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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Essential Organ, Durham pub cellos, Brahms's In stiller Nacht

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.

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Thu 20 Feb 2020 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Scherzo in B flat major (orch. Rimsky-Korsakov)

    Orchestra: Russian State Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.
    • Mussorgsky - Without the Sun.
    • RCA Victor Red Seal.
    • 001.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Sonata a 5 no.1 in G major, Op.2`1

    Performer: Chiara Banchini. Ensemble: Ensemble 415.
    • Zig-zag Territoires.

  • J膿kabs Jan膷evskis

    Silent Starlight

    Choir: Riga Cathedral Choir School Mixed Choir. Conductor: Jur模is C膩bulis.
    • Hyperion.

  • Gustav Holst

    The Perfect Fool - ballet music

    Conductor: Adrian Boult. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Holst: The Planets etc: Herrmann/Boult/Hogwood/Fennell.
    • Decca.

  • Johannes Brahms

    In Stiller Nacht (German Folk-Songs Bk.6)

    Singer: Monica Groop. Performer: Alexei Lubimov.
    • ONDINE.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in D major K.239, 'Serenata notturna' (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Mozart: Serenate Notturne, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: Savall.
    • Alia Vox.

  • Chiara Margarita Cozzolani

    Domine ad adiuvandum me festina

    Ensemble: I Gemelli. Conductor: Emiliano Gonzalez鈥怲oro.
    • NAIVE.

  • Roy Harris

    Symphony no. 3

    Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Performer: New York Philharmonic.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.

  • Johannes Brahms

    In Stiller Nacht (German Folk-Songs Bk.6)

    Singer: Monica Groop. Performer: Alexei Lubimov.
    • ONDINE.

  • Thomas Tallis

    O Sacrum Convivium (for 5 voices)

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Brindisi (La traviata)

    Conductor: Zubin Mehta. Singer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Singer: Alfredo Kraus. Orchestra: Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Choir: Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
    • Verdi: La traviata: Zubin Mehta.
    • Philips.
    • 3.

  • Charles Avison

    Concerto Grosso in D major, Op 9 No 2 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Pavlo Beznosiuk. Ensemble: Avison Ensemble.
    • The Avison Ensemble: Avison: Concerti Grossi, op. 9 & op. 10.
    • Divine Art.
    • 6.

  • John Garth

    Cello Concerto No 2 in B flat major

    Performer: Richard Tunnicliffe. Ensemble: Avison Ensemble. Director: Pavlo Beznosiuk.
    • Garth: Six Cello Concertos.
    • Divine Art.
    • 4-6.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Wein, Weib und Gesang

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.
    • Johann Strauss: Famous Waltzes: Boskovsky.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Evening Magic

    Singer: Christoph Pr茅gardien. Ensemble: Camerata Musica Limburg. Conductor: Jan Schumacher.
    • Serenade: Songs of night and love.
    • Genuin.
    • 18.

  • Franz Schubert

    Du bist die Ruh, D776

    Performer: Dalton Baldwin. Singer: Elly Ameling.
    • Philips.

  • Richard Rodgers

    Oh, what a beautiful mornin' (Oklahoma!)

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: Paul Daniel.
    • Bryn Terfel - Rodgers and Hammerstein.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Butterflying

    Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska.
    • ABC CLASSICS.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Drink up, the wine is here! (from The Seasons)

    Orchestra: Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra. Choir: Ch贸r Narodowego Forum Muzyki. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Haydn: The Seasons.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 10.

  • Louis Vierne

    Naiades (from Fantasy Pieces, Suite No 4)

    Performer: Olivier Latry.
    • BNL.

  • Frank Bridge

    The Sea

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • 大象传媒.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Vous soupirez, madame... Nuit paisible et sereine (B茅atrice et B茅n茅dict)

    Singer: Sylvia McNair. Singer: Catherine Robbin. Orchestra: Lyon Opera Orchestra. Conductor: John Nelson.
    • MUSIFRANCE.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in C minor BWV.847 (Well-tempered Clavier, Bk 1)

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • DG.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Sonnet (Serenade)

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Radek Babor谩k. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Carnival Overture

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Karel An膷erl.
    • SUPRAPHON.

Broadcast

  • Thu 20 Feb 2020 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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