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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Alpesh Chauhan, Bartok Slovak Rondos

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

2 hours

Music Played

  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Toccata in G major, BuxWV 165

    Performer: Christopher Herrick.
    • Buxtehude: The Complete Organ Works - 2, Christopher Herrick, Organ of Nidaros C.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Le Timbre d'argent (Act One extract)

    Choir: Accentus. Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Bru Zane.
  • Rebecca Clarke

    Passacaglia on an Old English Tune

    Performer: Philip Dukes. Performer: Sophia Rahman.
    • Rebecca Clarke: Violin Sonata, Dumka.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Harpsichord Concerto No 2 in G major, K 107, 'after J.C. Bach'

    Performer: Ton Koopman. Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.
    • Philips.
  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Rondos on Folk Tunes, Sz. 84

    Performer: Zolt谩n Kocsis.
    • Bartok Piano Works.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 2.
  • Julian Joseph

    Carry That Sound

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Wayne Marshall.
    • Spark Catchers.
    • NMC Recordings.
    • 601.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata in B flat major, D 960 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony.
  • George Frideric Handel

    'Revenge, Timotheus cries' (Alexander's Feast)

    Singer: Christopher Purves. Orchestra: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • HYPERION.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony No 4 in E flat, 'Romantic' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • DG.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Sancte Deus, sancte fortis

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks.
    • DECCA.
  • Dave Brubeck

    Blue Rondo a la Turk

    Performer: The Dave Brubeck Quartet.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Romeo and Juliet (Act 1)

    Conductor: Valery Gergiev. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet: Valery Gergiev, LSO.
    • LSO Live.
    • 1.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Trio in A minor for clarinet or viola, cello and piano, Op 114 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Dame Thea King. Performer: Karine Georgian. Performer: Clifford Benson.
    • Brahms, Clarinet Quintet & Trio: Thea King, Gabrieli String Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Meine Freuden (6 Polish Songs S.480)

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Decca.
  • George Gershwin

    Nice Work If You Can Get It

    Performer: Ella Fitzgerald.
    • Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Gershwin Song Book Vol. 1.
    • Verve Records.

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  • Thu 27 Aug 2020 09:00

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