The best in classical 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
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto in D minor for two violins, BWV 1043 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Andrew Manze. Performer: Rachel Podger. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Andrew Manze.- J.S.Bach, Solo & Double Violin Concertos.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 3.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Lieder ohne Worte - book 2 Op.30: no.6; Venetianisches Gondellied in F sharp min
Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Yuja Wang. Music Arranger: Andreas Ottensamer.- DG.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Symphony in G Major, Wq.173
Ensemble: Ensemble Resonanz. Conductor: Riccardo Minasi.- C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concertos.
- harmonia mundi.
- 104.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Procession of the Nobles (Mlada)
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- Rimsky-Korsakov: Overture and Suites from the Operas: SNO/Jarvi.
- Chandos.
- 10.
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Max Bruch
Piano Trio in C minor; 2.Allegro assai
Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.- HYPERION.
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Fini Henriques
Myggedans
Music Arranger: Hans Palmqvist. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Magnus Ericsson.- BIS.
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Elena Kats‐Chernin
Eliza's Aria (Wild Swans)
Singer: Jane Sheldon. Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ola Rudner.- Elena Kats-Chernin - Wild Swans.
- ABC.
- 2.
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Leó Weiner
Serenade in F Minor Op.3 (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Roberto Paternostro.- Dohnányi & Weiner: Orchestral Works.
- CapriccioNR.
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Frédéric Chopin
Waltz in A flat major, Op 69 No 1, 'L'Adieu'
Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.- Chopin: The Complete Walzes: Stephen Hough.
- Hyperion.
- 15.
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Hector Berlioz
Béatrice et Bénédict Op.27 (Overture)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.- Berlioz Odyssey: The Complete Colin Davis Recordings.
- Lso Live.
- 401.
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Trad.
Wallom Green (The English Dancing Master)
Music Arranger: John Playford. Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Director: Bjarte Eike.- The Alehouse Sessions.
- RUBICON.
- 101.
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Jerome Kern
All the Things You Are
Composer: Oscar Hammerstein II. Performer: Richard Sisson. Singer: Susan Bullock.- Songs My Father Taught Me.
- Champs Hill Records.
- 15.
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Camille Saint‐Saëns
Wedding-Cake - Caprice-Waltz in A flat major Op.76
Performer: Louis Lortie. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- CHANDOS : CHSA 5162.
- CHANDOS.
- 20.
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George Frideric Handel
Organ Concerto in B flat major, Op.4`2
Performer: Richard Egarr. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music.- Handel: Organ Concertos Op.4: Academy of Ancient Music/Egarr.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 5-8.
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Edvard Grieg
Norwegian Dances Op.35 (no.1)
Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Eivind Aadland.- AUDITE.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Flute Quartet in D major K.285 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Christoph Poppen. Performer: Hariolf Schlichtig. Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras.- Mozart – Flute Quartets.
- EMI.
- 3.
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Franz Schubert
Marche militaire in D major, D.733 no.1
Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Performer: Radu Lupu.- Schubert: Marches Militaires: Daniel Barenboim/Radu Lupu.
- Teldec.
- 1.
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Florence Price
The Goblin and the Mosquito (At Our House)
Performer: Michael Lewin.- Piano Phantoms: Michael Lewin.
- Sono Luminus.
- 13.
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Gaspar Sanz
Tarantella (Instrucción de musica sobre la guitara española)
Performer: Xavier Díaz-Latorre. Performer: Pedro Estevan.- La Guitarra dels Lleons.
- CANTUS.
- 6.
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Modest Mussorgsky
Mephistopheles' Song of the Flea (Blokha)
Performer: David Willison. Lyricist: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Singer: Benjamin Luxon.- Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death; Sunless.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 13.
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Ron Goodwin
633 Squadron - Main title
Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ron Goodwin.- Goodwin: Drake 400 Suite, Main Title Theme (From "633 Squadron") & Other Orchest.
- Naxos.
- 1.
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Charles Gounod
Symphony no.1 in D major (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.- Gounod/Bizet: Symphony no.1/L'Arlesienne: St Paul Chamber Orch/Hogwood.
- Decca.
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Michael Tippett
Five Spirituals From The Oratorio "A Child Of Our Time": Deep River
Ensemble: 鶹Լ Singers. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.- Choral Images - Sir Michael Tippett.
- Signum Records.
- 19.
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Dobrinka Tabakova
Desert Swimmers
Performer: Joby Burgess.- A Percussionist's Songbook.
- Signum Records.
- 7.
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Joaquín Rodrigo
Adela (12 Canciones Espanolas)
Singer: Jakub Józef Orliński. Performer: Aleksander Dębicz. Performer: Łukasz Kuropaczewski.- Adela.
- Warner.
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Ludwig August Lebrun
Oboe Concerto no.2 in G minor (3rd mvt)
Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Ensemble: Potsdam Chamber Academy.- Lost and Found.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 6.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
English Folk Song Suite for military band
Ensemble: The Band of the Coldstream Guards.- Bandleader.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No 6 in D major, 'Le matin'
Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.- ARCHIV.
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György Ligeti
6 Bagatelles (no.3)
Ensemble: London Winds.- Twentieth-Century Chamber Works for Winds.
- Chandos.
- 3.
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Eric Coates
The Three Bears (Phantasy)
Orchestra: 鶹Լ Philharmonic. Conductor: John Wilson.- Eric Coates : Orchestral Works, Volume 4.
- Chandos.
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Eric Whitacre
Lux Aurumque
Choir: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Director: Anna Lapwood.- SIGNUM CLASSICS.
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Ethel Smyth
String Quintet in E major Op.1 (5th mvt)
Performer: Joachim Griesheimer. Ensemble: Mannheimer Streichquartett.- CPO.
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Antonín Dvořák
Prague Waltzes, B. 99
Orchestra: Prague Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.- Supraphon.
Broadcast
- Tue 20 Aug 2024 09:30鶹Լ Radio 3