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Suzy Klein with Essential Murray Perahia, Dvorak's My Homeland

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 performances by the great pianist Murray Perahia.

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

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Mon 7 Dec 202009:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Florence Price

    Elfentanz

    Performer: Dawn Wohn. Performer: Esther Jung-A Park.
    • Perspectives.
    • Delos.
    • 7.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto no.2 in E major BWV.1053 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Francesco Corti. Ensemble: Il Pomo d’Oro.
    • J.S. Bach: Harpsichord Concertos.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 201.

  • Trad.

    The Salley Gardens

    Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Roderick Williams.
    • Naxos.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    My Homeland Op.62

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Libor Pešek.
    • Dvorak: American Suite, Czech Suite; Overtures and Tone Poems.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 204.

  • Isaac Albéniz

    El puerto (Iberia)

    Performer: Luis Fernando Pérez.
    • Albéniz: Iberia.
    • Mirare.
    • 102.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Quintet in E flat major K.407

    Performer: Xiaoming Han. Performer: Lei Hou. Performer: Qing Hou. Performer: Li-Kuo Chang. Performer: Ray Wang.
    • Shanghai Mozart Dream.
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 201.

  • Samuel Barber

    The School for Scandal Op.5

    Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Barber/Bernstein/Gershwin/Copland: Great American Showpieces.
    • EMI.
    • 5.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Ombra mai fu (Serse)

    Performer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Andreas Scholl - Heroes.
    • DECCA.
    • 2.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony no.3 in C major Op.52 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds.
    • CHANDOS : CHAN10809.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 3.

  • Philip Glass

    Glassworks (Opening)

    Ensemble: Philip Glass Ensemble. Performer: Philip Glass. Conductor: Michael Riesman.
    • Columbia.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Africa Fantasy Op.89

    Performer: Louis Lortie. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Chandos.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Che faranno i vecchi miei (La fanciulla del West)

    Singer: Carlo Checchi. Choir: Coro del Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli. Orchestra: Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo. Conductor: Juraj Valčuha.
    • Puccini: La fanciulla del West, SC 78 (Live).
    • Dynamic.
    • 203.

  • Edvard Grieg

    In My Native Land (Lyric Pieces Book 3 Op.43)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Grieg: Piano Concerto & Lyric Pieces.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 106.

  • Sir Henry Rowley Bishop

    Home! Sweet Home!

    Lyricist: John Howard Payne. Singer: Robert Tear. Performer: André Previn.
    • The Very Best of English Song.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 127.

  • Otis René

    That's my home

    Composer: Leon René. Composer: Ben Ellison. Performer: Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra.
    • HISTORY.
    • 5.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto 'con molti strumenti' in D major RV.566

    Ensemble: I Barocchisti. Conductor: Diego Fasolis.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Eleni Karaindrou

    Laura's Waltz (The Glass Menagerie)

    Performer: Kim Kashkashian. Performer: Dinos Hadjiiordanou. Performer: Aris Dimitriadis. Orchestra: Camerata Orchestra. Conductor: Alexandros Myrat.
    • Eleni Karaindrou – Concert in Athens.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 9.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No.5 in G major BWV 829

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Bach: Partitas Nos. 1, 5 & 6: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Fromental Halévy

    Les Mousquetaires de La Reine (Overture)

    Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Halász.
    • Opéra-Comique Overtures.
    • Naxos.
    • 201.

  • Kerry Andrew

    Apples, Plums, Cherries

    Choir: Juice Vocal Ensemble.
    • Snow Queens.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 1.

  • Trad.

    Sans Day Carol

    Music Arranger: Graham Fitkin. Performer: Ruth Wall.
    • The Three Harps of Christmas.
    • GFR.
    • 5.

  • George Butterworth

    English Idyll no.1

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle: English Rhapsody.
    • Halle.
    • 2.

  • Antonio Salieri

    Vieni à me sull'ali d'oro (Armida)

    Singer: Florie Valiquette. Ensemble: Les Talens Lyriques. Conductor: Christophe Rousset.
    • Salieri: Armida.
    • Aparté.
    • 126.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor Op.10 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Quintet, Clarinet Quintet.
    • HYPERION.
    • 8.

  • Franz Schubert

    Marche militaire in D major, D.733 no.1

    Performer: Maria João Pires. Performer: Hüseyin Sermet.
    • Schubert: Fantasie...: Pires, Sermet.
    • Erato.
    • 2.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Violin Concerto in D minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth.
    • Onyx.

Broadcast

  • Mon 7 Dec 202009:00
    BBC Radio 3