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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Essential Handel arias, Frederic Cowen's Frankenstein, Janacek's 'Kreutzer Sonata' Quartet

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 Handel arias.

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

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Thu 5 Mar 2020 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pezzo Capriccioso, Op.62

    Performer: Sol Gabetta. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ari Rasilainen.
    • RCA.

  • Thomas Weelkes

    The Short Service: Magnificat

    Choir: Choir of St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • Ash Wednesday.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 4.

  • Claude Debussy

    Lindaraja

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy. Performer: Vovka Ashkenazy.
    • Debussy/Ravel: Music for 2 pianos: Ashkenazy/Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
    • 5.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no. 83 in G minor 'The Hen' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    String Quartet no.1 'The Kreutzer Sonata (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • Hyperion.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Waverley

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.

  • Morten Lauridsen

    O Magnum Mysterium

    Choir: Polyphony. Director: Stephen Layton.
    • A Christmas Present from Polyphony.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in G minor for 2 cellos, RV.531

    Performer: Christophe Coin. Performer: Paolo Beschi. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Vivaldi: 'Il Proteo'.
    • Teldec.
    • 7.

  • Madeleine Dring

    Blue Air (Colour Suite)

    Performer: Leigh Kaplan.
    • Cambria.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    3 Symphonic Dances Op.45 (no.2)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Rachmaninoff: The Bells & Symphonic Dances.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 6.

  • Caroline Shaw

    Dolce Cantavi

    Performer: TENET.
    • AVIE.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Fanfare and Polonaise (War and Peace Suite)

    Orchestrator: Christopher Palmer. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Prokofiev: War and Peace etc: Philharmonia Orchestra/Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet no.16 in F Major, Op.135 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • Beethoven: Inventions 3.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 7.

  • Luciano Berio

    Ritirata notturna di Madrid

    Composer: Luigi Boccherini. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Luciano Berio.
    • RCA.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Concertino in A minor for two pianos, Op 94

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Lilya Zilberstein.
    • EMI.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Va tacito (from Giulio Cesare)

    Performer: Hector McDonald. Singer: Marijana Mijanovic. Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Handel: Julius Caesar (highlights): Mackerras.
    • Archiv.
    • 25.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Rhapsody for string quartet

    Ensemble: Endellion Quartet.
    • Britten: Complete Music for String Quartet.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Georges Bizet

    Petite Suite 'Jeux d'enfants'

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Bizet: Symphony in C etc.: Concertgebouw Orchestra/Haitink.
    • Philips.
    • 5.

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    痴别谤办濒补谤迟别鈥疦补肠丑迟鈥�(肠辞苍肠濒耻蝉颈辞苍)

    Performer: Nicolas B么ne. Performer: Ant么nio Meneses. Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • ALPHA.

  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F major, D 803 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: J枚rg Widmann. Performer: Dag Jensen. Performer: Sybille Mahni. Performer: Isabelle van Keulen. Performer: Veronika Eberle. Performer: Rachel Roberts. Performer: Tanja Tetzlaff. Performer: Yasunori Kawahara.
    • Schubert Widmann Octets.
    • CAvi-music.
    • 2.

  • Franz Schubert

    On the River (Winterreise, D.911)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Christopher Glynn.
    • Schubert: Winter Journey.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 7.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in G major, K 260

    Performer: Anne Queff茅lec.
    • MIRARE.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Sarka (M谩 vlast)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • LSO LIVE.

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