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Ian Skelly with Rachel Podger, Franck's Le Chasseur Maudit, Essential Bruch

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

    Violin Concerto no.1 in A minor Op.77 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • Echoes of Time: Lisa Batiashvili/Symphonieorchester des Beyerischen Rundfunks.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Sonata a 22 S.241 [1615 no.18]

    Ensemble: Berlin Brass. Performer: Andreas Sieling. Conductor: Lucas Vis.
    • PENTATONE.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O coruscans lux stellarum [O glistening starlight]

    Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Timothy Brown.
    • COLLEGIUM.
  • C茅sar Franck

    Le Chasseur maudit [The Accursed Huntsman]

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Jean-Luc Tingaud.
    • NAXOS.
  • Louis Vierne

    Naiades (Fantasy Pieces, Suite no.4 Op.55)

    Performer: Olivier Latry.
    • BNL.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Mazurka in B flat Minor, Op.24 no.4

    Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    A Dream (6 Songs Op.38)

    Singer: Katharina Konradi. Performer: Gerold Huber.
    • GENUIN.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.82 in C major H.1.82 'The Bear' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Conductor: Douglas Boyd.
    • Haydn: Complete Paris Symphonies Nos. 82-87.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 212.
  • Walter Rabl

    Violin Sonata in D Major, Op 6 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Genevi猫ve Laurenceau. Performer: Oliver Triendl.
    • Rabl: Chamber Music.
    • CPO.
    • 16.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in D major, RV.214 (3rd mvt)

    Music Arranger: Dani毛l Br眉ggen. Ensemble: Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet.
    • Extra Time.
    • Decca.
    • 12.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (Lyric Pieces book 8 Op.65)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.5 in C sharp minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.
  • Orlande de Lassus

    O mors, quam amara est memoria tua

    Performer: Cinquecento.
    • Hyperion.
  • Michiru Oshima

    Memories

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Performer: Cory Smythe.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Richard Wagner

    The Flying Dutchman (Overture)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • The Wagner Project.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Huntsmen鈥檚 Chorus (Der Freisch眉tz)

    Choir: Berlin Opera Chorus. Orchestra: Orchestra of the German Opera, Berlin. Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Charles Williams

    Devil's Galop

    Orchestra: Charles Williams and His Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Williams.
    • EMI.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs)

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Bertrand Chamayou - Maurice Ravel.
    • Erato.
    • 7.
  • Max Bruch

    Concerto for clarinet, viola and orchestra in E minor, Op 88

    Performer: Paul Meyer. Performer: G茅rard Causs茅. Orchestra: Orchestre de l鈥橭p茅ra de Lyon. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • Bruch - works for clarinet and viola.
    • ERATO.
    • 001.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Turtle Dove

    Singer: Gabriel Crouch. Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Fuga y Misterio

    Ensemble: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Caro bell'idol mio K.562

    Singer: Sabine Devieilhe. Singer: Siobhan Stagg. Singer: Serena Malfi. Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Rapha毛l Pichon.
    • Libert脿! Mozart & the opera.
    • Harmonia mundi.
    • 6.
  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Hansel and Gretel (Dream-Pantomime)

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Marek Janowski.
    • PENTATONE.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Intermezzo in A flat major

    Performer: Pascal Rog茅.
    • Poulenc: Piano Music: Pascal Roge.
    • Decca.
    • 20.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite no 4 in D major BWV.1069 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.

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