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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 Five Essentials 鈥 this week five great double concertos.

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

3 hours

Last on

Mon 15 Mar 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in G minor Op.23 no. 5

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Yuja Wang - The Berlin Recital.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Jonas Forssell

    Ancient Suite [after Hildegard von Bingen]

    Performer: Martin Frost. Choir: Adolf Fredriks Girls Choir. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Roots.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 001.
  • G枚ran Fr枚st

    Klezmer Dance no.2

    Performer: Martin Fr枚st. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Sony 88875065292.
    • Sony.
    • 3.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Nights in the gardens of Spain (En el generalife)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov.
    • Live from the Lugano Festival 2009, Martha Argerich and friends.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.
  • C茅sar Franck

    Violin/Celo Sonata in A Major FW.8 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Cesar Franck:聽Sonata for Piano and Violin - Ernest Chausson: Concert.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 2.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Die Schone Melusine, Op.32

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • 脡douard Du Puy

    Bassoon Concerto in C Minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Bram van Sambeek. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Alexei Ogrintchouk.
    • Mozart, Weber & Du Puy: Bassoon Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 303.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Locus iste

    Choir: Tenebrae. Director: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Edward Elgar

    Violin Concerto in E minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • ERATO.
  • Richard Strauss

    Hab' mir's gelobt (Der Rosenkavalier)

    Singer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Singer: Barbara Hendricks. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Quintet in D major (4th mvt)

    Performer: Richard Watkins. Performer: Marianne Thorsen. Performer: Richard Hosford. Performer: Paul Watkins. Performer: Ian Brown.
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams: the Early Chamber Music.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.
  • Francisco T谩rrega

    Recuerdos de la Alhambra

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰.
    • The Guitar: Milos Karadaglic.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.
  • Percy Grainger

    Country Gardens

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Claude Debussy

    La puerta del vino (Preludes, Book 2)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.1: Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
    • 15.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Make our garden grow (Candide)

    Singer: Robert Rounseville. Singer: Barbara Cook. Ensemble: Original Broadway Cast. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Sony.
  • Michael Abels

    Winged Creatures

    Performer: Anthony McGill. Performer: Demarre McGill. Orchestra: Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Allen Tinkham.
    • Winged Creatures.
    • Cedille.
    • 101.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    O clap your hands; God is gone up

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Voces 8: A Choral Taspestry.
    • Signum Classics.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in D minor for two violins BWV.1043

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Marieke Blankestijn. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Warner.
  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Trio in G minor Op.17 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony no.2 in E minor Op.27 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2: Budapest Festival Orchestra, Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 3.
  • John Jenkins

    Fantasia No. 6

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Jenkins, J: Consort Music for Four Parts.
    • Signum.
    • 7.
  • Gabriel Piern茅

    Po猫me symphonique, Op 37

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • Chandos.

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