Wednesday with Ian Skelly - Dobrinka Tabakova, Monteverdi Vespers, Bridget of Sweden
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. With guest this week, composer Dobrinka Tabakova.
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Giuseppe Torelli
Sinfonia in C major G.33
Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.- AVIE.
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Maurice Ravel
Le Tombeau de Couperin (Toccata)
Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.- decca.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Abduction from the Seraglio (Overture)
Orchestra: La Cetra Barockorchester. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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César Franck
Piano Quintet in F Minor (2nd mvt)
Performer: Michel Dalberto. Ensemble: Novus String Quartet.- César Franck: Piano Works & Quintet.
- Aparté.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Vespro Della Beata Vergine [1610]
Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.- Monteverdi Vespers 1610.
- Linn Records.
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Ernesto Halffter
Habanera
Performer: Mats Lidström. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.- Hyperion.
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Erno Dohnanyi
Symphonic Minutes Op.36
Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.- Dohnanyi: Symphony no. 2: BBC Philharmonic/Bamert.
- Chandos.
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Franz Schubert
Moments musicaux, D 780 (No 4 in C sharp minor)
Performer: Shai Wosner.- ONYX.
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Franz Waxman
Carmen fantasy
Performer: Aleksey Semenenko. Performer: Inna Firsova. -
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George Butterworth
On the idle hill of summer (Bredon Hill and other songs)
Singer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Iain Burnside.- George Butterworth, Songs from A Shropshire Lad: Williams / Burnside.
- Naxos.
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Giovanni Gabrieli
In ecclesiis à 14
Choir: I Fagiolini. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.- 1612 Italian Vespers: I Fagiolini/Robert Hollingworth.
- Decca.
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Engelbert Humperdinck
Evening Prayer (Hänsel und Gretel)
Singer: Rebecca Evans. Singer: Jennifer Larmore. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- Engelbert Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel.
- Chandos.
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Agustín Barrios Mangoré
La Catedral [Benites R.: vol.1 p.58] [complete]
Performer: Thibaut Garcia.- ERATO.
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Dobrinka Tabakova
Alma Redemptoris Mater
Choir: Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas.- DELPHIAN.
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Carl Maria von Weber
Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor, Op 73
Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.- DG.
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Claude Debussy
Feux d'artifice (Preludes, Book 2)
Performer: Francesco Piemontesi.- NAÏVE.
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Jean‐Baptiste Lully
L'amour médecin (Chaconne)
Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- Music at the Court of Versailles: Charpentier/Delalande/Lully/Rameau.
- Erato.
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Dorothy Howell
The Moorings
Performer: Lorraine McAslan. Performer: Sophia Rahman.- Dutton.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Coriolan Overture Op.62
Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.- TELDEC.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Bless the Lord, O my soul (Vespers, Op 37)
Choir: Accentus. Choir: Eric Ericsons Kammarkör. Director: Laurence Equilbey.- NAIVE.
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Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet no.5 in E flat major Op.44`3 (4th mvt)
Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.- CHANDOS.
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