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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.

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1115 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

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Last on

Thu 22 Aug 2024 09:30

Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Zadok the Priest - Coronation anthem

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel. Conductor: HervΓ© Niquet.
    • ALPHA.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in C minor, 'Pathetique' (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • SONY.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Andante e rondo ungarese Op.35 (Rondo)

    Performer: Laurence Perkins. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Douglas Boyd.
    • Bassoon concertos, Mozart/M Haydn/Stamitz/Weber.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Kurt Weill

    Symphony No 2 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Conductor: Joana Mallwitz.
    • The Kurt Weill Album.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 16.
  • Franz Schubert

    Sonata (duo) for violin & piano in A major, D 574 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: CΓ©dric Tiberghien.
    • Schubert: Complete Works for Violin and Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Herman Bellstedt

    Napoli

    Music Arranger: Donald Hunsberger. Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in G major 'Gypsy Rondo' H.15.25 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Riccardo Minasi. Performer: Federico Toffano. Performer: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
  • Angela Morley

    Reverie

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Ensemble: Her Ensemble.
    • ΈιΓͺ±Ή±π°ωΎ±±π.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.
  • Julius RΓΆntgen

    Wind Serenade no.1 Op.14 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.
    • Julius Rontgen - Wind Serenades.
    • CPO.
    • 8.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Vom Himmel hoch (opening chorus)

    Choir: Crouch End Festival Chorus. Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: David Temple.
    • Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn: Choral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Waltz in A flat major, Op 39 No 15

    Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque.
    • Sony.
  • JesΓΊs Guridi

    On the morning of St John (6 Canciones castellanas, No 6)

    Performer: Alphonse Cemin. Singer: Marianne Crebassa.
    • ³§Γ©²΅³ά±π»εΎ±±τ±τ±π²υ.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.
  • Paul McCartney

    Junk

    Ensemble: The Loma Mar Quartet.
    • Decca.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano concerto No 1 in F major, K 37 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-4.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Rebecca Dale

    Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Rebecca Dale: Night Seasons.
    • Signum Records.
    • 5.
  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ‘k

    Slavonic Dance in B major Op.72 no.9

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Nobel Prize Ceremony Music.
    • FINLANDIA.
    • 6.
  • Ennio Morricone

    Love Theme from 'Cinema Paradiso'

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic. Conductor: Stéphane Denève.
    • °δΎ±²ΤΓ©³Ύ²Ή.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Gabriel FaurΓ©

    Agnus Dei (Requiem, Op 48)

    Ensemble: La Chapelle Royale. Ensemble: Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Louis. Ensemble: Ensemble Musique Oblique. Director: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • FranΓ§ois Couperin

    Les baricades misterieuses (Pieces de clavecin, Ordre No 6)

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Sony.
  • Giacomo Meyerbeer

    Galop (La Prophete, Act 3)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Meyerbeer: Le ProphΓ¨te.
    • LSO Live.
    • 10.
  • Claude Debussy

    Les collines d'Anacapri (Preludes, Book 1)

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.
    • Debussy, Preludes etc.: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 5.
  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    The little train of the caipira (Bachiana brasileira no.2)

    Orchestra: SΓ£o Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Roberto Minczuk.
    • Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras Volume 1.
    • Bis.
    • 4.
  • Malcolm Williamson

    Sorrento (Travel Diaries - Naples)

    Performer: Antony Gray.
    • Complete Works for Piano.
    • ABC CLASSICS.
    • 3.
  • Eduardo Di Capua

    O sole mio

    Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Giancarlo Chiaramello.
    • DECCA.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan i Lyudmila (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Bernard Haitink - A Portrait.
    • DECCA.
    • 79.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Sonata V: Sitio (The Seven last words of our Saviour on the Cross)

    Ensemble: Callino Quartet.
    • Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross.
    • CORO.
    • 6.
  • Eric Fogg

    Sea-Sheen - an Idyll, Op 17

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Chisholm: Symphony No. 2 - Hold: The Unreturning Spring - Fogg: Merok & Sea Shee.
    • Dutton Epoch.
    • 15.
  • Scott Joplin

    The Easy Winners

    Performer: Joshua Rifkin.
    • EMI.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Barcarolle (Tales of Hoffmann)

    Singer: Fatma Said. Singer: Marianne Crebassa. Orchestra: Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sascha Goetzel.
    • Kaleidoscope.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 7.
  • Franz Liszt

    Piano Concerto no.1 in E flat major S.124

    Performer: ZoltΓ‘n Kocsis. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: IvΓ‘n Fischer.
    • Philips.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Sonata in A major, RV 31

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
  • Thomas Tallis

    If ye love me

    Ensemble: The Gesualdo Six. Director: Owain Park.
    • English Motets.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Eric Coates

    A Song by the way - Romance (From meadow to Mayfair suite)

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Eric Coates: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4.
    • Chandos.
    • 16.
  • William Kroll

    Banjo and Fiddle

    Performer: Sarah Chang. Performer: Charles Abramovic.
    • Simply Sarah: Sarah Chang.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony no. 2 in D major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: European Soloists, Luxembourg. Conductor: Christoph Koenig.
    • Farrenc: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op 115 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Charles Neidich. Ensemble: Juilliard String Quartet.
    • Brahms: String Quartets/Clarinet Quintet: Juilliard String Quartet/Neidich.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Festive Overture Op.96

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Signum.

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