A feast of great music
Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
1000 Playlist starter 鈥 listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1030 Song of the Day 鈥 harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1115 Playlist reveal 鈥 a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1145 Slow Moment 鈥 time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
1230 Album of the Week
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Polonaise (Eugene Onegin)
Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥 Philharmonie. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.- Philips.
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Roman Hoffstetter
String Quartet in F Major Op.3 no.5 (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: Alban Berg Quartett.- Hommage.
- Warner Classics.
- 13.
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Dorothy Howell
Three Divertissements (No 3)
Orchestra: 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.- Dorothy Howell Orchestral Works.
- Signum Classics.
- 105.
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Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op 9 No 2 (2nd mvmt, Adagio)
Performer: Paolo Grazzi. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.- Artist Portrait: Il Giardino Armonico.
- Warner Classics.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave)
Orchestra: Irish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: J枚rg Widmann.- Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor "Scottish" & The Hebrides - J枚rg Widmann:.
- Orfeo.
- 1.
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Sally Whitwell
Road Trip
Performer: Sally Walker. Performer: Sally Whitwell.- Women of Note.
- ABC.
- 09.
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Juan Garc铆a de Z茅spedes
Convidando est谩 la noche
Ensemble: The Harp Consort. Director: Andrew Lawrence鈥怟ing.- Missa Mexicana.
- harmonia mundi.
- 16.
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Josef Suk
Serenade for Strings in E flat major, Op 6 (1st mvmt, Andante con moto)
Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.- Kod谩ly: Hungarian Rondo, Summer Evening; Suk: Serenade for Strings in E-Flat Maj.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 8.
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Florence Price
Adoration
Music Arranger: Jarle Storl酶kken. Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Ensemble: tenThing.- She Composes Like A Man.
- Lawo Classics.
- 4.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto in B flat major, K595 (3rd mvmt, Allegro)
Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Ensemble: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: G谩bor Tak谩cs鈥怤agy.- CHANDOS.
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Antonia Bembo
Habbi piet脿 di me
Singer: C茅line Scheen. Director: Christina Pluhar. Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata.- Wonder Women.
- Warner Classics.
- 9.
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Jean Sibelius
Ballade (King Christian II)
Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.- ALPHA.
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Hector Berlioz
B茅atrice et B茅n茅dict (Overture)
Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.- CHANDOS.
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Alexander Scriabin
Nocturne in D flat major, Op 9 No 2
Performer: Nicholas McCarthy.- Solo.
- Warner Classics.
- 11.
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George Frideric Handel
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon)
Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.- Pachelbel/Handel/Vivaldi etc: The English Concert/Pinnock.
- Archiv.
- 10.
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Peggy Stuart Coolidge
The Blue Planet
Orchestra: Westphalian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Siegfried Landau.- The Planets and the Cosmos in Classical Music.
- Menuetto Classics.
- 12.
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Sally Whitwell
Road Trip
Performer: Sally Walker. Performer: Sally Whitwell.- Women of Note.
- ABC.
- 09.
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John Adams
Road Movies (1st mvmt, Relaxed Groove)
Performer: Jennifer Koh. Performer: Reiko Uchida.- Violin Recital: Koh, Jennifer - Higdon, J. / Harrison, L. / Adams, J. / Ruggles,.
- Cedille.
- 1.
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Jacques Ibert
Symphonic Suite 'Paris' (1st mvmt, The Metro)
Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- Ibert: Orchestral Works.
- Chandos.
- 14.
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Benjamin Britten
4 Cabaret Songs (No 4, Calypso)
Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Ann Murray.- Schumann / Mahler / Britten.
- AVIE Records.
- 19.
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Duke Ellington
Happy Go Lucky Local
Performer: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.- A Giant Among Giants. The Best from 1950 to 1965, Vol. 5.
- Documents 2.
- 1.
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Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto in D major, Op 77 (3rd mvmt)
Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- Abbado: Brahms.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 110.
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Scott Joplin
Swipesy (cake walk)
Performer: Dick Hyman.- Scott Joplin - Piano Works, 1899-1904.
- RCA.
- 3.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Serenade in A minor (4th mvmt, Romance)
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Martin Yates.- Vaughan Williams: Early and Late Works, World Premiere Recordings.
- Dutton Epoch.
- 14.
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脡lisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
Suite in D minor (Chaconne 'L'Inconstante')
Performer: Marie van Rhijn.- Jacquet de La Guerre: L'inconstante.
- Evidence (LTR).
- 17.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op 125, 'Choral' (4th mvmt)
Choir: Sing-Akademie Zurich. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado. Singer: Christiane Karg. Singer: Sophie Harmsen. Singer: Werner G眉ra. Singer: Florian Boesch.- Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 & Choral Fantasy.
- harmonia mundi.
- 104.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Legend in B flat minor, Op 59 No 10
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.- PHILIPS.
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Valerie Coleman
Red Clay and Mississippi Delta
Ensemble: Imani Winds.- eOne.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
脡tude in E major, Op 10 No 3
Performer: Yunchan Lim.- Decca.
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Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso in F major, Op 6 No 12
Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.- Archiv.
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Sergey Prokofiev
March (The Love for Three Oranges - suite)
Orchestra: S茫o Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.- Prokofiev: Orchestral Works.
- Naxos.
- 201.
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Francis Poulenc
Les chemins de l'amour
Singer: Felicity Lott. Performer: Graham Johnson.- Poulenc: Voyage a Paris: Felicity Lott/Graham Johnson.
- Helios.
- 30.
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Sir Hamilton Harty
The Fair Day (An Irish Symphony)
Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.- An Irish Rhapsody: Ulster Orchestra/Handley/Thomson.
- Chandos.
- 2.
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- Mon 3 Jun 2024 09:30麻豆社 Radio 3