Ian Skelly with Copland's Letter from Home, The Winchester Troper, Essential Trumpet Concertos
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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.
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C茅cile Chaminade
Danse pa茂enne Op.158
Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Performer: Peter Jablonski.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No 26 in E flat major, K 184
Conductor: 脕d谩m Fischer. Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra.- Mozart: Symphonies Vol.6: Danish National Chamber Orchestra/Fischer.
- Dacapo.
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John Sheppard
Missa 'Cantate': Sanctus
Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Martin Baker.- HYPERION.
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Heitor Villa鈥怢obos
Bachianas Brasileiras, No. 5: Aria (Cantilena)
Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Performer: Javier Perianes.- Cantilena.
- harmonia mundi.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Septet in E flat major Op.65 (4th mvt)
Ensemble: Paris Orchestra Soloists.- Saint-Saens: Complete Chamber Music with Winds.
- Indesens.
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Aaron Copland
Letter from Home (1962 version for chamber orchestra)
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: John Wilson.- CHANDOS.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Ballade no.3 in A flat major Op.47
Performer: Krystian Zimerman.- 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
- Deutshe Grammophon.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Octet in E flat major, Op.20 (4th mvt)
Performer: James Ehnes. Ensemble: Seattle Chamber Players.- Onyx.
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Johan Svendsen
Norwegian Artists' Carnival Op.14
Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- Chandos.
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Harold Arlen
I Could Go On Singing
Lyricist: Yip Harburg. Singer: Judy Garland. Conductor: Mort Lindsey.- Rhino Movie Music.
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Anonymous
Miserere dominum (Kyrie trop茅)
Choir: Discantus. Conductor: Brigitte Lesne.- Aeon.
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Anonymous
Firmetur manus tua (Antienne de procession)
Choir: Discantus. Conductor: Brigitte Lesne.- Aeon.
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Herbert Howells
Nunc dimittis (The Winchester Service)
Performer: Simon Bell. Choir: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Andrew Lumsden.- Howells: The Winchester Service and other late works.
- Hyperion.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Symphony No.2 in E minor (Op.27)
Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Tadaaki Otaka.- GB大象传媒.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Chorale-Prelude 'Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'mein', BWV 734
Performer: Nikolai Demidenko. Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni.- Hyperion.
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Marcel Tournier
La lettre du jardini猫re
Performer: Alison Nicholls. Singer: James Gilchrist.- Romantic Residues - Songs by Alec Roth, Benjamin Britten and others.
- Hyperion.
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Leos Jan谩膷ek
String Quartet No 2, 'Intimate Letters' (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Smetana Quartet.- Smetana Quartet plays Janacek and Dvorak.
- Testament.
- 9-12.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Letter Scene (Eugene Onegin)
Singer: Anna Netrebko. Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.- Russian Album.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 012.
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Meredith Monk
Dawn (Book of Days, album version)
Singer: Johanna Arnold. Singer: Joan Barber. Singer: Andrea Goodman. Singer: Naaz Hosseini. Singer: Meredith Monk. Singer: Robert Een. Singer: John Eppler. Singer: Ching Gonzalez. Singer: Nicky Paraiso. Singer: Timothy Sawyer. Performer: Nurit Tilles.- Book of Days.
- ECM.
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Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo sinfonico
Conductor: Marek Janowski. Orchestra: Dresdner Philharmonie.- Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana (Live).
- PENTATONE.
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Kurt Weill
Symphony no.2 (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.- Naxos.
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Franz Schubert
2 German Dances and 2 Landler, D618
Performer: Christoph Eschenbach. Performer: Justus Frantz.- EMI.
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Joseph Haydn
Trumpet Concerto in E flat major H.7e.1
Performer: H氓kan Hardenberger. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- Haydn, Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Hardenberger/Marriner.
- Philips.
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E虅riks Es虒envalds
Rivers of light
Performer: Shankar Viswanathan. Choir: Portland State University Chamber Choir. Singer: Emmalyn Fox. Singer: Sterling Roberts. Conductor: Ethan Sperry.- 膾riks E拧envalds: The Doors of Heaven.
- Naxos.
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Emil von Sauer
Piano Concerto no.1 in E minor (3rd mvt)
Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lawrence Foster.- Scharwenka/Sauer: Piano Concertos: Hough/CBSO/Foster.
- Hyperion.
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Malcolm Arnold
Three Shanties for wind quintet (No 3)
Performer: Emma Johnson. Performer: Jaime Mart铆n. Performer: Jonathan Kelly. Performer: Claire Briggs. Performer: Susanna Cohen.- Arnold: Complete Works for Clarinet: Emma Johnson.
- ASV.
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Alexander Borodin
Prince Igor (Polovtsian Dance no.17)
Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.- Tchaikovksy:1812 / Borodin: Polovtsian Dances / Balakirev: Islamey : Esa-Pekka S.
- Philips.
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