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Ian Skelly with Essential Brahms, Holst in Reading

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 works by Brahms.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Fireworks

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Stravinsky: The Firebird; Petrushka; The Rite of Spring - Chicago Symphony Orche.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 16.
  • Gregorio Allegri

    Miserere

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.
  • Alexander Borodin

    In the steppes of central Asia

    Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov - Sheherazade etc..
    • PHILIPS.
    • 5.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Menuet in G minor

    Ensemble: Danish Quartet.
  • Gustav Holst

    Venus, the bringer of peace (The Planets, Op.32)

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: William Steinberg.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio in B flat major Op.97 (Archduke): Andante cantabile

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Performer: Pinchas Zukerman. Performer: Jacqueline du Pr茅.
    • EMI.
  • Sir James MacMillan

    For Ian

    Performer: John York.
    • Black Box.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Orchestral Suite in D major HWV.341

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Performer: Alison Balsom. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Purcell, Handel: Sound the Trumpet: Alison Balsom, Trevor Pinnock.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Gustav Holst

    Mercury, the Winged Messenger (The Planets, Op 32)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra - Holst The Planets - Vladimir Jurowski Conductor.
    • LPO.
    • 3.
  • Gustav Holst

    A Fugal Overture, Op.40`1

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Crisantemi

    Ensemble: Signum Quartet.
    • Quartet Movements: Signum Quartett.
    • Capriccio.
    • 2.
  • Henry Purcell

    Curtain Tune (Timon of Athens Z.632)

    Music Arranger: Barokksolistene. Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Performer: Bjarte Eike.
    • The Alehouse Sessions.
    • RUBICON.
    • 102.
  • Libby Larsen

    Deep Summer Music

    Orchestra: Colorado Symphony. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • KOCH.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 41 in C major, K 551, 'Jupiter' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.
    • Mozart: Complete Symphonies: Jeffrey Tate.
    • EMI.
    • 8.
  • Joby Talbot

    April: The First Day of Summer (Once Around the Sun)

    Performer: Joby Talbot. Performer: Rob Farrar. Performer: Manon Morris.
    • SONY.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Le jardin f茅erique (Ma M猫re l'Oye)

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Ravel: Ma M猫re l'Oye, Le tombeau de Couperin & Sh茅h茅razade, ouverture de f茅erie.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 12.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Trio in E flat major Op.40 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Barry Tuckwell. Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Itzhak Perlman: Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon.
    • DG.
    • 8.
  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Dance Suite

    Orchestra: Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Zolt谩n Kocsis.
    • HUNGAROTON.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quintet in E flat for piano & winds, K. 452: i) Largo - Allegro moderato

    Ensemble: Ensemble Dialoghi.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    The little train of the caipira (Bachiana brasileira no.2)

    Orchestra: S茫o Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Roberto Minczuk.
    • Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras Volume 1.
    • Bis.
    • 4.
  • Aaron Copland

    Quiet City

    Performer: Thomas Stacy. Performer: Philip Smith. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • DG.
  • George Butterworth

    The Banks of Green Willow

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Butterworth/Delius: English Rhapsody: Halle, Elder.
    • Halle.
    • 4.
  • Claude Debussy

    Dr Gradus ad Parnassum (Children's Corner)

    Performer: Pascal Rog茅.
    • A Debussy Recital: Pascal Roge.
    • Decca.
    • 5.
  • Johann David Heinichen

    Dresden Concerto in F major, S232 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Johann David Heinichen Dresden Concerti Musica Antiqua Koln Reinhard Goebel.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 11.

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