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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Essential Love Duets, Matthew Barley

Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Suzy Klein

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we bring you five beautiful love duets.

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in B flat major, Op.23 no.2

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • The Rachmaninov Experience.
    • Warner Classics and Jazz.
    • 2.
  • Luciano Berio

    Quattro versioni originali della Ritirata Notturna di Madrid di L. Boccherini

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Luciano Berio.
    • RCA.
  • Edward Elgar

    Where Corals Lie (Sea Pictures)

    Singer: El墨na Garan膷a. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Decca.
  • Stewart Goodyear

    Callaloo (Panorama)

    Performer: Stewart Goodyear. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Wayne Marshall.
    • Gershwin & Goodyear.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 1.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Mandolin Concerto in C major, RV.425

    Performer: Avi Avital. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra.
    • Avi Avital Vivaldi.
    • DG.
    • 7.
  • Richard Strauss

    Moonlight Music (Capriccio)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Padre Antonio Soler

    Keyboard Sonata no.90 in F sharp minor

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's Spanish Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Stephan Koncz

    A New Satiesfaction [Gymnopedie no.1]

    Composer: Erik Satie. Performer: Ray Chen. Performer: Noah Bendix-Balgley. Performer: Amihai Grosz. Performer: Stephan Koncz.
    • The Golden Age.
    • DECCA.
    • 1.
  • Toru Takemitsu

    Uta (Chiisana Heya de [In a small room])

    Choir: Shinyukai Choir. Director: Shin Sekiya.
    • Philips.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Carnival Overture, Op.92

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Dvorak: Symphony No.9/Carnival Overture.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Mar铆a Malibr谩n

    Rataplan

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Performer: Benjamin Forster. Orchestra: Orchestra La Scintilla. Conductor: 脕d谩m Fischer.
    • Maria.
    • Decca.
    • 10.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Chaconne (Dardanus - suite)

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.47 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Tchaikovsky / Sibelius: Violin Concerto: Mullova, Ozawa.
    • Philips.
    • 4.
  • Billy Mayerl

    Look Lively

    Performer: Susan Tomes.
    • Loose Elbows - Susan Tomes plays the piano music of Billy Mayerl.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 6.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Mond, so gehst du wieder auf (Lieder des Abschieds Op.14)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Helmut Deutsch.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.
  • Edward Elgar

    In Moonlight [Canto Popolare]

    Music Arranger: Julian Milone. Performer: Pinchas Zukerman. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Decca.
  • Jocelyn Pook

    How sweet the moonlight (The Merchant of Venice)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Performer: Siobh谩n Armstrong. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Baroque String Quartet.
    • Decca.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no. 21 in C major K.467 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.
    • Mozart: The Great Piano Concertos, Vol.1: Uchida/English Chamber Orchestra/Tate.
    • Philips.
    • 5.
  • Rufus Wainwright

    Les feux d'artifice t'appellent (Prima Donna)

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Ensemble: Brooklyn Rider.
    • Naive.
  • Georges Bizet

    Symphony in C major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Mirare.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Pur ti miro, pur ti godo (The Coronation of Poppea)

    Singer: Roberta Invernizzi. Singer: Sonia Prina. Ensemble: Ensemble Claudiana. Director: Luca Pianca.
    • Naive.
  • Michael Daugherty

    Philadelphia Stories (Tell Tale Harp)

    Orchestra: Colorado Symphony. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Naxos.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major, H.7e.1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Haydn/Hummel/Neruda/Torelli: Trumpet Concertos: Alison Balsom.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.
  • Karl Suessdorf

    Moonlight in Vermont

    Performer: Ella Fitzgerald. Performer: Louis Armstrong.
    • VERVE.
  • Linda Buckley

    Chiyo

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Garry Walker.
    • Contemporary Music Centre Ireland.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    H枚chster, schau' in Gnaden an (Cantata no.63)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • J.S. Bach, Cantatas Vol 18: Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 7.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song without Words in F sharp minor, Op.67 no.2

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Khatia Buniatishvili: Motherland.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Un Bal (Symphonie Fantastique Op.14)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique: LSO/Sir Colin Davis.
    • LSO Live.

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