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Ian Skelly with Schubert's Rosamunde and Essential Rhapsodies

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 bring you five musical rhapsodies

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • John Adams

    Short Ride in a Fast Machine

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Edo de Waart.
    • John Adams: The Chairman Dances/Two Fanfares/Other works: San Francisco Symphony.
    • Elektra.
    • 4.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio and Rondo in C minor, K 617

    Performer: John Steele Ritter. Performer: Jean鈥怭ierre Rampal. Performer: Pierre Pierlot. Performer: Bruno Pasquier. Performer: Roland Pidoux.
    • Sony.
  • Claude Debussy

    Ondine (Pr茅ludes, Book 2)

    Performer: Ilia Kim.
    • Debussy: Piano Works.
    • DYNAMIC.
    • 8.
  • Giuseppe Torelli

    Sinfonia in C Major G.33 For 4 Trumpets, Strings and Continuo

    Performer: Adrian Chandler. Ensemble: La Serenissima.
    • Avie : AV2371.
    • Avie.
    • 21-23.
  • Franz Schubert

    Entr'acte in B flat major (Rosamunde)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

    Overture on Three Russian Themes

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.
    • Hyperion.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Auch mit gedampften (Cantata no.36, BWV.36)

    Singer: Joanne Lunn. Performer: Maya Homburger. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SOLI DEO GLORIA.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Piano Quartet in D major, Op. 23: III. Finale

    Performer: Miguel da Silva. Ensemble: Busch Trio.
    • ALPHA.
  • Ina Boyle

    Symphony no.1 "Glencree" (On Lacken Hill)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • Boyle: Overture etc..
    • Dutton Epoch.
    • 05.
  • Maurice Ravel

    La parade

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Nocturne (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

    Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs鈥惷塴ys茅es. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream: Herreweghe.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 6.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    Dance of Nymphs and Reapers (Suite from The Tempest)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Manuel de Falla

    El Sombrero de tres picos - suite no. 2

    Orchestra: Orchestre national d'脦le-de-France. Conductor: Enrique Mazzola.
    • Manuel de Falla.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 19-21.
  • John Paul Jones

    Al son de los arroyuelos (Amores pasados)

    Singer: John Paul Jones. Performer: Anna Maria Friman. Performer: Ariel Abramovich. Performer: Jacob Heringman.
    • John Potter - Amores Pasados.
    • ECM.
    • 1.
  • Franz Liszt

    Hungarian Rhapsody no.2 in C sharp minor, S.244

    Music Arranger: Karl M眉ller-Berghaus. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.
    • Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.
  • Gabriela Montero

    Improvisation on Vivaldi鈥檚 Winter

    Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • EMI.
    • 10.
  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    Kikimora, Op 63

    Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Phillips.
  • Jacques Ibert

    Introduction (Divertissement for orchestra)

    Conductor: Jean Martinon. Orchestra: Paris Conservatoire Orchestra.
    • Ibert: Divertissement / Bizet: Jeux D'Enfants - Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, M.
    • Decca.
  • Chevalier J.J.O. de Meude-Monpas

    Violin Concerto no.4 in D major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Rachel Barton Pine. Orchestra: Encore Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Hege.
    • CEDILLE RECORDS.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Dixit Dominus (Vespro della Beata Vergine)

    Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • C. Monteverdi : Vespro della Beata Vergine - 1610: Christina Pluhar/L'Arpeggiata.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 2.
  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    A canoa virou (Cirandas)

    Performer: Cristina Ortiz.
    • Villa-Lobos: Piano music: Cristina Ortiz.
    • Decca.
    • 19.
  • Gustav Holst

    Suite in E flat major for military band, Op 28 No 1

    Orchestra: Dallas Winds. Conductor: Howard Dunn.
    • Holst: Hammersmith and Suites: Dallas Wind Symphony.
    • Reference Recordings.
    • 1.

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  • Thu 16 Jul 2020 09:00

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