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A feast of great music

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, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of 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.

1115 Playlist reveal 鈥 a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1145 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 24 Jul 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Fr眉hlingslied (Lieder ohne Worte - book 5)

    Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
    • Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte (Andras Schiff).
    • Decca.
    • 021.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    William Tell (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Rossini: William Tell: Antonio Pappano.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Robert Lucas Pearsall

    Lay a garland on her hearse

    Choir: Royal Holloway Choir. Conductor: Rupert Gough.
    • Hyperion.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Piano quintet in G minor Op.1 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Quintet, Clarinet Quintet.
    • HYPERION.
    • 1.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 43 in E flat major, 'Mercury' (Finale - Allegro)

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Alpha.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op 61 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Onyx.
  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Ornamental Air (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Collins.
    • Mozart/Copland/Kats-Chernin: Works for Clarinet and Orchestra: Michael Collins.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    2 Nocturnes Op.55 (no.2 in E flat major)

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.
    • DG.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Tu del Ciel ministro eletto (Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno)

    Singer: Sabine Devieilhe. Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Rapha毛l Pichon.
    • ERATO.
  • John Marsh

    A Conversation Symphony

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • Contemporaries of Mozart - John Marsh.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 005.
  • Cecilia McDowall

    Alma redemptoris mater

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.
  • Jules Massenet

    Tha茂s (Meditation arr Salzedo)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Mariko Anraku. Music Arranger: Carlos Salzedo.
    • Beau Soir, French and Japanese melodies: Pahud/Anraku.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.
  • Claude Debussy

    L'isle joyeuse

    Orchestrator: Bernardino Molinari. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Debussy - Engulfed Cathedral.
    • Cala.
    • 2.
  • Frank Merrick

    Suite in the 18th Century Style (Siciliano)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis.
    • HYPERION.
  • Franz Schubert

    Die Taubenpost (No.14, Schwanengesang D957)

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Roderick Williams.
    • Chandos.
  • John Barry

    I'm A Friend Of Simon's

    Lyricist: John Barry. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: John Barry.
    • Mercury Rising (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Varese Sarabande.
    • 11.
  • David Bowie

    Life On Mars

    Music Arranger: James Morgan. Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Morgan.
    • Songs Without Words.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 12.
  • Jeremiah Clarke

    Trumpet Voluntary 'The Prince of Denmark's March'

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Sony.
  • Fred Kelly

    Elegy "In Memoriam Rupert Brooke"

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • DUTTON.
  • Frank Bridge

    The Hour Glass (The Dew Fairy)

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Bridge - PIano Sonata etc Kathryn Stott.
    • Conifer.
    • 10.
  • Crist贸bal de Morales

    Parce mihi Domine - improvisation (Officium defunctorum)

    Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble. Performer: Jan Garbarek.
    • ECM.
  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and Circumstance March No 2 in A minor, Op 39

    Orchestra: 贬补濒濒茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • 贬补濒濒茅.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Concerto in A minor Op.82 for violin and orchestra

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.
    • PENTATONE.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A major K.581 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Martin Frost. Ensemble: Vertavo Quartet.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Concerto & Quintet: Martin Frost.
    • BIS.
  • Josef Strauss

    Phoenix March, Op. 105

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • New Year's Concert 2022.
    • Sony.
    • 1.
  • William Bolcom

    The Brooklyn Dodge

    Composer: William Bolcom.
    • Bolcom: The Complete Rags.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No. 4 In E Minor Op.98, iv. Allegro energico e passionato

    Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs鈥惷塴ys茅es. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • PHI : LPH025.
    • PHI.
    • 4.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Tosca; Vissi d'arte

    Singer: Nadine Benjamin. Orchestra: The NB Opera Ensemble. Conductor: Kamal Khan.
    • Love & Prayer.
    • Nouvague.
    • 1.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Cello Concerto in G minor RV.416

    Performer: Bruno Philippe. Ensemble: Jupiter.
    • ALPHA.

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  • Wed 24 Jul 2024 09:30

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