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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Essential Shakespeare, Walton's Siesta, Matthew Barley

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

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 pieces inspired by Shakespeare.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Arthur Benjamin

    Overture to an Italian Comedy

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Myer Fredman.
    • Arthur Benjamin: Overture, Symphony, Dances: RPO, Myer Freman.
    • Lyrita.
    • 1.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Sailing (Holiday Diary)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter, BWV.650

    Music Arranger: Andrew Balio. Performer: Andrew Balio. Performer: Bruce Bengtson.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • Delos.
    • 201.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Piano Trio no 1 in F major, Op 18 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Aquinas Piano Trio.
    • Guild.
  • Traditional Irish

    The Galway Bay Hornpipe

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Performer: Andrew Lawrence鈥怟ing. Performer: Frank McGuire.
    • The Celtic Viol 2: Savall/Lawrence-King/McGuire.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 1.
  • William Walton

    Siesta

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Hyperion.
  • Scott Joplin

    The Easy Winners

    Music Arranger: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Andr茅 Previn.
    • Joplin: The Easy Winner & Other Rag-Time Music: Itzhak Perlman.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Max Reger

    A Romantic Suite Op.125 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.
    • Christian Thielemann - Staatskapelle Dresden: Ferruccio Busoni / Hans Pfitzner /.
    • Profil Medien.
    • 2.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Zefiro Torna

    Singer: John Potter. Singer: Douglas Nasrawi. Performer: Stephen Stubbs. Ensemble: Red Byrd.
    • Factory.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Horn Concerto, Op.58 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: David Pyatt. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite.
    • British Horn Concertos: Jacob/Arnold/Bowen/Gipps/Vinter.
    • Lyrita.
    • 11.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.6 in C major D.589 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Symphony No.6, Rosamunde - Incedental Music.
    • EMI.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Study in C sharp minor, Op.2 no.1

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
    • DG.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Courtly Dances (Gloriana)

    Music Arranger: Julian Bream. Ensemble: Julian Bream Consort.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Anton Stepanovich Arensky

    Concert Waltz in B flat major

    Performer: Sergei Nakariakov. Performer: Alexander Markovich.
    • Teldec.
  • Arnold Bax

    Mediterranean

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • Seascapes.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Gustav Holst

    2 Eastern Pictures (Summer)

    Performer: Grace Cloutier. Ensemble: Etherea Vocal Ensemble. Conductor: Derek Greten-Harrison.
    • Hymn to the Dawn.
    • Delos.
    • 202.
  • Percy Whitlock

    Spade and Bucket Polka (Holiday Suite)

    Orchestra: RT脡 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Marco Polo.
  • Johann Joseph Fux

    Intrada in C major E.62

    Performer: Gottfried von der Goltz. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
    • Carus.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Romance in E minor Hess13

    Performer: Patrick Gallois. Performer: Pascal Gallois. Performer: Myung-Whun Chung. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Beethoven: Triple Concerto/Violin Romances: Chung Trio/Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Romeo and Juliet - Fantasy Overture

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Orfeo.
  • Richard M. Sherman

    Feed the Birds (Mary Poppins) in the style of Brahms

    Composer: Donald Fraser. Ensemble: The Shanghai Quartet. Ensemble: The Shanghai Quartet.
    • Heigh-Ho! Mozart - Favorite Disney Tunes in the Style of Great Classical Compose.
    • Delos.
    • 1201.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Zita (Suite troileana)

    Performer: S茅rgio Assad. Performer: Odair Assad.
    • Saga dos Migrantes: Sergio and Odair Assad.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Josquin des Prez

    Qui habitat in adjutorio Altissimi [for 24 voices]

    Ensemble: Huelgas Ensemble. Director: Paul Van Nevel.
    • Utopia Triumphans.
    • Sony.
    • 3.
  • Henri Duparc

    Aux Etoiles

    Orchestra: Le Concert de la Loge. Conductor: Julien Chauvin.
    • Si j'ai aime.
    • ALPHA.
    • 11.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major Op.64`5 'Lark' (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Scherzo Fantastique, Op.3

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Boulez conducts Stravinsky.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

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  • Mon 31 Aug 2020 09:00

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