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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 great performances by cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

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

3 hours

Last on

Mon 1 Feb 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • George Gershwin

    Funny Face (Overture)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Stephen Brooker.
    • 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    February, 'Carnaval' (The Seasons)

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Hyperion.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Sleep

    Performer: VOCES8.
  • Charles-Valentin Alkan

    Aesop's Feast, Op 39 No 12

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Alkan: Grande Sonate; Sonatine; Le Festin D'Esope.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Va tacito (Giulio Cesare)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • Handel: Ombra mai fu: Andreas Scholl, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 10.
  • Derek Bourgeois

    Serenade Op.22

    Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Michael Antrobus.
    • Chandos.
  • Frank Bridge

    Fantasy Piano Quartet in F sharp minor

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • HYPERION.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Romance del Diablo (Romance of the Devil) arr. Albonetti

    Performer: Marco Albonetti. Orchestra: Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana.
    • Chandos.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Hamburger Ebbe und Fluth, TWV.55:C3 (excerpt)

    Ensemble: Zefiro. Director: Alfredo Bernardini.
    • Zefiro.
    • Ambroisie.
    • 16.
  • Florence Price

    Symphony No.3 in C minor 3rd mvt Juba

    Orchestra: Women's Philharmonic. Conductor: Apo Hsu.
    • KOCH.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Four Pieces Op. 81 - II: Scherzo in A minor

    Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.
    • ERATO.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Scherzi musicali; Quando l'alba in oriente (1607)

    Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • 狈础脧痴贰.
  • Leopold Godowsky

    Ungeduld transc Godowsky

    Performer: Rian de Waal.
    • Piano music by Leopold Godowsky.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Albert Roussel

    Le Festin de l'araignee (The Spider's Banquet); mvts 7-11

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane/Le Festin de L'Araign茅e - 大象传媒 Philharmonic/Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
    • 29-33.
  • Stephen Sondheim

    Sweeney Todd, Act 1: The Worst Pies in London

    Singer: Angela Lansbury. Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Gemignani.
    • RCA.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Concert waltz no.2 in F major Op.51

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Orfeo.
  • Duke Ellington

    Isfahan (Far East Suite)

    Composer: Billy Strayhorn. Orchestra: The Duke Ellington Orchestra.
    • Bluebird.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Unaccompanied Cello Suite No.6 in D Major, BWV 1012: Allemande

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma.
    • Six Evolutions.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 14.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Suite pour piano

    Performer: Pascal Rog茅.
    • DECCA.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major K.364 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos 1, 5 & Sinfonia concertante.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 107.
  • Wojciech Kilar

    Agnus Dei

    Choir: Chamber Choir Versija.
    • JADE.
  • Charles Gounod

    String Quartet in A major ii Allegretto

    Ensemble: Quatuor Cambini-Paris.
    • Gounod: Complete String Quartets.
    • 础辫补谤迟茅.
    • 19.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in E major Kk.206

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Handel/Scarlatti: Piano Sonatas: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 16.
  • Claude Debussy

    Ronde de printemps (Images)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Images, Jeux, La plus que lente.
    • SFSMedia.
    • 5.

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