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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Elgar's Cockaigne, Essential Operatic Villains, The worst competition ever?

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein and 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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Tue 10 Mar 2020 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Allegro in C minor, HWV 408

    Ensemble: London H盲ndel Players.
    • Handel: Complete Violin Sonatas etc..
    • Somm.
    • 29.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Overture No. 2, Op. 24

    Orchestra: European Soloists, Luxembourg. Conductor: Christoph K枚nig.
    • Naxos.

  • Maurice Durufl茅

    Quatre motets sur des themes Gregoriens, Op.10

    Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Director: Timothy Brown.
    • French Choral Music.
    • MERIDIAN.
    • 7.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in F major, K 247 - 1st movement, Allegro

    Ensemble: The Gaudier Ensemble.
    • Mozart: Divertimenti K247 & K334: The Gaudier Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Edward Elgar

    Cockaigne (In London Town), Op. 40

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone

    Ensemble: London Conchord Ensemble.
    • Poulenc: Complete Chamber Works.
    • Champs Hill.
    • 6.

  • Franz Schubert

    Fr眉hlingstraum (Winterreise)

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Performer: Helmut Deutsch.
    • Schubert Winterreise.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
    • 11.

  • Giovanni Bottesini

    Duetto

    Performer: Thomas Martin. Performer: Emma Johnson. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Giovanni Bottesini - A Showcase - Thomas Martin/Emma Johnson/ Jose-Luis Garcia/.
    • ASV.
    • 3.

  • Ivor Gurney

    Sleep (5 Elizabethan Songs)

    Music Arranger: Iain Farrington. Singer: Allan Clayton. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Warner.

  • Alexander Borodin

    Scherzo in D major for string quartet [from "Les vendredis"]

    Ensemble: Vertavo Quartet.
    • SIMAX.

  • John Ireland

    A London Overture

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Ireland: Orchestral Music: Halle/John Wilson.
    • Halle.
    • 9.

  • Louis Vierne

    Carillon de Westminster (Pieces de fantaisie - suite no. 3)

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • Vierne: Carillon de Westminster, Widor: Orgelsymphonie No. 5: Simon Preston.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Credo in un Dio crudel (Otello)

    Performer: Paul Daniel. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Bryn Terfel: Bad Boys; Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Double Concerto in D minor, BWV.1043

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Andrew Manze. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Andrew Manze.
    • J.S.Bach, Solo & Double Violin Concertos.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Quartet No 1 in F major for wind instruments

    Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

  • Georges Auric

    Five Bagatelles

    Ensemble: Duo Crommelynck.
    • CLAVES.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Flute Concerto in G major, K 313 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Marie鈥怭ierre Langlamet. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart Flute Concertos Concerto For Flute And Harp.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Dame Ethel Mary Smyth

    Prelude & Fugue for piano in C major

    Performer: Liana 葮erbescu.
    • Smyth: Complete Piano Works - Serbescu.
    • CPO.
    • 007.

  • Orlando Gibbons

    Fantasia a 6 MB.48.35

    Performer: Susanna Pell. Performer: Asako Morikawa. Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • Gibbons: Sonsorts for Viols: Phantasm.
    • Avie.
    • 01.

  • John Adams

    Short Ride in a Fast Machine

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Adams: The Shaker Loops/The Wound Dresser: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Alsop.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Tue 10 Mar 2020 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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