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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Liszt's Sposalizio, Elin Manahan Thomas, Essential Love Duets

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

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    La clemenza di Tito (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Mozart: Overtures: Sir Colin Davis.
    • RCA.
    • 14.
  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Romanian Folk Dances Sz.56

    Music Arranger: Sergei Nakariakov. Performer: Sergei Nakariakov. Performer: Maria Meerovitch.
    • Widmung: Sergei Nakariakov/Maria Meerovitch.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.
  • Claude Debussy

    Sonate en trio (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Pixels Ensemble.
    • Debussy: Sonatas & Piano Works.
    • Rubicon.
    • 6.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (A German Requiem)

    Choir: Radiok枚ren. Choir: Eric Ericsons Kammark枚r. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony no.3 in A minor, Op.56 'Scottish' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol.2.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Franz Liszt

    Sposalizio (Ann茅es de p猫lerinage - Italie)

    Performer: Louis Lortie.
    • Liszt: Annees de Pelerinage - Lortie.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.
  • Edward Gregson

    Saxophone Concerto (Quite fast - with energy)

    Performer: Nobuya Sugawa. Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Chandos.
  • Gavin Bryars

    Ave Regina Gloriosa [Lauda VII]

    Choir: Trio Medi忙val.
    • ECM.
  • Michael Tippett

    Fantasia concertante on a theme of Corelli

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Performer: Vesna Stankovic Moffatt. Performer: Marieke Blankestijn. Performer: William Conway. Conductor: Douglas Boyd.
    • Lachrymae: Music for Strings.
    • Warner Apex.
    • 4.
  • Jerome Kern

    Ol' Man River (Show Boat)

    Performer: Paul Robeson. Orchestra: The Brunswick Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Victor Young.
    • The Soho Collection.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia (Overture Op.10)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • BIS.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Carizon Septimi Toni No. 2

    Ensemble: Chicago Trombone Consort.
    • ALBANY.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song Without Words in C major, Op.67 no.4 'Spinning Song'

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mendelssohn: Lieder Ohne Worte: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Alma redemptoris mater 脿 8

    Ensemble: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • Gimell: The Tallis Scholars.
    • Gimell.
    • 10.
  • Edward Elgar

    In Smyrna

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's English Piano Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Spring (3 Botticelli Pictures)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Na茂ve Waltz

    Ensemble: The Smith Quartet.
    • The Smith Quartet: Dances.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 12.
  • Josef Suk

    Asrael Symphony, Op. 27 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jakub Hr暖拧a.
    • BR Klassik.
  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Violin Concerto in C major Op.5`1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Miroslav Vil铆mec. Orchestra: Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Franti拧ek Preisler.
    • Saint-George: Complete violin concertos, Vol.3.
    • AVENIRA.
    • 3.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Character Piece no.3 in B major

    Performer: B茅atrice Rauchs.
    • BIS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    As steals the morn (L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato)

    Singer: Mary Bevan. Singer: Allan Clayton. Orchestra: Orchestra of Classical Opera. Conductor: Ian Page.
    • 'Where're You Walk' - Aria's for Handel's Favourite Tenor.
    • Signum.
    • 10.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Piano Quartet in B flat, Op.41 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Schubert Ensemble.
    • Saint-Saens/Chausson: Piano Quartets - Schubert Ensemble.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Cecilia McDowall

    I know that my Redeemer liveth

    Choir: Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford. Director: Owen Rees.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Cello Concerto in A minor Op.40 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • LYRITA.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in C major, Kk.420

    Performer: Anne Queff茅lec.
    • MIRARE.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.1 in G minor "Winter Dreams" Op.13 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • CHANDOS.

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