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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Clyne's Dance, Essential Tone Poems, Nicholas Collon

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

  • William Grant Still

    Suite for Violin and Piano (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Rachel Barton Pine. Performer: Matthew Hagle.
    • Blues Dialogues: Music by Black Composers.
    • Cedille.
    • 403.
  • John Tavener

    The Protecting Veil (opening)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Sonata in G minor (1st mvt)

    Performer: Jennifer Eley.
    • Koch.
  • Anna Clyne

    In your blood (Dance)

    Performer: Inbal Segev. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Avie.
  • Jacques Aubert

    Concerto Op.26`4 'Le Carillon'

    Ensemble: Collegium Musicum 90. Director: Simon Standage.
    • Aubert: Concerts de Simphonies & Concertos: CM90/Standage.
    • Chandos.
    • 15-18.
  • Nigel Hess

    Thames Journey

    Orchestra: London Symphonic Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Nigel Hess.
    • East Coast Pictures - The Wind Band Music of Nigel Hess.
    • Fly.
    • 1.
  • John Taverner

    Western Wynde Mass (Agnus Dei)

    Performer: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • GIMELL.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no.21 in C major, K.467 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Dinu Lipatti. Orchestra: Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • EMI.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Hear my prayer

    Singer: Thomas Herford. Choir: Choir of New College Oxford. Performer: Matthew Halls. Performer: Christopher Hughes. Conductor: Edward Higginbottom.
    • Agnus Dei: Choir of New College, Oxford/Higginbottom.
    • Erato.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Music for Love's Labour's Lost - 7. Soliloquy I

    Conductor: Vernon Handley. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • LYRITA.
  • Ernest Bloch

    Schelomo

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Conductor: Hugh Wolff. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin.
    • BIS.
  • Changjian Xu

    Sword Dance

    Music Arranger: Xuefei Yang. Performer: Xuefei Yang.
    • Decca.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Danse macabre

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Performer: David Nadien. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • French and Russian Orchestral Works: New York Philharmonic/Bernstein.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 33.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata in C major K.330

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Les nuits d'茅t茅

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • NAIVE.
  • Nicola Porpora

    Scrivo in te l'amato nome

    Singer: Emanuela Galli. Ensemble: Stile Galante. Director: Stefano Aresi.
    • L'amato nome.
    • GLOSSA.
    • 1-3.
  • Scott Joplin

    Elite Syncopations

    Music Arranger: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Matthew Trusler. Performer: Wayne Marshall.
    • Blues: Matthew Trusler, Wayne Marshall.
    • Orchid Classics.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance no.4 in F sharp minor

    Music Arranger: Iv谩n Fischer. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Philips.

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  • Wed 5 Aug 2020 09:00

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