Friday with Ian Skelly - Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, The Horse Dung Nebula, Grieg's Piano Concerto
Ian Skelly presents potential companion pieces for a popular piece of music, and conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla reveals her cultural inspirations and influences.
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Samuel Barber
The School for Scandal Op.5
Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.- Barber/Bernstein/Gershwin/Copland: Great American Showpieces.
- EMI.
- 5.
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Niccolò Paganini
Caprices for solo violin - nos. 9 & 24
Performer: Michael Barenboim.- Accentus.
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Franz Schubert
Impromptu in E flat major, D.899 no.2
Performer: Imogen Cooper.- Schubert: The Last Six Years 1823-1828, Vol. 6; Imogen Cooper.
- Ottavo.
- 5.
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Kurt Weill
Foolish heart (One Touch of Venus)
Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Orchestra: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
- Deutshe Grammophon.
- 20.
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Edvard Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16 (1st mvt)
Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Performer: Melina Mandozzi. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.- Grieg/Liszt: Piano Concertos: Stephen Hough, BPO, Litton.
- Hyperion.
- 9.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Hamburger Sonata in G major for flute and continuo, Wq 133
Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Trevor Pinnock. Performer: Jonathan Manson.- EMI.
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Leonard Bernstein
Wonderful Town (Overture)
Music Arranger: Charlie Harmon. Orchestra: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.- Bernstein: Marin Alsop's Complete Naxos Recordings.
- Naxos.
- 1611.
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Herbert Howells
Take him, earth, for cherishing
Choir: Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.- Howells: Requiem / Take him, earth, for cherishing.
- Hyperion.
- 5.
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Time Traveller: Horse Dung Nebula
Duration: 02:12
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor, Op.10 No.1
Performer: Jonathan Biss.- ONYX.
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Robert Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54
Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.- Sony.
Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla: Cultural Inspirations
Duration: 04:30
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Claude Debussy
Dialogue du vent et de la mer (La mer)
Orchestra: Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- Debussy: La Mer: Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Judith Weir
All the Ends of the Earth
Choir: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Singers. Ensemble: Endymion Ensemble. Conductor: David Hill.- SIGNUM.
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Johann David Heinichen
Concerto in G major, S215
Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.- ARCHIV.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Andante favori, WoO 57
Performer: Barry Douglas.- Beethoven: Piano sonata in B flat major, Op.106 "Hammerklavier" and Andante favo.
- RCA.
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Robert Schumann
Märchenerzählungen, Op 132
Performer: Richard Hosford. Performer: Lawrence Power. Performer: Ian Brown. Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.- HYPERION.
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