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Suzy Klein with Koehne's Persistence of Memory, Shirley Thompson, Essential left-hand piano music

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.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Jacob Gade

    Copenhagen Life - Waltz

    Orchestra: Odense Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Matthias Aeschbacher.
    • Jakob Gade: Jealousy - suites: Odense Symhony Orchestra/Aeschbacher.
    • Dacapo.
    • 13.
  • Trad.

    Banish Misfortune

    Performer: Ronn McFarlane.
    • The Celtic Lute.
    • Sono Luminus.
    • 102.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    5 Lieder Op.38 (Gluckwunsch)

    Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Performer: Iain Burnside.
    • Korngold, E.W.: Songs (Sonnett Fur Wien).
    • Signum Classics.
    • 801.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quartet no.5 in E flat major Op.44 no.3 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: New Zealand Quartet.
    • String Quartets 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 8.
  • Graeme Koehne

    The Persistence of Memory

    Performer: David Nuttall. Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Mills.
    • ABC.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo for Violin and Orchestra in B flat major K269

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Nulla in mundo pax RV.630 for soprano (or tenor) and orchestra

    Singer: Grace Davidson. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Joseph Crouch.
    • Vivaldi & Handel.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 401.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Grand Valse (Raymonda)

    Orchestra: State Academic Symphony Orchestra of The Russian Federation. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.
    • Waltzes and Polonaises by Russion Composers.
    • Melodiya / BMG.
    • 1.
  • Graeme Koehne

    The Persistence of Memory

    Performer: David Nuttall. Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Mills.
    • ABC.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Fantasie No 1 in G minor for clarinet and string quartet

    Performer: Dame Thea King. Ensemble: Britten Quartet.
    • HELIOS.
  • Maurizio Cazzati

    Ciaccona

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • All'Improviso.
    • ALPHA.
    • 3.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No. 16 in G Major, Op. 31 No. 1: III. Rondo. Allegretto

    Performer: Boris Giltburg.
    • Beethoven 32, Vol. 5: Piano Sonatas Nos. 16-18.
    • Naxos.
    • 103.
  • Edward Elgar

    Cello Concerto in E minor Op 85 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Decca.
  • Michael Abels

    Winged Creatures

    Performer: Anthony McGill. Performer: Demarre McGill. Orchestra: Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Allen Tinkham.
    • Winged Creatures.
    • Cedille.
    • 101.
  • Maurice Delage

    Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

    Performer: Billy Eidi. Singer: Sandrine Piau.
    • Timpani.
  • Ennio Morricone

    Gabriel's Oboe (The Mission)

    Performer: Joan Whiting. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ennio Morricone.
    • VIRGIN.
  • Arvo P盲rt

    Spiegel im Spiegel

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: Martin Roscoe.
    • EMI.
  • Johann Baptist Georg Neruda

    Concerto for horn or trumpet and strings in E flat major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Haydn, Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Alison Balsom.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 12.
  • Franz Waxman

    Bedtime Story: The Fairy Princess (Four Scenes from Childhood)

    Performer: Marianne Thorsen. Performer: Ian Brown.
    • Hyperion.
  • William Walton

    Granada - Prelude for orchestra

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • Chandos.
  • Rune Tonsgaard S酶rensen

    Shine you no more

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • ECM.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Nocturne in D flat major, Op 9 No.2, for piano left hand

    Performer: Nicholas McCarthy.
    • Solo.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.
  • Alexander Alexandrovich Alyabiev

    Piano Trio in A minor (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Brahms Trio.
    • History of the Russian Piano Trio, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 203.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture in C major TWV.55:C3 'Hamburger Ebbe und Fluth'

    Ensemble: Zefiro.
    • Ambroisie.
  • Max Richter

    Voices: All Human Beings

    Performer: Mari Samuelsen. Narrator: KiKi Layne. Choir: Choir. Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Ziegler.
    • DECCA.
  • Edward Elgar

    Salut d'amour, Op. 12

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
  • Wilhelm Kaiser-Lindemann

    Bossa-Nova-Philharmonica

    Ensemble: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • South American Getaway.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for four keyboards in A minor, BWV 1065 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Ensemble: Les Violons du Roy. Conductor: Bernard Labadie.
    • J. S. Bach ALEXANDRE THARAUD.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 14.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Le Corsaire - overture Op.21

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.

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  • Fri 13 Nov 2020 09:00

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