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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Villa-Lobos's Sexteto m铆stico, Soraya Mafi, Essential Piano Studies

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Ian Skelly

0915 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 studies for the piano.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 28 in A major: i. Allegro di molto

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • ALPHA.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    O rossignol (Madrigals, Book 3)

    Choir: La Venexiana.
    • GLOSSA.
  • Edward Elgar

    Bavarian Dance No 1

    Performer: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Performer: James Judd.
    • Elgar - Orchestral Minatures.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    Sexteto Mistico

    Ensemble: Lontano. Conductor: Odaline de la Martinez.
    • Villa-Lobos - Chamber & Choral Music.
    • Lorelt.
    • 001.
  • William Boyce

    Symphony no. 2 in A major

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Boyce: 8 Symphonies: The English Concert/Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 1-3.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Valse-Scherzo, Op.34

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.
    • Pentatone.
  • Georges Bizet

    Chants du Rhin, WD 52: L'aurore

    Performer: Nathana毛l Gouin.
    • Bizet sans Paroles.
    • Mirare.
    • 101.
  • Georges Bizet

    Chants du Rhin (La Boh茅mienne)

    Performer: Nathana毛l Gouin.
    • Bizet sans Paroles.
    • Mirare.
    • 104.
  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    Sexteto Mistico

    Ensemble: Lontano. Conductor: Odaline de la Martinez.
    • Villa-Lobos - Chamber & Choral Music.
    • Lorelt.
    • 001.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Fanfare for St Edmundsbury for three trumpets

    Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • British Music for Brass: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • London.
    • 6.
  • Henri Mulet

    Carillon-sortie in D major

    Performer: Christopher Herrick.
    • Organ Fireworks V.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.
  • Georges Bizet

    L' Arlesienne - suite no. 1

    Orchestra: Orquestra Simf貌nica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya. Conductor: Pablo Gonz谩lez.
    • Bizet: Carmen & L'arl茅sienne Suites.
    • Naxos.
    • 301.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Solveig's Song (Peer Gynt Suite No 2, Op 55 No 4)

    Orchestra: Malm枚 SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.
    • Naxos.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV.42 'Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats' (Sinfonia)

    Ensemble: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Hengelbrock.
    • DHM.
  • Alan Hovhaness

    Symphony No 2, Op 132, 'Mysterious Mountain' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.
    • Williams: The Five Sacred Trees: Leclair/London Symphony Orchestra/Williams.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.
  • Joseph Canteloube

    Pastourelle (Chants d'Auvergne - set 2)

    Singer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.
    • Decca.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    翱产濒颈惫颈贸苍

    Performer: Santiago Quartet.
    • Language of the Heart.
    • Arrastre Records.
    • 7.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.1 in C major Op.21 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 1 & 2: Gewandhouorchester, Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.
  • William Grant Still

    Blues (from Lenox Avenue)

    Performer: Rachel Barton Pine. Performer: Matthew Hagle. Music Arranger: Louis Kaufman.
    • Blues Dialogues: Music by Black Composers.
    • Cedille.
    • 1301.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Rondo in F major

    Performer: Gemma Rosefield. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Stanford - The Complete Works for Cello and Orchestra.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • George Enescu

    Cantabile and Presto

    Performer: Sharon Bezaly. Performer: Roland P枚ntinen.
    • Caf茅 au lait: Music for Flute and Piano.
    • Bis.
    • 4-5.
  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    Pastoral, Op 40 No 6 (Eight Concert Etudes)

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    Pastoral, Op 40 No 6 (Eight Concert Etudes)

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
  • Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco

    Concerto 脿 pi霉 istrumenti in E minor, Op 5 No 3

    Ensemble: Concerto K枚ln.
    • WARNER.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O virtus sapientiae

    Ensemble: Sequentia.
    • Hildegard Von Bingen: Symphoniae: Sequentia.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 8.
  • Jonas Forssell

    Ancient Suite [after Hildegard von Bingen]

    Performer: Martin Frost. Choir: Adolf Fredriks Girls Choir. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Roots.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 001.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O Quam Mirabilis Est

    Ensemble: Taracea.
    • Alpha.
  • Josef Bohuslav Foerster

    Wind Quintet in D major Op. 95 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Belfiato Quintet.
    • Supraphon.
  • John Dowland

    Mrs Winter's Jump

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • BIS.
  • Domenico Cimarosa

    Il matrimonio segreto (Overture)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.

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