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Ian Skelly with essential Halloween music, Leon Bosch, Korngold's Violin Concerto

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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Thu 29 Oct 2020 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in B minor, BWV.232 (Sanctus)

    Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Bach: Mass in B minor.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Quintet in E flat major Op.97 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet. Performer: Veronika Hagen.
    • Dvorak: String Quintet, Op. 97 & String Sextet, Op. 48.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 108.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • Barber/Korngold: Violin Concerto op.14: Gil Shaham/LSO/Andr茅 Previn.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Musiques de soie (Valse)

    Ensemble: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Erik Satie

    Gymnop茅die no.1 in D major

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Fran莽ois-Joseph Gossec

    Symphony in 17 parts (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Gossec: Symphonie 脿 dix-sept parties.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 105.

  • Francesco Cavalli

    Che citt脿 (Ormindo)

    Singer: N煤ria Rial. Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Conductor: Christina Pluhar.
    • Erato.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Trio in A minor

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: Gautier Capu莽on. Performer: Frank Braley.
    • Virgin.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony no..1 in B flat major Op.38 'Spring' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: G眉rzenich-Orchester K枚ln. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Myrios.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker, Op. 71 (: Coda; Closing waltz and Grand finale (Apotheosis))

    Orchestra: State Academic Symphony Orchestra of The Russian Federation. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71, TH 14 (Live).
    • PENTATONE.
    • 313.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Cello Sonata in G minor Op.5`2 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Daniil Borisovich Shafran. Performer: Anton Ginsburg.
    • Doremi.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Sailing at dawn (Songs of the Fleet, Op.117)

    Singer: Gerald Finley. Choir: 大象传媒 National Chorus of Wales. Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Stanford: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.

  • Walter Piston

    Violin Concerto no.1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: James Buswell. Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. Conductor: Theodore Kuchar.
    • NAXOS.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Marietta's Lute Song (Die tote Stadt)

    Singer: Ren茅e Fleming. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.
    • Renee Fleming - By Request.
    • Decca.
    • 12.

  • Ellis Marsalis

    Fourth Autumn

    Performer: Karen Walwyn.
    • Albany.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E flat major (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Walpurgisnacht (4 Ballads and romances Op.75 )

    Singer: Mary Bevan. Singer: Clara Mouriz. Performer: Joseph Middleton.
    • Songs to the Moon.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 601.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The First Walpurgis Night Op.60 (nos. 6 - 9)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chorus. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Singer: Thomas Hampson. Singer: Ren茅 Pape. Singer: Uwe Heilmann.
    • Teldec.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude (Partita no.3 in E major, BWV.1006)

    Performer: Hilary Hahn.

  • Steve Reich

    Nagoya Marimbas

    Performer: Colin Currie. Performer: Sam Walton.
    • Striking A Balance: Contemporary Percussion Music.
    • EMI.
    • 12.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.31 in D major 'Hornsignal' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • LINN.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.6 in A minor (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Channel.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture in E minor, 'Tafelmusik' (Gigue)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Le Concert Spirituel: Le Concert des Nations / Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 20.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Grande Polonaise in E flat, Op 22

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • DECCA.

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