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Ian Skelly with Essential Piano Duets and John Foulds's Keltic Overture

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

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

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 for piano duet.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Rued Langgaard

    Rose Garden Play: ii Mozart

    Ensemble: Nightingale String Quartet.
    • Rued Langgaard: String Quartets Vol.2.
    • Da Capo.
    • 2.
  • Otto Nicolai

    The Merry Wives of Windsor (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Lance Friedel.
    • Naxos.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Rondo in G minor Op.94

    Performer: Mischa Maisky. Performer: Pavel Gililov.
    • Strauss/Dvorak: Morgen: Mischa Maisky/Pavel Gililov.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.
  • John Foulds

    Keltic Overture Op.28

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • J Foulds, Keltic Suite: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra/Corp.
    • Epoch.
    • 1.
  • Ludwig August Lebrun

    Oboe Concerto no.2 in G minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Ensemble: Potsdam Chamber Academy.
    • Lost and Found.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Streams of pleasure (Theodora)

    Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Singer: Rosemary Joshua. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Harry Bicket.
    • Handel Duets: The English Concert.
    • Chaconne.
    • 4.
  • Alfred Gr眉nfeld

    Soir茅es de Vienne Op.56

    Performer: Rudolf Buchbinder.
    • Strauss, Johann ii : Waltz Transcriptions For Piano: Rudolf Buchbinder.
    • Elatus.
    • 1.
  • John Foulds

    Keltic Overture, Op 28

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • J Foulds, Keltic Suite: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra/Corp.
    • Epoch.
    • 1.
  • Gustav Holst

    Suite in F major for military band, Op 28 No 2

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Georges Bizet

    Symphony in C

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in B flat major, RV 383a

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Orchestra: Arte dei Suonatori.
    • Rachel: The Music I Love.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 1.
  • Francesco Barsanti

    The birks of Invermay

    Ensemble: Ensemble Marsyas. Conductor: Peter Whelan.
    • LINN.
  • Granville Bantock

    Celtic Symphony (4th and 5th mvts)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Bantock: Celtic & Hebridean Symphonies, The Witch of Atlas: RPO/Handley.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4-5.
  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness (The Yellow Cake Revue)

    Performer: Peter Maxwell Davies.
    • Peter Maxwell Davies: A Celebration of Scotland: Scottish Chamber Orch & Choir.
    • Unicorn-Kanchana.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Four Cornish Dances for orchestra, Op 91 (No 4)

    Performer: Hugh Bean. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • Malcolm Arnold: Dances: Philharmonia, Thomson.
    • Chandos.
    • 16.
  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Intermezzo

    Ensemble: Dante Quartet.
    • HYPERION.
  • Richard Wagner

    Rienzi (Overture)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • Lorin Maazel Conducts Wagner: Vol.2.
    • RCA.
  • Franz Schubert

    Credo - Et Incarnatus Est (Mass no. 6 in E flat major D.950)

    Singer: Susan Gritton. Singer: Mark Padmore. Singer: James Gilchrist. Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Within a Dream. A Celebration of the Artistry of Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Berceuse (Dolly Suite, Op.56)

    Performer: Katia Lab猫que. Performer: Marielle Lab猫que.
    • Bizet, Ravel, Faure: Katia & Marielle Labeque.
    • Philips.
    • 13.
  • Weronika Ratusi艅ska

    Sinfonietta for String Orchestra (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Miros艂aw Jacek B艂aszczyk.
    • Weronika Ratusinska: Works for Orchestra.
    • DUX.
    • 5.
  • Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

    Symphony no.1 in B minor Op.12 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Russian Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Dmitry Yablonsky.
    • Lyapunov: Violin Concerto: Symphony No.1.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Scott Joplin

    Bethena (A Concert Waltz)

    Music Arranger: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Andr茅 Previn.
    • The Easy Winners & Other Rag-Time Music of Scott Joplin.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Va, pensiero (Nabucco)

    Choir: Chorus of Opera North. Orchestra: Opera North Orchestra. Conductor: David Parry.
    • Verdi: Nabucco: David Parry.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major Op.20`4 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Dudok Quartet Amsterdam.
    • Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 20, Volume 2, Nos. 1, 4 & 6.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 8.
  • William Grant Still

    Symphony no.2 'Song of a new race' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • CHANDOS.

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  • Wed 13 May 2020 09:00

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