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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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Percy Grainger
Molly on the Shore
Ensemble: Kongelige norske marines musikkorps. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.- Grainger: Complete Music for Wind Band, Vol. 1.
- Naxos.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E Minor Op.64 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.- Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto - Symphony No. 5 & The Hebrides.
- harmonia mundi.
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Philip Glass
Etude no.14
Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.- Deustche Grammophon.
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José Maurício Nunes Garcia
Missa pastoril para a noite de natal - Kyrie and Gloria
Choir: Ex Cathedra. Ensemble: Ex Cathedra Baroque Ensemble. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.- Brazilian Adventures.
- Hyperion Records.
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Louise Farrenc
Cello Sonata in B flat (3rd mvt)
Performer: David Berlin. Performer: Benjamin Martin.- French Cello Sonatas.
- Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
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Franco Alfano
Echi dell'appennino (Suite romantica)
Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano. Conductor: Giuseppe Grazioli.- Alfano: Suite romantica, Una danza & Divertimento.
- Naxos.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto in G minor, RV 315, 'Summer'
Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Director: Christian Curnyn.- Nicola Benedetti: Italia.
- Decca.
- 16.
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Jerry Goldsmith
Ilia's Theme (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Jerry Goldsmith.- Music from the Original Soundtrack: Star Trek the Motion Picture.
- COLUMBIA.
- 5.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Septet in E flat (6th mvt)
Ensemble: Wigmore Soloists.- Beethoven and Berwald: Septets.
- BIS.
- 106.
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Maddalena Casulana
Il desiderio: No. 3, Morir non può il mio cuore
Ensemble: Singer Pur.- Among Whirlwinds.
- Oehms Classics.
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Maddalena Casulana
Il vostro dispartir (arr. C. Matthews)
Music Arranger: Colin Matthews. Orchestra: Kodály Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Mann.- Music for My Love: Celebrating the Life of a Special Woman, Vol. 1.
- Toccata Classics.
- 11.
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Franz Schubert
Piano Sonata in A, D664 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.- Mitsuko Uchida plays Schubert.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
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Heitor Villa‐Lobos
Bachianas Brasilierias No.5 (Aria)
Performer: Asya Fateyeva. Orchestra: Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn. Conductor: Ruben Gazarian.- Berlin Classics 0300909BC.
- Berlin Classics.
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Camille Saint‐Saëns
Piano Concerto No. 4 in C minor (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jean‐Jacques Kantorow.- Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 3-5.
- BIS.
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William Grant Still
Serenade
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Avlana Eisenberg.- Still: Orchestral Works.
- Naxos.
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Richard Strauss
Also sprach Zarathustra Op.30 (Introduction)
Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.- Strauss.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 36.
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Hector Berlioz
Harold in Italy, Op.16 (Serenade)
Performer: Lise Berthaud. Orchestra: Opéra de Lyon. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.- Berlioz: Harold en Italie.
- Naxos.
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Hugo Wolf
Ich hab' in penna (Italian Songbook)
Performer: Irwin Gage. Singer: Elly Ameling.- Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch.
- Globe.
- 46.
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Vincent d’Indy
Symphonie sur un chant montagnard, 'Cévenole' Op.25 : III Animé
Conductor: Marek Janowski. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France.- D'Indy : Jour d'été à la montagne & Symphonie sur un chant montagnard, 'Cévenole.
- Warner Classics International.
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William Walton
Crown Imperial
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.- Walton: The Centenary Edition: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Litton.
- Decca.
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Arcangelo Corelli
Trio sonata in E major Op.2`10
Ensemble: The Purcell Quartet.- Chandos.
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Undine Smith Moore
Afro-American Suite: III. Adagio ma appassionato
Ensemble: Mallarmé Chamber Players.- Songs for the Soul.
- Albany Records.
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George Gershwin
Cuban Overture
Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.- Barber/Bernstein/Gershwin/Copland: Great American Showpieces.
- EMI.
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Antonín Dvořák
Te Deum, Op.103, B.176
Conductor: Jakub Hrůša. Singer: Kateřina Kněžíková. Singer: Svatopluk Sem. Choir: Prague Philharmonic Choir. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic.- Decca.
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Frédéric Chopin
Berceuse in D flat major Op.57
Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.- Chopin: Late Masterpieces, Stephen Hough.
- Hyperion.
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Jean Sibelius
Humoresque No.5 in E flat major
Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Thomas Søndergård.- Prokofiev & Sibelius - Violin Concertos.
- EMI Classics.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
By the side of the Shannon
Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Singer: Gerald Finley.- Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Op. 56.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
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Sergey Rachmaninov
The Rock
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.- Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, The Isle of the Dead, The Rock.
- Avie.
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Anon.
Nuttmigs and ginger
Ensemble: The Dowland Consort. Director: Jakob Lindberg.- Heavenly Noyse: Download Consort/Jakob Lindberg.
- BIS.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No.9 in E flat, K271 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Ronald Brautigam. Orchestra: Die Kölner Akademie. Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens.- Mozart: Complete Piano Concertos.
- BIS.
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