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Ian Skelly with Essential Rondos and Alberga's Snow White

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

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg concerto no.1 in F major BWV.1046 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos: Concerto Italiano.
    • Naive.
    • 1.
  • Emilie Mayer

    Piano Sonata in D minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Yang Tai.
    • CAPRICCIO.
  • John Adams

    On the Dominant Divide (Grand Pianola Music)

    Performer: Alan Feinberg. Performer: Ursula Oppens. Performer: Solisti New York. Performer: Ransom Wilson.
    • EMI.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata No. 5 in F, Op. 24: Spring - Rondo Allegro Ma Non Troppo

    Performer: Tamsin Waley-Cohen. Performer: Huw Watkins.
    • Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1, 5 & 8.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 7.
  • Eleanor Alberga

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Celebration Dance)

    Orchestra: The Taliesin Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Ash.
    • ORCHID CLASSICS.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Quintet in B flat major Op.34 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in Major, K. 581 - Weber: Clarinet Quintet in B-Flat Ma.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 4.
  • Jean Sibelius

    The Swan of Tuonela (Lemminkainen Suite)

    Conductor: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hannu Lintu.
    • Winter with Sibelius.
    • ONDINE.
    • 2.
  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Canto del gitano

    Performer: Philip Martin.
    • Gottschalk Piano Music - Philip Martin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in F major for oboe and violin, RV 543

    Performer: Gail Hennessy. Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • Vivaldi: The French Connection 2.
    • Avie.
    • 4.
  • Richard Wagner

    Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey (G枚tterd盲mmerung)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.
  • Jennifer Higdon

    Quiet Art (Impressions)

    Ensemble: Cypress String Quartet.
    • Naxos.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Le jardin f茅erique (Ma m猫re l'oye)

    Performer: Katia Lab猫que. Performer: Marielle Lab猫que.
    • Bizet, Ravel, Faure: Katia & Marielle Labeque.
    • Philips.
    • 23.
  • Frank Churchill

    Someday my prince will come

    Performer: Miles Davis. Librettist: Larry Morey.
    • Sony.
  • Arturo M谩rquez

    Conga del fuego nuevo

    Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Gustavo Dudamel: Discoveries.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 12.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wind Quintet in E flat major, K.452 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Ensemble: Philharmonisches Bl盲serquintett Berlin.
    • Mozart - Music for Piano and Wind Quintet.
    • Bis.
    • 002.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ert枚t uns durch dein G眉te (Cantata, BWV.22)

    Music Arranger: Harriet Cohen. Performer: Hubert Harry.
    • ROYSS MUSIC.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso Op.28

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Nicola Benedetti: Fantasie.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 3.
  • Roderick Williams

    3 Songs from Ethiopia Boy

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Ensemble: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Eduardo Portal.
    • 3 Songs from Ethiopia Boy (Live).
    • NMC Recordings.
    • 101.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Quintet in A major 'Trout' (5th mvt)

    Performer: Alfred Brendel. Performer: Thomas Zehetmair. Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Performer: Richard Duven. Performer: Peter Riegelbauer.
    • Schubert: Trout Quintet: Alfred Brendel.
    • Philips.
    • 5.
  • Thomas Tallis

    If ye love me

    Ensemble: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • GIMELL.
  • Aaron Copland

    Midsummer Nocturne

    Performer: Raymond Clarke.
    • Clarke, Raymond: Piano Music for Children by Shostakovich, Khachaturian, Stravin.
    • Divine Art.
    • 1001.
  • Duke Ellington

    Sunset and the Mocking Bird (The Queen's Suite)

    Ensemble: Duke Ellington Orchestra.
    • Duke Ellington: The Ellington Suites.
    • PABLO.
    • 001.
  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Monsieur Lully's ascent to Mount Parnassus (Concert en forme d'apoth茅ose)

    Performer: Amandine Beyer. Ensemble: Gli Incogniti.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Romeo and Juliet - Fantasy Overture

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Orfeo.

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