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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 pieces of music inspired by mountains.

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

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Tue 23 Feb 202109:00
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Music Played

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    March Op.99

    Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.
    • Mercury Living Presence.

  • Claude Debussy

    Fetes (Nocturnes)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Philips.

  • François Couperin

    Les Ombres Errantes (Pieces de clavecin - ordre no.25)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Michael Tippett

    Ritual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage (conclusion)

    Choir: BBC Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • WARNER APEX.

  • Gang Chen

    Miao Mountain Morning

    Music Arranger: Yi-Wen Jiang. Ensemble: The Shanghai Quartet.
    • China Song.
    • Delos.
    • 1.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Tsar's Bride (Overture)

    Performer: Christopher Warren‐Green. Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov - The Tsar's Bride.
    • Philips.
    • 1.

  • Michael East

    Fantasias for 5 Viols: No 2 Peccavi

    Ensemble: Chelys Consort of Viols.
    • Amavi: Music for Viols & Voices by Michael East.
    • BIS.
    • 3.

  • Michael East

    When I Lament

    Ensemble: Fieri Consort. Ensemble: Chelys Consort of Viols.
    • Amavi: Music for Viols & Voices by Michael East.
    • BIS.
    • 18.

  • Michael Tippett

    Ritual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage (conclusion)

    Choir: BBC Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • WARNER APEX.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor (4th mvt)

    Performer: Augustin Dumay. Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • DG.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Dove sei, amato bene (Rodelinda)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Ottavio Dantone.
    • DECCA.

  • Leó Weiner

    Csűrdöngölő [Barn dance] (Két Tétel)

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Christoph Koncz. Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Performer: Stephan Koncz. Performer: Ödön Rácz. Performer: Oszkár Ökrös. Performer: Predrag Tomic.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Kurt Atterberg

    A Värmland Rhapsody

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Atterberg: Orchestral Works vol.1.
    • Chandos.
    • 004.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata in B flat major, D 960 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Leon Fleisher.
    • Sony.

  • Imogen Holst

    A Hymne to Christ

    Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Director: Graham Ross.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Jean‐Joseph de Mondonville

    Sonate en symphonie in F major Op.3 no.2

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Henry Purcell

    The Fairy Queen (Act 4 Symphony)

    Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Purcell: The Fairy Queen, 1692.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Choral Dances from Gloriana: Concord

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Britten: Sacred and Profane, and other choral music.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Voices of Spring, Op.410

    Singer: Sumi Jo. Orchestra: Vienna Volksoper Orchestra. Conductor: Rudolph Bibl.
    • Warner.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in B flat major RV.529 for 2 violins and orchestra

    Performer: Giuliano Carmignola. Performer: Amandine Beyer. Orchestra: Gli Incogniti.
    • Vivaldi - Concerti per due violini.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 4.

  • Alan Hovhaness

    Symphony no.2 'Mysterious Mountain' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • Delos.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Organ Sonata in C minor Op.65 no.2 (2nd & 3rd mvts)

    Performer: Peter Hurford.
    • ARGO.

  • Federico Mompou

    Damunt de tu nomes les flors

    Performer: Arcadi Volodos.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Symphony in F sharp Op.40 (4th mvt)

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

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Calme des nuits (2 Choruses Op.68)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major Op.76 no.5

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • BIS.

  • Léo Delibes

    Syliva (Prelude)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Delibes: The 3 Ballets: Richard Bonynge.
    • Decca.

Broadcast

  • Tue 23 Feb 202109:00
    BBC Radio 3