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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Wayne Marshall, Faur茅 and Messager's Fisherman's Mass, Essential Tone Poems

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.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Flight of the Bumblebee (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Donald Hunsberger.
    • SONY.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Quintet in A major, D.667 'Trout' (4th mvt)

    Performer: Andreas Haefliger. Performer: Joseph Carver. Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • Decca.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Overture in E minor, Op.23

    Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Johannes Goritzki.
    • Louise Farrenc: Symphony no.2, Overtures.
    • CPO.
    • 5.
  • Robert Johnson

    Almayne II

    Performer: Matthew Wadsworth.
    • Avie.
  • Edward Elgar

    Violin Sonata in E minor, Op.82 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jennifer Pike. Performer: Martin Roscoe.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Andr茅 Messager

    Messe des p锚cheurs de Villerville (O Salutaris and Agnus Dei)

    Composer: Gabriel Faur茅. Choir: Balthasar鈥怤eumann鈥怌hor. Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra Basel. Conductor: Ivor Bolton.
    • Sony.
  • Georges Auric

    Sonatine

    Performer: Biliana Tzinlikova.
    • Paladino Music.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto per la Solennit脿 di S. Lorenzo RV.286

    Performer: Adrian Chandler. Ensemble: La Serenissima.
    • Signum Classics.
  • George Gershwin

    Strike Up the Band (Overture)

    Orchestra: WDR Funkhausorchester. Conductor: Wayne Marshall.
    • Born to Play, Wayne Marshall, Gershwin.
    • CAvi-music.
    • 6.
  • Joseph Jongen

    Symphonie Concertante Op.81 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Virgil Fox. Orchestra: National Theater Opera Orchestra of Paris. Conductor: Georges Pr锚tre.
    • Warner Classics.
  • William Grant Still

    7 Traceries (Cloud Cradles)

    Performer: Monica Gaylord.
    • Black Piano, A Treasury of Works for Solo Piano by Black Composers.
    • MUSIC & ARTS.
    • 14.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op.64`5 'The Lark' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • AVI MUSIC.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Petite Messe Solennelle (Kyrie)

    Choir: Nederlands Kamerkoor. Performer: Leo van Doeselaar. Performer: Wyneke Jordans. Director: Jos van Immerseel.
    • Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle.
    • ACCENT.
    • 1-3.
  • Gabriel Dupont

    La Maison dans les Dunes (Dans les dunes, par un clair matin)

    Performer: Marie-Catherine Girod.
    • Gabriel Dupont: La Maison dans les dunes - Gustave Samazeuilh: Le Chant de la me.
    • Mirare.
    • 1.
  • Alain Romans

    Quel temps fait-il 脿 Paris

    Performer: No performers credited.
    • NAIVE.
    • 38.
  • Bryce Dessner

    Ornament & Crime (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Bryce Dessner. Performer: Tim Fain.
    • SELF RELEASED.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    L'Innocence (Bagatelles and impromptus B.40)

    Performer: Miroslav Sekera.
    • Supraphon.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Le Conte (Bagatelles and impromptus B.40)

    Performer: Miroslav Sekera.
    • Supraphon.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    La Discorde (Bagatelles and impromptus B.40)

    Performer: Miroslav Sekera.
    • Supraphon.
  • Franz Liszt

    Mazeppa - symphonic poem after Hugo S.100

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Kurt Masur.
    • Liszt: Orchesterwerke & Werke f眉r Klavier und Orchester.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Rigaudon (Holberg Suite, Op.40)

    Music Arranger: Jon Faukstad. Performer: Ksenija Sidorova.
    • Fairy Tales: Ksenija Sidorova.
    • Champs Hill.
    • 14.
  • Ant贸nio Teixeira

    Sanctum quoque; Tu Patris sempiturnus (Te Deum)

    Singer: William Kendall. Singer: Andrew Murgatroyd. Choir: The Sixteen. Orchestra: Orchestra of The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Percy Whitlock

    Reflections (Nos 1 and 3)

    Performer: Robert Gower.
    • Abacus.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Trio in D Major Op.9`2 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Trio Boccherini.
    • Beethoven: String Trios, Op. 9 Nos. 1-3.
    • Genuin.
    • 8.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in F sharp minor Kk.25

    Performer: Ursula Deutschler.
    • Domenico Scarlatti: Zwolf Cembalosonaten: Ursula Duetschler.
    • Claves.
    • 9.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    La Befana (Feste Romane)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.

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  • Tue 4 Aug 2020 09:00

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