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Ian Skelly with Reich's Nagoya Marimbas and Essential Rondos

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

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

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we suggest five pieces in rondo form.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Cos矛 fan tutte (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Mozart: Overtures: Staatskapelle Dresden/Davis.
    • RCA.
    • 7.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Vedr貌 con mio diletto (Giustino, RV.717)

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Ensemble: Ensemble Matheus. Conductor: Jean鈥怌hristophe Spinosi.
    • Vivaldi: Heroes.
    • ERATO.
    • 2.
  • Charlie Chaplin

    City Memories (Chaplin medley)

    Composer: Jos茅 Padilla S谩nchez. Composer: L茅o Daniderff. Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Performer: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Nikoloz Rachveli.
    • DG.
  • C茅cile Chaminade

    Scherzo for piano, Op.35 no.1

    Performer: Peter Jacobs.
    • Chaminade: Piano Music - 1, Peter Jacobs.
    • Helios.
    • 7.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Serenata in vano

    Ensemble: Athena Ensemble.
    • Nielsen: Wind Music.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 4.
  • Steve Reich

    Nagoya Marimbas

    Performer: Colin Currie. Performer: Sam Walton.
    • Classical Chillout.
    • EMI CLASSSICS.
    • 12.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Sinfonietta, 3rd movement; Moderato

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen (Cantata No 66)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Kevin Puts

    Flute Concerto - 1st mvt

    Orchestra: Peabody Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Kevin Puts: Symphony No. 2, Flute Concerto & River's Rush.
    • Naxos.
    • 301.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Trio no.1 in D minor Op.49 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Itzhak Perlman.
    • Mendelssohn: Piano Trios, Opp. 49 & 66: Perlman : Ma : Ax.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.
  • Justinian Tamusuza

    On the way of the cross (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.
    • Pieces of Africa.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 4.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Long Day Closes

    Ensemble: The King鈥檚 Singers.
    • Romance Du Soir.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 19.
  • Tarquinio Merula

    Ciaccona

    Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Via Crucis; L'Arpeggiata; Christina Pluhar.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 14.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Wasps (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Claude Debussy

    Pagodes (Estampes)

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • Debussy, Preludes etc.: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 13.
  • Philip Glass

    Aguas da Amazonia (Xingu River)

    Ensemble: Third Coast Percussion.
    • Paddle to the Sea.
    • Cedille.
    • 501.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    To the Blackbird (26 Welsh Songs, WoO.155)

    Singer: Christopher Maltman. Performer: Marieke Blankenstun. Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Performer: Ursula Smith.
    • Beethoven: Folksong Settings.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 13.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Violin Concerto in D major Op.35 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Decca.
  • William Byrd

    O lux, beata Trinitas

    Choir: Alamire. Director: David Skinner.
    • Tallis & Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae 1575: Alamire, David Skinner.
    • Obsidian.
    • 12.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Quartet no. 1 in G minor Op.25 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Skride Piano Quartet.
    • Mozart, Brahms & Mahler: Piano Quartets.
    • Orfeo.
    • 8.
  • Fats Waller

    Alligator Crawl

    Performer: Fats Waller.
    • JSP Records.
  • Marianna Martines

    Overture [Symphony] in C major (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: La Floridiana. Director: Nicoleta Paraschivescu.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • William Grant Still

    Ennanga - ii

    Ensemble: Videmus.
    • New World.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs)

    Ensemble: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • France-Espagne.
    • Musicales Actes Sud.
    • 9.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Prelude in B flat major, Op 28 No 21

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 21.
  • Richard Strauss

    Aus Italien, Op 16 (4th mvt, Scenes from Neapolitan Life)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.

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  • Thu 11 Jun 2020 09:00

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