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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Essential Tchaikovsky, Louis Spohr's Baton

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. Today's starter is the mellow, jazzy, poignant slow movement of Ravel's Piano Concerto in G. Other musical highlights include Beethoven's Wellington's Victory, complete with army of fusiliers, and Dvorak's sunny overture My 成人快手land.

1010 Musical Time Travellers 鈥� stories behind the music-making of the British Isles. Jessie Grimes on the historic Argyll Rooms in London.

1110 Essential Five 鈥� this week we suggest five essential piece of music by Tchaikovsky. Today, the romantic Letter Scene from Eugene Onegin.

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

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Thu 23 Jan 2020 09:00
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Music Played

  • Joaqu铆n Rodrigo

    Canario (Fantas铆a para un gentilhombre)

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Milos Karadaglic - Aranjuez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Polonaise in B flat minor, 'Adieu' (1826)

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 4.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in D Major K.250 'Haffner' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Cologne Academy. Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens.
    • Mozart: Haffner Serenade & Ein musikalischer Spa脽.
    • BIS.
    • 201.

  • E虅riks Es虒envalds

    Rasa - Dew

    Choir: Valsts Akad膿miskais koris "Latvija". Director: Maris Sirmais.
    • Album:From the dim and distant past.
    • VAK LATVIA.
    • 10.

  • Percy Grainger

    Mock Morris

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Grainger Edition Vol.6: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 12.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto in G major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Debussy/Ravel: Works For Piano And Orchestra.
    • chandos.
    • 2.

  • Henry Purcell

    King Arthur (Overture)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Hengelbrock.
    • Purcell: Instrumental Musik: Freiburger Barockorchester.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 14.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Sonata no.1 in G major Op.78 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Brahms Violin Sonatas.
    • DECCA.
    • 002.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony No 1 in C minor, Op 32 (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Christoph Koenig. Orchestra: European Soloists, Luxembourg.
    • Farrenc: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 103.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Organ Sonata No 5 in C major, BWV 529 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Robert Quinney.
    • J.S. Bach - Trio Sonatas for Organ.
    • Coro.
    • 13.

  • Time Traveller: Jessie Grimes on the Argyll Rooms in London

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer night's dream - incidental music (Op.61), no.1; Scherzo

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Enrique B谩tiz.
    • RPO.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no. 9 (Op.125) in D minor "Choral"; Mvt 4 Finale Chorus "An die Freude"

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Zander.
    • Brattle Media.

  • Louis Spohr

    Symphony No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 49: III. Scherzo: Presto

    Orchestra: Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Alfred Walter.
    • Naxos.

  • Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully

    Marche pour la c茅r茅monie des Turcs (Le bourgeois gentilhomme)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.

  • Louis Spohr

    Nonet for wind quintet, string trio...(Op.31) in F major, 4th movement; Finale

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • CRD.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    La Boheme, Act 3

    Singer: Leontina Vaduva. Singer: Ruth Ann Swenson. Singer: Roberto Alagna. Singer: Thomas Hampson. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Puccini: La Boheme (Highlights).
    • Warner Classics.
    • 110.

  • Giovanni Punto

    Horn Concerto no.5 in F Major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Barry Tuckwell. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Barry Tuckwell: Horn Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 203.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Concerto no.2 in F major Op.102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Alexander Melnikov. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Director: Teodor Currentzis.
    • Shostakovich: Piano Concertos: Melnikov/Mahler Chamber Orchestra/Currentzis.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 2.

  • Graham Fitkin

    Vamp

    Ensemble: Graham Fitkin Band.
    • MCPS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Wellington's Victory (Battle Symphony)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.

  • John Ireland

    The Towing Path

    Performer: Desmond Wright.
    • Piano Recital.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 116.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Bucolique (Variations sur le nom de Marguerite Long)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: George Pretre.
    • Poulenc - Concertos, musique symphonique and religieuse.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 24.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Letter Scene (Eugene Onegin)

    Singer: Anna Netrebko. Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Russian Album.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 012.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.70 in D major H.1.70; 1. Vivace con brio

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Organ Sonata in E minor, BWV.528 (2nd mvt)

    Music Arranger: August Stradal. Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • DG.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Valse triste (Kuolema Op.44)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • Sibelius: Finlandia; Valse Triste; Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar; Salonen.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Suite Op.6: Waltz - Alla valse, vivace e rubato

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: Piers Lane.
    • CHANDOS CHAN.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    In nature's realm, Op.91

    Orchestra: Prague Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • SUPRAPHON.

Broadcast

  • Thu 23 Jan 2020 09:00
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