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Ian Skelly with 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

  • William Byrd

    Laudibus in sanctis

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in G major, Op 31 No 1 (3rd mvmt, Rondo)

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • Sony Classical.
  • William Grant Still

    Symphony no.5 'Western Hemisphere' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • Still: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5.
    • NAXOS.
    • 4.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet in D Minor D. 810 'Death and the Maiden' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Navarra String Quartet.
    • Love and Death.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 12.
  • Anton Webern

    Im Sommerwind

    Orchestra: Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • H盲nssler Classic.
  • William Lawes

    Consort Sett a 6 in F major "Sunrise" (Fantazy)

    Ensemble: Fretwork. Performer: Paul Nicholson.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Zigeunerweisen

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥 Philharmonie. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • Erato.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Sarabande et rigaudon, Op.93 (Rigaudon)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • SAINT-SAENS: Volume 1.
    • CALA.
    • 6.
  • J贸runn Vi冒ar

    Slatta - Piano Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Steinunn Birna Ragnarsd贸ttir. Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Petter Sundkvist.
    • Smekkleysa.
  • Gregorio Allegri

    Miserere mei Deus

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Nikolai Sokoloff

    Polka (Les Vendredis)

    Ensemble: Vertavo Quartet.
    • Les Vendredis.
    • Simax.
    • 2.
  • Claude Debussy

    Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Josef Suk

    Evening Mood (Summer Moods, Op 22b)

    Performer: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Suk: Piano Works: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Chandos.
    • 12.
  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    Aria (Bachiana brasileira No 5)

    Singer: Juliane Banse. Ensemble: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • South American Getaway: 12 Cellists of the Berliner Philharmoniker/Banse.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.
  • Hannah Peel

    Sunrise through the Dusty Nebula

    Ensemble: Tubular Brass. Conductor: Sandy Smith.
    • My Own Pleasure.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in G major, RV443

    Performer: Lucie Horsch. Ensemble: Amsterdam Vivaldi Players.
    • Decca.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Rhapsodie Espagnole

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • ERATO.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Les roses d'Ispahan (4 Songs Op.39)

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Performer: Joseph Middleton.
    • BIS.
  • Johann Baptist Vanhal

    Symphony in G minor, Bryan g1: II. Andante cantabile

    Orchestra: Munich Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Helmrath.
    • B枚hmische Klassik.
    • Orfeo.
    • 102.
  • Trad.

    Waltz after Lasse in Lyby

    Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Wood Works.
    • Dacapo.
    • 004.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude & Fugue in A major, BWV864 (Well-tempered Clavier, Book 1)

    Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
    • ECM.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    The Ballad of Blanik

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.

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