Ian Skelly with Dvo艡谩k's Silent Woods and essential bird music
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.
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Claude Debussy
Tarantelle styrienne [Danse]
Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Conductor: Thomas Zehetmair.- Debussy; Ravel.
- Naive.
- 14.
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Fran莽ois Couperin
Pieces de clavecin - ordre no. 8; Passacaille
Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Daniel Fran莽ois Esprit Auber
Violin Concerto in D Major, S.165:III - 3rd movt: Presto
Performer: Mark茅ta 膶epick谩. Orchestra: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice. Conductor: Dario Salvi.- Auber: Overtures, Vol. 2.
- Naxos.
- 4.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Dreams, Op 6
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.- ONYX.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Silent Woods, Op 68 No 5
Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Anna Polonsky.- Alisa Weilerstein Dvorak.
- DECCA.
- 8.
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George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso in A minor, Op 6 No 4
Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Andrew Manze.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Arianna Savall
Ave Maris Stella
Singer: Arianna Savall. Singer: Petter Udland Johansen. Ensemble: Hirundo Maris.- The Wind Rose.
- Carpe Diem.
- 10.
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Modest Mussorgsky
The Old Castle (Pictures from an Exhibition)
Performer: Steven Osborne.- Hyperion.
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Zolt谩n Kod谩ly
Hary Janos - suite (Song)
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.- Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite - Dances of Galanta...: BFO, Fischer.
- Philips.
- 11.
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Elena Kats鈥怌hernin
Re-invention No.1 [After J S Bach Invention no.8]
Performer: Genevieve Lacey. Ensemble: Flinders Quartet.- Reinventions.
- ABC Classics.
- 1.
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Leos Jan谩膷ek
On an overgrown path (The little owl has not flown away)
Performer: Thomas Ad猫s.- Signum.
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Richard Wagner
Forest Murmurs (Siegfried)
Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Erich Leinsdorf.- Sheffield Lab.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Valse Boh猫mienne; Valse Rustique (4 Characteristic Waltzes, Op.22)
Orchestra: RT脡 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Leaper.- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Orchestral Works.
- NAXOS.
- 6-7.
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Franz Schubert
Klavierst眉ck No 1 in E flat minor, D 946
Performer: Mihaela Ursuleasa.- Berlin Classics.
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Sonata representativa (Cucu)
Performer: Andrew Manze. Performer: Nigel North. Performer: John Toll.- Biber: Violin Sonatas: Romanesca.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 11.
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Frederick Delius
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.- Sony.
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Edward Elgar
Harmony No.4 'The Farmyard'
Ensemble: Athena Ensemble.- CHANDOS.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony no.63 in C major 'La Roxolane' (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.- Haydn 2032 Volume 8: La Roxolana.
- Alpha.
- 4.
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Morten Lauridsen
O Magnum Mysterium
Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.- Song of the Nativity.
- CORO.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Tango (The Bolt)
Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Shostakovich: Cheryomushki; The Bolt; etc.
- Decca.
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Gabriel Faur茅
Morceau de lecture
Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Florent Boffard.- Faure: Violin sonatas: Isabelle Faust/Florent Boffard.
- Harmonia Mundi.
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Franz Liszt
Orpheus - symphonic poem S.98
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- PHILIPS.
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