Ian Skelly with Essential Sunrises, Anna Lapwood, Williams's O Adonai
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.
Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Ian Skelly.
0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Well known musicians reveal their favourite performers.
1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we bring you five musical sunrises.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
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Music Played
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Hector Berlioz
Hungarian March (The Damnation of Faust)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- Berlioz: La damnation de Faust.
- Lso Live.
- 3.
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Fanny Mendelssohn
Fantasia in G minor
Performer: Jo毛l Marosi. Performer: Esther Walker.- First Hand Records.
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Roderick Williams
O Adonai
Choir: Ex Cathedra. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.- EX CATHEDRA.
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Claude Debussy
Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum (Children's Corner, No 1)
Performer: Paul Ji.- Warner.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Tea (The Nutcracker. Act 2)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev. Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra.- Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - Symphony No. 4.
- Mariinsky.
- 115.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Trepak (The Nutcracker. Act 2)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev. Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra.- Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - Symphony No. 4.
- Mariinsky.
- 116.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Dance of the Reed Pipes (The Nutcracker. Act 2)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev. Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra.- Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - Symphony No. 4.
- Mariinsky.
- 117.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Mother Ginger and the Clowns (The Nutcracker. Act 2)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev. Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra.- Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - Symphony No. 4.
- Mariinsky.
- 118.
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Giovanni Sollima
Prelude for Mandolin Solo
Performer: Avi Avital.- DG.
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Giuseppe Tartini
Violin Concerto in A major D.96
Performer: Chouchane Siranossian. Ensemble: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Director: Andrea Marcon.- ALPHA.
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Gerald Finzi
My Spirit Sang All Day, Op.17 no.3
Ensemble: Apollo5.- O Radiant Dawn.
- VCM.
- 15.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No 14 in E flat major, K 449 (1st mvt, chamber version)
Performer: Thomas Beijer. Ensemble: Camerata RCO.- Gutman Records.
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Ottorino Respighi
Pines of the Janiculum (Pines of Rome)
Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.- CHANDOS.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Poetic Tone Pictures, Op. 85: VIII. Goblin's dance. Allegretto
Performer: Elena Bashkirova.- Dvo艡谩k: Poetic Tone Pictures.
- CAvi-music.
- 8.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
The Creatures of Prometheus Op.43 (Overture)
Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado.- Beethoven: Piano Concertos No. 4.
- harmonia mundi.
- 5.
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Benjamin Britten
A Ceremony of Carols (Procession)
Performer: Simon Bell. Performer: Francis Kelly. Choir: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Director: Andrew Lumsden.- Christmas from Winchester: Winchester Cathedral Choir.
- Regent.
- 7.
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Gerald Finzi
By Footpath and Stile, Op. 2: No. 3. The Oxen
Singer: Roderick Williams. Ensemble: Sacconi Quartet.- A Finzi Anthology.
- Naxos.
- 603.
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Giovanni Gabrieli
Jubilate Deo
Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Orchestra: La Nuova Musica. Conductor: John Rutter.- The Sacred Flame: The Cambridge Singers / Rutter.
- Collegium.
- 1.
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Gustav Holst
The Planets, Op 32 (Neptune, the Mystic)
Orchestra: National Youth Orchestra. Choir: CBSO Youth Chorus. Conductor: Edward Gardner.- Holst: The Planets / Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra.
- Chandos.
- 16.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Symphony in G major, Wq.173
Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Peter Maxwell Davies
An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise
Performer: Robert Jordan. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Gernon.- Peter Maxwell Davies - An Orkney Wedding With Sunrise and other works.
- LINN.
- 9.
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Franz Schubert
String Quartet No 4 in C major, D46 (4th mvt)
Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.- Erato.
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Jan Dismas Zelenka
Trio Sonata No 2 in G Minor, ZWV 181 (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: Die Freitagsakademie.- Winter and Winter.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
La Foire (Etudes-tableaux No 2, after Rachmaninov's Op 33 No 4)
Orchestrator: Ottorino Respighi. Orchestra: Dortmunder Philharmoniker. Conductor: Gabriel Feltz.- Dreyer Gaido.
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Anonymous
Swete was the song the Virgine soong
Singer: Emily Van Evera. Ensemble: Taverner Consort.- EMI.
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Jakub Ciupi艅ski
Edo Lullaby
Performer: Anne Akiko Meyers.- Avie.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
O Jesulein s眉ss
Performer: Jakob Lindberg. Singer: Tessa Bonner.- EMI.
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Joseph Haydn
Cello Concerto no.1 in C major H.7b.1 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Sol Gabetta. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Sergio Ciomei.- RCA.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Mazurka in A minor, 'Notre temps'
Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.- Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
- London.
- 22.
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Olivier Messiaen
Transports de joie (L'Ascension, 3rd meditation)
Performer: Wayne Marshall.- Base2 Music.
Broadcast
- Fri 18 Dec 2020 09:00麻豆社 Radio 3