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Ian Skelly

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 鈥� 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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Music Played

  • Georges Bizet

    L'Arl茅sienne Suite No 2 (Farandole)

    Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Caroline Shaw

    And The Swallow

    Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Choir: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • All Things Are Quite Silent.
    • Signum.
    • 7.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata in B flat major for piano duet, K 358 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Christoph Eschenbach. Performer: Justus Frantz.
    • Mozart: Music for Piano Duet: Justus Frantz, Christoph Eschenbach.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Suite for Jazz Band No 2 (March)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.

  • George Frideric Handel

    "Verdi allori" (Green laurels), from Act 2 of Orlando

    Singer: Hilary Summers. Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • Handel: Alcina / Orlando.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 07.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Wind Sextet in E flat major, Op 71 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Gerard Reuter. Performer: Marc Schachman. Performer: Charles Neidich. Performer: Ayako Oshima. Performer: Dennis Godburn. Performer: Michael O'Donovan. Performer: William Purvis. Performer: Stewart Rose. Ensemble: Mozzafiato. Conductor: Charles Neidich.
    • Beethoven: Chamber music for wind instruments: Mozzafiato/Neidich.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 14.

  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    In such a night (Love scene) from incidental music to The Merchant of Venice

    Orchestra: Malm枚 Operaorkester. Conductor: Dario Salvi.
    • Humperdinck: Stage Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 207.

  • Guillaume Dufay

    Apostolo glorioso

    Choir: Lorelei Ensemble.
    • Impermanence.
    • Sono Luminus.
    • 1201.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Suite for Jazz Band No 2 (March)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell To Stromness

    Performer: Peter Maxwell Davies.
    • NAXOS.

  • Marie Ja毛ll

    Cello Concerto in F major

    Performer: Xavier Phillips. Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic. Director: Herv茅 Niquet.
    • Ediciones Singulares ES1022.
    • Ediciones Singulares.
    • 07.

  • Matthew Locke

    A martial jigge (from music for The Tempest)

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Ensemble: Innsbruck Trumpet Consort. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • TELDEC.

  • Esperanza Spalding

    Winter Sun

    Performer: Esperanza Spalding. Performer: Dave Eggar. Performer: Terri Lyne Carrington. Performer: Quintino Cinalli. Performer: Leo Genovese. Performer: Lois Martin. Performer: Entcho Todorov.
    • Chamber Music Society.
    • Heads Up International.
    • 9.

  • Robert Schumann

    Adagio and Allegro in A flat major Op.70

    Performer: David Pyatt. Performer: Martin Jones.
    • David Pyatt Recital / Schumann.
    • Erato.
    • 14-15.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Ave Maris Stella

    Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.
    • BIS.

  • Walter Piston

    Arrival of the Circus and Circus March (The Incredible Flutist)

    Orchestra: Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • DORIAN.

  • Louis James Alfred Lef茅bure鈥怶茅ly

    Sortie in E flat major

    Performer: Roger Judd.
    • HERALD.

  • Dana Suesse

    Jazz Nocturne

    Music Arranger: Carroll Huxley. Performer: Peter Mintun. Orchestra: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Rosenberg.
    • Jazz Nocturne.
    • Naxos.
    • 006.

  • Julius Fucik

    Florentiner-Marsch Op.214

    Ensemble: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: John Anderson.
    • Brassed off.
    • RCA.
    • 11.

  • Herbert Howells

    King David

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Lynne Dawson.
    • Hyperion.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Chaconne (Dardanus)

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Carlos Salzedo

    Song in the Night (Chanson dans la nuit)

    Performer: Susann McDonald.
    • DELOS.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Blanik (Ma Vlast)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Rafael Kubel铆k.
    • SUPRAPHON.

  • William Byrd

    The Bells

    Performer: Richard Egarr.
    • One Byrd in Hande.
    • LINN.

  • Pavel Grigoryevich Chesnokov

    Tebe poyem (We hymn Thee)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Signum.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto grosso in B flat major Op.6`11

    Orchestra: Gli Incogniti. Director: Amandine Beyer.
    • Corelli - The Complete Concerti Grossi.
    • Zig Zag.
    • 020.

  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    A Bayou Garden (A Tropic Winter)

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • My Cup Runneth Over.
    • Navona.
    • 2.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Hero and Leander (dramatic scene)

    Singer: Maacha Deubner. Orchestra: Kammersymphonie Berlin. Conductor: J眉rgen Bruns.
    • Dreyer Gaido.

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