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Ian Skelly with Grieg's Butterfly and essential music for children

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly.

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 pieces of music for children.

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

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Wed 3 Jun 202009:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Alessandro (Overture)

    Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • Trent'Anni A Roma.
    • Naive.
    • 11.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Sextet in C minor Op.40 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Eric Le Sage. Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
    • Les Vents Français - Winds & Piano.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 106.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony no.8 in G major Op.88 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • Dvorak: Complete Symphonies and Concertos.
    • Decca.
    • 3.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Air for Chalumeau "La Tortora"

    Performer: Martin Fröst. Performer: Alexander Scherf. Ensemble: Concerto Köln.
    • Sony.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Butterfly (Lyric Pieces - book 3 Op.43)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI.

  • Ernest John Moeran

    Rhapsody No 2 in E major

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Moeran: 3 Rhapsodies.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

  • Arvo Pärt

    Cantique des degrés

    Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Kristjan Järvi.
    • Sony.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto in E flat major K.365 for 2 pianos (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Philips.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Butterfly (Lyric Pieces - book 3 Op.43)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI.

  • Marin Marais

    Passacaille en Sol

    Ensemble: Ensemble Résonances.
    • Un salon de musique.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 126.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 2 in C minor, Op 17

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • GBBBC.

  • Franz Liszt

    Mephisto Waltz no.1

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Franz Welser‐Möst.
    • Neujahrskonzert/New Year's Concert 2011; Weiner Philharmoniker/Wesler-Most.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Study in A flat major, Op.25 no.1

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Chopin: Etudes Op.10 & Op.25: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 21.

  • Edward Elgar

    The Wand of Youth - Suite No 2: Moths and Butterflies (Dance)

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • The Wand Of Youth Suites etc..
    • Halle.
    • 10.

  • Claude Debussy

    Arabesque no.1 in E major

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.
    • Debussy, Preludes etc.: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 16.

  • Träd

    The Red Admiral Butterfly

    Performer: James Galway. Ensemble: The Chieftains.

  • William Walton

    Richard III (Prelude)

    Conductor: William Walton. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • EMI.

  • Johann Christian Bach

    Sinfonia concertante in F major

    Performer: Jürg Schaeftlein. Performer: Anner Bylsma. Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien. Ensemble: Leonhardt‐Consort. Conductor: Gustav Leonhardt.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    The Hunters; Procession (Peter and the Wolf)

    Narrator: David Bowie. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude, BWV 998

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Delphian.

  • Richard Wagner

    Pilgrim's Chorus (Tannhäuser)

    Choir: Choir of the Bavarian State Opera. Orchestra: Bavarian State Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Heger.
    • Virgin.

  • Tobias Picker

    Old and Lost Rivers

    Orchestra: Houston Symphony. Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach.
    • Barber, Copland, Berstein, PIcker: American Music of the 20th Century.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 14.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in B flat major Op.76`4 'Sunrise' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Takács Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets, op. 76 4-6.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Bee's Wedding (Songs without words - bk.6 Op.67)

    Orchestrator: Don Banks. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: Robert Irving.
    • Vocalion.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Symphony no.3 in D major Op.33 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: José Serebrier.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

Broadcast

  • Wed 3 Jun 202009:00
    BBC Radio 3