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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 Musicians recommend their favourite recordings.

1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five notable takes on the stately minuet.

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

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Wed 27 Jan 202109:00
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Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Cossack Dance (Mazeppa)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Kurt Masur.
    • Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig/Masur.
    • Teldec.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    French Suite No 5 in G major, BWV 816 (Sarabande)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in G major Op.64`4 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Jubilee Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets.
    • Rubicon Classics.
    • 4.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Knight in Armour, Op.8

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music Suite No. 2 in D

    Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington. Orchestra: London Classical Players.
    • Handel - Music for the Royal Fireworks/ Water Music.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 115.

  • William Grant Still

    Mother and Child (Suite for violin and piano)

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • Estrellita.
    • BIS.
    • 13.

  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    Psalm 23, Op. 14

    Conductor: Nigel Short. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Choir: Tenebrae.
    • Symphonic Psalms & Prayers.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 401.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo for Violin and Orchestra in B flat major K269

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Letter Scene (Eugene Onegin)

    Singer: Anna Netrebko. Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Russian Album.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 012.

  • Trad.

    Polska from Dorotea

    Music Arranger: Duo Aliada. Ensemble: Duo Aliada.
    • East West.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.
    • 6.

  • George Gershwin

    I Got Rhythm

    Ensemble: Duo Aliada.
    • East West.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.
    • 15.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D major, BWV 1050 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock. Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Bach: Works for Orchestra: The English Concert/Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 4.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Symphony No 3 in C minor (Finale)

    Performer: Olivier Latry. Orchestra: Liege Philharmonic. Conductor: Pascal Rophé.
    • CYPRES.

  • Richard Wagner

    Lohengrin (Prelude to Act III)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Drinking Song (Music for a Knight's Ballet)

    Performer: Carl Petersson.
    • Military Beethoven.
    • Naxos.
    • 109.

  • William Walton

    Touch her soft lips, and part (Henry V Suite)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • DECCA.

  • Frederick Loewe

    Camelot - C'est moi

    Librettist: Alan Jay Lerner. Singer: Franco Nero. Orchestra: Alfred Newman.
    • Warner Bros..

  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Trio in G minor, Op.17 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Clara-Wieck-Trio.
    • Bayer Records.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade no.2 in A major, Op.16 (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • LSO Live.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pulcinella Suite: Minuetto & Finale

    Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Joshua Weilerstein.
    • MDG.

  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Stabat Mater

    Singer: Lucy Crowe. Singer: Tim Mead. Ensemble: La Nuova Musica. Conductor: David Bates.
    • Pergolesi: Stabat Mater - Bach: Cantatas BWV 54 & 170.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 104.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No 6 in D major (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Naxos.

  • Jacobus Clemens non Papa

    Ego Flos Campi

    Choir: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Florence Price

    The Moon Bridge

    Choir: VocalEssence Chorus. Performer: Paul Shaw. Conductor: Philip Brunelle.
    • Got the Saint Louis Blues.
    • Clarion.
    • 004.

  • Roland Szentpáli

    Blow on Fire (3 Dances)

    Performer: Roland Szentpáli. Performer: Bence Szepesi. Ensemble: Gyor Symphonic Band. Conductor: Laszlo Marosi.
    • Roland Szentpáli: 3 Concertos.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 301.

  • Erwin Schulhoff

    5 Pieces for string quartet: no.4; Alla Tango Milonga

    Ensemble: Quatuor Voce.
    • Lettres Intimes.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 7.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Overture 'Leonore' no.3 Op.72b

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 "Eroica".
    • Warner Classics.
    • 105.

Broadcast

  • Wed 27 Jan 202109:00
    BBC Radio 3