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Ian Skelly with Steven Osborne, 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

  • Johann Bernhard Bach

    Overture-Suite No 2 in G major (Overture)

    Ensemble: Bach Players.
    • The Bach Players - Bah's Library.
    • Hyphen Press Music.
    • 1 & 7.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle in C minor WoO.52 for piano

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • HYPERION.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    String Quartet No. 2 in F Major: IV. Tr猫s vite

    Ensemble: Noga Quartet.
    • Aquarelles.
    • CAvi-music.
    • 104.
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Stabat mater in F minor (opening)

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Singer: Christopher Lowrey. Ensemble: Les Talens Lyriques. Conductor: Christophe Rousset.
    • PERGOLESI - Stabat Mater.
    • ALPHA.
    • 1.
  • Claude Debussy

    La Mer (Jeux de Vagues)

    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.
    • 107.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Mond, so gehst du wieder auf (Lieder des Abschieds Op.14)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Helmut Deutsch.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.
  • Carl Nielsen

    The fog is lifting (The Mother, Op 41)

    Performer: James Galway. Performer: Sioned Williams.
    • James Galway plays Nielsen.
    • RCA.
    • 7.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Keyboard Concerto in D major H.18.11 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Ensemble: Les Violons du Roy. Conductor: Bernard Labadie.
    • Jeunehomme.
    • Erato.
    • 6.
  • Edward Elgar

    Cockaigne (In London Town), Op. 40

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle.
  • Keith Jarrett

    Bregenz, Part 1 (opening)

    Performer: Keith Jarrett.
    • ECM.
  • Eleanor Daley

    Upon Your Heart

    Choir: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    String Quartet No. 3 in F Major, Op. 73; 1st mvt "Allegro"

    Ensemble: Goldmund Quartet.
    • Shostakovich: String Quartets 3 & 9.
    • Berlin Classics.
    • 1.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Overture "Le carnaval romain", Op.9

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥 Philharmonie. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Berlioz: Requiem.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 005.
  • George Frideric Handel

    He shall drink of the torrent (Dixit Dominus)

    Singer: Angela Kazimierczuk. Singer: Katherine Fugue. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Vivaldi Gloria / Handel Dixit Dominus.
    • Philips.
    • 026.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Gavotte with two variations (Pulcinella)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Craft.
    • PULCINELLA, THE FAIRY'S KISS / STRAVINSKY.
    • Naxos.
    • 16.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Che faro senza Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice)

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Ensemble: I Barocchisti. Director: Diego Fasolis.
    • Erato.
  • Henry Purcell

    Sound the trumpet, real. Britten for 2 voices and piano [from 'Come ye sons of Art']

    Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Singer: John Mark Ainsley. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • Britten: Purcell Realizations.
    • Hyperion.
    • 22.
  • Muzio Clementi

    Capriccio in B flat major Op.17

    Performer: Howard Shelley.
    • Clementi: Capriccios & Variations.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Serenade in E for Strings, Op. 22: III. Scherzo. Vivace

    Ensemble: Auvergne Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Roberto For茅s Veses.
    • Dvo艡谩k, Jan谩膷ek, Martin暖: Works for Strings.
    • 础辫补谤迟茅.
    • 3.
  • Max Bruch

    8 Pieces for cl, vla (cello) & pf (harp) (Op.83),no.3 in C# min;Andante con moto

    Performer: Ralph Manno. Performer: Guido Schiefen. Performer: Liese Klahn. Ensemble: ensemble incanto.
    • Johannes Brahms/Max Bruch.
    • EBS.
    • 7.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphonic Dances, Op.45 (no.2)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, The Isle of the Dead, The Rock.
    • Avie.
    • 2.
  • Pedro Rabassa

    Astro Nuevo - Cantata al Sant铆simo con violines

    Singer: Julia Doyle. Orchestra: Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla. Conductor: Enrico Onofri.
    • PASSACAILLE.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in E flat 'Schlummerlied' Op.117 no.1

    Performer: Arcadi Volodos.
    • SONY.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Salve Regina

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.
  • Franz Schubert

    German Dance in G major, D 90 No 2

    Ensemble: Verdi Quartet.
    • Schubert: Complete String Quartets.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.
    • 2.
  • Wynton Marsalis

    Violin Concerto in D Major (Hootenanny)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Cristian M膬celaru.
    • Decca.

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  • Fri 27 Nov 2020 09:00

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