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Suzy Klein with Haydn's La Reine Symphony, H茅lo茂se Werner, Essential left-hand piano music

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

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

0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Well-known musicians reveal their favourite performers.

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we bring you five great pieces of piano music written for the left hand only.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Francis Poulenc

    Capriccio for two pianos

    Performer: Pascal Rog茅. Performer: Jean鈥怭hilippe Collard.
    • Poulenc: Piano music and chamber works: Pascal Roge.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Josef Suk

    Serenade for Strings in E flat major Op.6 (1st mv)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • BR Klassik.
  • Steven Stucky

    O Sacrum Convivium (3 New motets 'in memoriam Thomas Tallis')

    Choir: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • Many Are The Wonders.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 4.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.85 in B flat major 'La Reine' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Heidelberger Sinfoniker. Conductor: Thomas Fey.
    • HANSSLER.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Overture on Hebrew themes Op.34

    Performer: Annelien Van Wauwe. Performer: Shirely Laub. Performer: Samuel Nemtanu. Performer: Marc Sabbah. Performer: Bruno Philippe. Performer: Lucas Blondeel.
    • Weinberg - Prokofiev.
    • GENUIN.
    • 8.
  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Violin Concerto in A major, Op.5'2 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Rachel Barton Pine. Orchestra: Encore Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Hege.
    • CEDILLE.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    6 Morceaux Op.19 (no.5)

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Tchaikovsky - The Seasons; Six Pieces.
    • Hyperion.
    • 17.
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Serenade in F major Op.31 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Stenhammar: Symphony No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 34 & Serenade in F Major, Op. 31 (Liv.
    • BIS.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe (Cantata no.34)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach Choruses - Gardiner.
    • SDG.
    • 1.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Rapsodie d'Auvergne in C major Op.73

    Performer: Louis Lortie. Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Saint Saens: Piano Concertos Nos.3 and 5 etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 01.
  • Julien Joubert

    Le tiramisu de Jeanne

    Performer: Bernard Lanasp猫ze. Performer: Fr茅d茅rique Bizet. Performer: Julien Joubert. Choir: Ma卯trise de Radio France. Conductor: Toni Ramon.
    • Editions Radio France.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Wind Quartet no. 6 in F major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Michael Thompson Wind Ensemble.
    • Naxos.
  • William Byrd

    Ye sacred muses

    Singer: Robin Blaze. Ensemble: Concordia.
    • HYPERION.
  • Henry Purcell

    The Indian Queen Z.630 (Overture; Trumpet Tune)

    Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Purcell: The Indian Queen: Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner.
    • Erato.
    • 4-6.
  • Eric Coates

    Youth of Britain [The Princess Elizabeth] (The Three Elizabeths)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Reginald Kilbey.
    • Classics for Pleasure.
  • Johan Helmich Roman

    Drottningholm Music for a Royal Wedding

    Orchestra: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Drottningholmsmusiken.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Der H枚lle Rache (The Magic Flute)

    Singer: Lucia Popp. Orchestra: Philharmonia. Conductor: Otto Klemperer.
    • EMI.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Suite, Op.23 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Eldar Nebolsin. Ensemble: Spectrum Concerts Berlin.
    • Korngold: Suite, Op. 23 & Piano Quintet, Op. 15.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    I baci

    Ensemble: Musica Secreta.
    • Amon Ra records.
  • Witold Lutos艂awski

    Little Suite

    Orchestra: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Krzysztof Urba艅ski.
    • Lutoslawski.
    • Alpha.
    • 4-7.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    12 Studies Op.10 (no.12 and no.6)

    Music Arranger: Leopold Godowsky. Performer: Boris Berezovsky.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Les Indes galantes Suite

    Orchestra: Concert Des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Le Concert Spirituel - Au Temps de Louis XV: Le Concert Des Nations, Jordi Saval.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 25-31.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    12 Variations on 'Ah! Vous dirais-je, maman' K.265

    Performer: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • ECM New Series.
  • Amy Beach

    Piano Quintet in F minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson. Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon noni toni 脿 12, C183

    Music Arranger: Eric Crees. Performer: London Symphony Brass. Conductor: Eric Crees.
    • Cathedral Brass: London Symphony Brass/Crees.
    • Collins Classics.
    • 9.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Polovtsian Dances

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Choir: Czech Philharmonic Choir, Brno. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.

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  • Tue 10 Nov 2020 09:00

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