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Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

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Music Played

  • Vincent Youmans

    Tahiti trot [Tea for two] (No, no, Nanette)

    Orchestrator: Dmitry Shostakovich. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Shostakovich: The Jazz Album - Brautigam, Masseurs.
    • Decca.
    • 16.
  • George Frideric Handel

    I Know That My Redeemer Liveth (Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 3)

    Lyricist: Charles Jennens. Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Orchestra: Barockorchester Stuttgart. Conductor: Frieder Bernius.
    • Handel: Messiah, HWV 56.
    • Carus.
    • 20.
  • Claude Debussy

    L'isle joyeuse

    Orchestrator: Bernardino Molinari. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon. Conductor: Jun M盲rkl.
    • Debussy.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5; Markl.
    • Naxos.
    • 16.
  • Caroline Shaw

    Dolce Cantavi

    Performer: TENET.
    • The Secret Lovers.
    • Avie.
    • 13.
  • Henri Vieuxtemps

    Viola Sonata in B flat major Op.36 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Ke Ma.
    • Champs Hill.
  • Laura Snowden

    The Memory Garden

    Performer: Jack Hancher.
    • The Memory Garden: Guitar Music from England.
    • Deux-Elles.
    • 11.
  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    F锚te-Dieu 脿 Seville (Iberia Suite orch Arbos)

    Performer: Hugh Bean. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Albeniz: Iberia Suite: Philharmonia, Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • 脡lisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Gigue and Double in D minor (Pi猫ces de clavecin, 1707)

    Performer: Karen Flint.
    • Jacquet de la Guerre: Complete Works for Harpsichord.
    • Plectra.
    • 4.
  • Vittorio Monti

    Czardas

    Performer: Avi Avital. Performer: Richard Galliano.
    • Avi Avital - Between Worlds.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 18.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Cinq Melodies 'de Venise', Op. 58 - No. 2. En sourdine

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Ailish Tynan.
    • Opus Arte.
  • Laura Snowden

    The Memory Garden

    Performer: Jack Hancher.
    • The Memory Garden: Guitar Music from England.
    • Deux-Elles.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Symphonic Dance Op 64 no.1

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Orama.
    • Erato.
    • 10.
  • Claude Debussy

    Nocturne in D flat major

    Performer: Zolt谩n Kocsis.
    • Debussy: Preludes Books I & II: Zoltan Kocsis.
    • Philips.
    • 14.
  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Concerto in A Minor Op.54 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Ingrid Fliter. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Antonio M茅ndez.
    • Schumann & Mendelssohn Piano Concertos.
    • Linn Records.
    • 101.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Sonata No 1 a 8

    Performer: Mark Bennett. Performer: Michael Laird. Ensemble: Purcell Quartet.
    • CHACONNE.
  • Lili Boulanger

    D'un vieux jardin

    Performer: Judith Pfeiffer.
    • Dreyer Gaido.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Serenade for guitar and strings, Op 50

    Performer: Craig Ogden. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Albert Ket猫lbey

    In a Monastery Garden

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • Hyperion.
  • William Walton

    Capriccio burlesco

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • Waton: Spitfire Prelude & Fugue Etc.: SIr Charles Groves.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 3 in E flat "Eroica" (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: 脕d谩m Fischer. Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra.
    • Beethoven: Complete Symphonies.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor, Op 58 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin: Late Masterpieces, Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Dance (5 Fantasiestucke Op.5)

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered.
    • Azica Records.
    • 9.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV71 'Gott ist mein K枚nig'

    Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Singer: Midori Suzuki. Singer: Yoshikazu Mera. Singer: Peter Kooij. Conductor: Masaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in G major, H.15.25, 'Gypsy' (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: The Florestan Trio.
    • Haydn: Piano Trios, Vol.1: The Florestan Trio.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Danse slave (Le roi malgr茅 lui)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Chabrier: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande/Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 15.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    Cello Concerto in A major 'The Frog', G475 - iii Rondo: Allegro

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
    • Boccherini: Cello Concertos, Sonatas & Quintets.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Symphony No 3 in C minor (Finale)

    Performer: Olivier Latry. Orchestra: Liege Philharmonic. Conductor: Pascal Roph茅.
    • CYPRES.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonatas Kk.531 & Kk.54

    Performer: S茅rgio Assad. Performer: Odair Assad.
    • ELEKTRA NONESUCH.
  • Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria

    Da me ti dividi (Talestri)

    Music Arranger: Julian Riem. Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Orchestra: Lucerne Festival Strings. Conductor: Davey Dodds.
    • Sony.

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