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Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Pearsall's Lay a Garland, Essential Haydn, Nicholas Mulroy

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

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

0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Well known musicians reveal their favourite performers.

1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five great pieces of music composed by Joseph Haydn.

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

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Wed 7 Oct 202009:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Gabriel Pierné

    Scherzo-Caprice in D major, Op.25

    Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet. Performer: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Trio Sonata from 'A Musical Offering' BWV.1079 (2nd mvt)

    Music Arranger: Raaf Hekkema. Performer: Arthur Klaassens. Ensemble: Calefax Reed Quintet.
    • Bach's Musical Offerings.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 301.

  • Robert Lucas Pearsall

    Lay a garland on her hearse

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

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.49 in F minor H.1.49 'La Passione' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Ludwig Orchestra. Conductor: Barbara Hannigan.
    • La Passione: Nono, Haydn & Grisey.
    • Alpha.
    • 3.

  • George Gershwin

    I Got Rhythm (Girl Crazy Suite)

    Music Arranger: Barbara Hannigan. Orchestrator: Bill Elliott. Singer: Barbara Hannigan. Orchestra: Ludwig Orchestra. Conductor: Barbara Hannigan.
    • ALPHA.

  • Florence Price

    Organ Suite no.1 (Fantasy)

    Performer: Kimberly Marshall.
    • Loft.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

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

    Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.
    • Erato.

  • Fazil Say

    Cello Concerto (Song of Hope)

    Performer: Camille Thomas. Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic. Conductor: Stéphane Denève.
    • DG.

  • Antoine Forqueray

    La Portugaise (Suite no.1 in D minor)

    Music Arranger: Jean-Baptiste Forqueray. Performer: Jean Rondeau. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • Erato.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Agitata da due venti (Griselda, RV.718)

    Singer: Lea Desandre. Performer: Thomas Dunford. Ensemble: Jupiter.
    • ALPHA.

  • César Franck

    Les Éolides

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

  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in E flat major Op.117 no.1 'Schlummerlied'

    Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • Brahms: 2 Rhapsodies Op.79, Klavierstucke Opp.117-119, Radu Lupu.
    • Decca.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata in E major, BWV.1034 (4th mvt)

    Music Arranger: Avi Avital. Performer: Avi Avital. Performer: Ophira Zakai. Performer: Ira Givol. Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy.
    • Avi Avital Bach.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Romance no.1 in G major Op.40

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • ONYX.

  • Henry Purcell

    Hear My Prayer, O Lord, Z.15

    Choir: Vox Luminis. Conductor: Lionel Meunier.
    • RICERCAR.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Fear no more the heat o' the sun (Let us garlands bring, Op.18)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Iain Burnside.
    • Naxos.

  • Jean Sibelius

    At The Castle Gate (Pelleas et Melisande Op.46)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Sibelius - Symphony no.6, Pelleas & Melisande Op.46.
    • BIS.
    • 5.

  • Aaron Copland

    Clarinet Concerto

    Performer: Anthony McGill. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Jaap van Zweden.
    • DECCA.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Piano Quintet no.2 in A major Op.81 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Stefan Vladar. Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
    • Dvorak: Quatuor op.96 "Americain": Jerusalem Quartet.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 7.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in C, Hob.XVI:50: 1st movement; Allegro

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Lucien-Léon Guillaume Lambert

    Brocéliande (Overture)

    Orchestrator: Richard Rosenberg. Orchestra: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Rosenberg.
    • NAXOS.

  • Maya Youssef

    The Sea

    Performer: Maya Youssef. Performer: Sebastian Flaig. Performer: Barney Morse-Brown.
    • Syrian Dreams.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 9.

  • Franz Schubert

    4 Impromptus D.899 (no.3 in G flat major)

    Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • Schubert: Impromptus: Maria Joao Pires.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Serenade in A minor (Romance)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Martin Yates.
    • Vaughan Williams: Early and Late Works.
    • Dutton Epoch.
    • 14.

  • Henri Mulet

    Esquisses Byzantines (Rosace)

    Performer: Jane Parker‐Smith.
    • Avie.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Prélude (Le tombeau de Couperin)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Introduction and Polonaise in C major Op.3

    Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • ERATO.

Broadcast

  • Wed 7 Oct 202009:00
    BBC Radio 3