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 pieces of music inspired by the myth of Orpheus.
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George Gershwin
Somebody Loves Me
Ensemble: The Julian Bliss Septet.- I Got Rhythm.
- Signum Classics.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Cello Sonata in D minor, Op 40 (4th mvt)
Performer: Han鈥恘a Chang. Performer: Sir Antonio Pappano.- EMI.
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Emmanuel Chabrier
Scherzo-valse (Suite pastorale)
Ensemble: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.- Bizet/Chabrier: Les Siecles/Francois-Xavier Roth.
- Mirare.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Hor che'l ciel et la terra (8th Book of Madrigals)
Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.- 狈础脧痴贰.
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Emahoy Tsegu茅-Maryam Gu猫brou
Mother's Love
Performer: Emahoy Tsegu茅-Maryam Gu猫brou.- Buda Musique.
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Johan Svendsen
Norwegian Artists' Carnival Op.14
Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- Chandos.
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Franz Schubert
Du bist die Ruh, D.776
Singer: Christian Gerhaher. Performer: Gerold Huber.- RCA.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Symphony No 7 in D minor, Op 70 (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Rafael Kubel铆k.- Dvorak: Symphonies nos. 7 & 8: Berliner Philharmoniker/Kubelik.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Robert White
Portio mea
Choir: Contrapunctus. Conductor: Owen Rees.- SIGNUM.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Allegro for clarinet and string quartet in B flat major K. Anh. 91
Ensemble: Camerata RCO.- GUTMAN RECORDS.
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Caroline Shaw
Partita (Sarabande)
Ensemble: Roomful of Teeth.- New Amsterdam.
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Richard Wagner
Tannhauser: Overture
Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.- EMI.
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Arvo P盲rt
The Deer's Cry
Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.- The Deer's Cry.
- CORO.
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Gabriel Faur茅
Apr猫s un r锚ve, Op 7 No 1
Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: C茅cile Licad. Music Arranger: Pau Casals.- Casals Encores: Gerhardt/Licad.
- Hyperion.
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George Frideric Handel
Love sound the alarm (Acis and Galatea)
Singer: John Mark Ainsley. Orchestra: Handel and Haydn Society. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.- Decca.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Scherzo No 4 in E major, Op 54
Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.- DECCA.
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Orfeo ed Euridice, Act II Scene 1
Singer: Bernarda Fink. Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs.- HARMONIA.
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Henry Purcell
Fantazia upon one note in F, Z.745
Ensemble: Ricercar Consort. Director: Philippe Pierlot.- MIRARE.
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Oliver Knussen
...upon one note (Fantasia after Purcell)
Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Paul Silverthorne. Performer: Clio Gould. Performer: John Constable. Performer: Christopher van Kampen.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto in D major, Op.77 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.- Brahms: Violin Concerto / Bartok: Violin Concerto No.1.
- Decca.
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John Ireland
Concertino Pastorale (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- CHANDOS.
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Louis James Alfred Lef茅bure鈥怶茅ly
Bol茅ro de concert, Op 166
Performer: Christopher Herrick.- Hyperion.
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William Walton
Partita for orchestra
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.- CHANDOS.
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