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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Vaughan Williams's Tuba Concerto, Elin Manahan Thomas

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

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

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Mon 24 Aug 202009:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Robert Schumann

    Toccata in C major, Op 7

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
    • SONY.

  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Ich bin die Auferstehung BuxWV.44

    Singer: Jakob Bloch Jespersen. Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen. Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
    • DaCapo.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 36 (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Osmo Vänskä. Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra.
    • Beethoven: The Symphonies: Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska.
    • BIS.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Der Tod und das Mädchen, D 531

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Singer: Ian Bostridge.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Tuba Concerto in F minor

    Performer: John Fletcher. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • RCA Red Seal.

  • Chiara Margarita Cozzolani

    Nisi Dominus (Vespers)

    Ensemble: I Gemelli. Conductor: Emiliano Gonzalez‐Toro.
    • NAIVE.

  • Emily Howard

    Magnetite

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Gourlay.
    • NMC.
    • NMC.
    • 1.

  • Antonio Estévez

    Mediodia en el llano

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor, Op 58 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Glenn Gould.
    • Sony.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Pastorale in F, BWV 590

    Performer: Ton Koopman.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Trio for trumpet, horn and trombone

    Performer: John Wallace. Performer: Richard Watkins. Performer: David Purser.
    • Poulenc: The Complete Chamber Music: The Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.

  • Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

    Double Bass Concerto No 2 in D major

    Performer: Chi-Chi Nwanoku. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Goodwin.
    • HYPERION.

  • Henry Purcell

    Sound the trumpet, beat the drum

    Ensemble: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Royal Welcome Songs.
    • Coro.
    • 17.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Keyboard Suite no.2 in F major HWV.427 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Murray Perahia plays Handel and Scarlatti.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 12.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    I can cook too - from "On the Town"

    Performer: Tyne Daly. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Bernstein/On the Town.
    • DG.
    • 11.

Broadcast

  • Mon 24 Aug 202009:00
    BBC Radio 3