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Ian Skelly with Essential Harp and Couperin's Les baricades

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 Some recommendations for contemporary classical works .

1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five great pieces of music for the harp.

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

3 hours

Last on

Tue 5 Jan 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto no. 1 in B flat major K.207 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Baiba Skride. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Eivind Aadland.
    • Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 1-5.
    • Orfeo.
    • 103.
  • Franz Liszt

    Transcendental Study in B flat major S.139 no.5

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    The Last Waltz

    Performer: Véronique Gens. Ensemble: I Giardini.
    • Alpha.
  • François Couperin

    Les baricades mistérieuses (Pièces de clavecin, Ordre no.6)

    Performer: Jean Rondeau. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • Erato.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Cello Concerto in G minor RV.416

    Performer: Bruno Philippe. Ensemble: Jupiter.
    • ALPHA.
  • Béla Bartók

    Piano Quintet: IV. Poco a poco più vivace

    Performer: Barnabás Kelemen. Performer: Vilde Frang. Performer: Katalin Kokas. Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Performer: Alexander Lonquich.
    • Alpha.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Lasst mich allein Op.82 / Songs my mother taught Op.55 no.4

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Anna Polonsky.
    • Decca.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden BWV.230

    Choir: VOCES8. Ensemble: Senesino Players. Director: Barnaby Smith.
    • Bach Motets.
    • Signum.
    • 3.
  • George Gershwin

    Piano Concerto in F major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Denis Kozhukhin. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Kazuki Yamada.
    • Pentatone.
  • Rhiannon Giddens

    Ten Thousand Voices

    Singer: Rhiannon Giddens. Performer: Francesco Turrisi.
    • There Is No Other.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 1.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.1 in G minor "Winter Dreams" Op.13 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Amy Beach

    Piano Trio in A minor Op.150 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Gould Piano Trio.
    • Resonus.
  • George Frideric Handel

    The Harmonious Blacksmith (Keyboard Suite no.5 in E major HWV.430)

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock.
    • The Harmonious Blacksmith - Favourite Harpsichord Pieces: Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Prelude (Le tombeau de Couperin)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music: Steven Osborne, Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    M'ami, m'ami (Un Ballo in Maschera)

    Singer: Margaret Price. Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Decca.
  • Edward Elgar

    Enigma Variations Op.36 (Variation 14, 'E.D.U.')

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Elgar: Cockaigne: ´óÏó´«Ã½ SO, Andrew Davis.
    • Teldec.
  • William Levi Dawson

    Folk Symphony (Hope in the Night)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • CHANDOS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Harp Concerto in B flat major Op.4`6

    Performer: Valérie Milot. Orchestra: Les Violons du Roy. Conductor: Bernard Labadie.
    • Analekta.
  • Aaron Copland

    Appalachian Spring (Nos.7 & 8)

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Roadtrip.
    • Warner.
    • 14-15.
  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F major D.803 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: Bruno Schneider. Performer: Dag Jensen. Performer: Knut Eric Sundquist. Ensemble: Modigliani Quartet.
    • Schubert: Octet.
    • Mirare.
    • 3.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Piano Concerto no.2 in C minor Op.126 (Adagio Molto)

    Performer: Finghin Collins. Orchestra: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kenneth Montgomery.
    • Clarity.
  • Eleanor Daley

    Grandmother Moon

    Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • All Things are Quite Silent.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 11.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    English Folk Song Suite

    Orchestrator: Gordon Jacob. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • AVIE.

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