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A feast of great music

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

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

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

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

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

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

1230 Album of the Week

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Music Played

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Suite for Jazz Band No 2 (Waltz 2)

    Orchestra: Russian State Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dmitry Yablonsky.
    • NAXOS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto in C major for flute and harp K.299 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Marie鈥怭ierre Langlamet. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart Flute Concertos Concerto For Flute And Harp.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Benedetto Marcello

    Recorder Sonata in F major, Op 2 No 12 (4th mvt, Ciaccona)

    Ensemble: Les Inventions.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.

  • Imogen Holst

    Agnus Dei (Mass in A minor)

    Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Choir: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • All Things Are Quite Silent.
    • Signum Records.
    • 14.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Academic Festival Overture

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Brahms: The Symphonies.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Regina Harris Baiocchi

    Common things surprise us

    Performer: Sarah Cahill.
    • The Future is Female, Vol. 3, 'At Play'.
    • First Hand Records.
    • 1.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Polka (The Bartered Bride)

    Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda. Orchestra: 麻豆约拍 Philharmonic.
    • Smetana: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

  • William Lawes

    Royal Consort Suite No 5 in F major (Aire No 1)

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • Royal Consort.
    • Linn.
    • 19.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony No 3 in G minor, Op 36 (3rd mvt, Scherzo)

    Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic. Conductor: Johannes Goritzki.
    • Louise Farrenc: Symphonies 1 and 3.
    • CPO.
    • 7.

  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Catalu帽a (Suite espa帽ola No 1), arranged for guitar

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • 麻豆约拍 Radio 3 New Generation Artists.
    • 麻豆约拍 Radio 3.
    • 1.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon and Gigue in D major

    Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Pachelbel: Canon - Academy of Ancient Music/Hogwood.
    • DECCA.
    • 1.

  • Wilhelm Peterson鈥怋erger

    Like Stars in the Heavens (4 Ballads in Folk Style, No 3)

    Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter.
    • Wings in the Night: Swedish Songs.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 3.

  • Regina Harris Baiocchi

    Common things surprise us

    Performer: Sarah Cahill.
    • The Future is Female, Vol. 3, 'At Play'.
    • First Hand Records.
    • 1.

  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Ornamental Air for basset clarinet and orchestra (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Collins.
    • Mozart/Copland/Kats-Chernin: Works for Clarinet and Orchestra: Michael Collins.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 4 in B flat major, Op 60 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: G眉nter Wand. Orchestra: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9: Wand, NDR-Sinfonieorchester.
    • RCA Classics.
    • 2.

  • Regina Harris Baiocchi

    Common things surprise us

    Performer: Sarah Cahill.
    • The Future is Female, Vol. 3, 'At Play'.
    • First Hand Records.
    • 1.

  • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

    Car Horn Prelude (Le grand macabre)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • SONY.

  • Michael Head

    Sweet chance, that led my steps abroad

    Singer: Ailish Tynan. Performer: Christopher Glynn.
    • Michael Head - Songs.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.

  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    Bagatelle No 6

    Performer: Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin.
    • Kapustin Plays Kapustin - A Jazz Portrait.
    • JSC "Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga Musica".
    • 10.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.94 in G major H.1.94 'Surprise' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Haydn - 12 London Symphonies.
    • Naive.
    • 2.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    April (Das Jahr)

    Performer: Liana 葮erbescu.
    • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Klavierwerke vol.1.
    • CPO.
    • 4.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D major, BWV 1050 (1st mvt, Allegro)

    Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music.
    • J.S. Bach: Orchestral Music: Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 8.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Suite for Violin and Piano (2nd mvmt, Cavatina)

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Zhu Wang.
    • Roots (Deluxe Edition).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 20.

  • Caroline Shaw

    Partita for 8 voices (1st mvmt, Allemande)

    Ensemble: Roomful of Teeth.
    • New Amsterdam Records.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Joyeuse marche

    Orchestra: Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse. Conductor: Michel Plasson.
    • Chabrier: Oeuvres pour orchestre: Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse/Plasson.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto grosso in F major, Op 6 No 2 (opening)

    Conductor: Trevor Pinnock. Orchestra: The English Concert.
    • Archiv.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Study in C minor, Op 10 No 12, 'Revolutionary'

    Performer: Ronald Smith.
    • Chopin: Etudes Op. 10 & Op. 25: Ronald Smith.
    • Nimbus.
    • 12.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Dies natalis, Op 8

    Singer: Wilfred Brown. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Finzi.
    • EMI.

  • Florence Price

    Silk Hat and Walking Cane (Dances in the Canebrakes)

    Music Arranger: William Grant Still. Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen.
    • Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers.
    • Cedille.
    • 103.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Cello Sonata (1st mvmt, Allegro: tempo di marcia)

    Performer: Bruno Philippe. Performer: Tanguy de Williencourt.
    • Saint-Sa毛ns: Cello Concerto No. 1 - Franck, Faur茅 & Poulenc.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 110.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No 5 in B flat major, D.485 (4th mvmt, Allegro vivace)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 \"Unfinished\".
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 4.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Trio Sonata in G minor, HWV 393, 'Dresden No 2' (3rd mvt, Largo)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Zefiro.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.

  • Miriam Hyde

    Village Fair

    Orchestra: Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dobbs Franks.
    • ABC CLASSICS.

Broadcast

  • Thu 11 Apr 2024 09:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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