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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, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

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.

1115 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1145 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 31 Jul 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Wonderful Town (Overture)

    Orchestra: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Bernstein: Wonderful Town.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Roses from the South Op.388

    Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Linos Ensemble. Performer: Ryoko Morooka.
    • Capriccio.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Hor che'l ciel e la terra e'l vento tace

    Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Conductor: Christina Pluhar.
    • Monteverdi: Teatro d'amore.
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 111.
  • Cécile Chaminade

    Concertino for flute and piano, Op 107

    Performer: Peter-Lukas Graf. Performer: Michio Kobayashi.
    • Chaminade, Enesco, Gaubert: Joueurs de flute: Peter-Lukas Graf, Michio Kobayashi.
    • CLAVES.
    • 1.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Apollon Musagete; 1. Premiere Tableau: Naissance d'Apollon

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Philharmonic. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Berceuse in D flat major Op.57

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin: Late Masterpieces, Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.
  • Béla Bartók

    Hungarian Sketches

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Bartok: Orchestral Works Vol.1: Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer.
    • Philips.
    • 3.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto Movement for Horn in E flat Major K.370b

    Performer: Sarah Willis. Orchestra: Havana Lyceum Orchestra. Conductor: José Antonio Méndez Padrón.
    • Alpha.
  • Clara Schumann

    Geheimes Flustern hier und dort, Op 23 No 3

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

    Finlandia Op.26

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Sibelius: Symphonies No.1 & 3/Finlandia: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/O.
    • Erato.
    • 8.
  • Claude Debussy

    Lindaraja

    Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque.
    • en Blanc et Noir - The Debussy Album.
    • Philips.
    • 016.
  • William Byrd

    Vigilate for 5 voices

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • The Tallis Scholars Sing William Byrd.
    • Gimell.
    • 1.
  • György Ligeti

    Romanian Concerto

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Jonathan Nott.
    • Teldec.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Rigaudon (Holberg suite, Op.40)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ole Kristian Ruud.
    • Grieg Holberg Suite.
    • BIS.
    • 005.
  • Richard Strauss

    Also sprach Zarathustra (Introduction)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Cara pianta (Apollo e Dafne)

    Singer: Christopher Purves. Orchestra: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • HYPERION.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Apollo et Hyacinthus, K.38: Intrada in D major

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Christopher Hogwood.
    • DG.
  • George Antheil

    Archipelago "Rumba"

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Philharmonic. Conductor: John StorgÃ¥rds.
    • Chandos.
  • Max Bruch

    String Octet (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Zsolt Fejérvári. Ensemble: Kodály Quartet. Ensemble: Auer String Quartet.
    • Mendelssohn/Bruch: String Quartets.
    • Naxos.
  • John Dowland

    Lachrimae

    Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • ALPHA.
  • Alexander Borodin

    In the Steppes of Central Asia

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin: Neeme Jarvi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D major, BWV 1050

    Orchestra: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos: Concerto Italiano.
    • Naive.
    • 4.
  • Heitor Villaâ€Lobos

    Bachianas Brasileiras No.1. Introduction (Embolada)

    Performer: David Shamban. Performer: Claudio Jaffé. Performer: Aldo Parisot. Ensemble: Yale Cellos.
    • Delos.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op 42 - Melodie

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • 12 Stradivari.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 11.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Habanera

    Orchestra: Orchestre Lamoureux. Conductor: Yutaka Sado.
    • Elatus.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    English Folk Song Suite

    Music Arranger: Gordon Jacob. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • DECCA.
  • Cesar Cui

    Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 64 No 8

    Performer: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Russian Piano Music: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Chandos.
    • 12.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    The Sea Hawk (Freedom)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • DG.

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