Suzy Klein with Jonathan Biss, Ginastera's Malambo, 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 – 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.
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Johann Christian Bach
Keyboard Concerto in D major Op.1`6 (1st mvt)
Performer: Steven Devine. Orchestra: The Mozartists. Conductor: Ian Page.- Signum Classics.
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Anton Stepanovich Arensky
Piano Trio no.1 in D minor Op.32 (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: Trio Zeliha.- Shostakovich - Arensky - Mendelssohn.
- Mirare.
- 3.
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John Dowland
A Dream
Performer: Jakob Lindberg.- Nocturnal.
- BIS.
- 15.
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Alberto Ginastera
Malambo (Estancia Op.8a)
Orchestra: Simón BolÃvar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.- 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 1.
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AntonÃn Dvořák
Romance in F minor Op.11
Performer: Thomas Zehetmair. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.- The Teldec Recordings: Thomas Zehetmair.
- Teldec.
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Helmut Lachenmann
Marche fatale
Performer: Nicolas Hodges.- Other Stories.
- Wergo.
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Johannes Brahms
Symphony no.3 in F major Op.90 (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- Brahms: Symphonies: Rattle.
- EMI.
- 7.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Wie ist dein Name so gross (Donnerode)
Choir: Rheinische Kantorei. Orchestra: Das Kleine Konzert. Conductor: Hermann Max.- Telemann: Sacred Choral Music.
- CapriccioNR.
- 28.
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Agnes Zimmermann
Violin Sonata in A minor Op.21 (4th mvt)
Performer: Mathilde Milwidsky. Performer: Sam Haywood.- Zimmermann: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3.
- Toccata Classics.
- 8.
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GabrÃel Ólafs
Absent Minded Solo
Performer: GabrÃel Ólafs.- Piano Works.
- One Little Independent.
- 3.
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Joseph Haydn
Notturno no.3 in G major H.2.27 (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble.- Linn.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Fanfare and Polonaise (War and Peace Suite)
Orchestrator: Christopher Palmer. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- Prokofiev: War and Peace etc: Philharmonia Orchestra/Jarvi.
- Chandos.
- 1.
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Franz Schubert
Symphony no.8 in B minor D.759 'Unfinished' (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler.- TAHRA.
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Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in D major Kk.119
Performer: Jean Rondeau.- ERATO.
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Moisés Moleiro
Joropo
Performer: Gabriela Montero.- Solatino.
- EMI.
- 029.
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Santiago de Murcia
Tarantella no 2
Performer: Rolf Lislevand. Ensemble: Ensemble Kapsberger.- Naive.
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Alberto Ginastera
Triste (5 Popular Argentinian Songs Op.10)
Singer: Bernarda Fink. Performer: Roger Vignoles.- Hyperion.
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Leonard Bernstein
America (West Side Story)
Music Arranger: Henk Huizinga. Performer: Jaap van Zweden. Ensemble: The Amsterdam Saxophone Quartet.- Fineline Classics.
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George Frideric Handel
As with rosy steps the morn (Theodora)
Singer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Director: Harry Bicket.- Handel: Arias: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson.
- Avie.
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Henry Purcell
Fantazia no.6 in F major Z.737
Ensemble: Fretwork.- Henry Purcell The Complete Fantazias Fretwork.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 6.
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Cecil Coles
Behind the Lines
Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.- HELIOS.
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Géza Zichy
Valse dʼAdele
Performer: Maxime Zecchini.- Oeuvres pour la main gauche.
- Ad Vitam.
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Hugo Wolf
Intermezzo in E flat major for string quartet
Ensemble: Auryn Quartet.- CPO.
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Thomas Alexander Erskine
Periodical Overture no.17 in E flat major (1st mvt)
Orchestra: The Hanover Band. Conductor: Graham Lea-Cox.- GAUDEAMUS.
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VÃtezslav Novák
Slovak Suite Op.32 (In the Church)
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: František Vajnar.- SUPRAPHON.
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Duke Ellington
The River
Performer: Luigi Palombi.- Duke Ellington: Piano Works.
- Dynamic.
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Claude Debussy
En bateau (Petite suite)
Orchestrator: Henri Büsser. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.- Debussy: Night in Granada: Philharmonia Orchestra/Simon.
- Cala.
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Franz Schubert
An die Musik D.547
Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Julius Drake.- Schubert: 25 Lieder: Ian Bostridge.
- EMI Classics.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Tale of Tsar Saltan Op.57(The Three Wonders)
Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.- Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade.
- Naxos.
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Broadcast
- Wed 11 Nov 2020 09:00³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3