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Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Ian Skelly.

0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Musicians recommend their favourite recordings.

1100 Five Essentials – this week five great double concertos.

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

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Thu 18 Mar 202109:00
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Music Played

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Polonaise in A flat major, Op.53 'Eroica'

    Performer: Evgeny Kissin.
    • RCA.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    St. Matthew Passion: Erbame dich

    Singer: Marie Henriette Reinhold. Ensemble: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart. Conductor: Hans-Christoph Rademann.
    • Accentus.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No 7, 'Sinfonia Antartica' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • EMI.

  • Frederick Delius

    Late Swallows

    Music Arranger: Daniel Grimley. Ensemble: Villiers Quartet.
    • Delius & Elgar: String Quartets.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no.17 in G Major, K.453 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Gábor Takács‐Nagy.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos.
    • Chandos.
    • 005.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Piano Trio in D minor, Op.120 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Performer: Akira Eguchi. Performer: Brinton Smith.
    • Canary Classics.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Trio Sonata in C major, RV 82

    Performer: Avi Avital. Performer: Mahan Esfahani. Performer: Ophira Zakai. Performer: Patrick Sepec.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • William Byrd

    The Great Service (Magnificat)

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • The Tallis Scholars Sing William Byrd.
    • Gimell.
    • 9.

  • David Bruce

    Gumboots: Dance V

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.
    • Signum.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No 9 in C major, D 944, 'Great' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    The Sea Hawk (Main title; Reunion; Finale)

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Gerhardt.
    • Korngold: The Sea Hawk: National Philharmonic Orchestra/Gerhardt.
    • RCA Victor.
    • 1.

  • Henry Purcell

    What power art thou (King Arthur Z.628)

    Singer: Stephen Varcoe. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Purcell - King Arthur.
    • ERATO.
    • 18.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Frozen River Flows

    Performer: Roman Mints. Performer: Raimondas Sviackevičius. Performer: Donatas Bagurskas.
    • Dobrinka Tabakova - String Paths.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 005.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Leviathan Op.59

    Performer: Peter Wesley. Performer: Liivi Arder.
    • PDW.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Orpheus in the Underworld - Concert Overture

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Kaleidoscope: An Orchestral Extravaganza: Mackerras, LSO.
    • Mercury.
    • 10.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Double Concerto in A minor Op.102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Sony.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Piano Quartet in A minor

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Tom Dunn. Performer: Leonard Elschenbroich. Performer: Alexei Grynyuk.
    • Decca.

  • Florence Price

    Piano Sonata in E minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Althea Waites.
    • Black Diamonds.
    • Cambria.
    • 002.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Sarka (Má vlast)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubelík.
    • Orfeo.

  • John Jenkins

    Fantasia No 15 for viol consort

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • SIGNUM.

  • John Adams

    Road Movies

    Performer: Leila Josefowicz. Performer: John Novacek.
    • NONESUCH.

Broadcast

  • Thu 18 Mar 202109:00
    BBC Radio 3