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Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favorites.

Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favorites.

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Don Giovanni K.527 (overture)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Hugo Alfv茅n

    Swedish Rhapsody no.1 'Midsummer Vigil'

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • Warner.
  • Gustav Holst

    Swansea Town (6 Choral Folksongs)

    Choir: Holst Singers. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Holst: This Have I Done for My True Love & Other Partsongs.
    • Hyperion.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Horn Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: David Pyatt. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite.
    • British Horn Concertos.
    • LYRITA.
  • Franz Liszt

    Mephisto Waltz No 4

    Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.
    • Liszt: Ann茅es de p猫lerinage, 3猫me ann茅e & Other Late Piano Works.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto No 1 in C major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Ensemble: Potsdam Chamber Academy.
    • Genuin.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony No 1 in D Minor (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 13 - Symphonic Dances, Op. 45.
    • Chandos.
    • 101.
  • Henryk Wieniawski

    Scherzo-tarantelle in G minor, Op.16

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Eduard Laurel.
    • Wieniawski, Sarasate: James Ehnes, Eduard Laurel.
    • CBC Records.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Feldeinsamkeit (6 Songs, Op 86)

    Performer: Ulrich Eisenlohr. Singer: Christoph Pr茅gardien.
    • Brahms: Complete Songs, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 202.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Dance in E minor, Op 72 No 2

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • DECCA.
  • Franz Liszt

    Mephisto Waltz No 4

    Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.
    • Liszt: Ann茅es de p猫lerinage, 3猫me ann茅e & Other Late Piano Works.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • George Walker

    Trombone Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Christian Lindberg. Orchestra: Malm枚 SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: James DePreist.
    • BIS.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 5 in E Minor (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.
    • Beethoven 路 Tchaikovsky 路 Schmidt 路 Stephan.
    • Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Trio sonata in G minor HWV 393 'Dresden No 2' (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: La Botta Forte.
    • Palpiti del Cuore.
    • Fra Bernardo.
    • 3.
  • Dana Suesse

    Piano Concerto in Three Rhythms (3rd mvt)

    Music Arranger: Ferde Grof茅. Performer: Michael Gurt. Orchestra: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Rosenberg.
    • Jazz Nocturne.
    • Naxos.
    • 009.
  • Giuseppe Tartini

    Violin Sonata in G minor 'Devil's Trill' (Sogni dell autore)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Christian Curnyn. Performer: Catherine Rimer. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • Nicola Benedetti, Italia.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Charles-Valentin Alkan

    Study, Op 39 No 3 'Scherzo diabolico'

    Performer: Jack Gibbons.
    • Alkan: 12 Etudes, Op.39.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 3.
  • Charles Williams

    Devil's Galop

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • British Light Music Classics vol.1.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Percy Grainger

    Irish Tune from County Derry 'Danny Boy'

    Performer: Piers Lane.
    • HYPERION.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Quartet in G major for recorder, oboe, violin and continuo TWV:43:G6

    Ensemble: Musica Alta Ripa.
    • Telemann: Overtures, Sonatas, Concertos: Musica Alta Ripa.
    • MDG.
    • 16.
  • James MacMillan

    Saxophone Concerto (Gaelic Psalm)

    Performer: Amy Dickson. Orchestra: Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Carter.
    • Amy Dickson: In Circles.
    • ABC Classic.
    • 7.
  • Carl Fr眉hling

    Trio in A minor, Op.40 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Brahms, Fruhling: Clarinet Trios; Schumann: Marchenerzahlungen.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 10.
  • Aaron Copland

    Fanfare for the Common Man

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • The Copland Collection.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Magnificat in D major

    Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Singer: Nancy Argenta. Singer: Patrizia Kwella. Singer: Charles Brett. Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Singer: David Thomas. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists.
    • Philips.
  • Madeleine Dring

    Polka

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Antonio Oyarzabal.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Study in G flat major, Op 25 No 9 (Butterfly)

    Performer: Beatrice Rana.
    • Chopin: 12 脡tudes, Op. 25 & 4 Scherzi.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Royal Hunt and Storm (The Trojans)

    Choir: Ch艙ur philharmonique de Strasbourg. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg. Conductor: John Nelson.
    • Berlioz: Les Troyens.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 144.
  • Richard Strauss

    Der Rosenkavalier - Waltz Sequence No 1

    Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • DECCA.

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