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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Essential Love Duets, Tasmin Little, Morricone's Love Theme from Cinema Paradiso

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

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

1100 Essential Five – 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

  • Arnold Bax

    Mediterranean

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • Seascapes.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    String Quintet no.31 in D minor G.295 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Europa Galante.
    • Boccherini : String & Guitar Quintets, Minuet in A.
    • Erato.
    • 112.
  • Luca Antonio Predieri

    Pace una volta (Zenobia)

    Singer: Kathleen Battle. Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Conductor: John Nelson.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    A Chloris

    Music Arranger: Not credited. Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Performer: Kimiko Imani.
    • DG.
  • Edward Elgar

    Symphony no.2 in E flat major Op.63 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle.
  • Ennio Morricone

    Cinema Paradiso (Love Theme - extract)

    Music Arranger: Nikoloz Rachveli. Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Performer: Maximilian Hornung. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Nikoloz Rachveli.
    • DG.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major K.297b (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: Diethelm Jonas. Performer: Bruno Schneider. Performer: Sergio Azzolini. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Hans Vonk.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Concertos: Sabine Meyer.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Johannes Ockeghem

    Aultre Venus Estes

    Ensemble: Blue Heron.
    • Blue Heron Renaissance Choir.
  • Rosalind Frances Ellicott

    Piano Trio No. 1 in G Major: III. Allegro brillante

    Ensemble: Trio Anima.
    • English Piano Trios.
    • Divine Art.
    • 103.
  • Ennio Morricone

    Cinema Paradiso (Love Theme - extract)

    Music Arranger: Nikoloz Rachveli. Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Performer: Maximilian Hornung. Orchestra: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nikoloz Rachveli.
    • DG.
  • Léo Delibes

    La Source [Naila] (Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Decca Eloquence.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Alcina (Overture)

    Orchestra: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • Royal Handel.
    • Naive.
    • 3.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony no.3 in A minor, Op.44 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Warner.
  • Judith Steenbrink

    Silk Rondeau (For Maite)

    Performer: Wu Wei. Ensemble: Holland Baroque Society.
    • Silk Baroque.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 1101.
  • Léo Chauliac

    Que reste-t-il de nos amours?

    Composer: Charles Trenet. Performer: Charles Trenet.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Concerto for two pianos, three hands, Op.104 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: David Nettle. Performer: Richard Markham. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Malcolm Arnold: Symphony No. 2 etc: Vernon Handley.
    • Conifer.
    • 3.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    In Paradisum (Requiem, Op.48)

    Choir: The Sixteen. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Mozart: Vespers and Faure: Requiem.
    • Coro.
    • 14.
  • Giulio Briccialdi

    Wind Quintet no.1 in D major, Op.124 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Arnold Quintet.
    • Briccialdi: I quattro quintetti per fiati.
    • Stradivarius.
    • 3.
  • José Pablo Moncayo

    Huapango

    Orchestra: Orquesta Juvenil Universitaria Eduardo Mata. Conductor: Gustavo Rivero Weber.
    • El árbol de la vida: Music from Mexico.
    • Naxos.
    • 101.
  • Kurt Weill

    Youkali

    Singer: Marion Rampal. Performer: Raphaël Imbert. Ensemble: Quatuor Manfred.
    • Bye-bye Berlin.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 101.
  • Gustav Holst

    A Somerset Rhapsody Op.21' 2

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Là ci darem la mano (Don Giovanni)

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Sospiri: Cecilia Bartoli.
    • Decca.
    • 6.
  • Ulysses Kay

    4 Inventions (nos 1, 2 and 3)

    Performer: Monica Gaylord.
    • Black Piano, A Treasury of Works for Solo Piano by Black Composers.
    • MUSIC & ARTS.
    • 10.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Petite Suite (Nocturne)

    Orchestrator: Alexander Glazunov. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Borodin: Requiem: Philharmonia Orchestra/³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Chorus/Simon.
    • Cala.
    • 14.
  • Trad.

    Thula Baba

    Music Arranger: Iain Farrington. Singer: Pumeza Matshikiza. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Iain Farrington.
    • Decca.
  • John Cage

    Experiences no.1

    Performer: Jay Gottlieb. Performer: Anne de Fornel.
    • Cage Meets Satie.
    • Paraty.
    • 104.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in A minor for flute, violin and harpsichord BWV1044 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Lisa Beznosiuk. Performer: Simon Standage. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • ARCHIV.
  • John Dowland

    The Shoemaker's Wife

    Performer: Paul O’Dette.
    • Dowland: Musicke for the Lute.
    • Astree.
    • 1.
  • Ambroise Thomas

    Mignon (Overture)

    Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Tortelier's French Bonbons: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Philharmonic/Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.

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