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Friday with Ian Skelly - Griff Rhys Jones, Mrs Mango's Missing Pearls, Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Snowflakes

The best in classical music, plus Griff Rhys Jones' cultural inspirations.

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

0930 Your ideas for potential companion pieces for Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Snowflakes
1010 Time Traveller - a quirky slice of cultural history. Matthew Sweet on a new year mystery from the 1920s.
1050 Griff Rhys Jones on the things that have inspired and influenced him throughout his life and career.

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Fri 29 Dec 201709:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • George Gershwin

    Strike Up the Band (overture)

    Conductor: John Mauceri.
    • Elektra Nonesuch.

  • Franz Schubert

    'Quartettsatz' in C minor, D 703

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Schubert: String Quintet D956 etc: Takacs Quartet.
    • Decca.
    • 5.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Rondo in B-Flat Major, Wq. 58 No. 5, H. 267

    Performer: Miklós Spányi.
    • C.P.E. Bach: The Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 34.
    • BIS.
    • 16.

  • Sir James MacMillan

    The Gallant Weaver

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker (Waltz of the Snowflakes)

    Choir: Libera. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 10.

  • Claude Debussy

    Reverie

    Music Arranger: Paul Cassidy. Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Chandos.

  • Antonio Rosetti

    Horn Concerto in E major,

    Performer: Sarah Willis. Orchestra: Kurpfalzisches Kammerorchester. Conductor: Johannes Moesus.
    • CPO.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Carnival Overture

    Ensemble: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • BR Klassik.

  • Jelly Roll Morton

    The Pearls

    Ensemble: Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers.
    • Jelly Roll Morton: Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.
    • 13.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Scherzo No 4 in E major, Op 54

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • DECCA.

  • Tarquinio Merula

    Ciaccona

    Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Virgin Classics.

  • Gustav Holst

    Neptune, the Mystic (The Planets, Op 32)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Choir: Manchester Chamber Choir. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Holst: Orchestral Works, Volume 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 16.

  • Edward Elgar

    The Snow, Op.26 no.1

    Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Elgar: The Spirit of England.
    • EMI.
    • 6.

  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Westminster Mass (Gloria)

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: James O’Donnell.
    • Teldec.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Grieg, Schumann: Piano Concertos: Andsnes, Jansons.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Coriolan Overture, Op 62

    Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Brahms: Symphony 4; Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 1.

  • Javier Álvarez

    Metro Chabacano

    Ensemble: Cuarteto Latinoamericano.
    • Memorias Tropicales.
    • New Albion.
    • 8.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C major for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets & strings, RV559

    Performer: Paolo Grazzi. Performer: Alfredo Bernardini. Performer: Lorenzo Coppola. Performer: Daniele Latini. Orchestra: Zefiro. Director: Alfredo Bernardini.
    • NAÏVE.

  • Enrique Granados

    El pelele (Goyescas)

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • Granados: Goyescas: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 73 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Brahms: Symphonies 1-4. Berliner Philharmoniker - Rattle.
    • EMI.
    • 2.

  • Francisco Guerrero

    Maria Magdalene

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in A flat major, Op 69 No 1, 'L'Adieu'

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin: The Complete Walzes: Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.

Broadcast

  • Fri 29 Dec 201709:00
    BBC Radio 3