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A feast of great music

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

Fri 23 Aug 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • ZoltΓ‘n KodΓ‘ly

    Intermezzo (Hary Janos Suite Op.35a)

    Performer: Laurence Kaptain. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme JΓ€rvi.
    • Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
  • Camille Saint‐SaΓ«ns

    Havanaise

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Paris La Belle Epoque.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.
  • Dorothy Howell

    Three Divertissements (No 3)

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.
    • Dorothy Howell Orchestral Works.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 105.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Agnus Dei (Missa Puer natus est nobis)

    Ensemble: Stile Antico.
    • Puer Natus Est, Tudor Music For Advent and Christmas: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 8.
  • Erno Dohnanyi

    Wedding Waltz (The Veil of the Pierrette Op.18)

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • Dohnanyi: The Veil of Pierrette etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 21.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Simple Symphony (Playful pizzicato)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Steuart Bedford.
    • Benjamin Britten: Temporal Variations: Northern Sinfonia, Daniel, Wyn-Rogers, Du.
    • Collins Digital.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No 16 in C major, K545

    Performer: Peter Donohoe.
    • SOMM.
  • Luciano Berio

    Ritirata notturna di Madrid

    Composer: Luigi Boccherini. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Luciano Berio.
    • RCA.
  • Franz Schubert

    FrΓΌlingsglaube D.686

    Singer: Alice Coote. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • Hyperion.
  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ‘k

    Rondo in G minor Op.94

    Performer: Daniel MΓΌller‐Schott. Performer: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Sanderling.
    • Orfeo.
  • Philip Glass

    Dance 8

    Ensemble: Philip Glass Ensemble.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Arie di corte (Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No 3)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Hungarica. Conductor: Antal DorΓ‘ti.
    • Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Philharmonia Hungarica/Dorati.
    • Mercury.
    • 10.
  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    3 Nocturnes Op.9 for piano: no.2 in E flat major

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • DG.
  • Aaron Copland

    An Outdoor Overture

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Aaron Copland.
    • SONY.
  • Clara Schumann

    O weh des Scheidens

    Performer: Eugene Asti. Singer: Susan Gritton. Singer: Stephan Loges.
    • Hyperion.
  • Robert Schumann

    Pierrot (Carnaval, Op 9)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • In the Night.
    • HYPERION.
    • 9.
  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Pierrot Lunaire (excerpt)

    Singer: Jane Manning. Ensemble: Nash Ensemble. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pulcinella: I. Ouverture

    Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps/Petrushka/Pulcinella/Suites/Danses.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F major, BWV 1047

    Performer: Markus Stockhausen. Performer: Christoph Poppen. Performer: Michael Faust. Performer: Diethelm Jonas. Orchestra: Detmolder Kammerorchester. Conductor: Christoph Poppen.
    • EMI.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Moments musicaux, Op 16 (No 4 in E minor)

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • The Rachmaninov Experience.
    • Warner Classics and Jazz.
  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune orch Caillet

    Orchestrator: Lucien Cailliet. Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • Clair de lune: Music of France: Ormandy.
    • RCA Victor.
    • 5.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sextet for two horns and string quartet, Op 81b (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Melos Ensemble.
    • Beethoven The Collector's Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.
  • Leos JanÑček

    Symphonic Suite from Jenufa

    Music Arranger: Manfred Honeck. Music Arranger: TomΓ‘Ε‘ Ille. Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • REFERENCE RECORDINGS.
  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon and Gigue in D major

    Performer: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Performer: Daniel Hope.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Eric Coates

    I Sing to You (Souvenir)

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Eric Coates: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Invitation to the Dance Op.65

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough In Recital.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Magnificat, C75

    Choir: Ex Cathedra. Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts. Ensemble: Concerto Palatino. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Gabrieli: Sacred Symphonies: Ex Cathedra/Concerto Palatino/Skidmore.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Perfect Fool (ballet music)

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Holst: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 1-4.

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  • Fri 23 Aug 2024 09:30

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