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Ian Skelly with The Exeter Nightingale Riddle, Essential Vivaldi, Monteverdi's Loveliest Nightingale

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 Vivaldi.

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

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Thu 2 Apr 2020 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concert Rondo in E flat major K.371

    Performer: Richard Watkins. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Mozart: Horn Concertos and Concert Rondo.
    • I.M.P..
    • 12.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    脡tudes-Tableaux, Op.33 - No 1 in F minor (Allegro non troppo)

    Performer: Alberto Ferro.
    • Sergey Rachmaninov: 脡tudes-Tableaux Op. 33 & Op. 39.
    • MUSO.
    • 1.

  • Peter Warlock

    Capriol Suite

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Warlock: The Curlew/Capriol/Serenade etc: Ainsley/Nash Ensemble/Brabbins.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Septet in E flat major, Op 20 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Emanuel Hurwitz. Performer: Cecil Aronowitz. Performer: Terence Weil. Performer: Adrian Beers. Performer: Gervase de Peyer. Performer: Keith Puddy. Performer: Peter Graeme. Performer: Sarah Barrington. Performer: William Waterhouse. Performer: Edgar Williams. Performer: James Buck. Performer: Neill Sanders. Orchestra: Melos Ensemble.
    • Beethoven The Collector's Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.

  • Eric Whitacre

    Go, lovely rose (3 Flower Songs)

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Cloudburst and other choral works.
    • HYPERION.
    • 5.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    My Homeland Op.62

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Libor Pe拧ek.
    • Dvorak: Czech Suite/American Suite Overtures: Pesek.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 4.

  • Rebecca Clarke

    Passacaglia on an Old English Tune

    Performer: Philip Dukes. Performer: Sophia Rahman.
    • Rebecca Clarke: Violin Sonata, Dumka.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.

  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    Kikimora, Op 63

    Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Phillips.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in F minor, BWV.881 (Book 2, The Well-Tempered Clavier)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 23.

  • Manning Sherwin

    A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square

    Lyricist: Eric Maschwitz. Music Arranger: Don Walker. Choir: Demon Barbers.
    • The Demon Barbers, A Close Shave.
    • ASV.

  • Trad.

    Sweet Nightingale

    Performer: Desmond Dupr茅. Singer: Alfred Deller.
    • The Three Ravens (Les Trois Corbeaux).
    • Vanguard Classics.
    • 04.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Invitation to the dance

    Orchestrator: Hector Berlioz. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon septimi toni a 8 C.171 [1597 no.2]

    Ensemble: Empire Brass. Performer: Rolf Smedvig.
    • The Glory of Gabrieli: Empire Brass and Friends.
    • Telarc.
    • 2.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Le spectre de la rose (Les nuits d'茅t茅)

    Singer: Karen Cargill. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • Berlioz: Les nuits d'ete: SCO/Ticciati.
    • Linn.
    • 2.

  • Michael Praetorius

    Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen

    Choir: The King鈥檚 Singers.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Serenade to Music (orchestral version)

    Performer: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Andrew Manze.
    • Onyx.

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Romanian Folk Dances arr Szekely

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Andrew Armstrong. Music Arranger: Zolt谩n Sz茅kely.
    • Bartok: Works for Violin and Piano.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 24-29.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Mandolin Concerto in C major, RV 425

    Performer: Ugo Orlandi. Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti. Conductor: Claudio Scimone.
    • Vivaldi: 4 Mandolin Concertos: Orlandi/I Solisti Veneti/Scimone.
    • Apex.
    • 4.

  • Gabriela Montero

    Improvisation on Vivaldi's Winter

    Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • EMI.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Barcarolle Op.108

    Performer: Cristina Ortiz. Ensemble: Fine Arts Quartet.
    • NAXOS.

  • Jean Fran莽aix

    Horloge de Flore (3h - Galant de jour)

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Mathias M枚nius.
    • Bonjour Paris.
    • DECCA.
    • 4.

  • James McMillan

    The Gallant Weaver

    Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Richard Strauss

    Dreaming by the Fireside (4 Symphonic Interludes from 'Intermezzo')

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Franz Schmidt Symphony No.2 Richard Strauss Dreaming by the Fireside Wiener Phil.
    • Sony.
    • 004.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Study in G sharp minor, Op 25 No 6

    Performer: Ronald Smith.
    • Chopin: Etudes Op. 10 & Op. 25: Ronald Smith.
    • Nimbus.
    • 18.

  • Claude Debussy

    Saxophone Rhapsody

    Performer: Theodore Kerkezos. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yuri Simonov.
    • Legende: Theodore Kerkezos.
    • Onyx.

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  • Thu 2 Apr 2020 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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