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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Vaughan Williams in the Fens, Alain de Botton

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 philosopher and author Alain de Botton.

1110 Essential orchestral showstoppers – one each day.

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

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Last on

Fri 22 Nov 201909:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Coriolan Overture

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.

  • Franz Liszt

    Hungarian Rhapsody No13, S244 no 13

    Performer: Mariam Batsashvili.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    La princesse jaune, Op. 30, R. 287: Overture

    Conductor: Jun Märkl. Orchestra: Malmö SymfoniOrkester.
    • Saint-Saëns: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 16.

  • Trad.

    Amazing grace

    Composer: Peter Hope. Orchestrator: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Singer: Jessye Norman. Choir: Ambrosian Singers. Conductor: Alexander Gibson.
    • Jessaye Norman: Sacred Songs.
    • Philips.
    • 1.

  • Darius Milhaud

    Scaramouche

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: Oleg Maisenberg.
    • EMI.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Cinque, dieci (The Marriage of Figaro)

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Orchestra of Santa Cecilia. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Cecilia & Bryn.
    • Decca.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Flute Concerto in D major, RV 431a, 'Il gran Mogul'

    Performer: Alexis Kossenko. Orchestra: Modo Antiquo. Director: Federico Maria Sardelli.
    • Vivaldi: New Discoveries II.
    • Naive.
    • 1-3.

  • Michael Torke

    Tahiti, Papeete (Tahiti)

    Ensemble: Ensemble 10/10. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Michael Torke: Tahiti: 10/10 Ensemble/Rundell.
    • Ecstatic Records.
    • 2.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in C major, Kk.72

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • D. Scarlatti: Sonatas: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 5.

  • Rued Langgaard

    Rose Garden Play: ii Mozart

    Ensemble: Nightingale String Quartet.
    • Rued Langgaard: String Quartets Vol.2.
    • Da Capo.
    • 2.

  • Trad.

    The Captain's Apprentice

    Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams. Performer: Purcell Singers.
    • WORLD RECORDS.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Norfolk Rhapsody No.1 in E minor

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Francisco Tárrega

    Capricho Arabe

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić.
    • Milos: The Guitar.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 14.

  • William Walton

    Scapino

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Arthur Benjamin

    Jamaican Rumba

    Music Arranger: Reginald Kell. Performer: Emma Johnson. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • ASV.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pulcinella Suite: Minuetto & Finale

    Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Joshua Weilerstein.
    • MDG.

  • Benjamin Britten

    The building of the house - Overture, Op.79

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Ensemble: CBSO Chorus. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Rattle Conducts Britten.
    • EMI.
    • 17.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Rondo in G minor Op.94 for cello and piano

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • HYPERION.

  • Clara Schumann

    Fugue on a theme of J.S. Bach No 2 in E major

    Performer: Jozef de Beenhouwer.
    • Complete Works for Piano.
    • Partridge.
    • 015.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    1812 Overture Op.49

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Tchaikovsky: 1812 etc..
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Oliver Tarney

    The Waiting Sky

    Choir: Sansara.
    • RESONUS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in the Italian style for keyboard (BWV.971) ..., 2nd movement; Andante

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    Fandango (Guitar Quintet no. 4 in D major G.448)

    Performer: Giangiacomo Pinardi. Ensemble: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi.
    • Boccherini: Quintets: Europa Galante.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 4.

  • Hugo Alfvén

    Festspel Op.25

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Niklas Willén.
    • Naxos.

  • Alessandro Striggio

    Ecce beatam Lucem

    Choir: I Fagiolini. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.
    • DECCA.

Broadcast

  • Fri 22 Nov 201909:00
    BBC Radio 3