Great classical music for your morning
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
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George Gershwin
3 Preludes (no.1)
Performer: Wayne Marshall.- A Gershwin Songbook & Improvisations.
- VIRGIN CLASSICS.
- 1.
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Edward Elgar
La capricieuse, Op.17
Orchestrator: S酶ren Barfoed. Performer: Sol Gabetta. Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mario Venzago.- Elgar: Cello Concerto: Sol Gambetta.
- RCA.
- 7.
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Joanna Marsh
In Winter's House
Ensemble: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.- In Winter's House.
- Signum Records.
- 2.
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Arnold Schoenberg
Notturno
Orchestra: Beethoven Orchestra Bonn. Conductor: Stefan Blunier.- Arnold Schoenberg - Orchestral Works.
- MD&G.
- 012.
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Johann Stamitz
Sinfonia in D major
Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Richard Egarr.- AAM.
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Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau
La poule (Nouvelles suites de pieces de clavecin)
Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Les v锚pres siciliennes (Overture)
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.- Verdi: Choruses, Overtures, Ballet Music: Muti.
- EMI.
- 7.
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Franz Schubert
Rondo in A major, D.951
Performer: Paul Lewis. Performer: Steven Osborne.- Franz Schubert Piano Duets; Steven Osborne / Paul Lewis.
- Hyperion.
- 4.
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George Frideric Handel
Eternal source of light divine (Birthday Ode for Queen Anne)
Performer: David Blackadder. Singer: Elin Manahan Thomas. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Harry Christophers.- Elin Manahan Thoms: Eternal Light.
- Heliodor.
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Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau
EC playlist clip 271224
Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Traditional Spanish
The Song of the Birds
Music Arranger: Sally Beamish. Performer: Steven Isserlis.- J S Bach - The Cello Suites - Steven Isserlis.
- Hyperion.
- 37.
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Louise Farrenc
Piano Quintet in A minor Op.30 (4th mvt)
Ensemble: The Schubert Ensemble.- ASV.
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Johann Strauss II
Pizzicato-Polka
Composer: Josef Strauss. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.- Johann Strauss II Waltzes, Polkas and Marches.
- Apex.
- 7.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata No 91, 'Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ'
Singer: Yukari Nonoshita. Singer: Robin Blaze. Singer: Gerd T眉rk. Singer: Peter Kooij. Choir: Bach Collegium Japan. Ensemble: Concerto Palatino. Director: Masaaki Suzuki.- BIS.
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Duke Ellington
Peanut Brittle Brigade (Nutcracker Suite)
Composer: Billy Strayhorn. Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Music Arranger: Jeff Tyzik. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Grams.- The Nutcracker Suite.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 5.
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Herbert Howells
Minuet 'Grace for a fresh egg'
Performer: Laurence Perkins. Performer: Michael Hancock.- Voyage of a sea-god.
- HYPERION.
- 18.
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Pierre Passereau
Il est bel et bon
Choir: The King鈥檚 Singers.- SIGNUM.
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Bedrich Smetana
The Little Hen (Czech Dances, Set 2)
Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.- Smetana: Czech Dances / On the Seashore.
- Hyperion.
- 6.
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Igor Stravinsky
Coda: Apollo and the Muses (Apollon Musagete)
Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.- Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite, Apollon musag猫te & Concerto for Strings in D Major.
- BIS.
- 18 - 19.
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Edvard Grieg
Ein Traum (A Dream)
Performer: Ian Tindale. Singer: Santiago S谩nchez. -
Sergey Prokofiev
March (The Love for Three Oranges - suite)
Orchestra: S茫o Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.- Prokofiev: Orchestral Works.
- Naxos.
- 201.
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Robert Carver
O bone Jesu
Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.- Coro.
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Louis鈥怌laude Daquin
Nouveau livre de no毛ls, Op. 2: No. 2, No毛l en dialogue, duo, trio, sur le cornet
- Verbum caro factum est: A Christmas Greeting.
- BIS.
- 4.
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Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring
Orchestra: Ensemble K. Conductor: Simone Menezes.- Aparte.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Andante cantabile, arr. composer for str orch (with vc solo)
Performer: Johannes Moser. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Andrew Manze.- Pentatone.
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Emily Hall
Shed No Tear
Performer: Emily Hall. Lyricist: John Keats. Singer: Chloe Kempton. Singer: Jessica Mitchell. Singer: Sophie Sterckx.- Nearfield Music.
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Leokadiya Kashperova
Two Roses: No 2 (Au sein de la nature)
Performer: Mengjie Han. -
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 13; 4th mvt Presto - Adagio non lento
Ensemble: Quatuor Mosa茂ques.- ASTREE.
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Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4 In E Minor Op.98, iii. Allegro giocoso
Orchestra: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Hengelbrock.- Sony : 88985405082.
- Sony.
- 3.
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- Fri 27 Dec 2024 09:30大象传媒 Radio 3