Ian Skelly with Essential Liam Byrne, Emily Hall's Eternity and an Essential Waltz
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.
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Leos Jan谩膷ek
Fanfare (Sinfonietta)
Conductor: Charles Mackerras. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.- Janacek: Sinfonietta/Taras Bulba: Wiener Philharmoniker/Mackerras.
- Decca.
- 1.
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Franz Schubert
Das Wandern, D 795 No 1 (Die sch枚ne M眉llerin)
Performer: J枚rg Demus. Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau.- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Concerto No 2 in E Major, BWV 1042: I. Allegro
Performer: Cecilia Bernardini.- J.S. Bach: Violin Concertos.
- Linn Records.
- 104.
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Emily Hall
Eternity
Singer: Olivia Chaney.- bigo & twigetti.
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Henry Litolff
Concerto symphonique no.4 Op.102 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Shura Cherkassky. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent.- GUILD.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade in B flat major, K 361, 'Gran Partita': Romanze (5th mvt)
Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- Mozart: Serenades: Academy of St Martin in the fields/Marriner.
- Philips.
- 6.
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Home (Seven Songs Home)
Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies. Choir: Choir of St Mary's Music School.- Peter Maxwell Davies: A Portrait.
- Naxos.
- 13.
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Percy Grainger
Country Gardens
Performer: Penelope Thwaites. Performer: John Lavender.- Grainger: Piano Music for Four Hands Vol.1: Thwaites/Lavender.
- Pavillion.
- 9.
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Leonard Bernstein
Make our garden grow (Candide)
Singer: Barbara Cook. Singer: Robert Rounseville. Orchestra: Orchestra. Choir: Chorus. Director: Samuel Krachmalnick.- CBS.
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Emily Hall
Eternity
Singer: Olivia Chaney.- bigo & twigetti.
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Samuel Akpabot
Pastorale (Scenes from Nigeria)
Performer: Marcus Eley. Performer: Lucerne DeSa.- But Not Forgotten: Music by African-American Composers for clarinet and piano.
- SONO LUMINUS.
- 6.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto in C major, RV 189
Performer: Fabio Biondi. Orchestra: Europa Galante.- GLOSSA.
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Lucrezia Vizzana
Componimenti musicali de motetti concertati: O magnum mysterium
Performer: Jonas Nordberg. Performer: Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann. Singer: Ruby Hughes.- Heroines of Love & Loss.
- BIS.
- 14.
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Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in G major, Op 33 No 5; 1st mvt (Vivace assai)
Ensemble: Quatuor Mosa茂ques.- Naive.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
None but the lonely heart (Net, tol'ka tot, kto znal), Op 6 No 6
Performer: Oleg Boshniakovich. Singer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky.- Philips.
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Edward Elgar
Enigma Variations, Op 36 (Variation 9, 'Nimrod')
Conductor: Colin Davis. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.- Elgar: Enigma Variations: LSO/Sir Colin Davis.
- LSO Live.
- 9.
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Eleanor Alberga
Suite from 'Dancing with the Shadow' - Sextet
Ensemble: Lontano. Conductor: Odaline de la Martinez.- British Women Composers, Volume 2.
- Lorelt.
- 13.
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John Dowland
Time stands still
Singer: Ed Lyon. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Performer: Siobh谩n Armstrong. Performer: Reiko Ichise.- 17th Century Playlist.
- Delphian.
- 13.
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Niccol貌 Paganini
Moto Perpetuo (Bluegrass version)
Performer: B茅la Fleck.- Perpetual Motion.
- Sony Classical.
- 20.
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Henry Purcell
Music for a While (Oedipus - incidental music to Act 3 Z.583)
Singer: Rowan Pierce. Performer: Richard Egarr. Performer: William Carter.- Linn.
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Ilse Weber
Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt
Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Performer: Bebe Risenfors.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Ottorino Respighi
The Birds
Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.- Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 1-5.
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Eleanor Daley
Upon Your Heart
Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Choir: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.- All Things are Quite Silent.
- Signum Classics.
- 13.
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Hector Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique (The Ball)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.- Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique: LSO/Sir Colin Davis.
- LSO Live.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Silent Woods (for cello and orchestra), Op 65 No 5
Performer: Jean鈥怗uihen Queyras. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Fran莽ois Couperin
Le Moucheron (Pieces de clavecin - ordre no.6 )
Performer: Christophe Rousset.- Francois Couperin: Deuxieme livre de Pieces de clavecin.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 017.
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Johannes Brahms
Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit (A German Requiem)
Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Choir: Cappella Amsterdam. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Daniel Reuss.- 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
- GLOSSA.
- 5.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony No 10 in E minor, Op 93 (2nd mvt)
Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth. Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales.- BIS.
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George Frideric Handel
Trio Sonata in G minor, HWV 393, 'Dresden No 2' (3rd mvt, Largo)
Ensemble: Ensemble Zefiro.- Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no.6 in F major, Op.68 'Pastoral' (4th & 5th mvts)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- Beethoven: 9 Symphonies: Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 8.
Broadcast
- Thu 31 Dec 2020 09:00大象传媒 Radio 3