Celebrating classical greats
Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.
Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
1000 Playlist starter 鈥 listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1030 Song of the Day 鈥 harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1100 Playlist reveal 鈥 a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1130 Slow Moment 鈥 time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
1230 Album of the Week
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John Adams
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- Adams: Harmonielehre etc: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Rattle.
- EMI Classics.
- 6.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Waltz in E flat, Op 18: 'Grande valse brillante'
Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.- Chopin: Waltzes: Stephen Hough.
- Hyperion.
- 1.
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Florence Price
Adoration
Music Arranger: Jarle Storl酶kken. Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Ensemble: tenThing.- She Composes Like A Man.
- Lawo Classics.
- 4.
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Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in G minor Op.74`3 'Rider' (4th mvt)
Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.- Haydn: String Quartets Op.74: Takacs Quartet.
- Hyperion.
- 12.
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Knut Nystedt
Immortal Bach
Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.- Nystedt & Bach: Meins Lebens Licht.
- BIS.
- 17.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 (1st mvt)
Performer: Elizabeth Wallfisch. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.- J.S. Bach: Concertos for 1,2 & 3 Violins: Wallfisch/Orchestra of the Age of Enli.
- Virgin Veritas.
- 1.
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Hugo Wolf
Italian Serenade
Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no.2 in D major, Op 36 (4th mvt, Allegro molto)
Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.- Beethoven: The Symphonies: Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska.
- BIS.
- 4.
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Gerald Finzi
Clarinet Concerto in C minor Op.31 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.- Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D Major - Finzi: Clarinet Concerto, Op. 31.
- BIS.
- 203.
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Giovanni Gabrieli
Exultavit cor meum in Domino
Music Arranger: Simon Cox. Ensemble: Septura. Conductor: Matthew Knight.- Music for Brass Septet, Vol. 4.
- Naxos.
- 601.
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Giulio Caccini
Ave Maria
Performer: Alain Lef猫vre. Singer: Daniel Taylor.- Ave Maria.
- ANALEKTA.
- 1.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata in D major, K311
Performer: Elisabeth Brauss. -
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.
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William Walton
5 Bagatelles (no.4)
Performer: Sean Shibe.- Delphian.
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Reynaldo Hahn
La Barcheta (Venezia)
Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.- Souvenirs De Venise.
- Helios.
- 13.
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Vincent d鈥橧ndy
Le joie du bleu profond (Poeme des Rivages)
Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.- D'Indy Orchestral Works vol.4.
- Chandos.
- 2.
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Georges Bizet
L'Arl茅sienne Suite No 1 (Carillon)
Orchestra: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jes煤s L贸pez Cobos.- Bizet: Carmen Suite, Symphony No. 1: Jesus Lopez-Cobos.
- Telarc.
- 10.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Cello Concerto No 3 in A major, Wq 172 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Truls M酶rk. Ensemble: Les Violons du Roy. Director: Bernard Labadie.- CPE Bach: Cello Concertos - Truls Mork.
- Virgin Classics.
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Much Ado about Nothing - Suite (Intermezzo - Garden Scene)
Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg. Conductor: Marc Albrecht.- Pentatone.
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Gabriela Montero
Improvisation on Adagio
Composer: Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni. Performer: Gabriela Montero.- Baroque Improvisations.
- Warner Classics.
- 107.
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Johann Wilhelm Hertel
Trumpet Concerto in D major
Performer: H氓kan Hardenberger. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- Haydn, Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Hardenberger/Marriner.
- Philips.
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Witold Lutos艂awski
Variations on a Theme by Paganini, for piano & orchestra
Composer: Alexander Warenberg. Performer: Denis Matsuev. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Wien - Berlin. Conductor: Rainer Honeck.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor, BWV 1067 (Badin茅rie)
Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music.- J.S. Bach: Orchestral Music: Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 12.
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Claude Debussy
Jeux
Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka鈥怭ekka Saraste.- Debussy - Orchestral Works.
- Warner Classics.
- 8.
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Enrique Granados
Goyescas: El Fandango de Candil
Performer: Peter Donohoe.- Chandos.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Rondo all turca arr for brass
Music Arranger: Arthur Frackenpohl. Ensemble: Canadian Brass.- Best of The Canadian Brass.
- CBS.
- 9.
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Gabriel Faur茅
Papillon, Op. 77
Performer: Bruno Phillippe. Performer: Tanguy de Williencourt.- Saint-Sa毛ns: Cello Concerto No. 1 - Franck, Faur茅 & Poulenc.
- harmonia mundi.
- 109.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Carnival Overture, Op 92
Orchestra: Philharmonia. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.- Sony.
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Astor Piazzolla
La muerte del 谩ngel
Performer: Martin Fr枚st. Music Arranger: G枚ran Fr枚st. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.- Sony.
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William Byrd
Ave verum corpus (Gradualia Vol 1)
Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Director: Martin Baker.- Byrd: The Three Masses; Ave Verum Corpus.
- Hyperion.
- 19.
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Franz Schubert
Symphony no.1 in D major D.82 (4th mvt)
Orchestra: B鈥橰ock Orchestra. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs.- Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6.
- PENTATONE.
- 104.
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