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Ian Skelly with Essential Davina Shum , Strauss's The Blue Danube Waltz and Foulds' Holiday Stekches

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 waltzes.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Eugene Onegin (Polonaise)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • EMI.
  • Francisco T谩rrega

    Capricho Arabe

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰.
    • Milos: The Guitar.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 14.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in C sharp major, BWV.848

    Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
    • DECCA.
  • John Foulds

    Bells at Koblenz (Holiday Sketches Op.16)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • John Foulds: Keltic Suite & Suite Fantastique.
    • Dutton.
    • 9.
  • Johann Christian Bach

    Sextet in C major (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: The English Concert.
    • J.C. Bach: 3 Quintette; Sextett.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 4.
  • Giovanni Sollima

    Violoncelles, vibrez! for 2 cellos and string orchestra

    Performer: Gautier Capu莽on. Performer: Beno卯t Grenet. Orchestra: Paris Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Douglas Boyd.
    • Intuition.
    • Erato.
    • 104.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Exsultate (Exsultate, jubilate, K.165)

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Mozart: A Fesival: Academy of Ancient Music/Hogwood.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.
    • 2.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Masques et bergamasques

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Bassoon Concerto in F major arr for trumpet (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sergei Nakariakov. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras. Conductor: Saulius Sondeckis.
    • Echoes from the Past: Nakariakov/Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra/Sondeckis.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Jennifer Higdon

    Harp Concerto (Lullaby)

    Performer: Yolanda Kondonassis. Orchestra: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ward Stare.
    • American Rapture.
    • Azica.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite no.6 in D major, BWV.1012 (Allemande)

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma.
    • J. S. Bach, The Cello Suites: Yo-Yo Ma.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 10.
  • C茅cile Chaminade

    Concertino, Op.107

    Performer: Sharon Bezaly. Orchestra: Residentie Orkest. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Great works for flute and orchestra.
    • BIS.
    • 007.
  • Albert Ket猫lbey

    'Appy 'Ampstead (Cockney Suite)

    Orchestra: New Symphony Orchestra of London. Conductor: Stanford Robinson.
    • Decca.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in G major for 2 mandolins RV.532 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Ugo Orlandi. Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti. Conductor: Claudio Scimone.
    • Vivaldi: 4 Mandolin Concertos: Orlandi/I Solisti Veneti/Scimone.
    • Apex.
    • 3.
  • Edward Elgar

    The Marksman (Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands Op.27)

    Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Elgar: The Black Night; Scenes From The Bavarian Highlands.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 15.
  • Leroy Anderson

    Bugler's Holiday

    Orchestra: Boston Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Arthur Fiedler.
    • DG.
  • Carl Czerny

    Sonatina for Piano Trio in G Major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Sun-Young Shin. Performer: Benjamin Hayek. Performer: Samuel Gingher.
    • Czerny: Piano Trios.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Dance of the Tumblers (Snow Maiden suite)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Efrem Kurtz.
    • Efrem Kurtz - Profile.
    • EMI.
    • 002.
  • Ari Pulkkinen

    Angry Birds (Main Theme)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Skeet.
    • The Greatest Video Game Music.
    • X5 Music Group.
    • 4.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Die Schone Melusine - overture Op.32

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Antonio M茅ndez.
    • LINN.
  • Adolf Schulz-Evler

    Arabesques on a theme from 'The Beautiful Blue Danube'

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • DECCA.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Serenade Op.37

    Performer: Daniel M眉ller鈥怱chott. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Aziz Shokhakimov.
    • Trip to Russia.
    • Orfeo.
    • 601.
  • Anonymous

    Ninna nanna

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Orchestra: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Via Crucis; L'Arpeggiata; Christina Pluhar.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 2.
  • Louis Couperin

    Suite in D minor (Chaconne)

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Couperin: Dances From The Bauyn Manuscript.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.
  • 脡douard Lalo

    Guitare (Op.28)

    Performer: Philippe Graffin. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Thierry Fischer.
    • Rare French works for violin & orchestra: Philippe Graffin, Ulster Orchestra, Th.
    • Hyperion.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    String Quintet in E major, Op.11`5 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Eckart Runge. Ensemble: Casals Quartet. Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Franz Liszt

    Mephisto Waltz no.1

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Franz Welser鈥怣枚st.
    • Neujahrskonzert/New Year's Concert 2011; Weiner Philharmoniker/Wesler-Most.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

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  • Mon 28 Dec 2020 09:00

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