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.
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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.
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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.
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Reynaldo Hahn
The Last Waltz
Performer: Véronique Gens. Ensemble: I Giardini.- Alpha.
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François Couperin
Les baricades mistérieuses (Pièces de clavecin, Ordre no.6)
Performer: Jean Rondeau. Performer: Thomas Dunford.- Erato.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Cello Concerto in G minor RV.416
Performer: Bruno Philippe. Ensemble: Jupiter.- ALPHA.
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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.
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AntonÃn Dvořák
Lasst mich allein Op.82 / Songs my mother taught Op.55 no.4
Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Anna Polonsky.- Decca.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden BWV.230
Choir: VOCES8. Ensemble: Senesino Players. Director: Barnaby Smith.- Bach Motets.
- Signum.
- 3.
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George Gershwin
Piano Concerto in F major (1st mvt)
Performer: Denis Kozhukhin. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Kazuki Yamada.- Pentatone.
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Rhiannon Giddens
Ten Thousand Voices
Singer: Rhiannon Giddens. Performer: Francesco Turrisi.- There Is No Other.
- Nonesuch.
- 1.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony no.1 in G minor "Winter Dreams" Op.13 (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.- CHANDOS.
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Amy Beach
Piano Trio in A minor Op.150 (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Gould Piano Trio.- Resonus.
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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.
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Maurice Ravel
Prelude (Le tombeau de Couperin)
Performer: Steven Osborne.- Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music: Steven Osborne, Piano.
- Hyperion.
- 1.
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Giuseppe Verdi
M'ami, m'ami (Un Ballo in Maschera)
Singer: Margaret Price. Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.- Decca.
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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.
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William Levi Dawson
Folk Symphony (Hope in the Night)
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- CHANDOS.
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George Frideric Handel
Harp Concerto in B flat major Op.4`6
Performer: Valérie Milot. Orchestra: Les Violons du Roy. Conductor: Bernard Labadie.- Analekta.
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Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring (Nos.7 & 8)
Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.- Roadtrip.
- Warner.
- 14-15.
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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.
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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.
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Eleanor Daley
Grandmother Moon
Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.- All Things are Quite Silent.
- Signum Classics.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
English Folk Song Suite
Orchestrator: Gordon Jacob. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.- AVIE.
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- Tue 5 Jan 2021 09:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3