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Suzy Klein with Essential pianists, Elizabeth Llewellyn and Arnold's Concerto for 3 hands

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 celebrate the work of five collaborative pianists.

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

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Mon 18 Jan 202109:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Francesco Maria Veracini

    Overture no.2 in F major (Menuett)

    Orchestra: Musica Antiqua Köln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Veracini: 5 Ouvertures: Musica Antiqua Koln/Goebel.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 8.

  • Alexander Scriabin

    Variations on a theme by Mlle Egorova

    Performer: Stephen Coombs.
    • The Early Scriabin.
    • Helios.
    • 7.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Si dolce è'l tormento

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Monteverdi: Teatro d'Amore: L'Arpeggiata/Pluhar.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 6.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Concerto for Two Pianos (3 hands), Op 104 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Cyril Smith. Performer: Phyllis Sellick. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Arnold.
    • Arnold conducts Arnold.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.5 in B flat major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8: OAE, Sir Charles Mackerras.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 1.

  • Daniel Elder

    3 Nocturnes (Ballad to the Moon)

    Performer: Westminster Choir College of Rider University. Conductor: Joe Miller.
    • Westminster Choir College, Rider University.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Violin Concerto no.2 in G minor, Op.63 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • James Ehnes Plays Prokofiev.
    • Chandos.
    • 012.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D minor Kk.9 'Pastorale'

    Performer: Anne Queffélec.
    • Scarlatti: Sonatas.
    • Warner Apex.

  • Marianna Martines

    Il primo amore

    Singer: Núria Rial. Ensemble: La Floridiana. Director: Nicoleta Paraschivescu.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Paul Hindemith

    Symphonic Metamorphosis (Turandot - Scherzo)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • DECCA.

  • Michael East

    Fantasia no.5 'Credidi'

    Ensemble: Chelys Consort of Viols.
    • BIS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata no.30 in E major Op.109 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jörg Demus.
    • Saphir Productions.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    The Belles of St Trinian's (Prelude)

    Music Arranger: Christopher Palmer. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Study in E major Op.10 no.3

    Performer: Jan Lisiecki.
    • DG.

  • Henry Purcell

    Hears not my Phillis how the birds 'The Knotting Song'

    Singer: Robin Blaze. Performer: Joseph Middleton.
    • Purcell Songs Realised by Britten.
    • CHAMPS HILL.
    • 26.

  • Django Reinhardt

    Nuages

    Ensemble: Django Reinhardt Band. Performer: Stéphane Grappelli. Performer: Django Reinhardt.
    • HEP.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Pierrot's Tanzlied (Die tote Stadt)

    Music Arranger: Franz Willms. Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • The Silver Violin - Benedetti, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
    • Decca.

  • Michael Torke

    Bright Blue Music

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Michael Torke - Ecstatic Orange etc..
    • Argo.
    • 005.

  • Franz Schubert

    Erlkönig D.328

    Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau. Performer: Gerald Moore.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • John Sheppard

    Missa 'Cantate': Agnus Dei

    Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Duke Ellington

    Work Song (Black, Brown and Beige Suite)

    Music Arranger: Nigel Kennedy. Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Performer: Alec Dankworth.
    • EMI.
    • EMI.
    • 007.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Sempre libera (La traviata)

    Singer: Anna Netrebko. Singer: Rolando Villazón. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlo Rizzi.
    • Verdi: La Traviata.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 9.

  • Ralf Hütter

    Computer Love

    Composer: Karl Bartos. Composer: Emil Schult. Music Arranger: Clare Connors. Ensemble: Bălănescu Quartet.
    • Possessed.
    • Mute.
    • 4.

  • John Cage

    In a landscape

    Performer: Alexei Lubimov.
    • ECM.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in E flat major K.375 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Winds. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Eine kleine Nachtmusik / Clarinet Concerto / Serenade No. 11 (Symphonieorchester.
    • RCA Victor Red Seal.
    • 10.

  • Anna Clyne

    Masquerade

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Anna Clyne: Mythologies.
    • Avie.
    • 1.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Ah spietato (Amadigi di Gaula)

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Orchestra: Les Talens Lyriques. Conductor: Christophe Rousset.
    • NAIVE.

Broadcast

  • Mon 18 Jan 202109:00
    BBC Radio 3