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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.

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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Music Played

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

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    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Seiji Ozawa.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.

  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet No 2 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Borodin Quartet.
    • Decca.

  • Barbara Strozzi

    Godere e tacere

    Ensemble: Orlando di Lasso Ensemble.
    • Libro di Madrigali - Strozzi.
    • Thorofon.
    • 005.

  • Einojuhani Rautavaara

    2 Serenades for violin and orchestra: no.2; Serenade pour la vie

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Mikko Franck.
    • DG.

  • Leopold Mozart

    Symphony in C major, 'Toy' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of St John's. Conductor: John Lubbock.
    • Sanctuary.

  • Richard Strauss

    Festmusik der Stadt Wien

    Ensemble: Onyx Brass. Ensemble: Septura. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in C sharp minor (3 Waltzes Op.64)

    Performer: Ingrid Fliter.
    • Chopin: Piano Sonata No.3 etc: Ingrid Fliter.
    • EMI.
    • 11.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Symphonic Dance Op 64 no.1

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Orama.
    • Erato.
    • 10.

  • Franz Schubert

    An den Mond, D.193

    Singer: Christian Gerhaher. Performer: Gerold Huber.
    • Schubert: Schwanengesang & 4 Lieder: Gerhaher/Huber.
    • Arte Nova Classics.
    • 17.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony no.2 in D major Op.43 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Klaus Mäkelä.
    • DECCA.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vocalise

    Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: Markus Becker.
    • Hyperion.

  • William Byrd

    Bow thine ear O Lord

    Music Arranger: Nico Muhly. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Decca.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Menuet antique

    Performer: Marielle Labèque.
    • Maurice Ravel Katia Et Marielle Labeque.
    • KML.
    • 10.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont Overture (Op.84)

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Beethoven: Complete Symphonies: Norrington.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 10.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    A Grand, Grand Overture, Op 57

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Malcolm Arnold: Symphony No. 2 etc: Vernon Handley.
    • Conifer.
    • 1.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Friday afternoons Op.7 (Cuckoo!)

    Choir: New London Children’s Choir. Performer: Alexander Wells. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • Britten: A Ceremony of Carols.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

  • John Cage

    Suite for Toy Piano

    Performer: Margaret Leng Tan.
    • ECM.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    The Noonday Witch, Op 108

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubelík.
    • DG.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Mazurka In A Minor [for Emile Gaillard]

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Chopin: Mazurkas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 019.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Stabat mater, RV 621

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Ensemble: Ensemble 415. Director: Chiara Banchini.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quintet in E flat major K.452 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alfred Brendel. Performer: Heinz Holliger. Performer: Eduard Brunner. Performer: Klaus Thunemann. Performer: Hermann Baumann.
    • Philips.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Francesca da Rimini

    Orchestra: Orchestra Dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecillia. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • EMI.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major, Finale

    Performer: Lucienne Renaudin Vary. Ensemble: Luzerner Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: Michael Sanderling.
    • Warner.

  • Orlando Gibbons

    Alman 'The King's Jewel'

    Performer: Mishka Rushdie Momen.
    • Reformation: Keyboard works by William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, John Bull & Jan Pi.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.

  • Zoltán Kodály

    Dances of Marosszek

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • HUNGAROTON.

  • Nikita Koshkin

    24 Preludes & Fugues, Vol. 1: Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C Major

    • Nikita Koshkin: 24 Preludes & Fugues, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 101.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Prelude, Fugue and Riffs

    Performer: Benny Goodman. Ensemble: Columbia Jazz Band. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Sony.

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