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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: A Tudor trumpeter's pay cheque, Tallis's Spem in alium, 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.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Giovanni Antonio Guido

    Spring

    Performer: Federico Guglielmo. Ensemble: L'Arte dell'Arco.
    • CPO.
  • Charles Gounod

    Petite symphonie in B flat major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Fran莽ois Leleux.
    • Linn.
  • Gertrude van den Bergh

    Lied for piano

    Performer: Frans van Ruth.
    • NM CLASSICS.
  • Henriette Reni茅

    Danse des Lutins

    Performer: Judy Loman.
    • Harp Showpieces.
    • Naxos.
    • 009.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Overture in A minor

    Orchestra: Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leif Segerstam.
    • Sibelius: Kuolema: King Christian II.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Spem in Alium

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • Thomas Tallis: Spem in Alium: The Tallis Scholars.
    • Gimell.
    • 1.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata No 9 in A major, Op 47, 'Kreutzer' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout.
    • Beethoven Violin Sonatas 3 & 9 Mullova & Bezuidenhout.
    • Onyx.
    • 6.
  • J煤lio Medaglia

    Belle Epoque in Sud-America

    Ensemble: Philharmonisches Bl盲serquintett Berlin.
    • BIS.
  • Lili Boulanger

    Vieille pri猫re bouddhique

    Singer: Julian Podger. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • William Brade

    Cornish Dance; Irish Dance; Scottish Dance

    Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts. Performer: Timothy Roberts.
    • English music from Henry VIII to Charles II.
    • HYPERION.
    • 17.
  • King Henry VIII of England

    Tandernaken

    Ensemble: Quintissential. Director: David Skinner.
    • Henry's Music - Motets from a Royal Choirbook - Songs by Henry VIII.
    • Obsidian.
    • 6.
  • King Henry VIII of England

    Pastime with good company / H茅las madame

    Music Arranger: Elgar Howarth. Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • DECCA.
  • King Henry VIII of England

    Pastyme with good companye [De mon triste deplaisir]

    Ensemble: Sirinu.
  • Frederic Hymen Cowen

    The Butterfly's Ball

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Sonata pian' e forte alla quarta bassa 脿 8

    Music Arranger: Eric Crees. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass. Conductor: Mark Ridenour.
    • CSO Resound.
  • Judith Weir

    Ascending into Heaven

    Performer: Matthew Fletcher. Choir: Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. Conductor: Geoffrey Webber.
    • DELPHIAN.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Study in C major, Op.10 no.1

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Lascia ch'io pianga (Rinaldo)

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Ensemble: Europa Galante. Conductor: Fabio Biondi.
    • Handel: Arie e Duetti D'Amore; Europa Galante.
    • Naive.
    • 3.
  • Robert Schumann

    Concertstuck in F major Op.86

    Performer: Roger Montgomery. Performer: Gavin Edwards. Performer: Susan Dent. Performer: Robert Maskell. Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Schumann: Complete Symphonies.
    • ARCHIV PRODUKTION.
    • 1.
  • Hugo Wolf

    Der Feuerreiter

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Author: Eduard M枚rike. Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau.
    • Grosse Stimmen: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 17.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in C Major, Op. 20/2: I. Moderato

    Ensemble: Jubilee Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets.
    • Rubicon.
    • 109.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Cum dederit dilectis (Nisi Dominus, RV 608)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Ensemble: Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Dyer.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Roses from the South, Op 388

    Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Boston Chamber Players.
    • DG.
  • Claude Debussy

    Suite bergamasque (Prelude)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.3: Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Alessandro Striggio

    Ecce beatam Lucem

    Choir: I Fagiolini. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.
    • DECCA.

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  • Fri 6 Mar 2020 09:00

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