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Thursday with Ian Skelly - Dancing Queen, Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending, Jackie Kay

Ian Skelly with the best in classical music. Plus the poet and novelist Jackie Kay on the things that inspire her.

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

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. Today, we're beginning with Vaughan Williams's evocative pastoral tone poem, The Lark Ascending.

Other music today includes Fernando Sor's theme and variations for guitar on a theme by Mozart, as well as a chance to hear the original theme in context - from the Act 1 Finale of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute. Plus a preview of a new recording of Tchaikovsky's final symphony, the Pathetique.

1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history. Today, Dr Nandini Das on the theatrical tendencies of James I's wife, Anne of Denmark.

1050 Each day this week the poet and novelist Jackie Kay talks to Ian about the people, places, books and music that inspire her. Today, she tells us about her passion for the book Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.

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Thu 31 May 2018 09:00
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Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    Norwegian Bridal Procession

    Music Arranger: Frederick Delius. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Delius in Norway.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Fernando Sor

    Introduction and variations on Mozart's 'O cara armonia' Op.9

    Performer: Carlos Bonell.
    • The Private Collection: Carlos Bonell.
    • Upbeat Classics.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 6 in B Minor, "PathΓ©tique" (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Mariss Jansons. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 & The Nightingale.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 103.

  • Clara Schumann

    Volkslied

    Performer: Eugene Asti. Singer: Susan Gritton.
    • Hyperion.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Hamburger Ebbe und Flut, TWV.55:C3: Der Angenehme Zephir (Menuet) ; Ebbe und Fluth (Gigue); Die Lustige Botsleute (Canarie)

    Orchestra: Musica Antiqua Köln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.

  • Joseph Haydn

    The Mermaid's Song

    Performer: Melvyn Tan. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter.
    • Archiv.

  • Graham Fitkin

    Mapping

    Performer: Ruth Wall. Performer: Graham Fitkin.
    • GFR.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Tragic Overture, Op.81

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

  • Time Traveller: Dancing Queen by Nandini Das

  • Claude Debussy

    Masques

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Hyperion.

  • Anton Webern

    Clarinet Quintet in B flat major, Op 34 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Eduard Brunner. Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • DG.

  • Gustav Holst

    A Somerset Rhapsody Op.21' 2

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.

  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ΅k

    Cypresses B.152 (no.1)

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Dvorak: American Quartet, Cypresses: Hagen Quartet.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.

  • Jackie Kay on her passion for The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Photography: iv. Moderato, keep very rhythmic

    Orchestra: Orchestra X. Conductor: Nicholas Kok.
    • Wallen: Photography: Orchestral Works.
    • NMC.
    • 6.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Die Zauberflote - Act 1 Finale

    Singer: Rosa Mannion. Singer: Hans Peter Blochwitz. Singer: Anton Scharinger. Singer: Reinhard Hagen. Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • Erato.

  • Edward Elgar

    Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • DECCA.

  • William Shield

    The Plough Boy

    Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Singer: Christopher Maltman. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • EMI.

  • Elfrida AndrΓ©e

    Symphony No 2 in A minor (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Stockholm Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustaf Sjökvist.
    • Sterling.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in A flat major D.899 no.4

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Schubert: Impromptus, Op. 90 & 142; Murray Perahia.
    • CBS.
    • 4.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No 5 in D minor, Op 47 (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Vasily Petrenko. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

Broadcast

  • Thu 31 May 2018 09:00
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