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Ian Skelly with Essential Trumpet Concertos, Grainger's Walking Tune, Fanny Dickens

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 trumpet concertos.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.6 in D major 'Le matin' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
    • Haydn: Symphonies no. 6-8@ Freiburger Barockorchester.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.
  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite (Prelude)

    Ensemble: London Collegiate Brass. Conductor: James Stobart.
    • Walton/Tippett/Britten/Ireland: London Collegiate Brass/Stobart.
    • CRD.
  • Erno Dohnanyi

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 42: III. Allegro vivace

    Performer: Sofja G眉lbadamova. Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland鈥怭falz. Conductor: Ariane Matiakh.
    • Dohn谩nyi: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2.
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 203.
  • Chris Fitkin

    Sextet

    Ensemble: Piano Circus.
    • ARGO.
  • Percy Grainger

    Walking Tune

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Tales from the Vienna Woods, Op 325

    Performer: Anton Karas. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.
    • Johann Strauss: Famous Waltzes: Boskovsky.
    • Decca.
    • 5.
  • Yuquijiro Yocoh

    Sakura Variations

    Performer: John Williams.
    • John Williams: The Seville Concert.
    • Sony.
    • 7.
  • Franz Schubert

    Rosamunde D.797 (Ballet in G major)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Enrique B谩tiz.
    • Orchestral Lollipops: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Enrique Batiz.
    • RPO.
    • 10.
  • Joseph Haydn

    My mother bids me bind my hair, H XXVIa 27

    Performer: J枚rg Demus. Singer: Elly Ameling.
    • Pentatone.
  • Ignaz Moscheles

    Allegretto: Tempo di polacca - 3rd mvt from Piano concerto no.2 in Eb major

    Performer: Ian Hobson. Orchestra: Sinfonia da Camera.
    • Zephyr.
  • John Hullah

    Some Folks who have Grown Old (The Village Coquettes)

    Librettist: Charles Dickens. Ensemble: The Seven Dials Band.
    • Beautiful Records.
  • Ignaz Moscheles

    Study No 4 (Melodisch-Contrapunktische Studien, Op 137)

    Performer: Ji艡铆 B谩rta. Performer: Hamish Milne.
    • Hyperion.
  • Percy Grainger

    Walking Tune

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Mazurka in B flat major Op.32

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Hyperion.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 41 in C major, K 551, 'Jupiter'

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thomas S酶nderg氓rd.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto grosso in D major Op.6`4

    Ensemble: H枚枚r Barock. Director: Dan Laurin.
    • BIS.
  • George Gershwin

    Promenade [Walking the Dog]

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • CBS.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Vagabond (Songs of Travel)

    Singer: Christopher Maltman. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
    • Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel, Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad: Maltman, Vigno.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Pines of Rome (The Pines of the Appian Way)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Edo de Waart.
    • Great Orchestral Showpieces, Vol.1.
    • Philips.
    • 4.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue in G major 'A la gigue', BWV.577

    Performer: Peter Hurford.
    • Bach: Complete Organ Works: Simon Preston.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Michael Torke

    Javelin

    Orchestra: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yoel Levi.
    • Michael Torke: Three: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
    • Ecstatic Records.
    • 1.
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Trumpet Concerto in E or E flat

    Performer: Jeffrey Segal. Conductor: David Zinman. Orchestra: Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra.
    • ARTE NOVA.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Viola Sonata in D minor (1st mvt)

    Performer: Nobuko Imai. Performer: Roland P枚ntinen.
    • Bis.
  • Gordon Langford

    Rhapsody on Sea Shanties

    Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Roy Newsome.
    • Morning Cloud: Black Dyke Mills Band/Newsome/Heath.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Gavin Bryars

    Glorious Hill

    Choir: Latvian Radio Choir.
    • GB Records.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song without Words in E flat major Op.38 no.1

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mendelssohn: Lieder Ohne Worte: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 13.
  • Frederic Curzon

    The Boulevardier

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • Hyperion.
  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Partita for orchestra (Finale)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Bennett: Orchetral Works, Vol. 1: Phil Orch, Hickox.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.

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  • Mon 6 Apr 2020 09:00

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