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Suzy Klein

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein.

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

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

1010 Musical Time Travellers – stories behind the music-making of the British Isles.

1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the conductor Semyon Bychkov

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

3 hours

Last on

Tue 27 Aug 2019 09:00

Music Played

  • Ruth Crawford Seeger

    Risselty rosselty

    Ensemble: Schönberg Ensemble. Conductor: Oliver Knussen.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Chiara Margarita Cozzolani

    O Maria, tu dulcis

    • Naive.
  • Clara Schumann

    Andante and Allegro, Op 11 No 2

    Performer: Klaus Sticken.
    • CPO.
  • Elfrida Andrée

    Symphony No 2 in A minor (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Stockholm Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustaf Sjökvist.
    • Sterling.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Vltava (no.2 of Má vlast)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Smetana/Dvorak/Brahms/Borodin: Chicago SO/Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Robert Schumann

    String Quartet in F major, Op 41 No 2 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Engegårdkvartetten.
    • Schumann: The String Quartets.
    • BIS.
    • 6.
  • Franz Schubert

    Der Einsame, D 800

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Simon Keenlyside.
    • Schubert: Favourite Lieder.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Pietro Gnocchi

    Concerto no. 1 in G major

    Orchestra: Main Baroque Orchestra Frankfurt. Conductor: Martin Jopp.
    • Aeolus.
  • David Briggs

    I will lift up mine eyes

    Performer: David Briggs. Choir: Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • David Briggs, Messe pour Notre-Dame; Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano quartet No. 2 in E Flat Major, K493 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Performer: Michael Barenboim. Performer: Yulia Deyneka. Performer: Kian Soltani.
    • Mozart: Piano Quartets.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 6.
  • Richard Wagner

    Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey (Götterdämmerung)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.
  • Jerome Kern

    Ol' Man River (Show Boat)

    Singer: Paul Robeson.
    • EMI.
  • Hamish MacCunn

    The Land of the Mountain and the Flood Op.3

    Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • MacCunn - Land of the Mountain and the Flood.
    • Hyperion.
    • 001.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Manfred Symphony Op.58 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Decca.
  • William Byrd

    Magnificat (The Great Service)

    Ensemble: Cardinall's Musick. Conductor: Andrew Carwood.
    • HYPERION.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Belfagor - concert overture

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lamberto Gardelli.
    • EMI.
  • Jonny Greenwood

    Phantom IV

    Performer: Daniel Pioro.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Andante and Variations in D major for mandolin and keyboard

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Maggie Cole.
    • RCA.
  • George Frideric Handel

    We praise thee, O God (Dettingen Te Deum, HWV 283)

    Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Simon Preston.
    • Handel: Dettingen Te Deum, Anthem: The English Concert, Pinnock, Preston.
    • Archiv Produktion.
  • Jonathan Dove

    The Magic Flute Dances (conclusion)

    Performer: Emily Beynon. Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Bramwell Tovey.
    • CHANDOS.

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