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Suzy Klein with essential left-hand piano music, Kathryn Rudge, Strauss's Morgen

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 鈥� this week we bring you five great pieces of piano music written for the left hand only.

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

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Mon 9 Nov 2020 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in G minor Op.23 no. 5

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Yuja Wang - The Berlin Recital.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in A Major Op.6`11 (Allegro)

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Director: Bernhard Forck.
    • Handel: 12 Concerti grossi, Op. 6 Nos. 7-12.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 505.

  • Lili Boulanger

    Nocturne

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.
    • Hyperion.

  • Richard Strauss

    Morgen (4 Lieder Op.27)

    Singer: Lise Davidsen. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • DECCA.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Violin Concerto in D minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Nemanja Radulovi膰. Orchestra: The Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sascha Goetzel.
    • DG.

  • Henry Purcell

    Strike the viol (Come ye sons of art)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Director: Stefano Montanari.
    • Decca.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Sea and Sinbad's Ship (Scheherazade Op.35)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • LAWO.

  • Fela Sowande

    Obangiji

    Performer: Richard Lea.
    • Liverpool Spectacular! Richard Lea plays the Organ of Liverpool Metropolitan Cat.
    • Priory.
    • 6.

  • Stephan Koncz

    A New Satiesfaction [Gymnopedie no.1]

    Composer: Erik Satie. Performer: Ray Chen. Performer: Noah Bendix-Balgley. Performer: Amihai Grosz. Performer: Stephan Koncz.
    • The Golden Age.
    • DECCA.
    • 1.

  • Nicola Matteis

    Diverse bizzarrie sopra la vecchia sarabanda o pur Ciaccona

    Performer: Th茅otime Langlois de Swarte. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • The Mad Lover.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 110.

  • Franz Schubert

    Moment musicaux in C sharp minor, D.780 no.4

    Performer: Till Fellner.
    • Schubert/Sonata D.784/6 Moments Musicaux D.780.
    • Erato.
    • 7.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.

  • Duke Ellington

    Portrait of Sidney Bechet (New Orleans Suite)

    Performer: Duke Ellington. Ensemble: Ensemble.
    • Duke Ellington; New Orleans Suite.
    • ATLANTIC.
    • 7.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (R眉ckert-Lieder)

    Singer: Janet Baker. Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • Mahler: Kindertotenlieder - 5 R眉ckertlieder - Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de matin Op.15`2

    Performer: Midori. Performer: Robert McDonald.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Frederick Delius

    Il pleure dans mon coeur

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Eric Fenby.
    • Heritage.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet in D major D.74 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Signum Quartet.
    • Ins stille Land.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 304.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Zefiro Torna

    Performer: Jeremy Denk.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Trio no.2 in C minor Op.66 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma.
    • Mendelssohn: Piano Trios, Opp. 49 & 66: Perlman : Ma : Ax.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

    Performer: Leon Fleisher. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • SONY Classical.

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Piano Quintet (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Performer: Barnab谩s Kelemen. Performer: Katalin Kokas. Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Performer: Alexander Lonquich.
    • ALPHA.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Entr茅e de Polymnie (Les Bor茅ades)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Archiv.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Les Larmes De Jacqueline (Harmonies des bois)

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mirga Gra啪inyt臈鈥怲yla.
    • Inspiration.
    • DECCA.
    • 9.

  • Thomas Morley

    O mistress mine

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
    • Warner.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Quartet no.1 in G Minor Op.25 (4th mvt)

    Orchestrator: Arnold Schoenberg. Orchestra: G盲vle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Jaime Mart铆n.
    • Brahms: Piano Quartet in G Minor (Orch. A. Schoenberg) - Parry: Elegy for Brahms.
    • Ondine.
    • 104.

Broadcast

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