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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.

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Fri 5 Feb 2021 09:00
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Music Played

  • Barbara Strozzi

    Le tre Grazie a Venere (The Three Graces to Venus)

    Performer: Jolle Greenleaf. Performer: Molly Quinn. Performer: Virginia Warnken. Performer: Josh Lee. Performer: Jeffrey Grossman.
    • Avie.
    • AV2326.
    • 2.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Dance in E minor Op.72 no.2

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings.
    • BPHR180221.
    • 5.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata No 62 in E flat major, H XVI 52 鈥� Finale (Presto, 3rd movement)

    Performer: Rafa艂 Blechacz.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4777453.

  • George Frideric Handel

    "Verdi prati", from Alcina

    Performer: Susan Graham. Performer: Les Arts Florissants. Performer: William Christie.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2564696532.
    • 21.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Finlandia

    Performer: Chineke! Orchestra. Performer: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Signum Classics.
    • SIGCD515.
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonatine in C major for mandolin and keyboard, WoO 44 No 1

    Performer: Duilio Galfetti. Performer: Diego Fasolis.
    • ARTS.
    • 476102.
    • 2.

  • Josquin des Prez

    "Absalon, fili mi"

    Performer: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • HMU807595.
    • 7.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Macbeth 鈥� Part 3 of the ballet music from Act 3

    Performer: New Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Riccardo Muti.
    • EMI.
    • CDC747274-2.
    • 4.

  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Adagio cantabile, No 2 of Cinnamon Grove

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • Navona.
    • NV6013.
    • 17.

  • Grace Williams

    Penillion

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Sir Charles Groves.
    • Lyrita.
    • SRCD323.
    • 6-9.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Gavottes pour les Heures et les Z茅phirs (from Les Bor茅ades)

    Performer: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Performer: Marc Minkowski.
    • Archiv.
    • 477 5578.
    • 8.

  • Kurt Weill

    Berlin Im Licht-Song (Berlin in Lights)

    Performer: Teresa Stratas. Performer: Richard Woitach.
    • Nonesuch Records.
    • 0349713806.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan and Ludmilla 鈥� Overture

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Georg Solti.
    • Decca.
    • 4783199.
    • 1.

  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    In the Mists 鈥� No 1 (Andante)

    Performer: Lars Vogt.
    • Ondine.
    • ODE1382-2.
    • 1.

  • Jennifer Higdon

    Joy Ride 鈥� second movement of Harp Concerto

    Performer: Yolanda Kondonassis. Performer: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Ward Stare.
    • Azica.
    • AXA 71327.
    • 3.

  • George Butterworth

    The Banks of Green Willow

    Performer: English Chamber Orchestra. Performer: Jeffrey Tate.
    • EMI.
    • 7 47945 2.
    • 1.

  • Robert Lucas Pearsall

    Lay a Garland

    Performer: The Sixteen. Performer: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
    • COR 16134.
    • 11.

  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    Baba-Yaga

    Performer: 袣芯褋懈薪褋泻懈泄 袨褉泻械褋褌褉. Performer: Valery Gergiev.
    • Philips.
    • 442011-2.
    • 6.

  • George Frideric Handel

    "Where'er you walk", from Semele

    Performer: Mark Padmore. Performer: The English Concert. Performer: Andrew Manze.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • HMU907422.
    • 2.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Rondeau, from Les Biches

    Performer: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Performer: Thierry Fischer.
    • Signum Classics.
    • SIGCD205.
    • 16.

  • Elena Langer

    Snow

    Performer: Roman Mints. Performer: Katya Apekisheva.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • HMU 907669.
    • 9.

  • Thomas Tallis

    If ye love me

    Performer: The Gesualdo Six. Performer: Owain Park.
    • Hyperion.
    • CDA 68256.
    • 5.

  • Kayhan Kalhor

    Gallop of a Thousand Horses

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Silk Road Ensemble.
    • Sony.
    • G010000703985B.
    • 13.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No 2 in E flat major, K.417

    Performer: Anthony Halstead. Performer: Academy of Ancient Music. Performer: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Decca.
    • 4432162.
    • 4.

  • Franz Schubert

    Das Fischerm盲dchen, D 957 No 10 (from Schwanengesang)

    Performer: Christian Gerhaher. Performer: Gerold Huber.
    • Arte Nova Classics.
    • 7432175075 2.
    • 10.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Sinfonia for strings in G minor

    Performer: La Serenissima. Performer: Adrian Chandler.
    • Avie.
    • AV2257.
    • 5-7.

  • Florence Price

    Adagio, from Piano Concerto

    Performer: Karen Walwyn. Performer: New Black Music Repertory Ensemble. Performer: Leslie Dunner.
    • Albany Records.
    • TROY1295.
    • 2.

  • Patrick Hadley

    Wedding and Epilogue, from cantata The Hills

    Performer: Felicity Palmer. Performer: Robert Tear. Performer: Robert Lloyd. Performer: Cambridge University Musical Society Chorus. Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Philip Ledger.
    • EMI.
    • 5099909540521.
    • 8.

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