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Your perfect classical playlist

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.

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.

1230 Album of the Week

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in G, K525 "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Camerata Nordica. Conductor: Terje Tonnesen.
    • Mozart: Serenata notturna, 3 Divertimenti & Eine kleine Nachtmusik.
    • BIS.
    • 3.

  • Morten Lauridsen

    O Magnum Mysterium

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Song of the Nativity.
    • CORO.
    • 1.

  • Robert Russell Bennett

    Cake Walk (Suite of Old American Dances)

    Ensemble: The United States Air Force Band.
    • Celebration.
    • Altissimo!.
    • 6.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Sextet in C Minor, Op.40 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Eric Le Sage. Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
    • Les Vents Français - Winds & Piano.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 105.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Maskarade (Overture)

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • DACAPO.

  • Peter Sculthorpe

    Small Town

    Orchestra: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Hopkins.
    • ABC CLASSICS.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Autumn (The Four Seasons)

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • VIVALDI: LE QUATTRO STAGIONI.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 7.

  • Karen Tanaka

    Earth

    Performer: Lara Downes.
    • Love at Last.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 9.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto no.1 in C major H.7b.1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sol Gabetta. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Sergio Ciomei.
    • RCA.

  • Margaret Bonds

    Summer Storm (Songs of the Season)

    Performer: John O’Brien. Singer: Louise Toppin.
    • Ah! Love, But a Day.
    • Albany Records.
    • 14.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Violin Concerto in D major Op.35 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Gaffigan.
    • Warner.

  • Georges Bizet

    L'Arlésienne Suite no.2 (Farandole)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suites no. 1 & 2, Carmen Suite no. 1: LSO, Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Earth Suite (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Delyana Lazarova.
    • Dobrinka Tabakova.
    • Halle Concerts Society.
    • 6.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    L'italiana in Algeri (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bologna Municipal Theatre Orchestra. Conductor: Michele Mariotti.
    • Rossini: Overtures.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 301.

  • Aaron Copland

    Our Town

    Performer: Lang Lang. Music Arranger: Vince Mendoza. Orchestra: Hungarian Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Péter Illényi.
    • New York Rhapsody.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Percy Grainger

    Gum-Suckers' March (In a Nutshell) version for wind ensemble

    Orchestra: Kongelige norske marines musikkorps. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.
    • Grainger: Complete Music for Wind Band, Vol. 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 101.

  • William Barton

    Spirit Of Kalkadungu

    Composer: Matthew Hindson. Orchestra: Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Gill.
    • Kalkadunga.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 5.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie fantastique (A Ball)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique: Jansons.
    • EMI.
    • 3.

  • Charles Martin Loeffler

    Octet (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Graeme Steele Johnson.
    • Forgotten Sounds.
    • Delos.
    • 4.

  • Caerwen Martin

    Stars Come Out in a Midnight Sky

    Ensemble: ACO Collective.
    • Women of Note Volume 3.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 9.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Harpsichord Concerto in A Major, BWV 1055 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Francesco Corti. Ensemble: Il Pomo d’Oro.
    • J.S. Bach: Harpsichord Concertos.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 401.

  • Erno Dohnanyi

    Variations on a Nursery Song

    Performer: Sir AndrĂĄs Schiff. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Decca.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Che faro senza Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice)

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Ensemble: I Barocchisti. Director: Diego Fasolis.
    • Erato.

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesleid

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • 12 Stradivari.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 14.

  • Augusta HolmĂšs

    Ireland

    Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland‐Pfalz. Conductor: Michael Francis.
    • Augusta HolmĂšs: Symphonic Poems.
    • CPO.
    • 4.

  • JoaquĂ­n Rodrigo

    Fandango (Soleriana)

    Orchestra: Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias. Conductor: Maximiano Valdés.
    • NAXOS.

  • Franz Schubert

    Die Zauberharfe D.644 (Finale)

    Music Arranger: Brian Newbould. Orchestra: Junge Philharmonie Wien. Conductor: Michael Lessky.
    • Die Zauberharfe, D. 644 (Arr. B. Newbould for Orchestra).
    • Gramola Records.
    • 110.

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