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Ian Skelly with Franck's Les Eolides and Essential Piano Duets

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

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

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

1010 Essential Symphony – a movement from the BBC archive, plus the whole performance available online.

1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five great pieces for piano duet.

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

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Thu 14 May 202009:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Der Schauspieldirektor (Overture)

    Conductor: Colin Davis. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden.
    • Mozart Overtures Sir Colin Davis Staatskapelle Dresden.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 3.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Valse nonchalante Op.110

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Erato.

  • Orlande de Lassus

    Cantica sacra sex et octo vocibus: Omnia tempus habent

    Conductor: Daniel Reuss. Choir: Cappella Amsterdam.
    • Lassus: Inferno.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1.

  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Königskinder - Concert Overture

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Anton Rickenbacher.
    • Virgin.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Quartet No 12 in F major, Op 96, 'American' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Skampa Quartet.
    • Dvorak, Brahms: String Quartets: Skampa Quartet.
    • Supraphon.
    • 4.

  • César Franck

    Les Éolides

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Polka in A major

    Performer: Sir András Schiff.
    • Smetana: Polkas: Andras Schiff.
    • Teldec.
    • 8.

  • William Henry Harris

    Faire is the heaven

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.

  • Kodály Zoltán

    Dances of Marosszek

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • HUNGAROTON.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No 10 in E minor, Op 93

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Ballade no.1 in G minor Op.23

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (Cantata no.1)

    Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Choir: Amsterdam Baroque Choir. Director: Ton Koopman.
    • Bach - Complete Cantatas 13.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Cosi fan tutte, K.588 (Soave sia il vento)

    Singer: Hillevi Martinpelto. Singer: Alison Hagley. Singer: Sir Thomas Allen. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Simon Rattle on EMI Classics.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Entrée de Polymnie (Les Boréades)

    Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Raphaël Pichon.
    • Enfers.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 23.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Zefiro torna (Scherzi musicali)

    Singer: Nigel Rogers. Singer: Ian Partridge. Performer: Colin Tilney. Director: Jürgen Jürgens.
    • Monteverdi - Caccini - Peri - Saracini: Canti Amorosi.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 5.

  • Ulysses Kay

    Overture to Theater Set

    Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • African Heritage Symphonic Series volume II.
    • CEDILLE RECORDS.
    • 1.

  • Édouard Lalo

    Symphonie espagnole Op.21 (5th mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • ERATO.

  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux aurumque for chorus

    Choir: The King’s Singers.
    • High Flight: The King's Singers, The Concordia Choir.
    • Signum.
    • 3.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Cello Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Kristina Blaumane. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras. Conductor: Maxim Rysanov.
    • ECM New Series.

  • Claude Debussy

    Petite suite

    Ensemble: Katia Labèque. Ensemble: Marielle Labèque.
    • The Debussy Album.
    • Philips.
    • 4-7.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.5 in B flat major D.485 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Schubert: Symphonies No. 5 & 6: Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Zinman.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 4.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Rückert-Lieder)

    Singer: Jessye Norman. Performer: Irwin Gage.
    • Jessye Norman, Schubert & Mahler, Irwin Gage.
    • Philips.
    • 10.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Pierrot's Tanzlied (Die tote Stadt)

    Music Arranger: Franz Willms. Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • The Silver Violin - Benedetti, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
    • Decca.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Scherzo Fantastique, Op.3

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Boulez conducts Stravinsky.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

Broadcast

  • Thu 14 May 202009:00
    BBC Radio 3