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Ian Skelly with Essential Matthew Barley, a Tchaikovsky Waltz and Edward MacDowell's To a Wild Rose (woodland sketches)

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

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan and Ludmilla (Overture)

    Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch. Orchestra: Bavarian State Orchestra.
    • Essential Encores.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 201.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Piano Trio No 2 in E Minor, Op 92 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: Edgar Moreau. Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • ERATO.
  • William Byrd

    Sing joyfully unto God

    Choir: Odyssean Ensemble. Conductor: Colm Carey.
    • Linn Records.
  • Edward MacDowell

    To a Wild Rose (10 Woodland Sketches, Op 51 No 1)

    Performer: Katharina Nohl.
    • Creating Childhood.
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 8.
  • Franz Waxman

    Carmen Fantasy

    Composer: Georges Bizet. Performer: Chlo毛 Hanslip. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Mann.
    • Chloe.
    • Warner.
    • 11.
  • Giovanni Picchi

    Canzon Decima Quarta (Canzoni da sonar con ogni sorte d'istromenti, No 14)

    Ensemble: Concerto Scirocco. Director: Giulia Genini.
    • Arcana.
  • John Adams

    China Gates

    Performer: Nicolas Hodges.
    • John Adams: Road Movies.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in D major K.239 'Serenata notturna'

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Mozart: Serenate Notturne, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Wilhelm Kaiser-Lindemann

    Bossa-Nova-Philharmonica

    Ensemble: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • South American Getaway.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.
  • Jos茅 de Nebra

    El bajel que no recela (Vendado es amor, no es ciego)

    Singer: Alicia Amo. Ensemble: Los Elementos. Director: Alberto Migu茅lez Rouco.
    • Glossa.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Scarbo (Gaspard de la nuit)

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Dance in C minor, Op.46 no.7

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Brahms: Hungarian Dances &Dvorak: Slavonic Dances: Haitink.
    • Philips.
    • 17.
  • Johanna M眉ller-Hermann

    String Quartet in E flat, Op 6 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Artis Quartet.
    • Nimbus.
  • Peter Dickinson

    Blue Rose

    Performer: Peter Dickinson.
    • Naxos.
  • Franz Schubert

    Heidenr枚slein, D 257

    Performer: Christoph Eschenbach. Singer: Ren茅e Fleming.
    • Renee Fleming - Schubert Lieder.
    • Decca.
    • 001.
  • Frank Bridge

    Two Entr'actes (Rosemary)

    Conductor: Richard Hickox. Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales.
    • Chandos.
  • Joaqu铆n 鈥淨uinito鈥 Valverde Sanju谩n

    Clavelitos

    Performer: Gerald Moore. Singer: Victoria de los 脕ngeles.
    • 大象传媒.
  • Peter Dickinson

    Wild Rose Rag

    Performer: Peter Dickinson.
    • Naxos.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in C major H.15.27 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Joseph Haydn - Piano Trios.
    • Philips.
    • 6.
  • Noel DaCosta

    Dance Tunes for Solo Violin (Little Diamond - Bird on the Wing Jigs)

    Performer: Rachel Barton Pine.
    • Blues Dialogues: Music by Black Composers.
    • Cedille.
    • 503.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Ma quando tornerai (Alcina)

    Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Orchestra: Il Complesso Barocco. Conductor: Alan Curtis.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.6 Op.74 'Pathetique' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • The Tchaikovsky Project Vol. 1.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata No 21 in B flat major, D960 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Karin Kei Nagano.
    • Analekta.
  • Benjamin Britten

    A Hymn to the Virgin

    Choir: The Choir of Canterbury Cathedral. Director: David Flood.
    • A Canterbury Christmas.
    • York.
    • 1.
  • Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski

    Clarinet Concerto in B flat major

    Performer: Eric Hoeprich. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Guy Van Waas.
    • Glossa.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Rex noster promptus est

    Performer: Marianne Piketty. Ensemble: Le Concert Id茅al.
    • Evidence.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita no.3 in E Major, BWV.1006 (Loure)

    Music Arranger: Tobie Miller. Performer: Tobie Miller.
    • BACH: Solo.
    • Raumklang.
    • 2.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Dance of the Knights (Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • CBS.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in B flat major, Kk.551

    Performer: Jeremy Denk.
    • NONESUCH.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony no.4 in A major Op.90 'Italian' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphonies 1-5.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 04.

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  • Wed 30 Dec 2020 09:00

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