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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Tom Poster, Essential flute music

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 pieces of music written for the flute.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Das Jahr (October)

    Performer: Lauma Skride.
    • The Year.
    • SONY BMG.
    • 10.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Barber of Seville (Overture)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Rossini: 10 Overtures - Chailly.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Graham Fitkin

    Glass

    Performer: Lara James. Performer: Jeremy Young.
    • Saxophone Music (Contemporary) - Rogers, R. / Muczynski, R. / Macdonald, C. / Gl.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 9.
  • Henry Purcell

    Rejoice in the Lord alway Z.49 'Bell anthem'

    Ensemble: The Taverner Choir, Consort & Players. Conductor: Andrew Parrott.
    • Purcell: Music for Pleasure and Devotion.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 109.
  • Claude Debussy

    Iberia: Le matin d'un jour de f锚te (Images)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • SFS Media.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto in E flat major, K. 365, for 2 pianos: I. Allegro

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky. Orchestra: W眉rttembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn. Conductor: J枚rg Faerber.
    • Martha Argerich - The Warner Classics Recordings.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 238.
  • Alan Hovhaness

    October Mountain

    Orchestra: Central Washington University Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Mark Goodenberger.
    • Hovhaness: Wind Music, Vol. 3.
    • Naxos.
    • 501.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Mon coeur s'ouvre 脿 ta voix (Samson et Dalila)

    Singer: Angela Gheorghiu. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marco Armiliato.
    • EMI.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto no.4 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Giovanni Antonini. Performer: Petr Zejfart. Performer: Enrico Onofri. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • J.S. Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos; Il Giardino Armonico.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • 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.
  • Sam Cooke

    A change is gonna come

    Performer: Sam Cooke.
    • Abkco Records.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, 4th mvt: Presto

    Orchestra: B'Rock Orchestra. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 104.
  • Jules Massenet

    Meditation (Thais)

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Le Boeuf sur le Toit.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 2.
  • Marin Marais

    La sonnerie de Sainte-Genevi猫ve du Mont de Paris

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Tous Les Matins Du Monde: Bande Originale du Film, Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    Ring forth, ye bells (from The Sorcerer)

    Librettist: W. S. Gilbert. Ensemble: The D鈥橭yly Carte Opera Company. Conductor: Isidore Godfrey.
    • Decca.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Quartet in E flat major Op.51 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Albion Quartet.
    • Dvor虒谩k: String Quartets Nos. 8 & 10.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 204.
  • Edward Elgar

    'My Love dwelt in a Northern Land (3 Part Songs, Op.18)

    Choir: Finzi Singers. Conductor: Paul Spicer.
    • Elgar: Part-Songs.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • Claude Debussy

    Pr茅lude 脿 l'apr猫s-midi d'un faune

    Conductor: Jun M盲rkl. Orchestra: Op茅ra de Lyon.
    • Debussy: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1: Markl.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Prelude & Alla Hornpipe (Water Music Suite in F, HWV.348)

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Handel: Water Music, Music For The Royal Fireworks.
    • ALIA VOX.
    • 001.
  • Clarice Assad

    Sin fronteras

    Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen.
    • Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers.
    • Cedille.
    • 201.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in B minor, Op 119 No 1

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Brahms Handel Variations - Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 10.
  • Eric Whitacre

    October

    • Eric Whitacre: Marimba Quartets.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 201.
  • Clara Schumann

    Romance in B flat minor, Op 11 No 1

    Performer: H茅l猫ne Boschi.
    • Clara Schumann Piano Works.
    • CALLIOPE.
    • 010.
  • Joseph Haydn

    The Seasons - Autumn

    Orchestra: Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra. Choir: Ch贸r Narodowego Forum Muzyki. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Haydn: The Seasons.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 210.

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  • Thu 1 Oct 2020 09:00

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