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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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Music Played

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La forza del destino (Overture)

    Orchestra: West鈥揈astern Divan Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • WARNER.
  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon and Gigue in D major

    Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Pachelbel: Canon - Academy of Ancient Music/Hogwood.
    • DECCA.
    • 1.
  • Silvestre Revueltas

    La Noche de los Mayas: Noche de jaranas ('Night of revelry')

    Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • DG.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio in D major, Op 70 No 1, 'Ghost' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Annalee Patipatanakoon. Performer: Roman Borys. Performer: Jamie Parker. Ensemble: Gryphon Trio.
    • Beethoven: Piano trios op.70 nos.1&2, op.11: Gryphon Trio.
    • Analekta.
    • 1.
  • George Butterworth

    The Banks of Green Willow

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Butterworth/Delius: English Rhapsody: Halle, Elder.
    • Halle.
    • 4.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Mazurka

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Hyperion.
  • Philip Glass

    Akhnaten (Act 2: Dance)

    Orchestra: Staatsorchester Stuttgart. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies.
    • CBS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Sonata in G minor, HWV 360

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Christian Rivet.
    • Around the World.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 13-16.
  • Caroline Shaw

    And So

    Singer: Caroline Shaw. Ensemble: Attacca Quartet.
    • Evergreen.
    • Nonesuch Records.
    • 4.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No.86 in D major (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies: Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz in C sharp minor, Op.64 no.2

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin: The Complete Walzes: Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.
  • Henry Purcell

    Jehova, quam mulit sunt hostes mei

    Choir: Choir of St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Singer: James Gilchrist. Singer: Neal Davies. Conductor: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • My Beloved Spake.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 2.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    My Homeland Op.62

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Libor Pe拧ek.
    • Dvorak: American Suite, Czech Suite; Overtures and Tone Poems.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 204.
  • C茅cile Chaminade

    Danse pa茂enne Op.158

    Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Performer: Peter Jablonski.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Howard Goodall

    The Lord is My Shepherd (Eternal Light)

    Singer: Theo Armon-Jones. Choir: Choir of Christ Church College, Oxford. Orchestra: London Musici. Conductor: Stephen Darlington.
    • Goodall Eternal Light: A Requiem.
    • EMI.
    • 12.
  • Gustav Holst

    I sowed the seeds of love

    Ensemble: Holst Singers. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Holst: This Have I Done for my True Love.
    • Helios.
    • 23.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Seventeen come Sunday (English Folk Song Suite orch Jacob)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • HMV.
  • Benjamin Britten

    A Midsummer Night's Dream Op.64 (I Know A Bank)

    Singer: James Bowman. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • VIRGIN.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Octet in E flat major, Op.20 (4th mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Ensemble: Seattle Chamber Players.
    • Onyx.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Suite mignonne, Op.98'1

    Orchestra: Finlandia Sinfonietta. Conductor: Pekka Helasvuo.
    • Finlandia.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Lamento della ninfa: Amor, dicea

    Singer: Simone Kermes. Ensemble: La magnifica comunit脿. Director: Enrico Casazza.
    • Love.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Piano Trio in E minor

    Ensemble: Trio Anima Mundi.
    • English Piano Trios.
    • Divine Art.
    • 4.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor, Op.33

    Performer: Sol Gabetta. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ari Rasilainen.
    • Tchaikovsky, Saint Saens, Ginastera.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 13-15.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in A flat major D.899 no.4

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Lobe den Herren, den m盲chtigen K枚nig der Ehren, BWV 137: II. Lobe den Herren

    Performer: Davina Clarke. Performer: Tom Foster. Singer: Hugh Cutting. Ensemble: Obligato.
    • J. S. Bach: The Art of Obligato.
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 14.
  • Einojuhani Rautavaara

    Autumn Gardens (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Rautavaara: Gift of Dreams, Autumn Gardens.
    • Ondine.
    • 6.
  • Andrea Falconieri

    Passacalle 脿 3

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Lorenza Borrani. Ensemble: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 19.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Marche Slave, Op.31

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • ORFEO.

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