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Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

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Music Played

  • 脡mile Waldteufel

    Les Patineurs, Op 183

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • European light music classics: New London Orchestra/Corp.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Five Bagatelles Op.23 (Carol)

    Performer: John Bradbury. Performer: James Cryer.
    • The English Clarinet.
    • Naxos.
    • 10.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532 (orch. Respighi)

    Orchestrator: Ottorino Respighi. Orchestra: 麻豆约拍 Philharmonic. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Respighi.
    • Chandos.
    • 20.

  • Max Bruch

    String Octet (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Zsolt Fej茅rv谩ri. Ensemble: Kod谩ly Quartet. Ensemble: Auer String Quartet.
    • Mendelssohn/Bruch: String Quartets.
    • Naxos.

  • Teresa Carre帽o

    Un r锚ve en mer, Op 28

    Performer: Alexandra Oehler.
    • Teresa Carreno: Klavierwerke (Piano works).
    • ARS MUSICI.
    • 005.

  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    Violin Concerto No 2 in B minor, Op 7 'La campanella' (3rd mvt, Rondo)

    Performer: Rudolf Koelman. Orchestra: Netherlands Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend.
    • Challenge Classics.

  • George Frideric Handel

    To thee, thou glorious son of worth (Theodora)

    Singer: Rosemary Joshua. Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Harry Bicket.
    • Handel Duets: The English Concert.
    • Chaconne.
    • 6.

  • Ferruccio Busoni

    Christmas Eve

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • Sony.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Nutcracker (Waltz of the Snowflakes)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Choir: Libera. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no. 8 in F (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Bernhard Forck.
    • harmonia mundi.

  • John Ireland

    The Holy Boy

    Lyricist: Trad.. Choir: Bevan Family Consort. Conductor: Graham Ross.
    • Christmas with the Bevan Family Consort.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 109.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Grande Polonaise in E flat, Op 22

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • DECCA.

  • Otto Nicolai

    Christmas Overture

    Choir: 麻豆约拍 Singers. Orchestra: 麻豆约拍 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • The Night Before Christmas.
    • NAXOS.
    • 6.

  • Charles Williams

    Dream of Olwen

    Performer: Philip Fowke. Orchestra: RT脡 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Proinns铆as 脫 Duinn.
    • Naxos.

  • John Ireland

    Sea Fever

    Singer: Simon Keenlyside. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • Songs Of War.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Simple Symphony (Sentimental Sarabande)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • Britten: Young person's guide to the orchestra etc: LSO/ECO/Britten.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Masquerade (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Lazarev.
    • Excertps from Spartacus, Gayaneh, Masquerade.
    • APEX.
    • 5.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in B flat major, K 287 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble.
    • Philips.

  • William Byrd

    Lullaby, my sweet little baby

    Singer: Timothy Wilson. Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • Christmas Carols and Motets.
    • Gimell.
    • 7.

  • Maurice Ravel

    String Quartet in F major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor 脡b猫ne.
    • Debussy, Faur茅 & Ravel: String Quartets.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.

  • Richard Strauss

    Burleske

    Performer: Nelson Goerner. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Mikko Franck.
    • Alpha.

  • Philip Lane

    Wassail Dances

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Hely-Hutchinson: A Carol Symphony.
    • Naxos.
    • 11-13.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Oboe Concerto in F Minor, TWV 51:f1: I. Allegro (transcr. for piccolo trumpet)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: Pinnock's Players. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Baroque Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 13.

  • Madeleine Dring

    Trio for flute, oboe and piano (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Juliette Bausor. Performer: Daniel Bates. Performer: Simon Lepper.
    • Stone Records.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Havanaise Op.83

    Performer: Sarah Chang. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch.
    • EMI.

Broadcast

  • Wed 11 Dec 2024 09:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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