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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 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

Last on

Fri 29 Jan 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Wind Octet in E flat major, Op.103 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Bl盲serensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • Beethoven: Octet etc.: Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble.
    • EMI.
    • 4.
  • Trad.

    Mareta, mareta no'm faces plorar

    Music Arranger: Ensemble NAYA. Singer: Yaniv d'Or. Performer: Ensemble NAYA.
    • NAXOS.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Keyboard Concerto in G major H.18.4 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin. Orchestra: Les Violons du Roy. Conductor: Bernard Labadie.
    • Haydn: Piano Concertos: Hamelin/Les Violons du Roy/Labadie.
    • HYPERION.
    • 9.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Mariettas Lied (Die tote Stadt)

    Singer: Julia Kleiter. Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Jochen Rieder.
    • You mean the world to me.
    • Sony.
    • 16.
  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Piano Quintet (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Performer: Barnab谩s Kelemen. Performer: Katalin Kokas. Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Performer: Alexander Lonquich.
    • ALPHA.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in B flat major, BWV 866 (Book 1, The Well-Tempered Clavier)

    Performer: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
  • Robert Schumann

    Liederkreis, Op.39: Mondnacht

    Performer: Jennifer Partridge. Singer: Ian Partridge.
    • CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.
  • Trad.

    Tarantella Italiana

    Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • La Tarantella: L'Arpeggiata/Christine Pluhar.
    • Alpha.
    • 13.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Milonga Loca

    Ensemble: Philharmonix.
    • DG.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in A minor for four keyboards and strings, BWV.1065

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Orchestra: Les Violons du Roy. Conductor: Bernard Labadie.
    • J. S. Bach - Keyboard Concertos.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
    • 14.
  • C茅sar Franck

    Violin Sonata in A major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.
    • Vierne; Franck: Violin Sonatas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Clarinet Concerto No.1. iii. Molto Allegro

    Performer: Martin Frost. Orchestra: Concerto K枚ln.
    • SONY.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D960 - ii) Andante sostenuto

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • DECCA.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Quintet in E flat major Op.97 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet. Performer: Veronika Hagen.
    • Dvorak: String Quintet, Op. 97 & String Sextet, Op. 48.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 108.
  • Richard Strauss

    Hab' mir's gelobt (Der Rosenkavalier)

    Singer: Diana Damrau. Singer: Adrianne Pieczonka. Singer: El墨na Garan膷a. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Fabio Luisi.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 9.
  • Carter Burwell

    Prologue / Medieval Waters - From "In Bruges"

    Performer: Brussels Philharmonic. Conductor: Carter Burwell.
    • Silva Screen Records.
  • Clara Schumann

    Liebst du um Sch枚nheit, Op 37 No 4

    Performer: Joseph Breinl. Singer: Miah Persson.
    • Portraits: Songs by Clara and Robert Schumann.
    • BIS.
    • 20.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Placa l'alma (Alessandro, HWV21)

    Performer: London Early Opera. Singer: Mary Bevan. Singer: Lucy Crowe. Ensemble: London Early Opera. Conductor: Bridget Cunningham.
    • Handel's Queens.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 012.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Menuet in G major, BWV Anh 114; Menuet in G minor, BWV Anh 115

    Performer: Michael Behringer.
    • HANNSLER.
  • Henriette Reni茅

    Trio for harp, violin and cello (4th mvt)

    Performer: Antoine Bareil. Performer: St茅phane T茅treault. Performer: Val茅rie Milot.
    • Analekta.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No.10 in F-Sharp Major "Unfinished" (Completed by D. Cooke): II Scherzo

    Composer: Deryck Cooke. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲. Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra.
    • Mahler: Symphony No.鈥10 in F-Sharp Major "Unfinished" (Completed by D. Cooke).
    • BIS.
    • 102.
  • David Bruce

    Death is a Friend of Ours (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Avi Avital. Performer: Sean Shibe. Performer: Ophira Zakai. Performer: Yizhar Karshon. Performer: Anneleen Lenaerts.
    • DG.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ich habe genug (Cantata no. 82, BWV.82)

    Singer: Matthias Goerne. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • Bach: Cantatas for Bass.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 110.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Sonata [F.A.E.] (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Decca.
  • Henry Purcell

    Curtain Tune (Timon of Athens)

    Ensemble: The Purcell Quartet.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Max Bruch

    Kol nidrei Op.47

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • DECCA.

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