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Your perfect classical playlist

Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with 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

Tue 30 Jul 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Alla hornpipe (Water Music)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • Handel: Fireworks Music & Water Music.
    • Sony Music Entertainment.
    • 25.
  • Claude Debussy

    Arabesque no.1 in E major

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.3: Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony No. 3 in G minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: European Soloists, Luxembourg. Conductor: Christoph Koenig.
    • Farrenc: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Anna Meredith

    Nautilus

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.
    • Platoon.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No. 4 in D (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Baiba Skride. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Eivind Aadland.
    • Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 1-5.
    • Orfeo.
    • 3.
  • John Williams

    Dartmoor, 1912 (War Horse OST)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: John Williams.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg concerto no.3 in G major BWV.1048

    Orchestra: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos: Concerto Italiano.
    • Naive.
    • 14.
  • Salim Dada

    Danse Zaydan (Algerian Miniatures)

    Performer: Rebeca Omordia.
    • African Pianism, Vol. 2.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 3.
  • Emmerich KΓ‘lmΓ‘n

    Countess Mariza (Overture)

    Orchestra: MΓΌnchner Symphoniker. Conductor: Willy Mattes.
    • Best of Operetta [International Version].
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.
  • Ernest Chausson

    Chanson perpΓ©tuelle

    Performer: Alphonse Cemin. Singer: Kate Lindsey. Ensemble: Van Kuijk Quartet.
    • Debussy, Ravel & Chausson.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 3.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.5 in B flat major D.485 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: B’Rock Orchestra. Conductor: RenΓ© Jacobs.
    • Pentatone.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    America (West Side Story)

    Music Arranger: Henk Huizinga. Performer: Jaap van Zweden. Ensemble: The Amsterdam Saxophone Quartet.
    • Fineline Classics.
  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Concerto in A minor Op.54 (1st mvt)

    Performer: HΓ©lΓ¨ne Grimaud. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Vicente Lusitano

    Sancta mater, istud agas

    Choir: The Marian Consort.
    • Vicente Lusitano: Motets - 2.
    • Linn Records.
    • 9.
  • George Butterworth

    Is my team ploughing? (6 Songs from 'A Shropshire Lad')

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Iain Burnside.
    • George Butterworth, Songs from A Shropshire Lad: Williams / Burnside.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.
  • Adrian Sutton

    Emilie's Theme (War Horse)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Angus.
    • War Horse: The Story in Concert.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd.
    • 21.
  • William Walton

    Charge and Battle (Henry V)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: William Walton.
    • Walton: Henry V - Scenes from the film, and other film music.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.
  • °Υ°ωΓ€»ε

    Widdicombe Fair

    Ensemble: The King’s Singers.
    • The King's Singers Live at the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 19.
  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet no. 2 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: TakΓ‘cs Quartet.
    • DECCA.
  • Rossano Galante

    Resplendent Glory

    Ensemble: US Air Force Academy Band. Conductor: Lieutenant Colonel Larry H. Lang.
    • Windscapes.
    • Altissimo!.
    • 13.
  • Henryk MikoΕ‚aj GΓ³recki

    Three Pieces in Old Style (3rd Movement)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Swan. Conductor: Bruce O’Neil.
    • Timelapse.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 14.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Young Apollo Op.16

    Performer: Peter Donohoe. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Le nozze di Figaro (Act 2 Finale)

    Lyricist: Lorenzo Da Ponte. Orchestra: Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro - The Sony Opera House.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 12.
  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Waltz in C sharp minor, Op 64 No 2

    Performer: Maria JoΓ£o Pires.
    • Chopin: Piano works: Maria Joao Pires/Pavel Gomziakov.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • Richard Heuberger

    Midnight Bells (Der Opernball)

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Sir Antonio Pappano. Music Arranger: Fritz Kreisler.
    • 12 Stradivari.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Academic Festival Overture

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • ERATO.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in F major RV.138

    Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Ottavio Dantone.
    • NAIVE.
  • Anna Clyne

    PIVOT

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.
    • Orchestral Series Highlights 2021 (Edinburgh International Festival).
    • Linn Records.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Tue 30 Jul 2024 09:30

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