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Relax into the day with classical

Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

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

3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 29 May 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Hugo Alfv茅n

    Shepherd Girl's Dance (The Mountain King Op.37)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • World Encores: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra/Jansons.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Barcarolle (The Tales of Hoffmann)

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Singer: St茅phanie d'Oustrac. Choir: Ch艙ur des Musiciens du Louvre. Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Anne Sofie von Otter sings Offenbach.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Transylvanian dances Sz.96

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Bartok: Orchestral Works Vol.1: Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer.
    • Philips.
    • 15.
  • John Tavener

    Dhyana - a song for Nicola

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • DG.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Concerto no.1 in E major for 2 pianos (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Marielle Lab猫que. Performer: Katia Lab猫que. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Mendelssohn: Concerto for 2 Pianos & Orchestra: Katia & Marielle Labeque / Bychk.
    • Philips.
    • 3.
  • William Walton

    Siesta

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Hyperion.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Tales from the Vienna Woods, Op 325

    Performer: Anton Karas. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.
    • Johann Strauss: Famous Waltzes: Boskovsky.
    • Decca.
    • 5.
  • Robert Schumann

    Vanitas vanitatum (5 Pieces in the Popular Style)

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Songs from the Arc of Life.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.
  • Johann David Heinichen

    Concerto 脿 8 in C major

    Performer: Pieter Brulleman. Performer: Baldrick Deerenberg. Performer: Sabine d'Hont. Performer: Barbara Karst. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Conductor: Hartmut Haenchen.
    • Christmas Concertos - Kammerochestrer Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • John Pickard

    Verlaine Songs: V. L'heure exquise

    Singer: Emma Tring. Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • John Pickard: Symphonies 2 & 6; Verlaine Songs.
    • BIS.
    • 6.
  • Enrique Granados

    7 Valses Po茅ticos

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • DECCA.
  • L茅o Delibes

    Copp茅lia Suite (Prelude; Mazurka)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Carl Davis.
    • Famous Ballet Music.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 11.
  • William Byrd

    The Bells

    Performer: Michele Pasotti. Performer: Flora Papadopoulos. Ensemble: Il Caleidoscopio Ensemble.
    • Lawes: New Old Albion.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 13.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major K.364 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Warner.
  • Henry Purcell

    Chacony in G Minor Z.730

    Ensemble: Chelys Consort of Viols.
    • Purcell: Fantazias.
    • BIS.
    • 801.
  • Arnold Bax

    Mediterranean

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • Seascapes.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Ivor Gurney

    Sleep (5 Elizabethan Songs)

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • EMI.
  • Geoffrey Burgon

    Brideshead Revisted (title theme)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Burgon.
    • VIRGIN.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Libertango

    Music Arranger: Jorge Calandrelli. Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: N茅stor Marconi. Performer: Antonio Agri. Performer: Horacio Malvicino. Performer: Leonardo Marconi. Singer: H茅ctor Console.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata in E flat major BWV.1031 (3rd mvt)

    Music Arranger: Andrew Balio. Performer: Andrew Balio. Performer: Bruce Bengtson.
    • Soli Deo Gloria: Bach transcriptions for Trumpet and Organ.
    • Delos.
    • 503.
  • Otto Nicolai

    The Merry Wives of Windsor (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Lance Friedel.
    • Naxos.
  • Nicola Porpora

    Vaghi amori (La festa d'Imeneo)

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Decca.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Domingo

    Music Arranger: Aleksander D臋bicz. Performer: Aleksander D臋bicz. Performer: 艁ukasz Kuropaczewski.
    • Warner.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Daphnis et Chlo茅 Suite no.2

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Yannick Nezet-Seguin Ravel Rotterdam Phiharmonic Orchestra.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Cheryl Frances-Hoad

    O come, let us sing unto the Lord

    Choir: Sansara. Conductor: Meghan Quinlan.
    • CONVIVIUM.
  • Gabriel Piern茅

    Scherzo-Caprice in D major, Op.25

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

    The Windmills of Your Mind (From "The Thomas Crown Affair")

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Duncan Ward.
    • Les choses de la vie - Cinema 2.
    • Warner Music UK Limited.
    • 2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in D major Op.3`6

    Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Handel: Concerti Grossi Op.3: English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner.
    • Apex.
    • 10.
  • Franz Schubert

    An die Musik, D.547

    Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau. Performer: Gerald Moore.
    • Schubert: Complete Songs: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Ferenc Farkas

    Chorea (5 Ancient Hungarian Dances)

    Performer: Janna Huneke. Performer: Sarah Devonald. Performer: Mark Lacey. Performer: Tim Swanwick. Performer: Alec Forshaw.
    • Harmoniemusik.
    • The Classical Recording Company.
    • 21.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Mazurka-Oberek in D major

    Performer: Chlo毛 Hanslip. Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov.
    • Hyperion.

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