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Suzy Klein with essential left-hand piano music, Bruckner's Third Symphony, Barnaby Smith

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

  • Francis Poulenc

    L' Embarquement pour Cythere - valse-musette for 2 pianos

    Performer: Lucille Chung. Performer: Alessio Bax.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Trad.

    Kamarinskaya

    Orchestra: Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra. Conductor: Vitaly Gnutov.
    • MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE.
  • Thomas Arne

    The Morning

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • Dr Arne at Vauxhall Gardens.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony no.3 in D minor (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (Live).
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 3.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Im Herbst (In Autumn), 5 Songs Op 104

    Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.
    • Im Herbst.
    • BIS.
    • 14.
  • Kurt Atterberg

    A Värmland Rhapsody

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Atterberg: Orchestral Works vol.1.
    • Chandos.
    • 004.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon a 10 [1597 no.9]

    Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Director: Paul McCreesh.
    • Signum.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Voi che sapete (The Marriage of Figaro)

    Singer: Lucia Popp. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • EMI.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Romance (5 Bagatelles Op.23)

    Music Arranger: Lawrence Ashmore. Performer: Robert Plane. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • Finzi: Clarinet Concerto, Five Bagatelles: Robert Plane, Northern Sinfonia.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fantasia in G major, BWV 572

    Performer: Kevin Bowyer.
    • The works for organ vol.12.
    • Nimbus.
    • 1.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Piano Concerto (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov. Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • DG.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    O clap your hands/God is gone up - anthem for 8 voices

    Choir: Oxford Camerata. Conductor: Jeremy Summerly.
    • NAXOS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in G major, Op 6 No 1

    Orchestra: Combattimento. Director: Jan Willem de Vriend.
    • CHALLENGE.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) - overture (Op.26) [Rome version]

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Mendelssohn Discoveries - Prosseda, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.
    • Decca.
    • 9.
  • Clément Doucet

    Isoldina

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Alexandre Tharaud: Le Boeuf Sur Le Toit.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 15.
  • Maurice Duruflé

    Requiem (In Paradisum)

    Performer: Iain Simcock. Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: James O’Donnell.
    • Hyperion.
  • Benjamin Britten

    String Quartet No 1 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Piano Concerto no.4 in B flat major Op.53 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Philharmonic. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Pelleas and Melisande, Act V Scene 2: Prelude (The Death of Melisande)

    Orchestra: Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leif Segerstam.
    • NAXOS.
  • Joseph Tawadros

    Bluegrass Nikriz

    Performer: Joseph Tawadros. Performer: James Tawadros. Music Arranger: Guy Barker. Orchestra: Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Northey.
    • ABC Classics.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Airs de ballet Nos 1 and 4 (Jérusalem)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.
  • Anne Boyd

    As I crossed a Bridge of Dreams

    Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • DACAPO.
  • William Walton

    Violin Concerto in B minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • DECCA.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Ballade No 3 in A flat major, Op 47

    Performer: Evgeny Kissin.
    • RCA.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Dopo un'orrida procella (Griselda)

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • DECCA.

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  • Thu 12 Nov 2020 09:00

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