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Ian Skelly with Essential Minuets and Avi Avital

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 Musicians recommend their favourite recordings.

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we bring you five notable takes on the stately minuet.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Alessandro (Overture)

    Orchestra: The Brandenburg Consort. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • Handel: Arias and Duets from the era of 'The Rival Queens'.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Pi猫ce en forme d'Habanera, M. 51

    Performer: Damien Ventula. Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Toulouse. Conductor: Gilles Colliard.
    • Concertos.
    • Klarthe.
    • 106.
  • Edvard Grieg

    4 Norwegian dances Op.35 (no.1)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ole Kristian Ruud.
    • Grieg: The Orchestral Music: Bergen PO, Ruud.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Sir James MacMillan

    So Deep

    Choir: The Elysian Singers. Director: Sam Laughton.
    • The Elysian Singers - Cantos Sagrados.
    • Signum.
    • 10.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Concert Piece No 1 in F minor, Op 113

    Music Arranger: Rainer Schottst盲dt. Performer: Daniel Ottensamer. Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Ensemble: Wiener Virtuosen.
    • The Clarinotts.
    • DG.
    • 1-3.
  • Carlo Arrigoni

    Sonata for mandolin & violin in E minor

    Performer: Davide Ferella. Performer: Barbara Altobello. Ensemble: Accademia degli Erranti.
    • Tiranni affetti.
    • Dynamic.
    • 20-23.
  • Arnold Bax

    Tintagel

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.
    • Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3 - Bax: Tintagel.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 101.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor Op.66 for piano

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov.
    • DG.
  • Grace Williams

    Calm Sea in Summer (Sea Sketches)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: David Atherton.
    • Grace Williams: Fantasia On Welsh Nursery Tunes, Carillons, Penillion, Trumpet C.
    • Lyrita.
    • 17.
  • Jean Fran莽aix

    Sonatine for trumpet and piano

    Performer: H氓kan Hardenberger. Performer: Roland P枚ntinen.
    • BIS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Deh, vieni alla finestra (Don Giovanni)

    Performer: Avi Avital. Singer: Christian Gerhaher. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • Sony.
  • Max Bruch

    Serenade in A minor, Op 75 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Jack Liebeck. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Hyperion.
  • Bob Chilcott

    Like a Singing Bird

    Choir: The Sirens. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.
    • Chilcott: Making Waves.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 901.
  • James Oswald

    Sonata on Scots tunes for 2 instruments and continuo, She rose and let me in

    Ensemble: Concerto Caledonia. Director: David McGuinness.
    • Oswald: Colin's Kisses.
    • LINN.
    • 15.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Tam O'Shanter, Op 51

    Conductor: Rumon Gamba. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic.
    • Malcolm Arnold: Overtures: 大象传媒 Philharmonic/Gamba.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • John Ireland

    Amberley Wild Brooks

    Performer: John Lenehan.
    • Ireland: Piano Works 3: John Lenehan.
    • Naxos.
    • 15.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony No. 6 in A Major, WAB 106 (1881 Version): III. Scherzo. Nicht schnell

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A Major, WAB 106 (1881 Version).
    • BIS.
    • 301.
  • Tarquinio Merula

    Sentirete una canzonetta sopra al bel bocchin (Arr. for Chamber Ensemble)

    Singer: Viola Blache. Ensemble: Combo CAM.
    • Lorem ipsum.
    • Genuin.
    • 2001.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Harold en Italie, Op. 16, H. 68: 2. Marche de p猫lerins chantant la pri猫re du soi

    Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Berlioz: Harold en Italie, Les Nuits d'茅t茅.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 102.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    String Quintet no.11 in E major, G.275 (Minuet)

    Orchestra: Europa Galante.
    • Boccherini: String Quintets.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 13.
  • Richard Strauss

    Waltz Sequence no.1 (Der Rosenkavalier)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • Symphonic music from operas.
    • Sony.
    • 1.
  • Jean鈥怣ichel Damase

    Quintet for Flute, Harp, Violin, Viola and Cello ii Andante

    Performer: Anna Noakes. Performer: Jane Atkins. Performer: Ferenc Szucs. Performer: Richard Friedman. Performer: Gillian Tingay.
    • ASV.
  • Th茅odore Dubois

    Toccata in G major (12 Pieces for organ)

    Performer: Joseph Nolan.
    • The Organ of Buckingham Palace Ballroom.
    • Signum Records.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    French Suite no.2 in C minor BWV.813 (Gigue)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • J.S. Bach, The French Suites: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.
  • John Adams

    Lollapalooza

    Ensemble: New World Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • New World Jazz: New World Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • BMG Classics.
    • 1.

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