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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Essential Tone Poems, Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Waltz from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly.

Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Ian Skelly

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Well known musicians reveal their personal favourite performers.

1100 Essential Five 鈥� this week we bring you five great symphonic tone poems.

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

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Mon 3 Aug 2020 09:00
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Music Played

  • Georges Bizet

    L'Arl茅sienne Suite no.2 (Farandole)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suites no. 1 & 2, Carmen Suite no. 1: LSO, Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Cello Sonata no.1 in E Minor, Op.38 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Daniel M眉ller鈥怱chott. Performer: Francesco Piemontesi.
    • Brahms: Sonatas Opp. 38, 78 & 99.
    • ORFEO.
    • 3.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in F major RV.569

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Director: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • Vivaldi: Dresden Concertos.
    • OPUS.
    • 4-6.

  • Ernest John Moeran

    Bank Holiday

    Performer: Paul Guinery.
    • STONE RECORDS.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Eugene Onegin (Act 2: Waltz)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Kurt Masur.
    • Tchaikovsky: Famous Waltzes: New York Philharmonic: Masur.
    • Teldec.
    • 3.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Wind Quintet, Op 43 (1st mvt)

    Performer: James Galway. Performer: Bj酶rn Carl Nielsen. Performer: Niels Thomsen. Performer: Jens Tofte-Hansen. Performer: Bj枚rn Fosdal.
    • James Galway plays Nielsen.
    • RCA.
    • 3.

  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Dream Coloured Mobile II, Op.58a

    Performer: Joe Houghton. Performer: Kate Wilson. Ensemble: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Sachio Fujioka.
    • Chandos.

  • Robert Schumann

    6 Studies in Canon Form, Op.56 (no.2)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • DG.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Italian Girl in Algiers (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Rossini: Overtures: London Symphony Orchestra/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Edward Elgar

    Softly And Gently (The Dream Of Gerontius, Op.38)

    Singer: Felicity Palmer. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio in E flat major, Op.1`1 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: The Florestan Trio.
    • Beethoven: The Complete Music for Piano Trio, Vol. 3: Florestan Trio.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Pushkin waltz no.1 in F major Op.120`1

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Prokofiev: Watz Suite etc: RSNO/Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.

  • L茅o Delibes

    Copp茅lia (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.
    • Delibes: Sylvia & Coppelia: LSO/Fistoulari/Minneapolis SO/Dorati.
    • Mercury.
    • 11.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Masquerade Suite (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: Robert Irving.
    • Vocalion.

  • Marc鈥怉ntoine Charpentier

    Concert pour quatre parties de violes, H.545

    Orchestra: London Baroque. Director: Charles Medlam.
    • Charpentier/Musique De Theatre/London Baroque.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 3.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Photography (Vivace)

    Orchestra: Orchestra X. Conductor: Nicholas Kok.
    • NMC.

  • Richard Strauss

    Don Juan Op.20

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Strauss: Zarathustra; Don Juan; Till Eulenspiegel.
    • Orfeo.
    • 10.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Madamina, il catalogo 猫 questo (Don Giovanni)

    Singer: Ildebrando d鈥橝rcangelo. Orchestra: Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Mozart: Arias: Ildebrando D'Arcangelo.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque)

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Khatia Buniatishvili - Motherland.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
    • 4.

  • Alice Mary Smith

    Symphony in A minor (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon duodecimi toni 脿 10, C.179

    Ensemble: Empire Brass Quintet and friends. Conductor: Rolf Smedvig.
    • Gabrieli: Empire brass quintet/Smedvig.
    • TELARC.
    • 001.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Sinfonietta (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Korngold: Sinfonietta: Andrew Litton.
    • Dorian.
    • 2.

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