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Ian Skelly with essential viola music and Playford's Kettledrum

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 written for the viola.

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

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Mon 29 Jun 2020 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.35 in B flat major (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Impromptu No.3 in A flat, Op.34

    Performer: Jean鈥怭hilippe Collard.
    • BRILLIANT.

  • Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek

    String Quartet in B-Flat Major: IV. Andante con variazioni

    Ensemble: Minguet Quartett.
    • Reznicek: String Quartets.
    • CPO.
    • 304.

  • Jocelyn Pook

    DESH (Hallelujah)

    Singer: Jeremy Schonfield. Singer: Melanie Pappenheim. Performer: Tanja Tzarovska. Performer: Jocelyn Pook. Performer: Sophie Harris. Orchestra: Bulgarian Orchestra.
    • Pook Music.

  • George Butterworth

    English Idyll no.1

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle: English Rhapsody.
    • Halle.
    • 2.

  • John Playford

    Kettle Drum (The Dancing Master)

    Performer: Mark Emerson. Performer: Tim Harries. Performer: Andy Cutting.
    • Cast a Bell: 1651.
    • Beautiful Jo Records.
    • 1.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Capriccio italien Op.45

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Classic FM.

  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Ciacona in C minor BuxWV.159

    Performer: Ton Koopman.
    • Buxtehude: Organ Works Vol. 3.
    • CHALLENGE CLASSICS.
    • 6.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Menuet antique

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music: Steven Osborne, Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.

  • John Playford

    Kettle Drum (The Dancing Master)

    Performer: Mark Emerson. Performer: Tim Harries. Performer: Andy Cutting.
    • Cast a Bell: 1651.
    • Beautiful Jo Records.
    • 1.

  • William Walton

    Overture 'The Globe Playhouse' (Henry V)

    Choir: Choristers of Westminster Cathedral. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Chandos.

  • Nitin Sawhney

    River Pulse

    Performer: Anoushka Shankar. Performer: Nitin Sawhney. Performer: Ian Burdge. Performer: Pirashanna Thevarajah.
    • Traces of you.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in D minor,Op.3`5

    Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Handel: Concerti Grossi Op.3: English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner.
    • Apex.
    • 5.

  • Aaron Copland

    Fanfare for the Common Man

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • Aaron Copland: The World of Aaron Copland.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully

    Marche pour la c茅r茅monie des Turcs

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Lully: L'Orchestra du Roi Soleil/Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 4.

  • Trad

    Dick's Maggot (English folk dances - suite no.1)

    Music Arranger: Ernest Tomlinson. Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ernest Tomlinson.
    • Marco Polo.

  • John Playford

    The Virgin Queen Set (The English Dancing Master)

    Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Music Arranger: Barokksolistene. Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Director: Bjarte Eike.
    • The Alehouse Sessions.
    • RUBICON.
    • 107.

  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Butterflying

    Performer: Nicola Sweeney. Performer: Sarah Nicolls.
    • Kats-Chernin: Ragtime and Blue.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 13.

  • Thomas Canning

    Fantasy on a hymn tune by Justin Morgan

    Orchestra: Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Raymond Leppard.
    • American Dreams.
    • Decca.
    • 5.

  • Juan Crisostomo Arriaga

    String Quartet no.3 in E flat major (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Voces String Quartet.
    • MDG.

  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    Humoreske

    Performer: Aulos Wind Quintet.
    • Koch Schwann.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op. 120 No. 2: I. Allegro amabile

    Performer: Andreas Willwohl. Performer: Daniel Heide.
    • Brahms: Viola Sonatas, Op. 120 & Trio, Op. 114.
    • CAvi-music.
    • 105.

  • Mel Bonis

    Suite en forme de valses

    Orchestra: Bucharest Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Beno卯t Fromanger.
    • Chant de Linos.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Filiae maestae Jerusalem, RV 638: II. Sileant Zephyri

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Ensemble: Ensemble Artaserse.
    • Piet脿 - Sacred works.
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 115.

  • Philip Glass

    Echorus

    Performer: Jennifer Koh. Performer: Jaime Laredo. Ensemble: Curtis 20/21 Ensemble. Conductor: Vinay Parameswaran.
    • Cedille.

  • Anonymous

    Mr Beveridge's Maggot

    Music Arranger: John Playford. Ensemble: Broadside Band.
    • English Country Dances - The Broadside Band.
    • Saydisc.
    • 16.

  • Franz Berwald

    Symphonic Poem 'Wettlauf'

    Orchestra: G盲vle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Petri Sakari.
    • Berwald: Tone Poems: Gavle Symphony Orchestra/Sakari.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Mon 29 Jun 2020 09:00
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