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Ian Skelly with Essential Sunrises, Anna Lapwood, Williams's O Adonai

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 musical sunrises.

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

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Fri 18 Dec 202009:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Hector Berlioz

    Hungarian March (The Damnation of Faust)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Berlioz: La damnation de Faust.
    • Lso Live.
    • 3.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Fantasia in G minor

    Performer: Joël Marosi. Performer: Esther Walker.
    • First Hand Records.

  • Roderick Williams

    O Adonai

    Choir: Ex Cathedra. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • EX CATHEDRA.

  • Claude Debussy

    Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum (Children's Corner, No 1)

    Performer: Paul Ji.
    • Warner.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Tea (The Nutcracker. Act 2)

    Conductor: Valery Gergiev. Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - Symphony No. 4.
    • Mariinsky.
    • 115.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Trepak (The Nutcracker. Act 2)

    Conductor: Valery Gergiev. Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - Symphony No. 4.
    • Mariinsky.
    • 116.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Dance of the Reed Pipes (The Nutcracker. Act 2)

    Conductor: Valery Gergiev. Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - Symphony No. 4.
    • Mariinsky.
    • 117.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Mother Ginger and the Clowns (The Nutcracker. Act 2)

    Conductor: Valery Gergiev. Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - Symphony No. 4.
    • Mariinsky.
    • 118.

  • Giovanni Sollima

    Prelude for Mandolin Solo

    Performer: Avi Avital.
    • DG.

  • Giuseppe Tartini

    Violin Concerto in A major D.96

    Performer: Chouchane Siranossian. Ensemble: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Director: Andrea Marcon.
    • ALPHA.

  • Gerald Finzi

    My Spirit Sang All Day, Op.17 no.3

    Ensemble: Apollo5.
    • O Radiant Dawn.
    • VCM.
    • 15.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 14 in E flat major, K 449 (1st mvt, chamber version)

    Performer: Thomas Beijer. Ensemble: Camerata RCO.
    • Gutman Records.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Pines of the Janiculum (Pines of Rome)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Poetic Tone Pictures, Op. 85: VIII. Goblin's dance. Allegretto

    Performer: Elena Bashkirova.
    • Dvořák: Poetic Tone Pictures.
    • CAvi-music.
    • 8.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    The Creatures of Prometheus Op.43 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • harmonia mundi.

  • Benjamin Britten

    A Ceremony of Carols (Procession)

    Performer: Simon Bell. Performer: Francis Kelly. Choir: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Director: Andrew Lumsden.
    • Christmas from Winchester: Winchester Cathedral Choir.
    • Regent.
    • 7.

  • Gerald Finzi

    By Footpath and Stile, Op. 2: No. 3. The Oxen

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Ensemble: Sacconi Quartet.
    • A Finzi Anthology.
    • Naxos.
    • 603.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Jubilate Deo

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Orchestra: La Nuova Musica. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • The Sacred Flame: The Cambridge Singers / Rutter.
    • Collegium.
    • 1.

  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets, Op 32 (Neptune, the Mystic)

    Orchestra: National Youth Orchestra. Choir: CBSO Youth Chorus. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Holst: The Planets / Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra.
    • Chandos.
    • 16.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in G major, Wq.173

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise

    Performer: Robert Jordan. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Gernon.
    • Peter Maxwell Davies - An Orkney Wedding With Sunrise and other works.
    • LINN.
    • 9.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet No 4 in C major, D46 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.
    • Erato.

  • Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Trio Sonata No 2 in G Minor, ZWV 181 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Die Freitagsakademie.
    • Winter and Winter.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    La Foire (Etudes-tableaux No 2, after Rachmaninov's Op 33 No 4)

    Orchestrator: Ottorino Respighi. Orchestra: Dortmunder Philharmoniker. Conductor: Gabriel Feltz.
    • Dreyer Gaido.

  • Anonymous

    Swete was the song the Virgine soong

    Singer: Emily Van Evera. Ensemble: Taverner Consort.
    • EMI.

  • Jakub Ciupiński

    Edo Lullaby

    Performer: Anne Akiko Meyers.
    • Avie.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    O Jesulein süss

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg. Singer: Tessa Bonner.
    • EMI.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto no.1 in C major H.7b.1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sol Gabetta. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Sergio Ciomei.
    • RCA.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Mazurka in A minor, 'Notre temps'

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 22.

  • Olivier Messiaen

    Transports de joie (L'Ascension, 3rd meditation)

    Performer: Wayne Marshall.
    • Base2 Music.

Broadcast

  • Fri 18 Dec 202009:00
    BBC Radio 3