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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Anna Lapwood, Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2, Essential Haydn

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 鈥 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

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in D major Op.28 'Pastorale' (4th mvt)

    Performer: Jonathan Biss.
    • Jonathan Biss: Beethoven.
    • Onyx.
    • 4.
  • Johann Gottlieb Graun

    Trio Sonata in A major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Diderot.
    • AUDAX.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Justorum animae (3 Motets, Op.38)

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op.18 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.39 in E flat major K.543 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Das himmlische Leben (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

    Performer: Gustav Mahler. Performer: Christiane Karg.
    • Mahler: Lieder.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 119.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Sh茅h茅razade, ouverture de f茅erie

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Ravel: Ma M猫re l'Oye, Le tombeau de Couperin & Sh茅h茅razade, ouverture de f茅erie.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 13.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita no.5 in G major BWV.829 (Allemande)

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Quartet no.14 in A flat major Op.105 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • Dvorak: String Quartets: Takacs Quartet.
    • Decca.
    • 11.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Of Crumpling Rocks (Songbook)

    Performer: Errollyn Wallen.
    • Avie.
  • Anna Lapwood

    O Nata Lux

    Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • Signum.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in B flat major Op.3`1

    Orchestra: Berliner Barock Solisten. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.
    • 1-3.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Concerto no.2 in F major Op.102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hugh Wolff.
    • Warsaw Concerto: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully

    Te Deum (Te Deum Laudamus)

    Performer: Ch艙ur de Chambre de Namur. Performer: Millenium Orchestra. Performer: Leonardo Garc铆a Alarc贸n.
    • Lully: Dies Irae, De Profondis & Te Deum.
    • Alpha.
  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    Village Scene by the Inn

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.104 in D major H.1.104 'London' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • WARNER.
  • Francesco Geminiani

    Concerto Grosso no.12 in D minor 'La Follia' (mvts 4-7)

    Orchestra: European Union Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Minasi.
  • Philip Glass

    Dance II (In the Upper Room)

    Ensemble: Philip Glass Ensemble. Conductor: Michael Riesman.
    • SONY.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Vltava (Ma Vlast)

    Orchestra: Symfonick媒 orchestr hlavn铆ho m臎sta Prahy FOK. Conductor: Libor Pe拧ek.
    • Dvorak: New World Symphony: Prague Symphony Orchestra/Pesek.
    • Sony.
  • Edward Elgar

    Hell and Tommy (6 Promenades)

    Ensemble: Athena Ensemble.
    • Elgar: Complete works for wind quintet: Athena Ensemble.
    • Chandos.
  • Rory Boyle

    Baloue

    Performer: Robert Irvine.
    • DELPHIAN.
    • 14.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Serenade Op.31 (Nocturne)

    Singer: Neil Mackie. Performer: Barry Tuckwell. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Steuart Bedford.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Beatus vir a 6

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet in E flat major, D.87 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • Schubert: String Quartets D87 & D887: Cuarteto Casals.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 3.
  • Madeleine Dring

    Festival Scherzo

    Performer: Martin Roscoe. Ensemble: Guildhall String Ensemble. Conductor: Robert Salter.
    • HYPERION.

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  • Thu 8 Oct 2020 09:00

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