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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Reich's New York Counterpoint, Rebecca Clarke's New Flat, Pekka Kuusisto

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. Plus inspirations from violinist Pekka Kuusisto.

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 Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto.

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

3 hours

Last on

Wed 31 Jul 201909:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Isaac Albéniz

    Iberia: El Puerto

    Orchestrator: Enrique Arbos. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Enrique Bátiz.
    • Albeniz: Orchestral music: Batiz.
    • Regis.
    • 4.

  • Ilkka Kuusisto

    Concertino improvvisando - 2nd mvt 'Slow and Sweet'

    Performer: Pekka Kuusisto. Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jaako Kuusisto.
    • BIS.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 75 in D Major - 4th mvt Finale

    Performer: Ivan Ilić.
    • Chandos.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.8 in F major Op.93 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Pastorale

    Performer: Emily Beynon. Performer: Andrew West.
    • HYPERION.

  • Steve Reich

    Electric Counterpoint: II. Slow

    Performer: Pat Metheny.
    • NONESUCH.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Violin Concerto in A minor, Op 53 (3rd mvt,Finale.Allegro giocoso,ma non troppo)

    Performer: Josef Spacek. Performer: Josef Spacek-violin. Performer: Czech Philharmonic. Performer: Jiří Bělohlávek. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • DVORAK-SUK-JANACEK/Violin Concertos/Josef SPACEK.
    • Supraphon.
    • 005.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Filiae maestae Jerusalem, RV 638: II. Sileant Zephyri

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Ensemble: Ensemble Artaserse.
    • Pietà - Sacred works.
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 115.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's French Album.
    • hyperion.
    • 007.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The Blue Bird (8 Partsongs Op.119)

    Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • McCreesh: Silence & Music.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1.

  • John Williams

    Hedwig's Theme

    Performer: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Music from the Harry Potter Films.
    • Silva Screen.
    • 15.

  • Rebecca Clarke

    Viola Sonata: II. Vivace

    Performer: Ellen Nisbeth. Ensemble: Bengt Forsberg.
    • Let Beauty Awake.
    • BIS.
    • 5.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Piano Trio in D minor, Op.120 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Performer: Akira Eguchi. Performer: Brinton Smith.
    • Canary Classics.

  • Thomas Tallis

    Spem in alium

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

  • Mike Oldfield

    Tubular Bells (excerpt)

    Performer: Mike Oldfield.
    • Virgin.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    3 Mazurkas Op.50 (no.2 in A flat major)

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Chopin: Mazurkas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 001.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Lyrical Waltz (Seven Dolls' Dances)

    Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Orchestrator: Tamás Batiashvili. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • DG.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade no.1 in D major Op.11 (6th mvt)

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • Tudor.

  • Antonio Valente

    Gagliarda napoletana for keyboard [Intavolatura de cimbalo...libro 1o,1576]

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.

  • Franz Schubert

    Trout Quintet (Theme and Variations)

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet. Ensemble: Belcea Quartet. Performer: Thomas Adès. Performer: Corin Long.
    • Ades, Schubert: Piano Quintets: Ades.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Aaron Jay Kernis

    Musica Celestis

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hugh Wolff.
    • Kernis: Second Symphony, Musica Celestis etc..
    • Argo.
    • 004.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No 4 in D major, BWV 1069 (Menuett 1 and 2)

    Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Ton Koopman.
    • J.S. Bach, Orchestral Suites, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra / Ton Koopman.
    • RCA.
    • 11.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    English Folk Song Suite

    Music Arranger: Gordon Jacob. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Made in Britain: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/John Wilson.
    • Avie.
    • 7.

Broadcast

  • Wed 31 Jul 201909:00
    BBC Radio 3