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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Roderick Williams, Ellington's The River, Essential Love Duets

Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Suzy Klein

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we bring you five beautiful love duets.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    La Statira (Sinfonia in D)

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • Signum.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    The Sicillian Vespers (Ballet of the Four Seasons: Summer)

    Orchestra: Orchestra La Scintilla. Conductor: Riccardo Minasi.
    • Accentus.
  • John Taverner

    Sanctus (Western Wynde Mass)

    Choir: Taverner Choir. Conductor: Andrew Parrott.
    • AVIE.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

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

    Performer: Evgeny Kissin.
    • RCA.
  • Duke Ellington

    The River (The Lake)

    Orchestrator: Ron Collier. Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Duke Ellington - Black, Brown and Beige.
    • Naxos.
    • 11.
  • Andrea Tarrodi

    String Quartet no.1 "Miroirs"

    Ensemble: Dahlkvist Quartet.
    • Andrea Tarrodi: String Quartets.
    • db Productions.
    • 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: G谩bor Tak谩cs鈥怤agy.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos.
    • Chandos.
    • 005.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

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

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

    Requiem Op.9 (Requiem aeternam; Kyrie)

    Choir: Chorale Philippe Caillard et Stephane Caillat. Performer: Marie-Madeleine Durufl茅. Orchestra: Orchestre Lamoureux. Conductor: Maurice Durufl茅.
    • Durufle: Requiem: Maurice Durufle.
    • Erato.
    • 1-2.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Violin Concerto in G minor, Op.80 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Philippe Graffin. Orchestra: Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Hankinson.
    • Coleridge-Taylor/Dvorak: Violin Concertos: Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra/H.
    • Avie.
    • 3.
  • Aaron Copland

    At the River (Old American Songs - set 2)

    Singer: Marilyn Horne. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Carl Davis.
    • Aaron Copland: The World of Aaron Copland.
    • Decca.
    • 16.
  • Billy Mayerl

    Shallow Waters

    Performer: Susan Tomes.
    • Loose Elbows - Susan Tomes plays the piano music of Billy Mayerl.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 19.
  • Jean Sibelius

    The Swan of Tuonela (Lemmink盲inen Suite, Op.22)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thomas S酶nderg氓rd.
    • Sibelius.
    • Linn Records.
    • 3.
  • Grace Williams

    Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • Welsh Classical Favourites: Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Penny.
    • Marco Polo.
    • 1.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    O Soave Fanciulla (La Boh猫me)

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Singer: Kristine Opolais. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Sony.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Piano Quartet in A minor

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

    Coronation Te Deum

    Performer: Timothy Byram-Wigfield. Choir: Waynflete Singers. Choir: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Choir: L'Inviti. Choir: Bournemouth Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Hill.
    • Argo.
  • Florence Price

    Piano Sonata in E minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Althea Waites.
    • Black Diamonds.
    • Cambria.
    • 002.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Serenada in C major, 'The Nightwatchman'

    Singer: Peter Harvey. Performer: Catherine Mackintosh. Performer: Catherine Weiss. Performer: Katherine McGillivray. Performer: Rachel Byrt. Performer: Richard Boothby. Performer: Robert Woolley. Ensemble: The Purcell Quartet.
    • Biber: Sacro-Profanum: The Purcell Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.
  • Franz Schubert

    Trio [in one movement] in B flat, D.28

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Scherzo (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.61)

    Music Arranger: A.Sevast'yan. Performer: Ksenija Sidorova.
    • Fairy Tales.
    • CHAMPS HILL.
    • 15.

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  • Tue 21 Jul 2020 09:00

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