Ian Skelly with Gjeilo's Tundra 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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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Ruslan and Ludmila (Overture)
Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.- Tchaikovksy:1812 / Borodin: Polovtsian Dances / Balakirev: Islamey : Esa-Pekka S.
- Philips.
- 6.
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Robert Schumann
Piano Quartet in E flat, Op.47 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Alexander Melnikov. Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Ben Parry
O nata lux
Conductor: Rupert Gough. Choir: Royal Holloway University Choir.- The Hours: Choral Music by Ben Parry.
- Signum Classics.
- 12.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Concert Piece No 2 in D minor, Op 114
Orchestrator: Carl Baermann. Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: Wolfgang Meyer. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Director: Kenneth Sillito.- Weber, Mendelssohn etc.: Works for clarinet.
- EMI CLASSICS.
- 8-10.
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Francis Poulenc
Intermezzo in A flat major
Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.- Kaleidoscope: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
- Hyperion.
- 11.
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Ola Gjeilo
Tundra
Choir: Tenebrae. Performer: Ola Gjeilo. Performer: Thomas Gould. Performer: Ciaran McCabe. Performer: Jon Thorne. Performer: Matthew Sharp. Director: Nigel Short.- Ola Gjeilo.
- Decca.
- 09.
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Johannes Brahms
Piano Trio No 1 in B major, Op 8 (1st mvt)
Performer: Andr茅 Previn. Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Performer: Heinrich Schiff.- Beethoven: Archduke Trio: Previn, Mullova, Schiff.
- Philips.
- 1.
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Cecilia McDowall
Winter Music (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Quintette Aquilon.- Saisons.
- Klarthe.
- 8.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Symphony in G major, Wq.173
Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No 6 in A minor
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda. -
Joseph Haydn
Parthia in B flat major for wind ensemble
Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.- TELDEC.
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Ole Bull
Herd Girl's Sunday
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.- Warner.
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Knut Nystedt
Immortal Bach
Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.- Nystedt & Bach: Meins Lebens Licht.
- BIS.
- 17.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
How fair this spot arr Rot
Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Music Arranger: Michael Rot. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Eivind Aaland.- Storyteller: Tine Thing Helseth.
- EMI.
- 1.
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Henry Purcell
Here the deities approve (Ode for St Cecilia's Day Z.339)
Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar. -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
6 Morceaux Op.19 (no.5, Capriccioso)
Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.- Hyperion.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Flute Concerto in D major, K 314 (1st mvt)
Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Marie鈥怭ierre Langlamet. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- Mozart Flute Concertos Concerto For Flute And Harp.
- EMI Classics.
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Max Richter
Mercy
Performer: Hilary Hahn. Performer: Cory Smythe.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Jean Sibelius
Symphony No 1 in E minor
Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.- Decca.
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Amy Beach
Bal masque
Performer: Kirsten Johnson.- Amy Beach: Piano Music Volume 1.
- Guild.
- 12.
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Franz Schubert
Trinklied im Mai, D 427
Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Conductor: Erwin Ortner.- Schubert - The Complete Secular Choral Works.
- TELDEC.
- 1.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Adagio in G minor, BWV 968 arr Busoni
Performer: Nikolai Demidenko.- J.S.Bach: Piano Transcriptions, Vol. 02 - Ferruccio Busoni: Demidenko.
- Hyperion.
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Alexander von Zemlinsky
String Quartet no.1 in A major Op.4 (4th mvt)
Ensemble: Escher String Quartet.- Zemlinsky: String Quartets 2.
- Naxos.
- 4.
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Thomas Tallis
Salvator mundi
Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: James O鈥橠onnell.- HYPERION.
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Leos Jan谩膷ek
Sinfonietta (5th mvt)
Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.- Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra/ Janacek: Sinfonietta: Chicago SO/Ozawa.
- EMI.
- 10.
Broadcast
- Wed 6 May 2020 09:00大象传媒 Radio 3