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Suzy Klein with Essential pianists, James Gaffigan and Judith Weir's Storm

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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Tue 19 Jan 202109:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Moritz Moszkowski

    Caprice espagnole, Op 37

    Performer: Louis Schwizgebel.
    • Louis Schwizgebel-Wang: Mendelssohn, Mozart, Moszkowski & Schulhoff.
    • La Dolce Volta.
    • 8.

  • Alessandro Rolla

    Piccolo Quartetto in C major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Quartetto Bernardini.
    • Arcana.

  • Judith Weir

    Charm (Storm)

    Choir: Choristers of Temple Church. Choir: BBC Singers. Ensemble: Endymion Ensemble. Conductor: David Hill.
    • signum.

  • Claude Debussy

    Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Picasso and Music.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 12.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    3 Songs of Robert Bridges Op.43

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Andrew West.
    • SOMM.

  • Léo Delibes

    Les filles de Cadix

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Eivind Aadland.
    • Storyteller: Tine Thing Helseth.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.

  • Toru Takemitsu

    Rain tree sketch II - In memoriam Olivier Messiaen

    Performer: Hélène Grimaud.
    • Hélène Grimaud: Water.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 003.

  • Andreas Romberg

    Violin Concerto no.4 in C major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Chouchane Siranossian. Orchestra: Capriccio Barockorchester.
    • Alpha.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works.
    • Onyx.
    • 04.

  • Richard Strauss

    Salome, Op 54 (ending)

    Singer: Inge Borkh. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • RCA Living Stereo.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude in C major BWV.846

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock.
    • DG.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Octet in E flat major Op.20 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra.
    • BIS.

  • Marin Marais

    Tempest (Alcione - Suite no.4)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.

  • Ernest Chausson

    Air de danse (La Tempete Op.18)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Musica Nigella. Conductor: Takenori Nemoto.
    • Chausson le littéraire.
    • Klarthe.
    • 103.

  • Thomas Campion

    Never weather-beaten sail

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Macbeth (Act 3 Ballet Music: Part 3)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • EMI.

  • Cole Porter

    Brush up your Shakespeare (Kiss Me Kate)

    Singer: Lee Wilkof. Singer: Michael Mulheren. Orchestra: Unnamed Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Gemignani.
    • DRG RECORDS.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Marche Slave, Op.31

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • ORFEO.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concert Rondo in E flat major K.371

    Performer: Roger Montgomery. Performer: Margaret Faultless. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
    • Signum SIGCD345.
    • Signum.
    • 15.

  • Robert Schumann

    Dichterliebe Op.48 (nos. 13, 14, 15, 16)

    Singer: James Gilchrist. Performer: Anna Tilbrook.
    • LINN.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Sinfonia in D major RV.125

    Ensemble: Accademia dell’Annunciata. Conductor: Riccardo Doni.
    • Arcana.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Brass Quintet no.1, Op.73 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble. Conductor: Howard Snell.
    • Malcolm Arnold.
    • Decca.
    • 16.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.1 in D major D.82 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: B’Rock Orchestra. Conductor: René Jacobs.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 104.

  • Trad.

    Fear a' Bhàta [The boatman]

    Composer: Sìne NicFhionnlaigh. Ensemble: Maxwell String Quartet.
    • LINN.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in G minor Op.74`3 'Rider' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Maxwell String Quartet.
    • LINN.

  • Arthur Young

    It was a Lover and his Lass

    Singer: Henderson Twins. Performer: Al Bowlly. Ensemble: Ken “Snakehips” Johnson and His Orchestra.
    • Happy Days.

  • Edward Elgar

    The Marksmen (From the Bavarian Highlands Op.27)

    Choir: Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir. Performer: Max Hanft. Conductor: Howard Arman.
    • Elgar: From the Bavarian Highlands, Op. 27 & Partsongs.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 106.

  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Navarra Op.33

    Performer: Chloë Hanslip. Performer: Mikhail Ovrutsky. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Bruch - Violin Concertos nos. 1 & 3: Sarasate - Navarra.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
    • 7.

Broadcast

  • Tue 19 Jan 202109:00
    BBC Radio 3