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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

Wed 3 Feb 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Nicolas Gombert

    Ave Maria

    Ensemble: Brabant Ensemble. Director: Stephen Rice.
    • Tribulato et angustia 鈥 Four and five part motets by Nicolas Gombert.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Edvard Grieg

    4 Norwegian Dances Op.35 (no.3)

    Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Petri Sakari.
    • CHANDOS : CHAN-9028.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 3.
  • Paul Pabst

    Piano Trio in A major, 'In memory of Antoine Rubinstein' (2nd mvt - Intermezzo)

    Ensemble: Brahms Trio.
    • History of the Russian Piano Trio, Vol. 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 202.
  • Ferde Grof茅

    On the Trail (Grand Canyon Suite)

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • Copland, A.: Hoe Down / An Outdoor Overture / Billy the Kid Suite / Grofe, F.: O.
    • Delos.
    • 2.
  • Alma Mahler-Werfel

    Laue Sommernacht (Five Songs, 1910)

    Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Karen Cargill.
    • Alma and Gustav Mahler - Lieder.
    • Linn Records.
    • 3.
  • Johann Adolf Hasse

    Enea in Caonia - Sinfonia (Part 2)

    Orchestra: Enea Barock Orchestra. Conductor: Stefano Montanari.
    • Hasse: Enea in Caonia.
    • CPO.
    • 1.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Petite suite de concert Op 77 (4th mvt. La tarantelle fretillante)

    Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • African Heritage Symphonic Series, Volume 1.
    • CEDILLE.
    • 5.
  • Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

    Generations: Sinfonietta No 2 (2nd mvt: Alla sarabande)

    Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • African Heritage Symphonic Series volume III.
    • Cedille Records.
    • 7.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in C minor, Op.13, 'Path茅tique' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Beethoven Piano Sonatas: 'Moonlight' 'Pathetique' 'Waldstein' Steven Osborne pia.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Orfeo ed Euridice (Overture)

    Music Arranger: Hector Berlioz. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Septet in E flat major, Op 65

    Performer: David Guerrier. Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: Esther Hoppe. Performer: B茅atrice Muthelet. Performer: Gautier Capu莽on. Performer: Janne Saksala. Performer: Frank Braley.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony no.4 in A major Op.90 'Italian' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphonies 1-5.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 04.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Kyrie

    Ensemble: Oxford Camerata. Conductor: Jeremy Summerly.
    • NAXOS.
  • Franz Anton Hoffmeister

    Double bass quartet No 3 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Niek de Groot. Performer: Minna Pensola. Performer: Antti Tikkanen. Performer: Tuomas Lehto.
    • Rossini: Sonatas for Strings Nos. 4-6 鈥 Hoffmeister: Double Bass Quartets Nos. 3.
    • BIS.
    • 6.
  • Jerome Moross

    The Big Country (Main theme)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Tony Bremner.
    • The Big Country.
    • Silva Screen.
    • 1.
  • Hubert L茅onard

    Donkey and Driver

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Thomas Ad猫s.
    • RCA.
  • Alexander Borodin

    In the Steppes of Central Asia

    Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Sheherazade.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 5.
  • Hubert Parry

    An English Suite (Prelude)

    Orchestra: South-West German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim. Conductor: Douglas Bostock.
    • British Music for Strings I.
    • CPO.
    • 1.
  • Cipriano de Rore

    Ancor che col Partire

    Performer: Liam Byrne. Performer: Valgeir Sigur冒sson. Performer: James McVinnie. Music Arranger: Richardo Rognono.
    • Concrete.
    • Bedroom Community.
    • 9.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D minor, K. 77

    Performer: Ksenija Sidorova.
    • Ksenija Sidorova - Classical Accordion.
    • Champs Hill.
    • 3.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Quartet No 2 in A major, Op 26 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Performer: Isaac Stern. Performer: Jaime Laredo. Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma.
    • Brahms: Piano Quartets Opp. 25, 26 & 60: Ax/Stern/Laredo/Ma.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • Franz Schubert

    Hier auf den Fluren (Rosamunde)

    Choir: Ernst Senff Choir. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in D major, TWV 53:D2

    Orchestra: La Stagione Frankfurt. Conductor: Michael Schneider.
    • CPO.
  • Elisabetta Brusa

    Wedding Song

    Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. Conductor: Fabio Mastrangelo.
    • Brusa: Orchestral Works Vol.2.
    • Naxos.
    • 003.
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Piano concerto No 1 in B flat minor, Op 1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Love Derwinger. Orchestra: Malm枚 SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • Bis.
  • John Dowland

    The Frog Galliard

    Performer: Paul O鈥橠ette.
    • My Favourite Dowland.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 008.
  • Georges Bizet

    Symphony in C major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Mirare.

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