctus. Conductor: Owen Rees.
    • Salve, Salve, Salve: Josquin鈥檚 Spanish Legacy.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 101.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No 4 in E flat major, K 495

    Performer: Roger Montgomery. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Director: Margaret Faultless.
    • Signum.

  • Trad.

    Old Reinlender (Sonndala)

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • dacapo.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 2 in D major (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 2 & 8: London Classical Players/Norrington.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 2.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Clarinet Sonata in E flat major, Op.167 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Roland P枚ntinen.
    • BIS.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie fantastique Op.14 (Songe d'une nuit du Sabbat)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 14.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Les Indes galantes Suite

    Orchestra: Concert Des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Le Concert Spirituel - Au Temps de Louis XV: Le Concert Des Nations, Jordi Saval.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 25-31.

  • Jennifer Higdon

    Summer shimmers across the glass of green ponds

    Performer: Gary Graffman. Ensemble: Lark Quartet.
    • Jennifer Higdon: An Exaltation of Larks.
    • BRIDGE.
    • 3.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Don Giovanni - Act 2, Scenes 24 & 25

    Orchestra: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • Sony.

  • Alan Hovhaness

    Symphony No 2, 'Mysterious Mountain' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • RCA SONY.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Suite no.4 in G major Op.61 'Mozartiana' (Theme & 10 Variations)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • CBS MASTERWORKS.

  • E虅riks Es虒envalds

    Wandering Heart (The Road Is Too Long)

    Author: Leonard Cohen. Choir: Chor Leoni Men's Choir. Conductor: Erick Lichte.
    • Wandering Heart.
    • SKU.
    • 5.

  • Joseph Canteloube

    Ba茂l猫ro (Chants d'Auvergne)

    Singer: Karita Mattila. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Director: Neville Marriner.
    • Villa-Lobos, Bachianas Brasileiras No.5.
    • Phillips.
    • 8.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Symphony No 5, Op 50 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Colin Davis. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5; Sir Colin Davis, LSO.
    • LSO Live.
    • 7.

Broadcast

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    大象传媒 Radio 3

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