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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, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of 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.
1200 “25 for 25: Sounds of the Century” – a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far.
1230 Album of the Week.
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Trevor Duncan
Little suite for orchestra: March
Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Penny.- MARCO POLO.
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Cristóbal de Morales
Parce mihi Domine - improvisation (Officium defunctorum)
Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble. Performer: Jan Garbarek.- ECM.
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Claude Debussy
Reflets dans l'eau (Images, Set 1)
Performer: Zoltán Kocsis.- Debussy: Images, Arabesques: Kocsis.
- Philips.
- 1.
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Claude Debussy
Mouvement (Images, Set 1)
Performer: Zoltán Kocsis.- Debussy: Images, Arabesques: Kocsis.
- Philips.
- 3.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No 26 in E flat major, K 184
Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.- Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
- EMI Classics.
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Carl Davis
Pride and Prejudice: Main Title
Performer: Melvyn Tan. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Carl Davis.- Pride and Prejudice.
- EMI.
- 1.
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Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
Adagio in G minor
Music Arranger: Remo Giazotto. Orchestra: Richard Hickox Orchestra. Performer: Alastair Ross. Performer: Simon Standage. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- Weekend Classics: Baroque Weekend: Pachelbel/Albinoni/Handel/Vivaldi.
- Decca.
- 2.
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Thomas Arne
Overture No 3 in G major
Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.- L'Oiseau-Lyre.
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Amy Beach
Piano Quintet in F sharp minor Op.67 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Martin Roscoe. Ensemble: Endellion Quartet.- ASV.
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John Dowland
Come again: sweet love doth now invite ( First Booke Of Songes, 1597)
Performer: Jacob Heringman. Singer: Barbara Bonney.- Fairest Isle.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 1.
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Sir James MacMillan
..fiat mihi...
Choir: Cappella Nova. Conductor: Alan Tavener.- Alpha and Omega.
- Linn.
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Carl Davis
Pride and Prejudice: Main Title
Performer: Melvyn Tan. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Carl Davis.- Pride and Prejudice.
- EMI.
- 1.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Symphony no.2 in E minor Op.27 (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2.
- Lso Live.
- 2.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata in C sharp minor Op.27 'Moonlight' (1st mvt)
Performer: Maria João Pires.- Beethoven: Piano Sonatas: Maria Joao Pires.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 5.
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William Grant Still
In Memoriam
Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.- William Grant Still: Afro-American Symphony/In Memoriam/Africa (Symphonic Poem).
- NAXOS.
- 1.
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Ivor Gurney
Romance
Performer: Chu-Yu Yang. Performer: Eric McElroy.- An English Pastoral.
- SOMM Recordings.
- 107.
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Johnny Pearson
Piano Parchment
- Johnny Pearson Piano And Orchestra 1.
- KPM Main Series.
- 16.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Voi, che sapete (The Marriage of Figaro)
Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- 111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon.
- DG.
- 7.
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Dario Marianelli
Pride & Prejudice (Music From The Motion Picture); Dawn
Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.- Pride & Prejudice (Music From The Motion Picture).
- Decca.
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Anthony Collins
Vanity Fair for orchestra
Performer: Julian Leaper. Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.- British Light Music Classics: The New London Orchestra/Ronald Corp.
- Hyperion.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite no.1 in C major, BWV.1066 (Overture)
Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Ton Koopman.- J.S. Bach, Orchestral Suites, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra / Ton Koopman.
- RCA.
- 1.
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Madeleine Dring
Trio for flute, oboe and piano. (2nd mvt. Andante semplice)
Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Adam Walker. Performer: Antonio Oyarzabal.- Madeleine Dring: Complete Works for Oboe.
- Chandos.
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John Sheppard
Libera nos, salva nos
Choir: Stile Antico.- Music for Compline.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 1.
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Richard Addinsell
Warsaw Concerto
Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet. Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hugh Wolff.- Addinsell: Warsaw Concerto: Jean-Yves Thibaudet, ѿýSO, Hugh Wolff.
- Decca.
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Richard Strauss
Tod und Verklärung (Death and transfiguration)
Orchestra: Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Decca.
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Dieterich Buxtehude
Membra Jesu nostri, BuxWV 75: No. 7, Ad faciem
Conductor: Magnus Kjellson. Ensemble: Göteborg Baroque.- Buxtehude: Membra Jesu nostri, BuxWV 75.
- Proprius.
- 107.
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Percy Grainger
Molly on the Shore
Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- Within A Dream: A celebration of the Artistry of Richard Hickox.
- Chandos.
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Karen Tanaka
Echoing Souls
Performer: ѿý Concert Orchestra. Conductor: George Morton. -
Padre Antonio Soler
Keyboard Sonata no.90 in F sharp minor
Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.- Stephen Hough's Spanish Album.
- Hyperion.
- 1.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Horn Concerto no.4 in E flat major K.495 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Roger Montgomery. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Director: Margaret Faultless.- Mozart: Complete Horn Concertos.
- Signum Classics.
- 7.
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