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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Essential Handel arias, The Lancashire Caruso, Brahms's Academic Festival Overture

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

  • Joseph Canteloube

    Chut, chut (Chants d'Auvergne Set 4)

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Kate Royal.
    • A Lesson in Love: Kate Royal/Malcolm Martineau.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 11.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Diabelli Variations - Theme

    Performer: Rudolf Buchbinder.
    • DG.
  • Marc鈥怉ntoine Charpentier

    M茅d茅e (ballet music)

    Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • Erato.
  • William Mathias

    Landscape (Santa Fe Suite)

    Performer: Claire Jones.
    • Patrick Hawes, Highgrove Suite: Claire Jones, Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Classic FM.
    • 14.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Valse-Caprice, d'apr猫s 'l'Etude en forme de valse'

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Academic Festival Overture Op.80

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • CHANNEL.
  • Lili Boulanger

    Psalm 129

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No 11 in A major, K 331 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.
    • Mozart: Piano Sonatas/Fantasies: Maria Joao Pires.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • Franz Schubert

    Nacht und Tr盲ume D.827

    Singer: Ilker Arcay眉rek. Performer: Simon Lepper.
    • Franz Schubert: Der Einsame.
    • CHAMPS HILL RECORDS.
    • 16.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Hamburg Symphony No 4 in G major

    Orchestra: Haydn Sinfonietta Vienna. Conductor: Manfred Huss.
    • BIS.
  • Clara Schumann

    Impromptu in G major, Op.9, 'Souvenir de Vienne'

    Performer: Jozef de Beenhouwer.
    • CPO.
  • Henry Purcell

    Sonata - 1683 no.12 in D major Z.801

    Ensemble: Retrospect Trio.
    • Henry Purcell - Twelve Sonatas in Three Parts.
    • Linn Records.
    • 056.
  • Benjamin Britten

    The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34 (Variations and fugue on a theme of Purcell)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Every valley shall be exalted (Messiah)

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Handel: Messiah: Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner.
    • Philips.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Nightclub 1960 (L'histoire du tango)

    Performer: Patrick Gallois. Performer: G枚ran S枚llscher.
    • Piazzolla for Two - Tangos for Flute & Guitar: Patrick Gallois, Goran Sollscher.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Amy Beach

    From Grandmother's Garden, Op 97

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Amy Beach: Piano Music Volume 3.
    • Guild.
    • 15.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    The Belles of St Trinian's (Prelude)

    Music Arranger: Christopher Palmer. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Robert Schumann

    M盲rchenbilder, Op 113 (No 1)

    Performer: Adam Laloum. Performer: Lise Berthaud.
    • Schumann, Schubert, Brahms.
    • Aparte.
    • 1.
  • Eric Coates

    The Selfish Giant

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Avie.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op 27 No 2, 'Moonlight' (1st mvt, Adagio sostenuto)

    Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • Beethoven: Moonlight Sonatas: Radu Lupu.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto for flute, harp and orchestra in C major, K.299 (Rondo. Allegro)

    Performer: Xavier de Maistre. Performer: Magali Mosnier. Performer: Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. Conductor: Ivor Bolton.
    • Sony Classical.
  • John Milton

    Fantasia a 5 no. 1 in G minor

    Ensemble: Fretwork. Director: Robert Hollingworth.
    • Sublime Discourses.
    • Regent.
    • 11.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Glitter and be gay (Candide)

    Singer: Barbara Cook. Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Samuel Krachmalnick.
    • Sony.

Broadcast

  • Mon 2 Mar 2020 09:00

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