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Suzy Klein with Janáček's Pohádka and Essential Dvořák

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 by Antonin Dvorak

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

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Fri 26 Jun 202009:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Running Set

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Vaughan Williams: Piano Concert.
    • Naxos.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mass in C Minor, K427 "Great" (Reconstr. H. Eder): Kyrie

    Singer: Ana Maria Labin. Singer: Ambroisine Bré. Choir: The Ripieno Choir. Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Mozart: Mass in C Minor, K. 427 "Great" (Reconstr. H. Eder) [Live].
    • PENTATONE.
    • 1.

  • Tan Dun

    Floating Clouds (Memories in Watercolour)

    Performer: Warren Lee.
    • Touches & Traces.
    • Naxos.
    • 17.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Symphony in F major, 'Urbs Roma' (IV. Poco allegretto)

    Orchestra: Malmö SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: Marc Soustrot.
    • Saint-Saens Symphonies 3.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.

  • Leos Janáček

    Pohadka (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Thomas Adès.
    • HYPERION.

  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Concerto in A minor - 3rd movement, Allegro non troppo

    Performer: Lucy Parham. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Robert and Clara Schumann: Piano Concertos.
    • Sanctuary.
    • 6.

  • François Couperin

    Trio sonata "La Superbe"

    Ensemble: Gli Incogniti. Conductor: Amandine Beyer.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony no.1 in D major 'Classical'

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Ah ch'infelice sempre (Cessate, omai cessate)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Ensemble: Ensemble 415. Director: Chiara Banchini.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Max Richter

    Three Worlds - Music from Woolf Works: In the Garden

    Performer: Max Richter. Performer: Louisa Fuller. Performer: Natalia Bonner. Performer: John Metcalfe. Performer: Ian Burdge. Performer: Chris Worsey.
    • Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works.
    • DG.
    • 2.

  • Josef Suk

    Intermezzo - Playing at Swans and Peacocks, from Fairytale Suite (Raduz and Mahulena)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • Chandos.

  • Robert Schumann

    Märchenzählung, Op 132 No 3

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Flight of the Bumblebee (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)

    Performer: Isaac Stern. Orchestra: Columbia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Milton Katims.
    • Humoresque, Favourite Violin Encores: Stern/Columbia Symphony Orch/Brieff/Katims.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Roderick Williams

    Goodwood by the Sea

    Performer: Maria Marchant.
    • Piano Music by Britten, Holst, Ireland, Roderick Williams etc.
    • Somm Records.
    • 8.

  • Dag Wirén

    Sinfonietta (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Barbara Strozzi

    O Maria

    Singer: María Cristina Kiehr. Ensemble: Concerto Soave.
    • Barbara Strozzi.
    • l'empreinte digitale.
    • 16.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in E minor Op.72 no.2

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • DECCA.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream transc for piano

    Music Arranger: Sergey Rachmaninov. Performer: Simon Trpceski.
    • Simon Trpceski plays Rachmaninov.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 12.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    The Rock

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, The Isle of the Dead, The Rock.
    • Avie.
    • 5.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Impromptu [Andante lirico]

    Ensemble: Virtuosi di Kuhmo. Conductor: Péter Csaba.
    • Sibelius Favourites.
    • Ondine.
    • 03.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon noni toni à 12

    Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts.
    • HYPERION.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Boléro, Op 19

    Performer: Nelly Ben-Or.
    • Chopin Dances: Nelly Ben-Or.
    • Meridian.
    • 3.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Festive Overture in D major, Op 4

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Smetana: Richard III/ Wallenstein's Cam/Hakon Jarl/Prague Carnival.
    • Chandos.

Broadcast

  • Fri 26 Jun 202009:00
    BBC Radio 3