The very best of classical music
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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George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess: It Ain't Necessarily So
Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Zhu Wang. Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz.- Gershwin: Porgy and Bess: It Ain't Necessarily So (Arr. Heifetz).
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
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Arthur Sullivan
The Pirates of Penzance (Overture)
Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- Sullivan: Overtures.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
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Alexander von Zemlinsky
Humoreske
Ensemble: Les Vents Français.- French Music for Winds.
- WARNER.
- 7.
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Johannes Brahms
Serenade No 2 in A major, Op 16 (5th mvt)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.- Brahms: Serenades Nos. 1&2: LSO/Michael Tilson Thomas.
- Sony Classical.
- 11.
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Gabriel Fauré
Mazurka in B flat major Op.32
Performer: Kathryn Stott.- Hyperion.
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Richard Addinsell
Blithe Sprit (Waltz Theme arr Isaacs)
Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn.- Music of Richard Addinsell.
- ASV.
- 4.
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Gioachino Rossini
The Silken Ladder (Overture)
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.- WARNER CLASSICS.
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Claude Debussy
Reverie
Music Arranger: Paul Cassidy. Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.- Chandos.
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Wilhelm Stenhammar
Symphony no.2 in G minor Op.34 (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Lindberg.- Stenhammar: Symphony No. 2 & Ett drömspel.
- BIS.
- 3.
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Anthony Holborne
The Honie-suckle - almain
Performer: Jakob Lindberg.- BIS.
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Leos Janáček
Folk Nocturnes - No. 1, Hey, There Was a Maid She Mowed the Grass
Performer: Marián Lapšanský. Singer: Dagmar Pecková. Choir: Prague Philharmonic Choir. Conductor: Pavel Kühn.- Supraphon.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Prelude in C sharp minor Op.3 no.2
Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.- Rachmaninov: Preludes Moments musicaux: Nikolai Lugansky.
- Erato.
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Arnold Bax
The Happy Forest
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.- Made In Britain.
- Avie.
- 5.
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Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Violin concerto in D major Op. Post. no.2 - 3rd movement, Rondo (allegro)
Performer: Zhou Qian. Orchestra: Toronto Camerata. Conductor: Kevin Mallon.- Saint-George: Complete Violin Concertos, Vol.2.
- NAXOS.
- 3.
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Gabriel Pierné
Canzonetta, Op.19
Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.- Chandos.
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Arturo Márquez
Danzón no.2
Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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William Bolcom
3 Ghost Rags: No. 1, Graceful Ghost Rag
Performer: Marc-André Hamelin.- Bolcom: The Complete Rags.
- Hyperion.
- 1.
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Jean Sibelius
Valse triste (Kuolema Op.44)
Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.- Sibelius: Finlandia; Valse Triste; Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar; Salonen.
- Sony Classical.
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Trad.
She moved through the fair
Singer: Anne Briggs.- TOPIC RECORDS.
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Arthur Sullivan
When the night wind howls (Ruddigore)
Librettist: W. S. Gilbert. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Choir: Radiokören. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Daniel.- Bryn Terfel: Bad Boys; Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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George Frideric Handel
Alessandro (Overture)
Orchestra: La Petite Bande. Conductor: Sigiswald Kuijken.- Händel: Alessandro.
- Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
- 1.
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Jacques Offenbach
La belle Hélène (Overture)
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- Offenbach: Overtures: Neville Marriner.
- Philips.
- 1.
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Doreen Carwithen
Piano Concerto (2nd mvt)
Performer: Howard Shelley. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- Doreen Carwithen. Work incl. Overture (ODTAA), Suffolk suite and others.
- Chandos.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Non sa che sia dolore, BWV 209: Sinfonia
Performer: Kiyomi Suga. Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.- J.S. Bach: Secular Cantatas, Vol. 7.
- BIS.
- 201.
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Antonín Dvořák
Czech Suite, Op 39
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Doráti.- Decca.
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Florence Price
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (5 Folksongs in Counterpoint)
Ensemble: Apollo Chamber Ensemble.- Navona Records.
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Francis Poulenc
Sarabande for Guitar, FP 179
Performer: Sean Shibe.- Camino.
- PENTATONE.
- 1001.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony no.59 in A major 'Fire' (4th mvt)
Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.- Haydn: The 'Sturm und Drang' Symphonies: English Concert/ Pinnock.
- Archiv Produktion.
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Fiona Loader
Lorikeet Corroboree
Ensemble: Ensemble Offspring.- ABC Classics.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet in G major, Op 18 No 2 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Zoltán Székely. Performer: Michael Küttner. Performer: Denes Koromzay. Performer: Gábor Magyar. Orchestra: Hungarian Quartet.- Beethoven The Collector's Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
- EMI Classics.
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Alexander Glazunov
Concert waltz no. 1 in D major Op.47
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.- WARNER CLASSICS.
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