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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Piano Crimes, Tabakova's Rose Garden by Midnight, Essential Organ

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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Last on

Fri 21 Feb 202009:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Les Indes Galantes

    Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.

  • Meredith Monk

    Book of Days for Voices and Instruments: Dawn

  • Alexander Scriabin

    10 Mazurkas, op 3: No. 10 in E-flat Minor

    Performer: Peter Jablonski.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Prague Waltzes

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Rag-time

    Ensemble: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Suite in Old Style: The Rose Garden by moonlight

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Ballade no. 1 in G minor Op.23 for piano

    Performer: Murray Perahia.

  • Cantemir

    Improvisation and Dance 'Buselik Usules'

    Conductor: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Hesperion XX1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto for Horn and Orchestra no.2 in E flat major

    Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quartet no.4 in E minor Op.44`2 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.

  • Johann Christian Bach

    Symphony for Wind Instruments No 4 in B flat

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.

  • Reynaldo Hahn

    A Chloris

    Performer: Susan Graham. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.

  • Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

    Pieces in old style for string orchestra: no.3

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yuri Simonov.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Four Last Songs, orch. Anthony Payne

    Performer: Jennifer Johnston. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.

  • Nicolaus a Kempis

    Sinfonia in D major

    Ensemble: The Newberry Consort.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    The Rock

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Nights in the Gardens of Spain

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana.

  • Edward Elgar

    Organ Sonata No 1 in G major, Op. 28

    Performer: Christopher Herrick.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Ma mere l'oye - suite vers. for orch, Le Jardin feerique

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.

  • Anton Batagov

    You who are there

    Performer: Nadine Koutcher. Performer: Anton Batagov.

  • William Lawes

    Royall Consort Suite no.1 in D minor (Aire; Alman; Corant)

    Ensemble: Phantasm.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Concerto for violin and orchestra (Op.47) in D minor, 3rd mvt

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra.

Broadcast

  • Fri 21 Feb 202009:00
    BBC Radio 3