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Ian Skelly with Essential Bruch, Francesca Chiejina, Mahler's Symphony No 1

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 of Max Bruch鈥檚 greatest pieces.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • William Kroll

    Banjo and Fiddle

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Peter Nagy.
    • Leonidas Kavakos plays鈥.
    • Delos.
    • 1.
  • Johann Pachelbel

    Suite no.5 in C major [Musikalische Erg枚tzung, 1695]

    Ensemble: Gli Incogniti. Conductor: Amandine Beyer.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Teresa Carre帽o

    Mi Teresita [Little Waltz]

    Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • WARNER.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.1 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Henri B眉sser

    Appassionato Op.34

    Performer: Lawrence Power. Performer: Simon Crawford鈥怭hillips.
    • HYPERION.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter

    Ensemble: Tallis Scholars.
    • GIMELL.
  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and Circumstance March in C major Op.39 no.5

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • CHANDOS CHAN.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    5 Bagatelles Op.47 (Nos. 4 & 5)

    Performer: Rapha毛lle Moreau. Performer: David Moreau. Performer: Edgar Moreau. Performer: J茅r茅mie Moreau.
    • ERATO.
  • Claude Debussy

    La Plus que lente, arr. for orchestra [orig. piano]

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Debussy: Images, Jeux, La Plus Que Lente.
    • SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY.
    • 7.
  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Fugue in C major BuxWV.174 'alla gigue'

    Performer: Christopher Herrick.
    • Buxtehude - The Complete Organ Works 1.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • George Gershwin

    What You Want Wid Bess (Porgy and Bess)

    Singer: Leontyne Price. Singer: McHenry Boatwright. Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Skitch Henderson.
    • RCA.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Fantasia no.10 in E major (TWV.40:26-37)

    Performer: Paolo Pandolfo.
    • GLOSSA.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Friday Afternoons, Op.7 (Old Abram Brown)

    Choir: New London Children鈥檚 Choir. Performer: Alexander Wells. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • NAXOS.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Tortoises (Carnival of the Animals)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Gidon Kremer. Performer: Isabelle van Keulen. Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Performer: Mischa Maisky. Performer: Georg H枚rtnagel.
    • Saint-Saens: Carnaval des Animaux: Argerich/Frerie/Kremer.
    • Philips.
    • 4.
  • Erno Dohnanyi

    Variations on a Nursery Song (conclusion)

    Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • DECCA.
  • Charles Gounod

    Funeral March of a Marionette

    Orchestra: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Erich Kunzel.
    • Chiller: Kunzel/Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.
    • Telarc.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Castor et Pollux Suite (Entr茅e des Astres; Gigue; Chaconne)

    Orchestra: L鈥橭rfeo Barockorchester. Director: Michi Gaigg.
    • PHOENIX EDITION.
  • Max Bruch

    Violin Concerto no.1 in G minor Op.26

    Performer: Sarah Chang. Orchestra: Dresdner Philharmonie. Conductor: Kurt Masur.
    • EMI.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in F minor, D.935 no.4

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman.
    • Schubert: Impromptus D.899 & D.935.
    • DG.
    • 8.
  • Oswald von Wolkenstein

    Nu rue mit sorgen

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Singer: Kathleen Dineen. Ensemble: Shield of Harmony. Director: Crawford Young.
    • Wolkenstein, Songs of Myself: Andreas Scholl.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 13.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Danse slave (Le roi malgr茅 lui)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Chabrier: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande/Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 15.
  • L眉 Wencheng

    Autumn moon over a calm lake

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Dragon Songs.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Te Deum in C major H.23c.2

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • PHILIPS.

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  • Mon 23 Nov 2020 09:00

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