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
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Leonard Bernstein
Wonderful Town (Overture)
Orchestra: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- Bernstein: Wonderful Town.
- EMI Classics.
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Johann Strauss II
Roses from the South Op.388
Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Linos Ensemble. Performer: Ryoko Morooka.- Capriccio.
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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.
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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.
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Igor Stravinsky
Apollon Musagete; 1. Premiere Tableau: Naissance d'Apollon
Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Philharmonic. Conductor: Andrew Davis.- CHANDOS.
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Frédéric Chopin
Berceuse in D flat major Op.57
Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.- Chopin: Late Masterpieces, Stephen Hough.
- Hyperion.
- 13.
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Béla Bartók
Hungarian Sketches
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.- Bartok: Orchestral Works Vol.1: Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer.
- Philips.
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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.
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Clara Schumann
Geheimes Flustern hier und dort, Op 23 No 3
Singer: Susan Gritton. Performer: Eugene Asti.- Hyperion.
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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.
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Claude Debussy
Lindaraja
Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque.- en Blanc et Noir - The Debussy Album.
- Philips.
- 016.
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William Byrd
Vigilate for 5 voices
Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.- The Tallis Scholars Sing William Byrd.
- Gimell.
- 1.
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György Ligeti
Romanian Concerto
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Jonathan Nott.- Teldec.
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Edvard Grieg
Rigaudon (Holberg suite, Op.40)
Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ole Kristian Ruud.- Grieg Holberg Suite.
- BIS.
- 005.
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Richard Strauss
Also sprach Zarathustra (Introduction)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- DG.
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George Frideric Handel
Cara pianta (Apollo e Dafne)
Singer: Christopher Purves. Orchestra: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.- HYPERION.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Apollo et Hyacinthus, K.38: Intrada in D major
Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Christopher Hogwood.- DG.
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George Antheil
Archipelago "Rumba"
Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Philharmonic. Conductor: John StorgÃ¥rds.- Chandos.
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Max Bruch
String Octet (3rd mvt)
Performer: Zsolt Fejérvári. Ensemble: Kodály Quartet. Ensemble: Auer String Quartet.- Mendelssohn/Bruch: String Quartets.
- Naxos.
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John Dowland
Lachrimae
Performer: Thomas Dunford.- ALPHA.
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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.
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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.
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Heitor Villaâ€Lobos
Bachianas Brasileiras No.1. Introduction (Embolada)
Performer: David Shamban. Performer: Claudio Jaffé. Performer: Aldo Parisot. Ensemble: Yale Cellos.- Delos.
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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.
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Emmanuel Chabrier
Habanera
Orchestra: Orchestre Lamoureux. Conductor: Yutaka Sado.- Elatus.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
English Folk Song Suite
Music Arranger: Gordon Jacob. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- DECCA.
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Cesar Cui
Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 64 No 8
Performer: Margaret Fingerhut.- Russian Piano Music: Margaret Fingerhut.
- Chandos.
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
The Sea Hawk (Freedom)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.- DG.
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- Wed 31 Jul 2024 09:30Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3