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Ian Skelly with Britten's Simple Symphony and Essential Sibelius

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

Essential Classics - the best in classical music.

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

1010 Essential Symphony 鈥� a movement from the 大象传媒 archive, plus the whole performance available online.

1100 Essential Five 鈥� this week we suggest five great pieces by Sibelius.

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

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Mon 4 May 2020 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Feux d'artifice (Preludes, Book 2)

    Orchestrator: Colin Matthews. Orchestra: 贬补濒濒茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • 贬补濒濒茅.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    6 Bagatelles, Op.126: No.4 - Presto

    Performer: Katie Mahan.
    • Appassionata.
    • Steinway and Sons.
    • 4.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Exaudi me Domine for 16 voices/instruments

    Ensemble: Huelgas Ensemble. Director: Paul Van Nevel.
    • 40 Voix.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 8.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Piano Quartet in A minor

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Tom Dunn. Performer: Leonard Elschenbroich. Performer: Alexei Grynyuk.
    • Decca.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Simple Symphony (Playful Pizzicato)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • Decca.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Souvenir d'une nuit d'茅t茅 脿 Madrid

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.

  • Melanie Bonis

    Invocation (Scenes de la foret, Op 123)

    Performer: Anthony Robb. Performer: Richard Dilley. Performer: Diana Ambache.
    • Ambache.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Toccata in D major, BWV.912

    Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
    • J. S. Bach: Piano Music.
    • Hungatron.
    • 9.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No.3 in A minor (Op.56), "Scottish"

    Ensemble: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • GB大象传媒.

  • Howard Skempton

    He wishes for the cloths of heaven

    Choir: Exon Singers. Conductor: Matthew Owens.
    • DELPHIAN.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Cello Concerto No 2 in D minor, Op 119

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach.
    • RCA.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.4 in F minor Op.36 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4, Capriccio Italien: Berliner Philharmoniker, Ozawa.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.

  • L茅o Delibes

    Sylvia (Act 3 Divertissement: Pizzicato)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Anatole Fistoulari.
    • MERCURY.

  • Samuel Barber

    Summer Music

    Performer: Bl谩sarakvintett Reykjav铆kur.
    • Chandos.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Cantate Domino canticum novum

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Singer: Evelyn Tubb. Ensemble: Consort of Musicke. Conductor: Anthony Rooley.
    • CARLTON CLASSICS.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.47 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Clara Schumann

    Scherzo no.1 in D minor, Op.10

    Performer: Angela Cheng.
    • CBC.

  • Carl Nielsen

    An Imaginary Journey to the Faroes

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Carl Nielsen: Orchestral music: Danish National Symphony Orch/Dausgaard.
    • Dacapo.
    • 10.

  • Leroy Anderson

    Plink Plank Plunk

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • HYPERION.

  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Stabat mater dolorosa (Stabat mater in F minor)

    Singer: Julia Lezhneva. Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Orchestra: I Barocchisti. Conductor: Diego Fasolis.
    • Pergolesi; Stabat Mater-Laudate Pueri-Confitebor.
    • ERATO.
    • 1.

  • Gustav Holst

    My true love hath my heart, Op 16 No 2

    Performer: Steuart Bedford. Singer: Susan Gritton.
    • The English Song Series 6: Holst.
    • Naxos.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Rosen aus dem S眉den arr Schoenberg

    Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Solistes de l'Opera National de Lyon.
    • Schoenberg: Kaiserwalzer and other Transcriptions: Soliste de l'Opera National d.
    • Erato.
    • 5.

Broadcast

  • Mon 4 May 2020 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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