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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.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Fanfare (Sinfonietta)

    Conductor: Charles Mackerras. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Janacek: Sinfonietta/Taras Bulba: Wiener Philharmoniker/Mackerras.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Emily Hall

    Eternity

    Singer: Olivia Chaney.
    • bigo & twigetti.
  • Henry Litolff

    Concerto symphonique no.4 Op.102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Shura Cherkassky. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent.
    • GUILD.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Percy Grainger

    Country Gardens

    Performer: Penelope Thwaites. Performer: John Lavender.
    • Grainger: Piano Music for Four Hands Vol.1: Thwaites/Lavender.
    • Pavillion.
    • 9.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Make our garden grow (Candide)

    Singer: Barbara Cook. Singer: Robert Rounseville. Orchestra: Orchestra. Choir: Chorus. Director: Samuel Krachmalnick.
    • CBS.
  • Emily Hall

    Eternity

    Singer: Olivia Chaney.
    • bigo & twigetti.
  • 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.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in C major, RV 189

    Performer: Fabio Biondi. Orchestra: Europa Galante.
    • GLOSSA.
  • 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.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in G major, Op 33 No 5; 1st mvt (Vivace assai)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Mosa茂ques.
    • Naive.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Eleanor Alberga

    Suite from 'Dancing with the Shadow' - Sextet

    Ensemble: Lontano. Conductor: Odaline de la Martinez.
    • British Women Composers, Volume 2.
    • Lorelt.
    • 13.
  • John Dowland

    Time stands still

    Singer: Ed Lyon. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Performer: Siobh谩n Armstrong. Performer: Reiko Ichise.
    • 17th Century Playlist.
    • Delphian.
    • 13.
  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    Moto Perpetuo (Bluegrass version)

    Performer: B茅la Fleck.
    • Perpetual Motion.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 20.
  • Henry Purcell

    Music for a While (Oedipus - incidental music to Act 3 Z.583)

    Singer: Rowan Pierce. Performer: Richard Egarr. Performer: William Carter.
    • Linn.
  • Ilse Weber

    Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Performer: Bebe Risenfors.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Birds

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1-5.
  • 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.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie fantastique (The Ball)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique: LSO/Sir Colin Davis.
    • LSO Live.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Trio Sonata in G minor, HWV 393, 'Dresden No 2' (3rd mvt, Largo)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Zefiro.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
  • 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.

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  • Thu 31 Dec 2020 09:00

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