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Suzy Klein with Essential Sea Music and Balakirev's Islamey

Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Suzy Klein

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

1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five great pieces with a sea theme.

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

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Wed 17 Jun 202009:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Dag Wirén

    Concert overture no.2 Op.16

    Orchestra: Norrköpings Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Dag Wiren, Symphonies 2 & 3, Overtures.
    • CPO.
    • 8.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Prelude in D flat major, Op.28 no.15 'Raindrop'

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Perahia Plays Chopin.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

  • Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

    Symphony in B-Flat Major, F 71: I. Allegro

    Orchestra: Berliner Barock Solisten. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Cantatas of the Bach Family.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.
    • 18.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Fantaisie Op.79

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Eric Le Sage.
    • ALPHA.

  • Il Fásolo

    Ciaconna 'Acceso mio core'

    Ensemble: Le Poème Harmonique. Conductor: Vincent Dumestre.
    • Il Fasolo: Le Poeme Harmonique/Dumestre.
    • Alpha.
    • 17.

  • Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

    Islamey

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Haydn/Rachmaninov/Brahms/Tchakovsky/Balakirev: Piano: Lang Lang.
    • TELARC.
    • 15.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Crisantemi

    Ensemble: Signum Quartett.
    • Quartet Movements: Signum Quartett.
    • Capriccio.
    • 2.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Insanae et vanae curae

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Haydn: Heiligmesse; Missa in Tempore Belli, etc..
    • Philips.
    • 23.

  • Clara Schumann

    Konzertsatz in F minor

    Performer: Lucy Parham. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • CIRRUS CLASSICS.

  • Léo Delibes

    Flower Duet (Lakmé)

    Music Arranger: Philip Sparke. Ensemble: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Garry Cutt.
    • Classic Brass: Grimethorpe Colliery RJB Band.
    • RCA.
    • 12.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C major for strings, RV 114

    Ensemble: Arte dei Suonatori.
    • Vivaldi: Concerto for Strings: Arte Dei Suonatori.
    • Bis.
    • 1-2.

  • Herbert Hughes

    She moved thro' the fair

    Singer: Ailish Tynan. Performer: Iain Burnside.
    • A Purse of Gold - Irish Songs by Herbert Hughes.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 15.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker (Pas de deux)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 10.

  • Béla Bartók

    Allegro Barbaro

    Performer: Zoltán Kocsis.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov

    Procession of the Sardar (Caucasian Sketches, Op 10)

    Conductor: David Zinman. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
    • Telarc.

  • Nikolai Karlovich Medtner

    6 Fairy tales Op.51 (no.1)

    Performer: Boris Berezovsky.
    • Teldec.

  • August Klughardt

    Quintet in C Op.79 for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon: 4th mvt

    Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
    • Warner Classics.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Fra l'ombre e gl'orrori (Aci, Galatea e Polifemo)

    Singer: Christopher Purves. Orchestra: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Hyperion.

  • Frank Bridge

    Fantasy Piano Quartet in F sharp minor

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • HYPERION.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Waves (A Sea Symphony)

    Choir: London Philharmonic Choir. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Eleanor Alberga

    Sextet (Dancing with the Shadow - Suite)

    Ensemble: Lontano. Conductor: Odaline de la Martínez.
    • British Women Composers, Volume 2.
    • Lorelt.
    • 13.

  • Max Bruch

    Romance for viola and orchestra Op.85

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.

  • Peteris Vasks

    The Fruit of Silence

    Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Orchestra: Sinfonietta Rīga. Conductor: Sigvards Kļava.
    • Vasks: Laudate Dominum.
    • Ondine.
    • 5.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude and Fugue in F sharp major, Op 87 No 13

    Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Shostakovich The Preludes & Fugues Alexander Melnikov Piano.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.

  • Samuel Scheidt

    Galliarda battaglia à 5

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Battaglie & Lamenti: Montserrat Figueras, Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No 3 in D major, D 200 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

Broadcast

  • Wed 17 Jun 202009:00
    BBC Radio 3