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Ian Skelly with Carwithen's Bishop Rock and Essential Piano Duets

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Ian Skelly

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Essential Symphony – a movement from the BBC archive, plus the whole performance available online.

1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five great pieces for piano duet.

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

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Tue 12 May 202009:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo alla Turca (Piano Sonata in A major K.331)

    Music Arranger: Arcadi Volodos. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • DG.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Thieving Magpie (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Rossini: 10 Overtures - Chailly.
    • Decca.
    • 10.

  • Edward Elgar

    Sospiri, Op 70

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Peter Limonov.
    • Decca.

  • John Dowland

    Come again, sweet love doth now invite

    Performer: David Miller. Performer: Grace Davidson.
    • Dowland: First Booke of Songesor Ayres.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 17.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quartet No 6 in F minor, Op 80 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • Chandos.

  • Doreen Carwithen

    Bishop Rock

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Pie Jesu (Requiem, Op.48)

    Music Arranger: Louis Lortie. Performer: Louis Lortie.
    • Chandos.

  • George Frideric Handel

    My heart is inditing, HWV.261

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Handel Coronation Anthems.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 112.

  • John Adams

    Shaker Loops (Shaking and Trembling)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • NAXOS.

  • Ignace Joseph Pleyel

    Rondo for clarinet and basset horns, 'Presto assai'

    Ensemble: Swiss Clarinet Players.
    • CLAVES.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 4 in F minor, Op 36

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.

  • Charles Lucien Lambert

    L'Amazone, Caprice - mazurka, Op 67

    Performer: Gary Hammond.
    • NAXOS.

  • Herbert Sumsion

    They that go down to the sea in ships

    Choir: Ecclesium Choir. Performer: David Leigh. Conductor: Philip Stopford.
    • Leigh, David: British Church Composer Series Vol.9.
    • PRIORY.
    • 9.

  • Grace Williams

    Calm Sea in Summer (Sea Sketches)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: David Atherton.
    • Grace Williams: Fantasia On Welsh Nursery Tunes, Carillons, Penillion, Trumpet C.
    • Lyrita.
    • 17.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (Dawn)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No 1 in G major, BWV 1007 (Prelude)

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein.
    • Bach: Cello Suites, BWVV 1007-1012.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 1.

  • Lili Boulanger

    Pie Jesu

    Singer: Alain Fauqueur. Performer: Jean-Jacques Grunenwald. Orchestra: Orchestre Lamoureux. Conductor: Igor Markevitch.
    • Everest.

  • Franz Schubert

    Fantasy in F minor for piano duet, D 940

    Performer: Martin Helmchen. Performer: Julia Fischer.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Johann Erasmus Kindermann

    Violin Sonata in D Minor

    Performer: Irina Kisselova. Ensemble: United Continuo Ensemble.
    • Kindermann: Opitianischer Orpheus.
    • CPO.
    • 5.

  • William Walton

    Portsmouth Point - overture

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Anonymous

    Marinero soy de amor

    Performer: Ferran Savall.
    • Alia Vox.

  • Francisco Tárrega

    Gran jota aragonesa

    Performer: Emmanuel Rossfelder.
    • Carnets de voyage.
    • MIRARE.
    • 4.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet No 13 in B Flat Major, Op 130 (Finale)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • John Ireland

    Sea Fever

    Singer: John Shirley‐Quirk. Performer: Viola Tunnard.
    • HERITAGE.

  • Richard Wagner

    Lohengrin (Prelude to Act III)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

Broadcast

  • Tue 12 May 202009:00
    BBC Radio 3