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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Essential Operatic Villains, Bourgeois's Serenade, Arthur Bliss and Pen Pits

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 operatic villains.

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

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Mon 9 Mar 2020 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Serenade in E major Op.22 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Saito Kinen Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Dvorak, Bartok, Wolf: Saito Kinen, Ozawa.
    • Philips.
    • 3.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto for 3 trumpets, timpani, 2 oboes & bassoon in D, TWV54.D3: Vivace

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • The Godfather: Masters of the German & Italian Baroque.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 4.

  • Karol Kurpi艅ski

    Clarinet Concerto in B-Flat Major

    Performer: Sharon Kam. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gregor B眉hl.
    • Weber, Kurpi艅ski & Crusell: Works for Clarinet & Orchestra.
    • Orfeo.
    • 201.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in D major, K.485

    Performer: Francesco Piemontesi.
    • Naive.

  • Derek Bourgeois

    Serenade Op.22

    Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Michael Antrobus.
    • Chandos.

  • C茅sar Franck

    Les 脡olides

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Traditional Danish

    Ribers No. 8

    Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Wood Works.
    • Dacapo.
    • 5.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Rondo in G major Op.51`2

    Performer: Evgeny Kissin.
    • Bach-Bussoni - Chaconne, Beethoven - Rondos: Evgeny Kissin.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 2.

  • Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach

    Quartet No 3 in C major for flute, violin, viola and continuo (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Les Adieux.
    • Chamber Music by the Sons of Bach: Les Adieux.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Derek Bourgeois

    Serenade, Op 22 arr for brass band

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Michael Antrobus.
    • Chandos.

  • Joaquim Malats

    Serenata [Espa帽ola]

    Performer: Xuefei Yang.
    • Sojourn: The Very Best of Xuefei Yang.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 15.

  • Franz Schmidt

    Symphony No 3 in A major (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky. Orchestra: Malm枚 SymfoniOrkester.
    • Franz Schmidt, Symphony no. 3: Malmo Symphony Orchestra / Sinaisky.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

  • Joseph Horovitz

    Sonatina (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • Chandos.

  • Paul Desmond

    Take Five

    Ensemble: The Dave Brubeck Quartet.
    • Hits of the World 1960-61.
    • Polygram.
    • 16.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    The Padstow Lifeboat

    Ensemble: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Malcolm Arnold.
    • Arnold on Brass.
    • Conifer.
    • 24.

  • Marco Uccellini

    Sonata Op.4`18

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade no.2 in A, Op. 16 - i) Allegro moderato

    Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SDG.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Tre sbirri... Te Deum (Tosca)

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Singer: Balcarras Crafoord. Choir: Radiok枚ren. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Daniel.

  • Franz Schubert

    Ungarische Melodie in B minor, D 817

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • Schubert, Live, Volume 3: Imogen Cooper.
    • Avie.
    • 5.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.101 in D major 'Clock' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Haydn, 12 London Symphonies: Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles.
    • Naive.
    • 10.

  • Doreen Carwithen

    Suffolk Suite: Orford Ness

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude in F minor BWV 881, from Well-tempered Clavier, Book 2

    Music Arranger: Jacques Loussier. Ensemble: Jacques Loussier Trio.
    • Universal Music Jazz.

  • Max Bruch

    Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 26 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.
    • Nigel Kennedy's Greatest Hits.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.

  • Orlando Gibbons

    Ground, MB26

    Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar.
    • DEUX-ELLES.

  • Benjamin Britten

    A Wedding Anthem, 'Amo ergo sum'

    Performer: Ruth Dean. Performer: Neil MacKenzie. Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Sixteen:Fen and Meadow - Britten Choral Workds III.
    • CORO.
    • 10.

Broadcast

  • Mon 9 Mar 2020 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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