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Tuesday with Ian Skelly - Jaguarina, Sir Mark Elder, Tosca

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly, With guest this week, Sir Mark Elder.

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

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

1010 Time Traveller – a quirky slice of history.

1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the conductor Sir Mark Elder.

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

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Tue 15 Jan 201909:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream transc for piano

    Music Arranger: Sergey Rachmaninov. Performer: Simon Trpceski.
    • Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata no.2/Preludes: Simon Trpceski.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 12.

  • Henry Purcell

    King Arthur (Overture)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Hengelbrock.
    • Purcell: Instrumental Musik: Freiburger Barockorchester.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 14.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36: III. Scherzo. Pizzicato ostinato

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 - Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition.
    • Lso Live.
    • 3.

  • Maurice Ravel

    L'Aurore

    Singer: Marc Duguay. Choir: Chœur de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne. Orchestra: Orchestre de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne. Conductor: Jacques Grimbert.
    • Prix de Rome Cantatas.
    • Marco Polo.
    • 9.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Suite in A major, Op 98b, 'American' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Dvorak:Symphony no. 7 Suite in A major,Budapest Festival Orchestra,Ivan Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 7.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    E Lucevan le stelle (Tosca)

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Orchestra: Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marco Armiliato.
    • DECCA.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Ballade no.1 in G minor Op.23

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman.
    • DG.

  • Il Fásolo

    Ciaconna 'Acceso mio core'

    Ensemble: Le Poème Harmonique. Conductor: Vincent Dumestre.
    • Il Fasolo: Le Poeme Harmonique/Dumestre.
    • Alpha.
    • 17.

  • Kodály Zoltán

    Dances of Galanta

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Hungarica. Conductor: Antal Doráti.
    • MERCURY.

  • Joan Tower

    Fanfare No 1 for the Uncommon Woman

    Orchestra: Colorado Symphony. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Koch.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Havanaise Op.83

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Virgin.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Rondo in D minor Wq.61`4

    Performer: Danny Driver.
    • CPE Bach: Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 2: Danny Driver.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.

  • Samuel Barber

    Sure on this shining night (4 Songs Op.13)

    Singer: Gerald Finley. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • Barber: Songs: Finley/Drake.
    • Hyperion.
    • 26.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    La Befana (Feste Romane)

    Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Respighi: Orchestral Works: Philharmonia Orch/Simon/Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
    • 21.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Hippolyte et Aricie, Act V: Chaconne

    Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • ERATO.

  • Claude Debussy

    Minstrels (Preludes, Book 1)

    Music Arranger: Colin Matthews. Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Debussy: La Mer.
    • Halle.
    • 6.

  • Gustav Holst

    Jupiter (The Planets)

    Orchestra: The National Youth Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra; Holst: The Planets Suite.
    • Chandos.
    • 013.

  • Frank Bridge

    Fantasy Piano Quartet in F sharp minor

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • HYPERION.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon à 12 in double echo

    Conductor: Eric Crees.
    • NAXOS.

  • Alice Mary Smith

    Symphony in A Minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • Alice Mary Smith: Symphonies.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • Tarquinio Merula

    Hor ch'e tempo di morire

    Singer: Sara Mingardo. Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • Naive.

  • Luigi Denza

    Neapolitan Song, Op 63

    Music Arranger: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Works for Orchestra.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude and Fugue in C major, Op 87 No 1

    Performer: Tatiana Nikolayeva.
    • Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87: Tatiana Nicolayeva.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Rondo alla Zingarese (Piano Quartet Op.25)

    Orchestrator: Arnold Schoenberg. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

Broadcast

  • Tue 15 Jan 201909:00
    BBC Radio 3