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Monday with Ian Skelly - Marin Alsop, The great film swindle of 1912, Elgar's Serenade for Strings

Ian Skelly with the best in classical music. Plus conductor Marin Alsop on the people, places and ideas that inspire her.

Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music, today including works by Schubert, Mozart and Britten

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Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. Elgar's compact, tuneful Serenade for Strings is one of his best-loved works. But with what would you follow it in the Playlist?

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Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history

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Each day this week the trail-blazing internationally renowned conductor Marin Alsop talks to Ian about the people, places and ideas that have inspired her throughout her life and career. Appropriately enough for someone who communicates partially with her hands, today she talks about Rodin's sculpture The Hand of God.

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Mon 4 Jun 2018 09:00
麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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Music and featured items

  • Howard Hanson

    Nymphs and Satyr

    Performer: Holly Blake. Orchestra: Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Spalding.
    • Hanson: Organ Concerto.
    • Naxos.
    • 003.

  • Clara Schumann

    Scherzo No 2 in C minor, Op 14

    Performer: Konstanze Eickhorst.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Oboe Quartet in F major, K 370

    Performer: Alexei Ogrintchouk. Performer: Boris Brovtsyn. Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Kristina Blaumane.
    • BIS.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Hush, ye pretty warbling quire! (Acis and Galatea)

    Singer: Lucy Crowe. Orchestra: Early Opera Company. Conductor: Christian Curnyn.
    • Chandos.

  • Edward Elgar

    Serenade for Strings Op. 20

    Orchestra: Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Favourite English Strings.
    • Alba.
    • 11-13.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane pour une infante d茅funte

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music: Steven Osborne, Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.

  • Franz Schubert

    Im Fr眉hling, D 882

    Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Ian Bostridge.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in F minor, BWV 857 (Book 1, The Well-Tempered Clavier)

    Performer: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S. Bach: Complete Keyboard Works vol 1: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
    • 23-24.

  • Joaqu铆n Rodrigo

    Invocaci贸n y danza (麻豆约拍naje a Manuel de Falla)

    Performer: Xuefei Yang. Orchestra: Orquestra Simf貌nica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya. Conductor: Eije Oue.
    • Rodrigo, Concierto de Aranjuez: Xuefei Yang.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 15.

  • Time Traveller: The Great 1912 Film Swindle

    Duration: 02:36

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Septet in E flat major, Op 65

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • HYPERION.

  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Serenade in F major Op.31 (Finale)

    Orchestra: Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Lindberg.
    • BIS.

  • Franz Schubert

    The Fair Maid of the Mill (Die schone Mullerin) D795

    Performer: Tony Spence. Performer: Christopher Glyn.

  • Cultural Inspirations: Marin Alsop on Rodin's The Hand Of God

    Duration: 04:16

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Nocturne in B major, Op.40

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

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    32 Variations for piano in C minor, WoO.80

    Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.
    • Beethoven: Variations: Cedric Tiberghien.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 2.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet in B flat major, D 68

    Ensemble: Quatuor Sine Nomine.
    • CASCAVELLE.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Spring Symphony (Out on the lawn I lie in bed)

    Conductor: Benjamin Britten. Singer: Norma Procter. Choir: Chorus of Boys from Emanuel School, Wandsworth. Choir: Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Orchestra: Royal Opera Orchestra.
    • Decca.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Rhapsodie in G minor, Op 79 No 2

    Performer: Stephen Kovacevich.
    • Brahms: Rhapsodies, Waltzes, Piano Pieces, Stephen Bishop Kovacevich.
    • Philips.
    • 2.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Concerto for bass tuba and orchestra in F minor

    Performer: Patrick Harrild. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • Chandos.

Broadcast

  • Mon 4 Jun 2018 09:00
    麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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