Classical soundtrack for your morning
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
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Aram Khachaturian
Gayane: Sabre Dance
Performer: Sarah Chang. Performer: Sandra Rivers. Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz.- EMI.
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Amilcare Ponchielli
Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda)
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Georg Solti.- Decca.
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Gerda Blok Wilson
O little rose, O dark rose
Choir: The Gesualdo Six. Director: Owain Park.- Hyperion.
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Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Gavotte with 6 variations
Performer: Bruce Liu.- WAVES: Music by Rameau, Ravel, Alkan.
- DG.
- 1.
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Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet in E minor, Op 44 No 2 (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.- Erato.
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Josef Suk
Beneath the Apple Tree Suite: Bacchanale
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Libor Pešek.- Supraphon.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Voi che sapete (The Marriage of Figaro)
Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- Sospiri: Cecilia Bartoli.
- Decca.
- 5.
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Juan Crisostomo Arriaga
Symphony in D minor (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- Arriaga & Vorisek: Symphonies: Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras.
- Hyperion.
- 9.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto no.1 in F sharp minor Op.1 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Daniil Trifonov. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.- Destination Rachmaninov: Arrival.
- DG.
- 4.
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Gustav Holst
A Fugal Overture, Op.40`1
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- CHANDOS.
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Richard Wagner
Tannhäuser: Song to the Evening Star
Singer: Christian Gerhaher. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.- Sony Classical.
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Franz Schubert
Six Moments musicaux, D 780 (No 3 in F minor)
Performer: Radu Lupu.- Fur Elise, Piano Music by Beethoven, Chopin, etc.: Ashkenezy etc..
- Decca.
- 5.
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George Frideric Handel
Concerto grosso in F major, Op 6 No 2
Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.- Handel: Twelve Concerti Grossi, Op.6 Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini.
- Decca.
- 6.
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Johan Svendsen
Norwegian Artists' Carnival Op.14
Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- Chandos.
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Nicolas Gombert
Ave Maria
Ensemble: Brabant Ensemble. Director: Stephen Rice.- Tribulato et angustia – Four and five part motets by Nicolas Gombert.
- Hyperion.
- 9.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op.35 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Johan Dalene. Orchestra: Norrköpings Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Daniel Blendulf.- Tchaikovsky & Barber: Violin Concertos.
- BIS.
- 103.
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Elizabeth Poston
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Andrew Nethsingha.- Signum.
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Leos Janáček
On an Overgrown Path, Book 1 (No 2, A Leaf Blown Away)
Performer: Charles Owen.- Leos Janacek: Piano music: Charles Owen.
- Somm New Horizons.
- 4.
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Gerald Finzi
The Fall of the Leaf, Op 20
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.- Lyrita.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Linden Lea
Performer: Iain Burnside. Author: William Barnes. Singer: Roderick Williams.- Vaughan Williams: The English Song Series 14: Williams/Burnside.
- Naxos.
- 16.
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Claudio Monteverdi
L'Orfeo: Toccata
Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.- Naive.
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Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No 6 (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Karel Ančerl.- SUPRAPHON.
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Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in D Minor Kk.1
Music Arranger: Martin Frost. Music Arranger: Roland Pöntinen. Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Roland Pöntinen.- SONY.
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Andrzej Panufnik
Song on the Vistula (Polonia Suite)
Orchestra: Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lukasz Borowicz.- Panufnik Edition Symphonic Works Volume 2.
- CPO.
- 12.
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Marcel Lanquetuit
Toccata in D major
Performer: Gillian Weir.- PRIORY.
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Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana (Intermezzo)
Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- DG.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata No 6, 'Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden'
Singer: Yukari Nonoshita. Singer: Robin Blaze. Singer: James Gilchrist. Singer: Dominik Wörner. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Director: Masaaki Suzuki.- BIS.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
String Quartet No.6 in G major (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Leonard Bernstein
Candide (Overture)
Orchestra: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.- Bernstein: Anniversaries, Fancy Free Suite, Overture to Candide & Overture to Wo.
- Naxos.
- 101.
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Antonio José
Guitar Sonata (3rd mvt Pavana triste)
Performer: Sean Shibe.- Camino - Spanish and French repertoire for guitar.
- Pentatone.
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Errollyn Wallen
Piano Concerto (4th mvt 'Joyful')
Performer: Rebeca Omordia. Orchestra: 鶹Լ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: John Andrews.- Maconchy, Lutyens & Wallen: Works for Piano & Orchestra.
- Resonus Classics.
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Johannes Sperger
Trio No 2 in G major (3rd mvt)
Performer: Miloš Jurkovič. Performer: Milan Telecký. Performer: Juraj Alexander.- Sperger: Six Trios.
- Trevak.
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Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Op.28
Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.- REFERENCE RECORDINGS.
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- Tue 13 Aug 2024 09:30鶹Լ Radio 3