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Celebrating classical greats

Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1030 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1100 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

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

1230 Album of the Week

3 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 10 Apr 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • John Adams

    Short Ride in a Fast Machine

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Adams: Harmonielehre etc: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in E flat, Op 18: 'Grande valse brillante'

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin: Waltzes: Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Florence Price

    Adoration

    Music Arranger: Jarle Storløkken. Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Ensemble: tenThing.
    • She Composes Like A Man.
    • Lawo Classics.
    • 4.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in G minor Op.74`3 'Rider' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Op.74: Takacs Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.
  • Knut Nystedt

    Immortal Bach

    Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.
    • Nystedt & Bach: Meins Lebens Licht.
    • BIS.
    • 17.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Elizabeth Wallfisch. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
    • J.S. Bach: Concertos for 1,2 & 3 Violins: Wallfisch/Orchestra of the Age of Enli.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 1.
  • Hugo Wolf

    Italian Serenade

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.2 in D major, Op 36 (4th mvt, Allegro molto)

    Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
    • Beethoven: The Symphonies: Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska.
    • BIS.
    • 4.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Clarinet Concerto in C minor Op.31 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D Major - Finzi: Clarinet Concerto, Op. 31.
    • BIS.
    • 203.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Exultavit cor meum in Domino

    Music Arranger: Simon Cox. Ensemble: Septura. Conductor: Matthew Knight.
    • Music for Brass Septet, Vol. 4.
    • Naxos.
    • 601.
  • Giulio Caccini

    Ave Maria

    Performer: Alain Lefèvre. Singer: Daniel Taylor.
    • Ave Maria.
    • ANALEKTA.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata in D major, K311

    Performer: Elisabeth Brauss.
  • Henry Purcell

    Strike the viol (from Come, ye sons of art away)

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Orchestra: L’Arpeggiata. Conductor: Christina Pluhar.
    • Music for a While - Improvisations on Purcell.
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 103.
  • William Walton

    5 Bagatelles (no.4)

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Delphian.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    La Barcheta (Venezia)

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • Souvenirs De Venise.
    • Helios.
    • 13.
  • Vincent d’Indy

    Le joie du bleu profond (Poeme des Rivages)

    Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • D'Indy Orchestral Works vol.4.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Georges Bizet

    L'Arlésienne Suite No 1 (Carillon)

    Orchestra: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jesús López Cobos.
    • Bizet: Carmen Suite, Symphony No. 1: Jesus Lopez-Cobos.
    • Telarc.
    • 10.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Cello Concerto No 3 in A major, Wq 172 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Truls Mørk. Ensemble: Les Violons du Roy. Director: Bernard Labadie.
    • CPE Bach: Cello Concertos - Truls Mork.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 3.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Much Ado about Nothing - Suite (Intermezzo - Garden Scene)

    Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg. Conductor: Marc Albrecht.
    • Pentatone.
  • Gabriela Montero

    Improvisation on Adagio

    Composer: Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni. Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • Baroque Improvisations.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 107.
  • Johann Wilhelm Hertel

    Trumpet Concerto in D major

    Performer: Håkan Hardenberger. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Haydn, Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Hardenberger/Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 4.
  • Witold Lutosławski

    Variations on a Theme by Paganini, for piano & orchestra

    Composer: Alexander Warenberg. Performer: Denis Matsuev. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Wien - Berlin. Conductor: Rainer Honeck.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor, BWV 1067 (Badinérie)

    Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music.
    • J.S. Bach: Orchestral Music: Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 12.
  • Claude Debussy

    Jeux

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka‐Pekka Saraste.
    • Debussy - Orchestral Works.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.
  • Enrique Granados

    Goyescas: El Fandango de Candil

    Performer: Peter Donohoe.
    • Chandos.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo all turca arr for brass

    Music Arranger: Arthur Frackenpohl. Ensemble: Canadian Brass.
    • Best of The Canadian Brass.
    • CBS.
    • 9.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Papillon, Op. 77

    Performer: Bruno Phillippe. Performer: Tanguy de Williencourt.
    • Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 - Franck, Fauré & Poulenc.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 109.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Carnival Overture, Op 92

    Orchestra: Philharmonia. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Sony.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    La muerte del ángel

    Performer: Martin Fröst. Music Arranger: Göran Fröst. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Sony.
  • William Byrd

    Ave verum corpus (Gradualia Vol 1)

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Director: Martin Baker.
    • Byrd: The Three Masses; Ave Verum Corpus.
    • Hyperion.
    • 19.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.1 in D major D.82 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: B’Rock Orchestra. Conductor: René Jacobs.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 104.

Broadcast

  • Wed 10 Apr 2024 09:30

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