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Ian Skelly with Chaminade's Valse Carnavalesque, Essential Bruch, Sean Shibe

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

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Festive Overture Op.96

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Signum.
  • Henry Purcell

    Here the deities approve (Welcome to all the pleasures)

    Singer: Michael Chance. Singer: John Mark Ainsley. Singer: Michael George. Choir: The English Concert Choir. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Purcell: Odes: The English Concert and Choir/Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 12-13.
  • C茅cile Chaminade

    Carnival Waltz, Op.73

    Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Performer: Peter Jablonski.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.86 in D major (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies: Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 10.
  • Philip Glass

    String Quartet no.5 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.
    • Kronos Quartet performs Philip Glass.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 3.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Norfolk Rhapsody No.1

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Stuart Green. Conductor: Paul Daniel.
    • Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.4: Bournemouth Symphony Orch/Daniel.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.
  • Franz Schubert

    Moment musical in C sharp minor D.780 no.4

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Schubert: Piano Sonata/Moments Musicaux: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 8.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Una voce poco fa (Il barbiere di Siviglia)

    Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Orchestra: Orchestra of Santa Cecilia. Conductor: Edoardo M眉ller.
    • Colbran, The Muse.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Jean Sibelius

    The Oceanides Op.73

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka鈥怭ekka Saraste.
    • RCA.
  • Trad.

    Fanfare de J茅richo

    Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Trad.

    Les Oracles Sybillins

    Singer: Montserrat Figueras. Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Symphony no. 2 in A minor, Op.55 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Utah Symphony. Director: Thierry Fischer.
    • Hyperion.
  • Francis Poulenc

    L'embarquement pour Cyth猫re

    Performer: Katia Lab猫que. Performer: Marielle Lab猫que.
    • Philips.
  • Claude Debussy

    No. 2; Fetes (Nocturnes for Orchestra)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Philips.
  • Jean-Baptiste Arban

    Variations on The Carnival of Venice

    Music Arranger: Donald Hunsberger. Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Donald Hunsberger.
    • CBS.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Horn Trio in E Flat Major Op.40 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Performer: Benjamin Marquise Gilmore. Performer: Daniel Grimwood.
    • Brahms: Chamber Music.
    • BIS.
    • 301.
  • Max Bruch

    Kol nidrei Op.47

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Decca.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Magnificat in D major BWV.243 (selection

    Singer: Nancy Argenta. Singer: Patrizia Kwella. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 1-4.
  • Hannah Kendall

    A Winged Spirit

    Performer: Hyeyoon Park. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • NMC Recordings.
  • Gustav Holst

    Mercury, the Winged Messenger (The Planets Op.32)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • LPO.
    • 3.
  • Joseph Canteloube

    Bailero (Chants d'Auvergne)

    Singer: Kate Royal. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Warner.
    • 3.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto no.26 in D major K.537 'Coronation' (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • SONY.
    • 2.
  • Clara Schumann

    Das ist ein Tag (6 Songs from Jucunde Op.23)

    Singer: Susan Gritton. Performer: Eugene Asti.
    • HYPERION.
    • 14.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Capriccio italien Op.45

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • CLASSIC FM.
    • 1.

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  • Tue 24 Nov 2020 09:00

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