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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Essential Organ, Louis Jullien's Extravaganzas, Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez

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

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto grosso in F major Op.6`2

    Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Archiv.
  • Giuseppe Tamplini

    Fantasia on themes from Donizetti's Don Pasquale

    Performer: Kim Walker. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • REGENT.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Impromptu in D-Flat Major, Op. 86

    Performer: Ana茂s Gaudemard.
    • Ana茂s Gaudemard: Solo - harmonia nova #6.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 106.
  • Joaqu铆n Rodrigo

    Concierto de Aranjuez (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Julian Bream. Performer: Peter Walden. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • 100 Best Relaxing Classics.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in D major Op.28 'Pastorale' (4th mvt)

    Performer: Jonathan Biss.
    • Jonathan Biss: Beethoven.
    • Onyx.
    • 4.
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Trio for violin, cello and piano

    Ensemble: Trio Kar茅nine.
    • Faur茅, Ravel & Tailleferre.
    • Mirare.
    • 8-11.
  • Osvaldo Golijov

    Last Round

    Performer: Joanna MacGregor. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia.
    • Joanna MacGregor: Live in Buenos Aires.
    • Warner Classics and Jazz.
    • 12.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Pines of Rome (The Pines of the Villa Borghese)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Edo de Waart.
    • Great Orchestral Showpieces, Vol.1.
    • Philips.
    • 1.
  • Hans Christian Lumbye

    Victoria Quadrille

    Orchestra: Odense Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Peter Guth.
    • UNICORN.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Roman Carnival Overture

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • RCA.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Music for the Royal Fireworks

    Ensemble: Concert Spirituel. Director: Herv茅 Niquet.
    • Handel: Water Music & Fireworks: Concert Spirituel, Niquet.
    • Glossa.
    • 19.
  • Francisco T谩rrega

    Recuerdos de la Alhambra

    Performer: John Williams.
    • Spanish Guitar Music.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 16.
  • Joaqu铆n Rodrigo

    Concierto de Aranjuez (excerpt)

    Performer: Miles Davis. Music Arranger: Gil Evans. Conductor: Gil Evans.
    • CBS.
  • Franz Schubert

    Fruhlingsglaube, D686

    Performer: Roger Vignoles. Singer: Elizabeth Watts.
    • Sony.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and fugue in E flat major, BWV.552 (St Anne)

    Performer: Ton Koopman.
    • J.S. Bach: Organ Works Vol.5.
    • Teldec.
    • 1.
  • Thomas Selle

    Veni Sancte Spiritus

    Performer: Bart Jacobs. Conductor: Lionel Meunier. Ensemble: Vox Luminis.
    • Ein Feste Burg ist Unser Gott: Luther and the Music of the Reformation.
    • Ricercar.
    • 014.
  • Robert Schumann

    Fantasiest眉ck, Op 73 No 2

    Performer: Daniel M眉ller鈥怱chott. Performer: Robert Kulek.
    • ORFEO.
  • Pauline Hall

    Julius Caesar Suite

    Orchestra: Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Eggen.
    • Norway in Music: Pauline Hall.
    • Simax.
    • 5-8.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no. 5 in C sharp minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Franz Schubert

    Gesang der Geister 眉ber den Wassern, D 714

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Brahms: Symphony No. 2: John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 2.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Candide (Overture)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Leonard Bernstein: A Portrait.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

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