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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.

3 hours

Music Played

  • 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.
  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Quartet in E flat, Op.47 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alexander Melnikov. Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Ben Parry

    O nata lux

    Conductor: Rupert Gough. Choir: Royal Holloway University Choir.
    • The Hours: Choral Music by Ben Parry.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 12.
  • 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.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Intermezzo in A flat major

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Kaleidoscope: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Cecilia McDowall

    Winter Music (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Quintette Aquilon.
    • Saisons.
    • Klarthe.
    • 8.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in G major, Wq.173

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • 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.
  • Ole Bull

    Herd Girl's Sunday

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • Warner.
  • Knut Nystedt

    Immortal Bach

    Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.
    • Nystedt & Bach: Meins Lebens Licht.
    • BIS.
    • 17.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Max Richter

    Mercy

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Performer: Cory Smythe.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 1 in E minor

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Decca.
  • Amy Beach

    Bal masque

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Amy Beach: Piano Music Volume 1.
    • Guild.
    • 12.
  • Franz Schubert

    Trinklied im Mai, D 427

    Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Conductor: Erwin Ortner.
    • Schubert - The Complete Secular Choral Works.
    • TELDEC.
    • 1.
  • 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.
    • 2.
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    String Quartet no.1 in A major Op.4 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Escher String Quartet.
    • Zemlinsky: String Quartets 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Salvator mundi

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: James O鈥橠onnell.
    • HYPERION.
  • 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.

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  • Wed 6 May 2020 09:00

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