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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 Musicians recommend their favourite recordings.

1100 Essential Five - this week we bring you five great performances by pianist Martha Argerich.

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

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Tue 30 Mar 202109:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Erkki Melartin

    Butterfly Waltz (The Sleeping Beauty)

    Orchestra: Camerata Finlandia. Conductor: Jorma Panula.
    • FINNISH ORCHESTRAL FAVOURITES.
    • NAXOS.
    • 012.

  • William Lawes

    Fantazy "Sunrise" (Consort Suite a 6 in F)

    Performer: Paul Nicholson. Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Concerto no.1 in F minor Op.73 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Eric Hoeprich. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Guy Van Waas.
    • Glossa.

  • Ilse Weber

    Wiegala

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Bebe Risenfors. Performer: Bebe Risenfors.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Rhapsodie d'Auvergne

    Performer: Louis Lortie. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in A major Op.20`6 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • BIS.

  • Tielman Susato

    Ronde no.11 [Danserye, 1551]

    Ensemble: Early Music Consort of London. Conductor: David Munrow.
    • David Munrow: Two Renaissance Dance Bands; Monteverdi's Contemporaries.
    • Testament.
    • 11.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Valiant for Truth

    Choir: Tenebrae. Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • A Walk With Ivor Gurney.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 401.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty (Panorama)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • New Year's Concert 2012.
    • Sony.
    • 4.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Concerto Grosso

    Performer: Tai Murray. Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Chi-Chi Nwanoku. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Parnther.
    • Spark Catchers.
    • NMC Recordings.
    • 101.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sunde gross BWV.622

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • DG.

  • Karl Jenkins

    Adiemus

    Singer: Miriam Stockley. Singer: Mary Carewe. Performer: Pamela Thorby. Performer: Mike Ratledge. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Jenkins.
    • Songs Of Sanctuary.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 101.

  • Arthur Honegger

    Souvénir de Chopin

    Performer: Jonathan Plowright.
    • Hommage A Chopin: Jonathan Plowright piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in D flat major Op.70`3

    Performer: Arthur Rubinstein.
    • The Chopin Collection: The Waltzes: Artur Rubinstein.
    • RCA.
    • 13.

  • Jean‐Féry Rebel

    Fantaisie

    Ensemble: La Petite Bande. Director: Sigiswald Kuijken.
    • ACCENT.

  • Traditional Yiddish

    Shlof mein kind

    Singer: Paul Robeson. Performer: Unknown Pianist.
    • Monitor Records.

  • Hans Krása

    Brundibár - Suite (1st mvt)

    Music Arranger: David Matthews. Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Brundibar: Music by Composers in Theresienstadt: The Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Traditional Zulu

    Tula baba

    Ensemble: Bekithemba Heralds.
    • WRASSE RECORDS.
    • 14.

  • Olivier Messiaen

    Quartet for the end of time (Intermede)

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Torleif Thedéen. Performer: Lucas Debargue.

  • Ilse Weber

    Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Performer: Bebe Risenfors.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in D major K.239, 'Serenata notturna' (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Mozart: Serenate Notturne, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: Savall.
    • Alia Vox.

  • Paul Lansky

    Prelude (Threads)

    Ensemble: Sō Percussion.
    • CANTALOUPE.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Valse (Suite No 2 for two pianos, Op 17)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky.
    • The Rachmaninov Experience.
    • Warners.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Dove sei (Rodelinda)

    Singer: William Towers. Ensemble: Armonico Consort. Conductor: Christopher Monks.
    • Handelian Pyrotechnics.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 601.

  • Ildebrando Pizzetti

    3 Orchestral preludes for Sophocles's Oedipus Rex

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
    • Pizzetti - Rondo Veneziano, La Pisanella etc..
    • Hyperion.
    • 03.

  • Pierre de la Rue

    O salutaris hostia

    Ensemble: New York Polyphony.
    • And the Sun Darkened: Music for Passiontide.
    • BIS.
    • 801.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for Recorder and 2 Violins in A minor RV.108

    Performer: Tabea Debus. Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • Settecento: Baroque Instrumental Music fromt the Italian States.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 701.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Senza mamma (Suor Angelica)

    Singer: Cristina Gallardo‐Domâs. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • EMI.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Volklied in A minor Op.53 no.5

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 23.

  • William Levi Dawson

    O, le' me shine, shine like a Morning Star! (Folk Symphony)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • CHANDOS.

Broadcast

  • Tue 30 Mar 202109:00
    BBC Radio 3