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Ian Skelly with essential bird music and Kabalevsky's Spring

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 inspired by birds.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 19 in E flat major, K 132 (4th mvt)

    Conductor: 脕d谩m Fischer. Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra.
    • Dacapo.
  • Suor Leonora d'Este

    Haec dies quam fecit Dominus

    Choir: Musica Secreta. Choir: Celestial Sirens. Director: Laurie Stras. Director: Deborah Roberts.
    • Lucrezia Borgia's Daughter.
    • OBSIDIAN.
    • 3.
  • Philip Glass

    Etude no.14

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • Deustche Grammophon.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Blumine (Symphony No.1 in D major - original version)

    Orchestra: Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • RCA.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ich habe genug, BWV 82 (1747 Version): No. 1, Ich habe genug

    Performer: Christoph Hartmann. Singer: Benjamin Appl. Orchestra: Berliner Barock Solisten. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Cantatas of the Bach Family.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.
    • 601.
  • Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Symphonic Poem, Op. 65: Vesna (Spring), Op. 65

    Conductor: Anatoly Lapunov. Orchestra: Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Kabalevsky.
    • Delos.
    • 22.
  • Trad.

    Greensleeves

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg. Performer: Paul O鈥橠ette.
    • BIS.
  • Franz Schubert

    Quintet in C major D.956 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Borodin Quartet. Performer: Misha Milman.
    • Schubert: String Quintet: Borodin Quartet/Milman.
    • Teldec.
    • 3.
  • Edward Elgar

    Bavarian Dance no.3

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • NAXOS.
  • 脡douard Lalo

    Symphonie espagnole Op.21 (5th mvt)

    Performer: Augustin Hadelich. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Omer Meir Wellber.
    • Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto - Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 8.
  • Kate Rusby

    Underneath the Stars

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Decca.
  • Muzio Clementi

    Sonata in A major, Op.50 No.1: 3rd movement, Allegro vivace

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in F major, RV 572, 'Il Protea 貌 sia il modo al rovescio'

    Performer: Lisa Beznosiuk. Performer: Neil McLaren. Performer: Anthony Robson. Performer: James Eastaway. Performer: Margaret Faultless. Performer: David Watkin. Performer: Paul Nicholson.
    • LINN.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphonic Dances, Op.45 (no.2)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, The Isle of the Dead, The Rock.
    • Avie.
    • 2.
  • Jorge Cardoso

    Milonga

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰.
    • Milo拧 Karadagli膰 - Latino Gold.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.
  • Carl Fr眉hling

    Trio in A minor, Op.40 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Brahms, Fruhling: Clarinet Trios; Schumann: Marchenerzahlungen.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 10.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Fuga y Misterio

    Performer: Richard Stoltzman. Performer: H茅ctor Del Curto. Performer: Pedro Giraudo. Performer: Mika Stoltzman.
    • Palimpsest.
    • AVIE.
    • 7.
  • Florence Price

    Elfentanz

    Performer: Dawn Wohn. Performer: Esther Jung-A Park.
    • Perspectives.
    • Delos.
    • 7.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Birds

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1-5.
  • Tobias Hume

    A Pavan

    Performer: Paolo Pandolfo.
    • GLOSSA.
  • Andrea Morricone

    Love Theme from Cinema Paradiso

    Composer: Ennio Morricone. Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Bateman.
    • 100 Best Film Classics.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 131.
  • Ennio Morricone

    The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Main Title/Ecstasy of Gold

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Music From The Films Of Clint Eastwood.
    • EMI.
    • 6.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia Suite (Alla marcia)

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka鈥怭ekka Saraste.
    • Sibelius: Symphony No.1, Karelia etc: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Saraste.
    • RCA.
    • 8.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    32 Variations for piano in C minor, WoO.80

    Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.
    • Beethoven: Variations: Cedric Tiberghien.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 2.

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