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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.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Johann Christian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto in D major Op.1`6 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Steven Devine. Orchestra: The Mozartists. Conductor: Ian Page.
    • Signum Classics.
  • Anton Stepanovich Arensky

    Piano Trio no.1 in D minor Op.32 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Trio Zeliha.
    • Shostakovich - Arensky - Mendelssohn.
    • Mirare.
    • 3.
  • John Dowland

    A Dream

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • Nocturnal.
    • BIS.
    • 15.
  • Alberto Ginastera

    Malambo (Estancia Op.8a)

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Romance in F minor Op.11

    Performer: Thomas Zehetmair. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • The Teldec Recordings: Thomas Zehetmair.
    • Teldec.
  • Helmut Lachenmann

    Marche fatale

    Performer: Nicolas Hodges.
    • Other Stories.
    • Wergo.
    • 3.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony no.3 in F major Op.90 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Brahms: Symphonies: Rattle.
    • EMI.
    • 7.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Gabríel Ólafs

    Absent Minded Solo

    Performer: Gabríel Ólafs.
    • Piano Works.
    • One Little Independent.
    • 3.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Notturno no.3 in G major H.2.27 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble.
    • Linn.
  • 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.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.8 in B minor D.759 'Unfinished' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler.
    • TAHRA.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D major Kk.119

    Performer: Jean Rondeau.
    • ERATO.
  • Moisés Moleiro

    Joropo

    Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • Solatino.
    • EMI.
    • 029.
  • Santiago de Murcia

    Tarantella no 2

    Performer: Rolf Lislevand. Ensemble: Ensemble Kapsberger.
    • Naive.
  • Alberto Ginastera

    Triste (5 Popular Argentinian Songs Op.10)

    Singer: Bernarda Fink. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
    • Hyperion.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    America (West Side Story)

    Music Arranger: Henk Huizinga. Performer: Jaap van Zweden. Ensemble: The Amsterdam Saxophone Quartet.
    • Fineline Classics.
  • 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.
    • 2.
  • Henry Purcell

    Fantazia no.6 in F major Z.737

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Henry Purcell The Complete Fantazias Fretwork.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 6.
  • Cecil Coles

    Behind the Lines

    Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • HELIOS.
  • Géza Zichy

    Valse dʼAdele

    Performer: Maxime Zecchini.
    • Oeuvres pour la main gauche.
    • Ad Vitam.
    • 2.
  • Hugo Wolf

    Intermezzo in E flat major for string quartet

    Ensemble: Auryn Quartet.
    • CPO.
  • Thomas Alexander Erskine

    Periodical Overture no.17 in E flat major (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: The Hanover Band. Conductor: Graham Lea-Cox.
    • GAUDEAMUS.
  • Vítezslav Novák

    Slovak Suite Op.32 (In the Church)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: František Vajnar.
    • SUPRAPHON.
  • Duke Ellington

    The River

    Performer: Luigi Palombi.
    • Duke Ellington: Piano Works.
    • Dynamic.
    • 12.
  • Claude Debussy

    En bateau (Petite suite)

    Orchestrator: Henri Büsser. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Debussy: Night in Granada: Philharmonia Orchestra/Simon.
    • Cala.
  • Franz Schubert

    An die Musik D.547

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • Schubert: 25 Lieder: Ian Bostridge.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 14.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Tale of Tsar Saltan Op.57(The Three Wonders)

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.

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  • Wed 11 Nov 2020 09:00

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