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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

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Fri 16 Aug 2024 09:30
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Music Played

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Flight of the Bumblebee (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme JΓ€rvi.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Overture and Suites from the Operas: Scottish National Orch/Jar.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • Claude Debussy

    En Bateau (Petite Suite)

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Hyperion.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in B flat major, Op 3 No 1

    Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Handel: Concerti Grossi Op.3: English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner.
    • Apex.
    • 19.

  • Adolphus Hailstork

    Fanfare on Amazing Grace

    Orchestra: Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Adolphus Hailstork: An American Port of Call.
    • Naxos.
    • 9.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Trio for oboe, clarinet and piano Op.10; 3. Allegro ritmico - quasi rumba

    Performer: Juliana Koch. Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Steven Sametz

    When he shall die

    Choir: Phoenix Bach Choir.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto no.5 in E flat major, Op.73, 'Emperor' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: JiΕ™Γ­ BΔ›lohlΓ‘vek.
    • Beethoven Complete Piano Concertos Lewis - Belohlavek.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 3.

  • Wilhelm Kaiser-Lindemann

    Bossa-Nova-Philharmonica

    Ensemble: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • South American Getaway.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.

  • Lili Boulanger

    D'un vieux jardin

    Performer: Kunal Lahiry.
    • Licht in der Nacht.
    • Fuga Libera.
    • 5.

  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Marche en rondeau 'Les Combattants' (Alceste)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • L'Orchestre du Roi Soleil.
    • ALIA VOX.
    • 20.

  • Peter Warlock

    The Fox

    Performer: Roger Vignoles. Lyricist: Bruce Blunt. Singer: John Mark Ainsley.
    • Peter Warlock: Songs.
    • Hyperion.
    • 34.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A major, K 581 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Martin Frost. Ensemble: Vertavo Quartet.
    • BIS.

  • Philip Wilby

    A Breathless Alleluia

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Performer: Philip Wilby. Conductor: Nicholas Childs.
    • A Breathless Alleluia.
    • NAXOS.
    • 1.

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    12 Γ‰tudes, Op. 10 - No. 12 in C Minor "Revolutionary"

    Performer: Yunchan Lim.
    • Chopin: Γ‰tudes, Opp. 10 & 25.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.

  • Florence Price

    Symphony No 4 in D minor (2nd mvmt, Andante cantabile)

    Conductor: Yannick NΓ©zet‐SΓ©guin. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra.
    • Florence Price: Symphony No. 4 – William Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La traviata: Act I: Libiamo ne' lieti calici (Brindisi)

    Singer: Roberto Alagna. Singer: Tiziana Fabbricini. Conductor: Riccardo Muti. Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Choir: Chorus of La Scala, Milan.
    • Verdi: La Traviata.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in F major, Op.74`2 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: London Haydn Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets, Opp.71 and 74.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    The Young Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • DECCA.

  • Bernard Hughes

    If we shadows have offended

    Choir: The Epiphoni Consort. Conductor: Tim Reader.
    • If we shadows have offended.
    • 2022 Delphian Records Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Herbert Spencer

    Underneath The Stars

    Music Arranger: Josef Pasternack. Performer: Charlie Siem. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Goodwin.
    • Under The Stars.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 01.

  • Cole Porter

    Brush Up Your Shakespeare

    Lyricist: Cole Porter. Singer: James Whitmore. Singer: Keenan Wynn. Orchestra: MGM Studio Ochestra. Conductor: AndrΓ© Previn.
    • Kiss Me Kate (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • WaterTower Music.
    • 23.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Mandolin Concerto in C major, RV 425 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Ugo Orlandi. Orchestra: I Solisti Veneti. Conductor: Claudio Scimone.
    • The Magic of the Mandoline - Greatest Concertos. Mandoline and string orchestra.
    • Erato.
    • 4.

  • Madeleine Dring

    Trio for flute, oboe & piano (2nd mvt, Andante semplice)

    Performer: Nancy Ruffer. Performer: John Anderson. Performer: Helen Crayford.
    • British Music for Flute, Oboe & Piano.
    • Dutton.
    • 004.

  • Camille Saint‐SaΓ«ns

    Danse macabre

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Performer: Luben Yordanoff. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Lovely Classique Chefs-d'oeuvre Deutsche Grammophon.
    • DG.
    • 10.

  • Olivier Messiaen

    O sacrum convivium

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Director: Richard Marlow.
    • Conifer.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Chorale

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Swan. Director: David Le Page.
    • Timelapse.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1201.

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Violin Concerto in G Major

    • Hummel: Potpourri, Adagio and Rondo alla Polacca, Variations & Violin Concer.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.

  • Edwin York Bowen

    RΓͺverie d'amour, Op.20`2

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's English Piano Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.

  • Robert Farnon

    Jumping Bean

    Orchestra: New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • British Light Music Classics.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane pour une infante dΓ©funte

    Music Arranger: Sean Shibe. Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Camino: Spanish and French repertoire for guitar.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 10.

  • John Williams

    Flying Theme (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.
    • MCA.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Capriccio in E major

    Performer: Howard Shelley.
    • Hyperion.

  • Otto Nicolai

    The Merry Wives of Windsor (Overture)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • The Best of The Academy.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.

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