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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 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

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Music Played

  • L茅o Delibes

    Copp茅lia Waltz arr Dohnanyi

    Performer: Martin Roscoe. Music Arranger: Erno Dohnanyi.
    • Dohnanyi: Piano Music: Martin Roscoe.
    • Hyperion.
  • Percy Grainger

    The Lost Lady Found (A Lincolnshire Posy)

    Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Warner.
  • Reinhold Moritzevich Gli猫re

    Impromptu

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Oboe and Violin Concerto in B flat major RV.548

    Performer: Paolo Grazzi. Performer: Stefano Montanari. Ensemble: Zefiro.
    • 狈础脧痴贰.
  • George Enescu

    Aubade in C Major

    Performer: C茅cile Agator. Performer: Flore-Anne Brosseau. Performer: Samuel Etienne.
    • The Enescu Project.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 101.
  • Thomas Alexander Erskine

    The Maid of the Mill

    Ensemble: Concerto Caledonia. Director: David McGuinness.
    • Linn.
  • Max Bruch

    Concerto for Clarinet & Viola in E Minor, Op.88 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Dimitri Ashkenazy. Performer: Anton Kholodenko. Orchestra: Baltic Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Mats Liljefors.
    • Weber & Bruch: Works for Clarinet, Viola & Orchestra.
    • Paladino Music.
    • 503.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225 (Part 1)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach Motets Gardiner.
    • SDG.
    • 16.
  • Le贸 Weiner

    Serenade in F Minor Op.3 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Roberto Paternostro. Conductor: Roberto Paternostro.
    • Dohn谩nyi & Weiner: Orchestral Works.
    • CapriccioNR.
  • Ned Rorem

    Early in the morning

    Singer: Susan Graham. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • The Art of Susan Graham.
    • Erato.
    • 3.
  • George Gershwin

    An American in Paris (excerpt)

    Music Arranger: Franck Villard. Performer: Michel Lethiec. Orchestra: Jyv盲skyl盲 Sinfonia. Conductor: Patrick Gallois.
    • Naxos.
  • Mario Castelnuovo鈥怲edesco

    Guitar Concerto No.1 in D Major, Op.99: I. Allegretto

    Performer: Kazuhito Yamashita. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Guitar Concertos.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 1.
  • Franz Liszt

    Feux-Follets (Etudes d'execution transcendante S.139)

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein.
    • Myrios.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Academic Festival Overture in C Minor, Op. 80

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Brahms: Symphony No. 2 & Academic Festival Overture.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 5.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Cello Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Kristina Blaumane. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras. Conductor: Maxim Rysanov. Conductor: Maxim Rysanov.
    • ECM New Series.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio in B flat major, Op.97 'Archduke' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: ATOS Trio.
    • Beethoven Piano Trios 2.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.
    • 02.
  • Franz Schubert

    Das Wandern (Die Schone Mullerin)

    Music Arranger: Thomas Guthrie. Singer: Thomas Guthrie. Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Director: Bjarte Eike.
    • Rubicon.
  • Sam Sweeney

    Maid of the Mill

    Performer: Sam Sweeney.
    • Unearth Repeat.
    • Hudson Records.
    • 4.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    4 Poems by Fredegond Shove: The Water Mill

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Roderick Williams.
    • Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel / The House of Life (English Song, Vol. 14).
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Farruca (The Three-Cornered Hat Suite No 2)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Giovanni Picchi

    Canzon decima nona a doi chori from 'Canzoni da sonar'

    Ensemble: Concerto Scirocco. Director: Giulia Genini.
  • Steve Reich

    Duet for 2 violins and strings

    Ensemble: The Smith Quartet.
    • Different Trains.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 4.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Soave sia il vento (Cos矛 fan tutte)

    Singer: Miah Persson. Singer: Christine Rice. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Mozart: Tutto Mozart!: Bryn Terfel/Sir Charles Mackerras.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Graeme Koehne

    In-Flight Entertainment: Horse Opera

    Performer: Diana Doherty. Orchestra: Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Takuo Yuasa.
    • Koehne: Inflight Entertainment.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in A flat major, H.16.43 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Haydn: Piano Sonatas: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Nikolai Tcherepnin

    Grande valse noble (excerpt from Le Pavillon d'Armide)

    Performer: Staatsphilhamonie Rheinland-Pfalz. Conductor: Igor Blashev.
    • Tcherepnin: Orch and Ballet works.
    • OLYMPIA.
    • 5.
  • Edward Elgar

    Severn Suite for brass band (Op.87)

    Conductor: Roy Newsome.
    • Epic Brass.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Si dolce 猫'l tormento

    Singer: Arianna Savall. Singer: Petter Udland Johansen. Ensemble: Hirundo Maris.
    • Carpe Diem Records: 16307.
    • Carpe Diem Records.
    • 8.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Serenade, Op. 98

    • Merci.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 15.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Dance of the Tumblers (Snow Maiden Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Overture and Suites from the Operas.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 5.
  • Ethel Smyth

    Serenade in D (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Odaline de la Martinez.
    • Chandos.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Mazurkas in E minor Op.3 no.7

    Performer: Peter Jablonski.
    • Scriabin: Mazurkas.
    • Ondine.
    • 7.
  • Georges Bizet

    Symphony in C major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Prokofiev, Britten, Bizet: Symphonies: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

Broadcast

  • Mon 25 Nov 2024 09:30

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