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Ian Skelly with Roderick Williams, essential fireworks 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 fireworks music.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • George Gershwin

    Of Thee I Sing (Overture)

    Orchestra: WDR Funkhausorchester. Conductor: Wayne Marshall.
    • Born to Play, Wayne Marshall, Gershwin.
    • CAvi-music.
    • 108.
  • Gabriel Piern茅

    Impromptu-Caprice, Op 9

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
  • Louis鈥怌laude Daquin

    Le coucou (Harpsichord Suite no.3)

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E flat major RV.253 'La Tempesta di Mare'

    Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Alpha.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    "Donala a questo core" from Ricciardo e Zoraide, Act 2

    Singer: Michael Spyres. Singer: Lawrence Brownlee. Orchestra: I Virtuosi Italiani. Conductor: Corrado Rovaris.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger

    Toccata Arpeggiata

    Performer: Jonas Nordberg.
    • Heroines of Love & Loss.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Trio No 2 in C minor, Op 66 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Sitkovetsky Trio.
    • BIS: 2109 SACD.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Jean鈥怞oseph de Mondonville

    Sonate en symphonie in F major Op.3 no.2

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Amy Beach

    Piano Trio in A minor Op.150 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Gould Piano Trio.
    • Resonus.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Linden Lea

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Author: William Barnes. Singer: Roderick Williams.
    • Vaughan Williams: The English Song Series 14: Williams/Burnside.
    • Naxos.
    • 16.
  • Edward Elgar

    Serenade in E minor for strings, Op 20

    Performer: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.
  • Philip Braham

    Limehouse Blues

    Performer: Oscar Peterson. Performer: Joe Pass. Performer: Niels-Henning 脴rsted Pedersen. Performer: Martin Drew.
    • PABLO.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Piano Concerto no.2 in F minor Op.21 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Elim Chan.
    • Chopin Piano Concertos.
    • Decca.
    • 06.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit (Cantata No 111)

    Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaki Suzuki.
    • J.S. Bach: Cantatas 111, 123, 124 & 125: Bach Collegium Japan/Suzuki.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (Dawn)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.
  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    Moto perpetuo in C major, Op.11

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Performer: G枚ran S枚llscher.
    • Paganini for Two: Gil Shaham/Goran Sollscher.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 22.
  • Jean Sibelius

    The Tempest: Prelude, Op.109,鈥疦o.1鈥

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • BIS.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    The Return to Ulster (25 Irish songs WoO.152)

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Sir Antonio Pappano. Performer: Vilde Frang. Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Cello Concerto in B flat major H436 Wq171, 3rd movement - Allegro assai

    Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Director: Jonathan Cohen. Orchestra: Arcangelo.
    • CPE Bach Cello Concertos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 006.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    1812 Overture, Op 49

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Choir: G枚teborgs Symfoniska K枚r. Ensemble: Gothenburg Symphony Brass Band. Ensemble: Gothenburg Artillery Division. Ensemble: Churchbells of Gothenburg. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin: Neeme Jarvi.
    • DG.
    • 1.
  • Franz Schubert

    4 Impromptus D.899 (no.3 in G flat major)

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.
    • Le Voyage Magnifique, Schubert: Impromptus; Maria Joao Pires.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Grand March (Aida)

    Music Arranger: Alan Fernie. Performer: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Nicholas Childs.
    • Symphonic Brass: Black Dyke Band, Nicholas Childs.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Ernest Chausson

    Piano Quartet in A major op 30 ii Tres calme

    Performer: Pascal Devoyon. Performer: Philippe Graffin. Performer: Gary Hoffman. Performer: Toby Hoffman.
    • Hyperion.
  • Alan Hovhaness

    Prayer of St Gregory, Op 62b

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Performer: Anthony Newman.
    • Classic Wynton.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 17.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Concerto no.1 in F minor Op.73 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Blue Hour - Weber, Brahms, Mendelssohn.
    • DG.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in C major, Op 33 No 3 (The Bird): 4th mvmt (Rondo - Presto)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in A major Kk.212

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • SONY.

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  • Fri 6 Nov 2020 09:00

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