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Ian Skelly with Harris's Faire Is the Heaven, Nicholas Collon, essential Halloween 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 favourite performers.

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we bring you five great pieces of music for Halloween

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351 (Overture)

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Franz Schubert

    Moments musicaux, D 780 (No 2 in A flat major)

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • DECCA.
  • William Henry Harris

    Faire is the heaven

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Chevalier J.J.O. de Meude-Monpas

    Rondeau (Allegretto) - third movement of Violin Concerto No 4 in D major

    Performer: Rachel Barton Pine. Orchestra: Encore Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Hege.
    • Cedille.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    String Quartet no.1 in D major, Op.11 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Borodin Quartet.
    • Tchaikovsky: String Quartets Nos. 1-3, Souvenir De Florence.
    • Teldec.
    • 2.
  • Michael Daugherty

    Reflections on the Mississippi: II. Fury

    Orchestra: Albany Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Alan Miller.
    • Daugherty: Dreamachine, Trail of Tears & Reflections on the Mississippi.
    • Naxos.
    • 302.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    Silenzio nocivo

    Ensemble: Orlando di Lasso Ensemble.
    • Thorofon.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz in F minor, Op.70`2

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 12.
  • Hans Pfitzner

    Three Preludes from 'Palestrina'

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Ferdinand Leitner.
    • Hans Pfitzner.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 163-165.
  • Henry Purcell

    Sound the trumpet (Come ye sons of art)

    Singer: Charles Brett. Singer: John Williams. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • ERATO.
  • Thomas Ad猫s

    Concerto for piano and orchestra (1st mvt)

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Ad猫s.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue in E flat, BWV 552, 'St Anne'

    Performer: Peter Hurford.
    • Bach: Famous Organ Works.
    • Decca.
    • 8.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Choral Dances from 'Gloriana' (Concord)

    Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Conductor: Justin Doyle.
    • Britten: Choral Works.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 2.
  • Thomas Weelkes

    As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending for 6 voices [from The triumphs.......]

    Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Director: Robert Hollingworth.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Maurice Greene

    Happy ye leaves (Spenser's Amoretti, No 2)

    Singer: Benjamin Hulett. Performer: Luke Green.
    • Naxos.
  • Jonathan Dove

    Seek Him that maketh the Seven Stars

    Performer: Jeremy Filsell. Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Juli谩n Carrillo

    Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 7: IV. Adagio - Allegro appassionato

    Conductor: Jos茅 Miramontes Zapata. Orchestra: Orquesta Sinf贸nica de San Luis Potos铆.
    • Juli谩n Carrillo: Orchestral Music.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 104.
  • Thomas Arne

    Thou soft-flowing Avon

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • Arne: Dr Arne at Vauxhall Gardens: Parley of Instruments.
    • Hyperion.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Dream of a Witches' Sabbath (Symphonie Fantastique)

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique: Le Carnival Romain: Anima Eterna Brugge.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 5.
  • Judith Weir

    Roll Off the Ragged Rocks of Sin

    Performer: Grace Francis.
    • TMI.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No 3 in E flat major, K 447

    Performer: Anthony Halstead. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • 尝鈥橭滨厂贰础鲍-尝驰搁贰.
  • Frank Martin

    Pavane couleur du temps

    Ensemble: Camerata Bern.
    • Musiques Suisses.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Oboe Sonata in C Major, RV 801 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Die Freitagsakademie.
    • Winter and Winter.
  • Tarik O鈥橰egan

    3 Motets from Sequence for St Wulfstan (O vera digna hostia)

    Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Director: Timothy Brown.
    • Tarik O'Regan - Voices.
    • Collegium Records.
    • 2.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Venetian Gondola Song (Songs Without Words book 1 Op.19)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mendelssohn: Lieder Ohne Worte: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • Geirr Tveitt

    Doomsday (A Hundred Hardanger Tunes)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.
    • Naxos.

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  • Fri 30 Oct 2020 09:00

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