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.
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George Frideric Handel
Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351 (Overture)
Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.- ARCHIV.
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Franz Schubert
Moments musicaux, D 780 (No 2 in A flat major)
Performer: Alfred Brendel.- DECCA.
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William Henry Harris
Faire is the heaven
Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.- SIGNUM.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Barbara Strozzi
Silenzio nocivo
Ensemble: Orlando di Lasso Ensemble.- Thorofon.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Waltz in F minor, Op.70`2
Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.- Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
- London.
- 12.
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Hans Pfitzner
Three Preludes from 'Palestrina'
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Ferdinand Leitner.- Hans Pfitzner.
- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
- 163-165.
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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.
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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.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Fugue in E flat, BWV 552, 'St Anne'
Performer: Peter Hurford.- Bach: Famous Organ Works.
- Decca.
- 8.
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Benjamin Britten
Choral Dances from 'Gloriana' (Concord)
Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Conductor: Justin Doyle.- Britten: Choral Works.
- harmonia mundi.
- 2.
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Thomas Weelkes
As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending for 6 voices [from The triumphs.......]
Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Director: Robert Hollingworth.- CHANDOS.
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Maurice Greene
Happy ye leaves (Spenser's Amoretti, No 2)
Singer: Benjamin Hulett. Performer: Luke Green.- Naxos.
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Jonathan Dove
Seek Him that maketh the Seven Stars
Performer: Jeremy Filsell. Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.- SIGNUM.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Judith Weir
Roll Off the Ragged Rocks of Sin
Performer: Grace Francis.- TMI.
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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.
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Frank Martin
Pavane couleur du temps
Ensemble: Camerata Bern.- Musiques Suisses.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Oboe Sonata in C Major, RV 801 (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Die Freitagsakademie.- Winter and Winter.
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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.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Venetian Gondola Song (Songs Without Words book 1 Op.19)
Performer: Daniel Barenboim.- Mendelssohn: Lieder Ohne Worte: Daniel Barenboim.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 6.
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Geirr Tveitt
Doomsday (A Hundred Hardanger Tunes)
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.- Naxos.
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