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Ian Skelly with essential Tudor music and Saint-Sa毛ns's Les Cloches de Las Palmas

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 An Essential Symphony movement from the 大象传媒 archive.

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we suggest five pieces of Tudor music.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Trois Romances sans paroles

    Performer: Jean鈥怭hilippe Collard.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    3 Dance Variations from Fancy Free: Galop, Waltz, Danzon

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Lindberg.
    • Bernstein: On the Waterfront.
    • BIS.
    • 11-13.
  • Robert Schumann

    Humoreske (Phantasiest眉cke, Op.88)

    Performer: Christian Tetzlaff. Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Performer: Tanja Tetzlaff.
    • Schumann - Complete works for Piano Trio.
    • EMI CLASSICS.
    • 6.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Angel Cried Out

    Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Conductor: Sigvards K募ava.
    • Tchaikovsky: All-Night Vigil & Other Sacred Choral Works.
    • Ondine.
    • 18.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No 4 in D major, BWV 1069 (Menuett 1 and 2)

    Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Ton Koopman.
    • J.S. Bach, Orchestral Suites, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra / Ton Koopman.
    • RCA.
    • 11.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Les Cloches de Las Palmas (6 Studies Op.111)

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Erato.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No.2 in D minor

    Orchestrator: Iv谩n Fischer. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Brahms: Hungarian Dances.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • Cecilia McDowall

    Alma redemptoris Mater

    Ensemble: Marian Consort. Director: Rory McCleery.
    • Music For The Queen Of Heaven.
    • DELPHIAN.
    • 5.
  • Anton Webern

    Im Sommerwind

    Orchestra: Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • H盲nssler Classic.
  • Clara Schumann

    Le ballet des revenants, Op.5 no.4

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 29 in A major, K 201

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
  • Richard Strauss

    Serenade for 13 wind instruments in E flat, Op 7

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Director: Alexei Ogrintchouk.
    • BIS.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Festive overture Op.96

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • DG.
  • Claude Debussy

    La cath茅dral engloutie orch Wood

    Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Henry Wood Orchestrations: London Philharmonic, Nicolas Braithwaite.
    • Lyrita.
    • 6.
  • Franz Liszt

    La Campanella (6 Grandes 茅tudes de Paganini, No 3 in G sharp minor)

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov.
    • Transcendental.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • Ola Gjeilo

    Serenity [O Magnum Mysterium]

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Performer: Guy Johnston. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • KINGS COLLEGE.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Sonata in C major for gamba and harpsichord mvts 3 & 4: Adagio and Allegro

    Performer: Aziz Ibrahim. Performer: Masumi Yamamoto.
    • Free Hands Records.
  • Richard Dubugnon

    La minute exquise

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Itamar Golan.
    • Beau Soir: Janine Jansen/Itamar Golan.
    • Decca.
    • 6.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony no. 2 in E minor Op.27 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Rachmaninov: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 - Symphonic Dances.
    • Lso Live.
    • 106.
  • Thomas Weelkes

    As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending

    Choir: The King鈥檚 Singers.
    • The Triumphs of Oriana: The King's Singers.
    • Signum.
    • 18.
  • William Walton

    Touch her soft lips, and part (Henry V Suite)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • DECCA.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Concerto in D major 'Basle Concerto'

    Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Elegischer Gesang, Op.118

    Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in B flat major, RV 362, 'La caccia'

    Orchestra: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi.
    • Virgin.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    12 Studies Op.10 for piano (no.3 in E major)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Chopin: Etudes Op.10 & Op.25: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 24.
  • Georges Bizet

    Symphony in C major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Prokofiev, Britten, Bizet: Symphonies: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

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  • Wed 22 Apr 2020 09:00

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