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Ian Skelly with essential fireworks music, Soraya Mafi, Mendelssohn's Elijah

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

  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    Bagatelle Op.59`9

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • HYPERION.
  • Roger Quilter

    Music, when soft voices die (6 Songs, Op 25 No 5)

    Performer: Dalton Baldwin. Singer: Arleen Aug茅r.
    • DELOS.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pulcinella Suite: Overture; Serenata; Scherzino

    Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Thanks be to God (Elijah)

    Choir: Edinburgh Festival Chorus. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Paul Daniel.
    • DECCA.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Violin Concerto no.1 in A major Op.20

    Performer: Jean鈥怞acques Kantorow. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta.
    • Saint-Saens: Music for Violin and Orchestra.
    • BIS.
    • 01.
  • Maya Youssef

    Awatef

    Performer: Maya Youssef. Performer: Sebastian Flaig. Performer: Attab Haddad.
    • Syrian Dreams.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 10.
  • Claude Debussy

    De l'aube 脿 midi sur la mer (La Mer)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Debussy: La mer, Pr茅lude 脿 l'apr猫s-midi d'un faune 鈥 Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole.
    • Lso Live.
    • 6.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio in B flat major D.898 1st mvt

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Philips.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Rinaldo (Overture)

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • DECCA.
  • C茅cile Chaminade

    Pierrette Op.41

    Performer: Mark Viner.
    • PIANO CLASSICS.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Caro Nome (Rigoletto)

    Singer: Maria Callas. Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Choir: Chorus of La Scala, Milan. Conductor: Tullio Serafin. Singer: Renato Ercolani. Singer: William Dickie. Singer: Carlo Forti.
    • EMI.
  • Francisco Correa de Arauxo

    Batalla de Morales

    Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.
  • Crist贸bal de Morales

    Regina caeli

    Choir: El Le贸n de Oro. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • HYPERION.
  • Nacio Herb Brown

    Singin' in the Rain

    Performer: Seth MacFarlane. Orchestra: John Wilson Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • EMI.
  • Sigfrid Karg鈥怑lert

    Marche triomphale 'Nun danket alle Gott'

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • The World of The Organ, Simon Preston.
    • Decca.
    • 13.
  • Edward Elgar

    Praise to the Holiest in the Height

    Choir: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir. Choir: Huddersfield Choral Society. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • EMI.
  • Richard Wagner

    Parsifal: Good Friday Spell

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Robert Fayrfax

    Missa Albanus (Agnus Dei)

    Choir: Cardinall's Musick. Director: Andrew Carwood.
    • ASV.
  • John Adams

    Violin Concerto - 3rd mvt 'Toccare '

    Performer: Chlo毛 Hanslip. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • NAXOS.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano: III. Rondo

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Rachel Gough. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • CALA.
  • Robert Schumann

    Mondnacht (Liederkreis Op.39)

    Singer: Margaret Price. Performer: James Lockhart.
    • ORFEO.
  • Robert Parsons

    Mr Parsons His Songe

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg. Performer: Nigel North. Performer: Paul O鈥橠ette.
    • Three, Four and Twenty Lutes, Lindberg etc..
    • BIS.
    • 9.
  • Andr茅 Messager

    Solo de concours for clarinet and piano

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: Julien Quentin.
    • Music for Clarinet and Piano.
    • EMI.
    • 4.
  • George Gershwin

    Rhapsody in Blue

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • DECCA.

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  • Thu 5 Nov 2020 09:00

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