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.
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Francis Poulenc
L' Embarquement pour Cythere - valse-musette for 2 pianos
Performer: Lucille Chung. Performer: Alessio Bax.- SIGNUM.
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Trad.
Kamarinskaya
Orchestra: Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra. Conductor: Vitaly Gnutov.- MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE.
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Thomas Arne
The Morning
Singer: Emma Kirkby. Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Conductor: Roy Goodman.- Dr Arne at Vauxhall Gardens.
- Hyperion.
- 1.
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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.
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Johannes Brahms
Im Herbst (In Autumn), 5 Songs Op 104
Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.- Im Herbst.
- BIS.
- 14.
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Kurt Atterberg
A Värmland Rhapsody
Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- Atterberg: Orchestral Works vol.1.
- Chandos.
- 004.
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Giovanni Gabrieli
Canzon a 10 [1597 no.9]
Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Director: Paul McCreesh.- Signum.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Voi che sapete (The Marriage of Figaro)
Singer: Lucia Popp. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.- EMI.
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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.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Fantasia in G major, BWV 572
Performer: Kevin Bowyer.- The works for organ vol.12.
- Nimbus.
- 1.
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Alexander Scriabin
Piano Concerto (2nd mvt)
Performer: Daniil Trifonov. Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.- DG.
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Orlando Gibbons
O clap your hands/God is gone up - anthem for 8 voices
Choir: Oxford Camerata. Conductor: Jeremy Summerly.- NAXOS.
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George Frideric Handel
Concerto grosso in G major, Op 6 No 1
Orchestra: Combattimento. Director: Jan Willem de Vriend.- CHALLENGE.
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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.
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Clément Doucet
Isoldina
Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.- Alexandre Tharaud: Le Boeuf Sur Le Toit.
- Virgin Classics.
- 15.
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Maurice Duruflé
Requiem (In Paradisum)
Performer: Iain Simcock. Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: James O’Donnell.- Hyperion.
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Benjamin Britten
String Quartet No 1 (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.- CHANDOS.
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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.
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Jean Sibelius
Pelleas and Melisande, Act V Scene 2: Prelude (The Death of Melisande)
Orchestra: Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leif Segerstam.- NAXOS.
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Joseph Tawadros
Bluegrass Nikriz
Performer: Joseph Tawadros. Performer: James Tawadros. Music Arranger: Guy Barker. Orchestra: Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Northey.- ABC Classics.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Airs de ballet Nos 1 and 4 (Jérusalem)
Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Decca.
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Anne Boyd
As I crossed a Bridge of Dreams
Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen. Conductor: Paul Hillier.- DACAPO.
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William Walton
Violin Concerto in B minor (2nd mvt)
Performer: Joshua Bell. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.- DECCA.
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Frédéric Chopin
Ballade No 3 in A flat major, Op 47
Performer: Evgeny Kissin.- RCA.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Dopo un'orrida procella (Griselda)
Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.- DECCA.
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