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Ian Skelly with Gabriel Prokofiev's Spheres, essential fireworks music, Rebecca Afonwy-Jones

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.

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Tue 3 Nov 2020 09:00
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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Die Schauspieldirektor K.486 (Overture)

    Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Rapha毛l Pichon.
    • Libert脿! Mozart & the opera.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 201.

  • Don Macdonald

    Moonset

    Ensemble: Papagena.
    • SOMM.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia Suite Op.11 (Alla marcia)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Sibelius: Symphony No.5/Karelia Suite etc: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
    • Erato.
    • 6.

  • Gabriel Prokofiev

    Spheres

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: German Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Simon Halsey.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Claude Debussy

    Danse sacree et danse profane

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer. Ensemble: Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
    • Voyage.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 13-14.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in A flat major D.899 no.4

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Schubert: Piano Sonatas D.840, 850 & 894, Impromptus D.899: Paul Lewis.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture in F major, TWV.55:F16

    Ensemble: Florilegium.
    • Channel Classics CCS 38616.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 3.

  • Richard Strauss

    Schlagobers-Walzer (Schlagobers Op.70)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Strauss: Schlagobers, Munchen: Detroit SO/Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.

  • Nadia Boulanger

    3 Pieces for cello and piano

    Performer: Matt Haimovitz. Performer: Mari Kodama.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Herman Bellstedt

    Napoli

    Performer: Roger Webster. Performer: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Nicholas J Childs.
    • Essential Dyke Vol. III: Black Dyke Band, Nicholas J Childs.
    • Doyen.
    • 3.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto in G major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Philip Fowke. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Serge Baudo.
    • Classics for Pleasure.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    H枚chster, schau' in Gnaden an (Cantata no.63)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • J.S. Bach, Cantatas Vol 18: Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 7.

  • Rued Langgaard

    Music of The Spheres (Like The Twinking of Stars)

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Dacapo.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    The Spheres

    Choir: Tenebrae. Orchestra: The Chamber Orchestra of London. Director: Nigel Short.
    • Ola Gjeilo.
    • Decca.
    • 002.

  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    New York Skyline

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • DECCA.

  • Agostino Steffani

    Sfere amiche (Niobe, regina di Tebe)

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Director: Stephen Stubbs. Orchestra: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra. Director: Paul O鈥橠ette.
    • ERATO.

  • Nitin Sawhney

    River Pulse

    Performer: Anoushka Shankar. Performer: Nitin Sawhney. Performer: Ian Burdge. Performer: Pirashanna Thevarajah.
    • Traces of you.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Scherzo Fantastique, Op.3

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DG.

  • Claude Debussy

    Feux d'artifice (Preludes, Book 2)

    Performer: Francesco Piemontesi.
    • 狈础脧痴贰.

  • Duke Ellington

    Sophisticated Lady

    Music Arranger: Luther Henderson. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • American Music.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 303.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in G minor for 2 cellos, RV.531

    Performer: Christophe Coin. Performer: Paolo Beschi. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Vivaldi: 'Il Proteo'.
    • Teldec.
    • 7.

  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Sevilla (Suite Espanola no.1 Op.47)

    Music Arranger: Michael Krein. Ensemble: Krein Saxophone Quartet.
    • Saxophone Classics.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Quartet no.2 in A major Op.26 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin. Ensemble: Leopold String Trio.
    • Hyperion.

  • William Byrd

    Mass for 5 voices (Sanctus; Benedictus)

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • The Phoenix Rising.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 11.

  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Sinfonietta (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Great Orchestral Showpieces, Vol.1.
    • Philips.
    • 5.

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