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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.

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1145 Slow Moment 鈥 time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

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Music Played

  • John Williams

    Main Title/Rebel Blockade Runner

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.
    • Arista.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • John Stanley

    Trumpet Voluntary

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Newman.
    • Sony Classical.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • C茅cile Chaminade

    La Lisonjera, Op. 50 for piano solo

    Performer: Joanne Polk.
    • The Flatterer.
    • Steinway & Sons.
    • 1.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 13: I. Adagio - Allegro vivace

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Prism IV.
    • ECM.
    • 7.
  • 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.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Macbeth (Prelude)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.
  • Franz Schubert

    Erlk枚nig, Op. 1, D. 328

    Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Ian Bostridge.
    • Schubert: 25 Lieder.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 25.
  • 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.
  • Richard Rodgers

    Bewitched

    Performer: Oscar Peterson. Performer: Ray Brown. Performer: Ed Thigpen.
    • Oscar Peterson Plays Richard Rodgers.
    • Solar Records.
    • 3.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Bassoon Concerto in G Minor RV495 III Allegro

    Performer: Peter Whelan. Ensemble: Jupiter. Director: Thomas Dunford.
    • Vivaldi.
    • Alpha Classics.
  • 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.
  • Edvard Grieg

    To Spring (Lyric pieces - book 3 Op.43)

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • DG.
  • Howard Skempton

    Lento

    Orchestra: Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Bryars.
    • Skempton - Lento.
    • GB RECORDS.
    • 1.
  • Peter Warlock

    There is a Lady Sweet and Kind

    Performer: David Willison. Lyricist: Thomas Ford. Singer: Benjamin Luxon.
    • Benjamin Luxon Sings Warlock Songs.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.
  • 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.
    • 4.
  • Eric Whitacre

    The Seal Lullaby

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer. Choir: VOCES8.
    • Eventide.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.
  • Johann Gottlieb Graun

    Trio Sonata in D Major

    Ensemble: Ensemble Hesperi.
    • A Gift for your Garden.
    • BIS.
    • 17.
  • 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.
    • 2.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 90 in C major; 3rd movement Minuetto & Trio

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Warner.
  • Luise Adolpha Le Beau

    Cello Sonata Op.17 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Connie Shih.
    • HYPERION.

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