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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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3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 27 Dec 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • George Gershwin

    3 Preludes (no.1)

    Performer: Wayne Marshall.
    • A Gershwin Songbook & Improvisations.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
    • 1.
  • 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.
  • Joanna Marsh

    In Winter's House

    Ensemble: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • In Winter's House.
    • Signum Records.
    • 2.
  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Notturno

    Orchestra: Beethoven Orchestra Bonn. Conductor: Stefan Blunier.
    • Arnold Schoenberg - Orchestral Works.
    • MD&G.
    • 012.
  • Johann Stamitz

    Sinfonia in D major

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Richard Egarr.
    • AAM.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    La poule (Nouvelles suites de pieces de clavecin)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Les v锚pres siciliennes (Overture)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Verdi: Choruses, Overtures, Ballet Music: Muti.
    • EMI.
    • 7.
  • Franz Schubert

    Rondo in A major, D.951

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Franz Schubert Piano Duets; Steven Osborne / Paul Lewis.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • 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.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

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    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Traditional Spanish

    The Song of the Birds

    Music Arranger: Sally Beamish. Performer: Steven Isserlis.
    • J S Bach - The Cello Suites - Steven Isserlis.
    • Hyperion.
    • 37.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Piano Quintet in A minor Op.30 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: The Schubert Ensemble.
    • ASV.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Pizzicato-Polka

    Composer: Josef Strauss. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Johann Strauss II Waltzes, Polkas and Marches.
    • Apex.
    • 7.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Herbert Howells

    Minuet 'Grace for a fresh egg'

    Performer: Laurence Perkins. Performer: Michael Hancock.
    • Voyage of a sea-god.
    • HYPERION.
    • 18.
  • Pierre Passereau

    Il est bel et bon

    Choir: The King鈥檚 Singers.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    The Little Hen (Czech Dances, Set 2)

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • Smetana: Czech Dances / On the Seashore.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Robert Carver

    O bone Jesu

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.
  • 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.
  • Aaron Copland

    Appalachian Spring

    Orchestra: Ensemble K. Conductor: Simone Menezes.
    • Aparte.
  • 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.
  • Emily Hall

    Shed No Tear

    Performer: Emily Hall. Lyricist: John Keats. Singer: Chloe Kempton. Singer: Jessica Mitchell. Singer: Sophie Sterckx.
    • Nearfield Music.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Broadcast

  • Fri 27 Dec 2024 09:30

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