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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Essential music for spring, Gerard Hoffnung learns the tuba

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 鈥 stories behind the music-making of the British Isles.

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we suggest five essential pieces for spring.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita

    Ceffylau [Horses]

    • ARC.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    L'Olimpiade (Sinfonia)

    Ensemble: Orfeo 55. Director: Nathalie Stutzmann.
    • Vivaldi: Prima Donna.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 15-17.
  • Kevin McKee

    Iron Horse: I. The Blue Goose

    Ensemble: Gewandhaus Brass Quintett.
    • Customised.
    • Genuin.
    • 201.
  • Vincenzo Calestani

    Damigella, tutta bella for voice and continuo [1617]

    Singer: Yaniv d'Or. Ensemble: Barrocade. Ensemble: Ensemble NAYA. Director: Amit Tiefenbrunn.
    • Latino Ladino: Songs of Exile and Passion from Spain and Latin America.
    • Naxos.
    • 17.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.5 in B flat major, D.485 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3, 5 and 8.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 5.
  • Bill Evans

    Peace Piece

    Performer: Bill Evans.
    • Everybody Digs Bill Evans.
    • Riverside.
    • 7.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Marriage of Figaro (Overture)

    Orchestra: Musica Aeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • Sony.
  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    Tarantella in A minor

    Music Arranger: Erwin Schwarz-Reiflingen. Performer: Pekka Kuusisto. Performer: Ismo Eskelinen.
    • Ondine.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Serenade in E major Op.22 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Saito Kinen Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Dvorak, Bartok, Wolf: Saito Kinen, Ozawa.
    • Philips.
    • 1.
  • Trad.

    Sweet William

    Music Arranger: Alec Roth. Singer: Mark Padmore. Performer: Morgan Szymanski.
    • Sometime I Sing.
    • Signum.
    • 20.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Violin Concerto in D major Op.35 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Gaffigan.
    • Warner.
  • Michael Giacchino

    The Glory Days - from The Incredibles

    • Walt Disney.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Ballade no.1 in G minor Op.23

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Alexandre Tharaud: I Chopin, Journal Intime.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Claude Debussy

    Bruy猫res (Preludes Bk.2 no.5)

    Music Arranger: Colin Matthews. Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle.
  • Bill Evans

    Blue In Green

    Performer: Miles Davis. Performer: Miles Davis. Performer: John Coltrane. Performer: Bill Evans. Performer: Paul Chambers. Performer: Jimmy Cobb.
    • Complete Columbia Recordings.
    • Columbia.
    • 5.
  • Erik Satie

    Gymnop茅die No 2 in C major

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • Satie: The Complete Solo Piano Music; Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 5.
  • Joseph Haydn

    The Creation [Die Schopfung] (H.21.2), Pt 1 no.13; Die Himmel erzahlen

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Singer: Mark Padmore. Singer: Neal Davies. Choir: Chetham's Chamber Choir. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Haydn: The Creation: Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh.
    • Archiv Produktion.
  • Miriam Hyde

    Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat minor, 3rd mvt 'Allegro scherzando'

    Performer: Miriam Hyde. Orchestra: West Australian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Women of Note.
    • ABC.
    • 03.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Rag-Mazurka (Les biches)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥 Philharmonie. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Paris 1920: Orchestre de PAris/Semyon Bychkov.
    • Philips.
    • 6.
  • Max Richter

    Spring (Recomposed)

    Composer: Antonio Vivaldi. Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin. Conductor: Andr茅 de Ridder.
    • Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1-4.
  • Max Reger

    A Romantic Suite Op.125 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.
    • Christian Thielemann - Staatskapelle Dresden: Ferruccio Busoni / Hans Pfitzner /.
    • Profil Medien.
    • 2.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in E minor Op.59`2 'Razumovsky' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Francisco Guerrero

    Maria Magdalena

    Ensemble: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Howard Skempton

    Lento

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth.
    • Skempton - Lento.
    • NMC.
    • 1.
  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Iberia Book 1 (El Puerto)

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Lang Lang - Live in Vienna.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    L'annonciation

    Orchestra: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Via Crucis; L'Arpeggiata; Christina Pluhar.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 1.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Ruy Blas, Op.95

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Kurt Masur.
    • Mendelssohn: Overtures: Kurt Masur.
    • Berlin Classics.

Broadcast

  • Thu 19 Mar 2020 09:00

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