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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: The English Mozart, Tracy Chevalier, Bach's Coffee Cantata

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly.

Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Musical Time Travellers – stories behind the music-making of the British Isles.

1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the author Tracy Chevalier, best known for her novel “Girl with a Pearl Earring”.

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

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Fri 6 Sep 2019 09:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    Symphonic Dance Op 64 no.1

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Orama.
    • Erato.
    • 10.

  • Jacques Morel

    Suite premiere en La Mineur: I. Prelude

    Ensemble: Fuoco e Cenere.
    • Morel: Pièces de viole (1709).
    • Paraty.
    • 1.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Concertino, Op.107

    Performer: Sharon Bezaly. Orchestra: Residentie Orkest. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Great works for flute and orchestra.
    • BIS.
    • 007.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Quartet no.14 in A flat major Op.105 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Dvorak: String Quartets: Takacs Quartet.
    • Decca.
    • 10.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Coffee, I must have coffee (Coffee-Cantata, BWV.211)

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Director: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S.Bach: Secular Cantatas BWV 210 & 211.
    • BIS.
    • 14.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Autumn, from the Ballet of the Four Seasons (I vespri siciliani)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Edward Downes.
    • Preludes, Overtures and Ballet Music Vol. 3.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in D major Op.3`6

    Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Handel: Concerti Grossi Op.3: English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner.
    • Apex.
    • 17.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in G minor, Op 23 No 5

    Performer: Howard Shelley.
    • Hyperion.

  • Johan Svendsen

    Norwegian rhapsody no.1 Op.17

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Svendsen: Orchestral Works, Vol.1: Thorsen, BPO, Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.

  • Sir James MacMillan

    O radiant dawn (Strathclyde Motets)

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • MacMillan/Allegri: Queen of Heaven: The Sixteen.
    • Coro.
    • 6.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Cello Sonata No 2 in F major, Op 123 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Mats Lidström. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • Camille Saint-Saens: Music for Cello: Lidstrom/Forsberg.
    • Hyperion.
    • 16.

  • Ermanno Wolf‐Ferrari

    Il segreto di Susanna (Overture)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Wolf-Ferrari: Overtures & Intermezzi: Academy of St. Martin in the Field/Marrine.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Champagne Polka

    Orchestra: Wiener Johann Strauss Orchester. Conductor: Johannes Wildner.
    • Strauss Family: Favourite Dances: Johann Strauss Orchestra, Wildner.
    • Naxos.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No 1 in D major, K 412

    Performer: David Jolley. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Flight into Egypt (Church Windows)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Claude Debussy

    Petite suite for piano duet

    Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque.
    • Debussy: Petite suite: Marielle & Katia Labeque.
    • Philips.
    • 4.

  • George Gershwin

    Summertime (Porgy and Bess)

    Performer: Louis Armstrong. Singer: Ella Fitzgerald.
    • Verve.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Scherzo for strings

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
    • Sibelius: Orchestral Works: Vanska/Jarvi.
    • BIS.
    • 6.

  • Tarquinio Merula

    Ciaconna

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico.
    • Il Giardino Armonica: Artist Portrait.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Franz Schubert

    Trio for piano and strings in B flat major D.898; 2nd movement; Andante un poco

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Philips.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in F major RV.433 'La tempesta di mare'

    Performer: Lucie Horsch. Orchestra: Amsterdam Vivaldi Players.
    • Decca.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Ballade in G minor, Op.118 no.3

    Performer: Stephen Kovacevich.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Souvenir d'une nuit d'été à Madrid

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.

Broadcast

  • Fri 6 Sep 2019 09:00
    BBC Radio 3

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