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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Turing's Tunes, Liadov's Village Scene by the Inn, Essential Organ

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 pieces for organ.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Philip Wilby

    A Breathless Alleluia

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Performer: Philip Wilby. Conductor: Nicholas Childs.
    • A Breathless Alleluia.
    • NAXOS.
    • 1.
  • Sir James MacMillan

    Data est mihi (from Strathclyde Motets)

    Choir: Cappella Nova. Conductor: Alan Tavener.
    • James MacMillan: Tenebrae: Cappella Nova/Tavener.
    • Linn.
    • 9.
  • Claude Debussy

    General Lavine - eccentric (Preludes, Book 2)

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55 "Eroica": III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace

    Conductor: R茅my Ballot. Orchestra: Klangkollektiv Wien.
    • Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55 "Eroica" & Egmont Overture, Op.
    • Gramola Records.
    • 3.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Introduction and polonaise in C major Op.3

    Performer: Guy Johnston. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • Themes and Variations.
    • Orchid Classics.
  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    Village Scene by the Inn

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.
  • Jorge Cardoso

    Milonga

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰.
    • Milo拧 Karadagli膰 - Latino Gold.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    String Quartet no.1 in A major Op.4 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Escher String Quartet.
    • Zemlinsky: String Quartets 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    February (The Year)

    Performer: Lauma Skride.
    • SONY.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Concerto in D major 'Basle Concerto'

    Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Na茂ve Waltz

    Ensemble: The Smith Quartet.
    • The Smith Quartet: Dances.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 12.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 34 in C major, K 338 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • HUNGAROTON.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Sinfonia in E flat major, RV.130 (Sonata al Santo Sepolcro)

    Ensemble: Arte dei Suonatori.
    • Vivaldi: Concertos for Strings: Arte dei Suonartori.
    • Bis.
    • 3-4.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Scherzo-valse (Suite pastorale)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Chabrier: Espana: Wiener Philharmoniker, John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.
  • John Playford

    A New Scotch Jig (The English Dancing Master)

    Ensemble: The Harp Consort. Director: Andrew Lawrence鈥怟ing.
    • BMG.
  • Josef Suk

    Piano Quartet in A minor Op.1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Ian Brown. Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Josef Suk: Piano Quintet/Piano Quartet: The Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in C major, HWV 318, 'Alexander's Feast'

    Ensemble: Berlin Academy for Early Music.
    • Handel: Ombra mai fu: Andreas Scholl/Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Jonathan Dove

    In Beauty May I Walk

    Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Equinox.
    • VCM.
    • 18.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Norwegian Dance Op.35 no.1

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.
    • NAXOS.
  • L茅on Bo毛llmann

    Suite gothique in C minor, Op.25 (Toccata)

    Performer: Ian Tracey.
    • Bombarde! French Organ Classics - Ian Tracey.
    • Chandos.
  • Grace Williams

    Tarantella (The Dancers)

    Choir: Richard Hickox Singers. Ensemble: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Johannes Brahms

    String Sextet No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 18: II. Andante ma moderato

    Ensemble: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne Chamber Players.
    • Brahms: String Sextets Nos. 1 & 2.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 2.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Rhapsody (Dies Natalis)

    Singer: Wilfred Brown. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Finzi.
    • EMI.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in D major, H.16.51

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    The Ballad of Blanik

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.

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