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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Essential Shakespeare, Anna Lapwood

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 – 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

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon in D

    Ensemble: Les Violons du Roy. Conductor: Bernard Labadie.
    • Atma Classique.
  • Hubert Parry

    Long since in Egypt's plenteous land (Judith)

    Choir: Worcester Cathedral Choir. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Hill.
    • Decca.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Flute Quartet in D major, K.285 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Guy Eshed. Ensemble: Ensemble 360.
    • Mozart: Flute Quartet No. 1 in D major, K285, etc.: Ensemble 360.
    • ASV.
    • 3.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Wasps (Overture)

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Vaughan Williams: Orchestral works including Symphony no.3, The Wasps Overture,.
    • HALLE.
    • 7.
  • Lalo Schifrin

    Mission Impossible

    Music Arranger: Ensemble Triptikh. Ensemble: Ensemble Triptikh.
    • Grand Écran.
    • Ad Vitam Records.
    • 101.
  • Lili Boulanger

    Vieille prière bouddhique

    Singer: Raymond Amade. Choir: Chœurs Élisabeth Brasseur. Performer: Jean-Jacques Grunenwald. Orchestra: Orchestre Lamoureux. Conductor: Igor Markevitch.
    • Everest.
  • Francesca Caccini

    Ciaccona

    Performer: Luigi Cozzolino. Ensemble: Cappella di Santa Maria degli Angiolini. Director: Gian Luca Lastraioli.
    • Maria, dolce Maria.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 3.
  • Georges Bizet

    Au Fond du Temple Saint (The Pearl Fishers)

    Singer: John Aler. Singer: Gino Quilico. Orchestra: Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse. Conductor: Michel Plasson.
    • Bizet: Les Pecheurs du Perles.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 106.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto Grosso in G minor Op.6`8 'Christmas night'

    Ensemble: Gli Incogniti. Director: Amandine Beyer.
    • Corelli: The Complete Concerti Grossi.
    • ZIG ZAG.
    • 30-34.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Overture in E flat major Op.24

    Orchestra: European Soloists, Luxembourg. Conductor: Christoph König.
    • Farrenc: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.
  • George Gershwin

    Girl Crazy Suite

    Orchestrator: Bill Elliott. Music Arranger: Barbara Hannigan. Singer: Barbara Hannigan. Orchestra: Ludwig Orchestra. Conductor: Barbara Hannigan.
    • Crazy Girl Crazy.
    • Alpha.
    • 7.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Valse Suite, Op.71 (Andante)

    Performer: Monica Gaylord.
    • Black Piano, A Treasury of Works for Solo Piano by Black Composers.
    • MUSIC & ARTS.
    • 24.
  • John Barry

    Chinon / Eleanor's Arrival (The Lion in Winter)

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nic Raine.
    • Silva Screen Records.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Passover Psalm Op.30

    Singer: Eva Urbanová. Choir: Slovak Philharmonic Choir. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    7 Variations on 'Bei Mannern, welche Liebe fuhlen' from Mozart's Die Zauberflote

    Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Performer: Frank Braley.
    • Beethoven: Complete Sonatas and Variations for Cello and Piano.
    • Erato.
    • 6.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Witches' Chorus (Macbeth)

    Choir: Chorus of Welsh National Opera. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera. Conductor: Richard Armstrong.
    • Verdi Choruses.
    • EMI.
    • 006.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Patria Oppressa! (Macbeth)

    Choir: Chorus of the Welsh National Opera. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera. Conductor: Richard Armstrong.
    • Verdi Choruses.
    • EMI.
    • 005.
  • Trad.

    My heart's in the highlands

    Music Arranger: Joseph Haydn. Performer: Melvyn Tan. Performer: Alison Bury. Performer: Anthony Pleeth.
    • Meridian.
  • Arvo Pärt

    My heart's in the Highlands

    Singer: Stephen Wallace. Performer: Matthew Owens.
    • Black Box.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony no.7 in D minor Op.70 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Dvorak:Symphony no. 7 Suite in A major,Budapest Festival Orchestra,Ivan Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 1.
  • Judith Weir

    Piano Concerto (The Sweet Primeroses)

    Performer: Xak Bjerken. Ensemble: Ensemble X.
    • ALBANY.
  • Anoushka Shankar

    Lasya

    Performer: Manu Delago. Performer: Bernhard Schimpelsberger. Performer: Pirashanna Thevarajah. Performer: Kenji Ota.
    • DG.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    When the Buds are Blossoming (Ruddigore)

    Librettist: William Gilbert. Singer: Marilyn Hill Smith. Singer: Joan Davies. Orchestra: New Sadler’s Wells Opera. Conductor: Simon Phipps.
    • TER.
  • Francisco Tárrega

    Etude in A major

    Performer: Julian Bream.
    • SONY.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    The Bells Op.35 (2nd mvt)

    Choir: CBSO Chorus. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Warner Classics.

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