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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Essential Haydn, Steven Devine

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 favourite performers.

1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five great pieces of music composed by Joseph Haydn.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    The Wild Bears (The Wand of Youth Suite no.2)

    Orchestra: Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Elgar: The Starlight Express: Welsh National Opera Orchestra/Mackerras.
    • Argo.
    • 13.
  • Erik Satie

    Danses de travers, no.2 from Pièce froide

    Performer: David Greilsammer.
    • Naive.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Fantasia in D minor, Wq 117/4

    Performer: David Greilsammer.
    • Naive.
  • Erik Satie

    Danses de travers, no.3 from Pièce froide

    Performer: David Greilsammer.
    • Naive.
  • Jan Ladislav Dussek

    Messe Solemnelle - Gloria

    Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Richard Egarr. Choir: Academy of Ancient Music Chorus.
    • AAM Records.
  • Anthony Hedges

    Humber Keel Hornpipe (Scenes from the Humber)

    Orchestra: RTÉ Sinfonietta. Conductor: Anthony Hedges.
    • Hedges: British Light Music: RTE Sinfonietta/Hedges.
    • Naxos.
    • 14.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto no.2 in F major BWV.1047

    Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • J.S.Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1, 2, 3: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Archiv Produktion.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux aurumque

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Decca.
  • Franz Schubert

    Sonata In B Flat Major D.960 For Piano

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman.
    • Schubert: Piano Sonatas D959 and D960.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • Gustav Holst

    March (A Moorside Suite)

    Performer: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Garry Cutt.
    • Brass From The Masters Vol. 2:.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Bourrée fantasque

    Orchestrator: Felix Mottl. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Chabrier: Orchestral Works: Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quintet no.4 in G minor K516

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.
  • Dreamers’ Circus

    Bubbles in Central Park

    Performer: Dreamers’ Circus.
    • Vertical Records.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Aria da capo)

    Performer: Steven Devine.
    • J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations: Devine.
    • Chaconne.
  • Pixinguinha

    Vou Vivendo

    Music Arranger: Radamés Gnattali. Ensemble: Camerata Brasil.
    • EMI.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Sea and Sinbad's Ship (Scheherazade Op.35)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • LAWO.
  • Alfonso X el Sabio

    Saltarello [Cantigas de Santa Maria no.77-119]

    Performer: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Orient - Occident 1200-1700.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 20.
  • Percy Grainger

    The Lost Lady Found (A Lincolnshire Posy)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • Grainger: Works for Wind Orchestra: RNCM WInd Orchestra, Reynish, Rundell.
    • Chandos.
  • Percy Grainger

    Brigg Fair for tenor and chorus

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Singer: Robert Johnson. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • The music of Percy Grainger: Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips.
    • 2.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    La Tarantelle Fretillante from Petite Suite de Concert, Op.77

    Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Leaper.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, orchestral works.
    • MARCO POLO.
    • 5.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • WARNER.
  • Joseph Haydn

    The heavens are telling (The Creation)

    Singer: Sylvia McNair. Singer: Michael Schade. Singer: Gerald Finley. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists.
    • Haydn: The Creation: John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 14.
  • Meredith Monk

    Ellis Island

    Performer: Ursula Oppens. Performer: Bruce Brubaker.
    • ECM.
  • George Gershwin

    Cuban Overture

    Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Barber/Bernstein/Gershwin/Copland: Great American Showpieces.
    • EMI.
    • 6.
  • Paul McCartney

    Junk

    Ensemble: The Loma Mar Quartet.
    • Decca.
  • Peter Gregson

    Found

    Performer: Peter Gregson.
    • SONO LUMINUS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and fugue (BWV 846) in C major

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • François FrancÅ“ur

    Symphonies pour le Festin Royal du Comte d'Artois (Suite No 1: Overture)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Stradivaria. Director: Daniel Cuiller.
    • Francois Francoeur/Jean-Philippe Rameau: Suites de Simphoines: Daniel Cuiller.
    • Cypres.
    • 22.
  • György Ligeti

    Romanian Concerto

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Jonathan Nott.
    • WARNER.

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  • Fri 9 Oct 2020 09:00

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