A classical soundtrack for your morning
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.
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John Williams
Main Title/Rebel Blockade Runner
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.- Arista.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Romance (The Gadfly)
Music Arranger: Vadim Borisovsky. Performer: Lawrence Power. Performer: Simon Crawford鈥怭hillips.- Shostakovich: Music for viola and piano: Power/Crawford-Phillips.
- Hyperion.
- 14.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto No 5 in F minor, BWV 1056
Performer: Christophe Rousset. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.- Bach: Harpsichord Concertos: Rousset/AAM/Hogwood.
- L'Oiseau-Lyre.
- 4.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 36 (4th mvt)
Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington. Conductor: London Classical Players.- Beethoven: Symphonies & Concertos..
- Warner Classics.
- 204.
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Jaakko M盲ntyj盲rvi
4 Shakespeare Songs for chorus; 3. Double, Double Toil and Trouble
Lyricist: William Shakespeare. Choir: The Swedish Chamber Choir. Conductor: Simon Phipps.- Shakespeare Songs and Sonnets.
- Naxos Sweden.
- 17.
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John Stanley
Trumpet Voluntary
Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Newman.- Sony Classical.
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Franz Liszt
Les Jeux d'eaux 脿 la Villa d'Este (Ann茅es de p猫lerinage (3eme annee)
Performer: Imogen Cooper.- Le temps perdu.
- CHANDOS.
- 12.
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Franz Schubert
Symphony No 9 in C major, D 944, 'Great' (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.- Schubert: Symphonies Nos 8 & 9, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard.
- BIS.
- 5.
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George Frideric Handel
Messiah Pt. 3: The Trumpet Shall Sound
Performer: Ute Hartwich. Singer: Roderick Williams. Conductor: Justin Doyle. Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music.- Handel: Messiah, HWV 56.
- PENTATONE.
- 204.
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Roxanna Panufnik
Tibetan Winter (4 World Seasons)
Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: Graham Bradshaw. Performer: Graham Bradshaw. Orchestra: 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra.- Chandos.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Seventeen come Sunday (English Folk Song Suite)
Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.- Holst/Vaughan Williams: British Wind Band Classics: Timothy Reynish.
- Chandos.
- 13.
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C茅cile Chaminade
La Lisonjera, Op. 50 for piano solo
Performer: Joanne Polk.- The Flatterer.
- Steinway & Sons.
- 1.
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Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 13: I. Adagio - Allegro vivace
Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.- Prism IV.
- ECM.
- 7.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony no. 40 in G minor K.550 (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Ensemble Resonanz. Conductor: Riccardo Minasi.- Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41 "Jupiter".
- harmonia mundi.
- 105.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Macbeth (Prelude)
Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Decca.
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Franz Schubert
Erlk枚nig, Op. 1, D. 328
Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Ian Bostridge.- Schubert: 25 Lieder.
- Warner Classics.
- 25.
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Henry Purcell
Dido and Aeneas - Act III: The Witches' Dance
Performer: Steven Devine. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs.- CHANDOS.
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Richard Rodgers
Bewitched
Performer: Oscar Peterson. Performer: Ray Brown. Performer: Ed Thigpen.- Oscar Peterson Plays Richard Rodgers.
- Solar Records.
- 3.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Bassoon Concerto in G Minor RV495 III Allegro
Performer: Peter Whelan. Ensemble: Jupiter. Director: Thomas Dunford.- Vivaldi.
- Alpha Classics.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Symphony no.6 in D major Op.60 (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.- Warner.
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Edvard Grieg
To Spring (Lyric pieces - book 3 Op.43)
Performer: Alice Sara Ott.- DG.
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Howard Skempton
Lento
Orchestra: Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Bryars.- Skempton - Lento.
- GB RECORDS.
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Peter Warlock
There is a Lady Sweet and Kind
Performer: David Willison. Lyricist: Thomas Ford. Singer: Benjamin Luxon.- Benjamin Luxon Sings Warlock Songs.
- Chandos.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
The Isle of the Dead
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.- Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, The Isle of the Dead, The Rock.
- Avie.
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Eric Whitacre
The Seal Lullaby
Performer: Lavinia Meijer. Choir: VOCES8.- Eventide.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
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Johann Gottlieb Graun
Trio Sonata in D Major
Ensemble: Ensemble Hesperi.- A Gift for your Garden.
- BIS.
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Giacomo Puccini
E lucevan le stelle (Tosca)
Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Sir Edward Downes.- DECCA : 478-5946.
- DECCA.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 90 in C major; 3rd movement Minuetto & Trio
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- Warner.
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Luise Adolpha Le Beau
Cello Sonata Op.17 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Connie Shih.- HYPERION.
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