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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Robena Anna Laidlaw, Bach's Sheep May Safely Graze, Essential Handel arias

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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Wed 4 Mar 2020 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Padre Antonio Soler

    Keyboard Sonata no.90 in F sharp minor

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's Spanish Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • 脡douard Lalo

    Symphonie espagnole Op.21 (5th mvt)

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Bruch, Lalo: Little, RSNO, Handley.
    • EMI Eminence.

  • Benny Andersson

    Money Money Money

    Composer: Bj枚rn Ulvaeus. Ensemble: Norsk Tromboneensemble.
    • LAWO.

  • William Byrd

    Miserere Nostri

    Composer: Thomas Tallis. Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • The Deer's Cry.
    • CORO.
    • 8.

  • Claude Debussy

    Jeux de vagues (La mer)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Debussy: La mer/Jeux: LSO/Gergiev.
    • LSO Live.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sheep may safely graze

    Music Arranger: Gabriela Montero. Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • Gabriela Montero - Bach and Beyond.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 8.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony no.8 in G major Op.88 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Dvorak: Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.

  • Trad.

    She moved through the fair

    Performer: Edin Karamoazov. Performer: Stacey Shames. Singer: Andreas Scholl.
    • DECCA.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in C major, Op 53, 'Waldstein' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Beethoven Piano Sonatas: 'Moonlight' 'Pathetique' 'Waldstein' Steven Osborne pia.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.

  • Peggy Glanville-Hicks

    Promenade (Etruscan Concerto)

    Performer: Caroline Almonte. Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Mills.
    • ABC.

  • Traditional Scottish

    Mary Morrison

    Author: Robert Burns. Music Arranger: Serge Hovey. Singer: Jean Redpath. Performer: Anne Dorsam. Performer: Peter Brown. Performer: Evelyn Read.
    • The Songs of Robert Burns, Volumes 1 & 2.
    • Greentrax.
    • 23.

  • Richard Wagner

    Tannh盲user (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Teldec.

  • George Frideric Handel

    All we, like sheep, have gone astray (Messiah)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Handel: Messiah: Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner.
    • Philips.

  • Richard Rodgers

    My Favourite Things (The Sound of Music)

    Music Arranger: Sir Stephen Hough. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E flat major (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor 脡b猫ne.
    • Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartets Op. 13 in A minor, Op. 80 in F minor:.
    • Virgin.
    • 8.

  • Gabriel Piern茅

    Piano Concerto in C minor, Op 12 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Michael Daugherty

    Route 66

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Daugherty: Route 66, Ghost Ranch, Time Machine.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Impromptu in A flat major, Op 29

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Chopin: The Complete Nocturnes and Impromptus: Angela Hewitt, piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Alcina Act 2 sc.12; Verdi prati

    Singer: Alice Coote. Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Harry Bicket.
    • HYPERION.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto no.5 in A major K.219 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Warner.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Italian Concerto in F major - Andante

    Performer: Jacques Loussier Trio. Music Arranger: Jacques Loussier.
    • Kaz.

  • Arnold Bax

    Dance in the Sun (4 Orchestral sketches)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.

  • Max Richter

    Dream 3 (in the midst of my life)

    Performer: Max Richter. Ensemble: American Contemporary Music Ensemble. Singer: Grace Davidson.
    • Richter: From Sleep.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.

  • Trad.

    Hasapiko

    Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Mediterraneo.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 3.

  • Anton Bruckner

    String Quartet in C minor (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Zehetmair Quartett.
    • ECM New Series.

  • Gustav Mahler

    What the Wild Flowers Tell Me

    Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • ERATO.

Broadcast

  • Wed 4 Mar 2020 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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