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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Gjeilo's Northern Lights, Essential Organ, Tausky's Coventry

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.

1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five essential pieces for organ.

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

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Wed 19 Feb 202009:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Antonio Salieri

    Falstaff (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • Salieri: Symphonies, Ovtures and Variations.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Sextet in A major, Op.48 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Veronika Hagen. Performer: Gary Hoffman. Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
    • Dvorak: String Quintet, Op. 97 & String Sextet, Op. 48.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 3.

  • Nadia Boulanger

    Poème d'amour

    Performer: Tristan Raës. Singer: Cyrille Dubois.
    • Lili et Nadia Boulanger: Mélodies.
    • Aparté.
    • 2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Oboe d'amore Concerto (from BWV.54)

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Ensemble: Trinity Baroque. Ensemble: The English Concert.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Ballade no.3 in A flat major Op.47

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 3.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    Northern Lights

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Decca.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Rêverie et caprice Op.8

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Wind Octet in E flat major, Op 103 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Bläserensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • Beethoven: Octet etc.: Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Richard Strauss

    Till Eulenspiegel's lustige Streiche Op.28

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Lawo Classics.

  • Mátyás Seiber

    Notturno for horn and strings

    Performer: Sören Hermansson. Orchestra: Umeå Sinfonietta. Conductor: Edvard Tjivzjel.
    • Horn Concertos: Hermansson, Umea Sinfonietta.
    • BIS.
    • 7.

  • Vilém Tauský

    Coventry: A Meditation for String Quartet

    Ensemble: Ensemble Modern.
    • Nimbus Records.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in F minor, K 239

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • D. Scarlatti: Sonatas: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 1.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Cinderella's Waltz; Midnight (Cinderella Suite No 1)

    Orchestra: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov.
    • St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra - Prokofiev: Cinderella; Romeo and Juliet.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 8.

  • Einojuhani Rautavaara

    Cantus Arcticus Op.61 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
    • Rautavaara: Angel of Light etc..
    • BIS.
    • 11.

  • Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

    Wislo moja, Wislo szara, Op 46

    Choir: Lira Chamber Chorus. Conductor: Lucy Ding.
    • NONESUCH.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Grand Variations on a Theme by Count Gallenberg, Op 25

    Performer: Jean Muller. Orchestra: European Soloists, Luxembourg. Conductor: Christoph Koenig.
    • Farrenc: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.

  • André Previn

    Tango, Song and Dance (Song)

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Performer: André Previn.
    • Tango Song and Dance: Andre Previn, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Spiritus Sanctus vivificans vite

    Singer: Pamela Dellal.
    • deutsche harmonia mundi.

  • Norman Cocker

    Tuba Tune

    Performer: Francis Jackson.
    • Chandos.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Quintet in A major, D.667 'Trout' (4th mvt)

    Performer: Andreas Haefliger. Performer: Joseph Carver. Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Decca.

  • Gustav Holst

    Neptune, the Mystic (The Planets)

    Ensemble: Berlin Radio Choir. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Holst: The Planets; Asteroids.
    • EMI.
    • 7.

  • George Enescu

    Symphony No. 1 in E flat major, Op 13: 2nd mvt - Lent

    Performer: Tampere Filharmonia. Conductor: Hannu Lintu.
    • Ondine.
    • ODE 1198-2.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in C major, Op.76`3 'Emperor' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Calidore String Quartet.
    • COLBURN.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs)

    Ensemble: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • France-Espagne.
    • Musicales Actes Sud.
    • 9.

Broadcast

  • Wed 19 Feb 202009:00
    BBC Radio 3