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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 pieces of music inspired by mountains.

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

3 hours

Last on

Wed 24 Feb 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Colas Breugnon Op.24 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Director: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Khachaturian, Mussorgsky, Shchedrin etc..
    • Onyx.
    • 01.
  • Gabriel Piern茅

    Scherzo-Caprice in D major, Op.25

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Performer: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Frank Bridge

    Cherry Ripe

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Cello Concerto in G minor, RV 416

    Performer: Christophe Coin. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.
  • Enrique Granados

    Danza espa帽ola, Op. 37 No. 5 'Andaluza'

    Performer: Xavier de Maistre. Performer: Lucero Tena.
    • Serenata Espanola.
    • SONY.
    • 01.
  • Duke Ellington

    It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing

    Performer: Andr茅 Previn. Performer: David Finck.
    • DG.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Sea and Sinbad's Ship (Scheherazade Op.35)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • LAWO.
  • Amy Beach

    Romance Op.23

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: John Lenehan.
    • Chandos.
  • Henry Purcell

    Strike the viol (from Come, ye sons of art away)

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Orchestra: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Conductor: Christina Pluhar.
    • Music for a While - Improvisations on Purcell.
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 103.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quartet no.4 in E minor Op.44`2 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.
    • Erato.
  • Ernest Chausson

    Le Colibri, Op.2 no.7

    Performer: Susan Manoff. Singer: Sandrine Piau.
    • Naive.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Vltava (M谩 vlast)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • B. Smetana; Ma Vlast: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Belohlavek.
    • Supraphon.
    • 2.
  • Traditional Irish

    Molly Malone; In Dublin's Fair City

    Music Arranger: Chris Hazell. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Choir: London Voices. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Eric Coates

    Covent Garden (London (London every day) suite)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Performer: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    O Ruddier Than The Cherry (Acis and Galatea)

    Singer: John Tomlinson. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: David Parry.
    • Chandos.
  • George Butterworth

    Loveliest of Trees (A Shropshire Lad)

    Singer: Christopher Maltman. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
    • Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel, Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad: Maltman, Vigno.
    • Hyperion.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No. 27 in E Minor, Op. 90: II. Nicht zu geschwind und sehr singbar

    • Beethoven 32, Vol. 8: Piano Sonatas Nos. 27-29.
    • Naxos.
    • 102.
  • Trad.

    Whilst great is our poverty

    Composer: Cyrillus Kreek. Performer: Anna-Liisa Eller. Performer: Marco Ambrosini. Choir: Vox Clamantis. Conductor: Jaan-Eik Tulve.
    • ECM.
  • John Dowland

    Mr Nicholas Gryffith his Galliard; Sir John Souch his Galliard

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • Dowland: Lachrimae or Seven Tears.
    • LINN.
    • 8-9.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Harold in Italy i) Harold aux montagne

    Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Mario Castelnuovo鈥怲edesco

    Rosina (from Rossini's The Barber of Seville)

    Composer: Gioachino Rossini. Performer: Francesca Dego. Performer: Francesca Leonardi.
    • DG.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden BWV.230

    Choir: VOCES8. Ensemble: Senesino Players. Director: Barnaby Smith.
    • Bach Motets.
    • Signum.
    • 3.
  • Bjarte Eike

    Savn (A Tune for Signe)

    Performer: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene.
    • BIS.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no. 2 in C minor; 4th movement; Urlicht (Sehr feierlich, aber schlicht)

    Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Zander.
    • Linn.
  • Luiz Bonf谩

    Manh茫 de Carnaval

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Daniel Ottensamer. Performer: Ernst Ottensamer. Performer: Franti拧ek J谩no拧ka.
    • DG.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Quintet in E flat major, K 407 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Timothy Brown. Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Quintet/Horn Quintet/Oboe Quartet: Academy of St. Martin in the.
    • Philips.
    • 5.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto No 1 in C major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Ensemble: TrondheimSolistene.
    • Transfigured Night.
    • Pentatone.
    • 6.

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