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Celebrating classical greats

Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1030 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

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

1145 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

1230 Album of the Week

3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Thu 15 Aug 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Benjamin Britten

    Matinées musicales, Op 24 (Waltz)

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Rossini/Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque: National Philharmonic Orch/Bonynge.
    • Decca.
    • 9.
  • Clara Schumann

    Nocturne (Soirees Musicales, Op 6 No 3)

    Performer: Finghin Collins.
    • The bright day is done.
    • Claves Records.
    • 11.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for 2 violins in A minor, RV 522a

    Ensemble: Modo Antiquo.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Violin sonata in G major (2nd mvt - Blues)

    Performer: Lea Brückner. Performer: Tamilla Guliyeva.
    • Maurice Ravel - Violin Sonata No. 2.
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 2.
  • Carlo Gesualdo

    Peccantem me quotidie

    Choir: The Marian Consort. Conductor: Rory McCleery.
    • Gesualdo Sacrae Cantiones.
    • Delphian.
    • 010.
  • Gang Chen

    Butterfly Lovers violin concerto (1st mvt - Falling in love)

    Composer: Zhanhao He. Performer: Chloe Chua. Orchestra: Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rodofo Barraez.
    • Butterfly Lovers & Paganini.
    • Pentatone.
    • 1.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite, Op 40 (Praeludium)

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Chamber Orchestra.
    • Grieg, Dvorak, Elgar: Works for Strings: Rotterdam Chamber Orchestra, Conrad Van.
    • Telarc.
  • Albert Dietrich

    Overture in C major, Op 35

    Orchestra: European Soloists, Luxembourg. Conductor: Christoph K?nig.
    • Dietrich: Symphony in D Minor, Op. 20, Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 30 & Over.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Cello Sonata No 1 in E minor, Op 38 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Truls M?rk. Performer: Hélène Grimaud.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • Dana Suesse

    Piano Concerto in Three Rhythms (3rd mvt)

    Music Arranger: Ferde Grofé. Performer: Michael Gurt. Orchestra: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Rosenberg.
    • Jazz Nocturne.
    • Naxos.
    • 009.
  • Robert Schumann

    Susser Freund, du blickest (Frauenliebe und leben, Op 42 No 6)

    Music Arranger: Aribert Reimann. Singer: Claudia Barainsky. Ensemble: Delian Quartett.
    • Im wachen Traume.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 11.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Petrushka (The Shrovetide Fair)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Onyx.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Duo for clarinet and bassoon No 1, WoO 27 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Mozzafiato.
    • Beethoven: Chamber music for wind instruments: Mozzafiato/Neidich.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Somewhere (West Side Story) arr. violin & piano

    Performer: Augustin Hadelich. Performer: Orion Weiss. Music Arranger: Raimundo Penaforte.
    • Bernstein: West Side Story: Somewhere (Arr. Penaforte for Violin and Piano).
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in F major Op.3`4

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Handel - Concerti Grossi Op 3.
    • Erato.
    • 1.
  • Jerome Moross

    The Big Country (main theme)

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nic Raine.
    • The Big Country.
    • Silva Screen Records.
    • 1.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in B flat major, Kk 544

    Performer: Julius Asal.
    • SCRIABIN – SCARLATTI.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 14.
  • Ferdinand Thieriot

    Suite for 3 cellos (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Hamburg Chamber Players.
    • Ferdinand Thieriot: Chamber Music, Vol. 2.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 2.
  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Butterflying

    Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska.
    • ABC CLASSICS.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Le papillon et la fleur, Op 1 No 1

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Carolyn Sampson.
    • Fleurs.
    • BIS.
    • 19.
  • Xian Xinghai

    Yellow River Concerto (1st mvmt, Song of the Yellow River Boatmen)

    Composer: Yin Chengzong. Composer: 刘庄. Composer: 储望华. Performer: Lang Lang. Orchestra: China Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Long Yu.
    • Dragon Songs.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Robert Schumann

    Papillons, Op 2 (No 12 in D major)

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Decca.
  • Richard Wagner

    Lohengrin (Prelude to Act III)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Dani Howard

    Argentum

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Seal.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Amor, che deggio far

    Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • Naive.
  • Richard Strauss

    Piano quartet in C minor, Op 13 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Nathana?l Gouin. Ensemble: Trio Arnold.
    • Strauss: Piano Quartet, Op. 13 - Metamorphosen for String Septet.
    • B Records.
    • 3.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Un bel dì vedremo (Madam Butterfly)

    Performer: Aleksandra Kurzak. Orchestra: Morphing Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Frédéric Chaslin.
    • Sony.
  • Max Bruch

    Concerto for clarinet, viola & orchestra in E minor, Op 88

    Performer: Jean-Luc Votano. Performer: Arnaud Thorette. Orchestra: Orchestra Philharmonique de Liège Wallonie Bruxelles. Conductor: Pascal Rophé.
    • Cypres.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Gigue (French suite No 5 in G major, BWV 816)

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock.
    • The All-Baroque Box.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 21.
  • An-Lun Huang

    Saibei Dance (Saibei Suite no. 2)

    Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen.
    • Delights & Dances.
    • CEDILLE RECORDS.
    • 1.
  • Percy Grainger

    Handel in the Strand

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • The Grainger Edition, Vol.2 - Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.
  • Federico Mompou

    Cuna (Suite compostelana)

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Camino: Spanish and French repertoire for guitar.
    • Pentatone.
    • 14.
  • Henryk Miko?aj Górecki

    Totus Tuus

    Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • Universal.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in B minor Op.69`2

    Performer: Maria Jo?o Pires.
    • ERATO.
  • Bright Sheng

    Black Swan [after Brahms' Intermezzo in A major Op.118 no.2]

    Orchestra: Kansas City Symphony. Conductor: Michael Stern.
    • Brahms: Reimagined Orchestrations.
    • Reference Recordings.
    • 12.

Broadcast

  • Thu 15 Aug 2024 09:30

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