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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Debussy's Lindaraja, Robert Louis Stevenson, Essential music for spring

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.

1100 Essential Five – 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

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Much Ado about Nothing Op.11 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds.
    • Korngold: Much Ado About Nothing: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra / Storgards.
    • Ondine.
    • 1.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Albumblatt in E minor, Op 117 (Song without Words)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mendelssohn: Lieder Ohne Worte: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 34.
  • Meredith Monk

    The Politics of Quiet: Waltz in 5s (Arr. M. Monk & A. Sniffin for Voices & Chamb

    Ensemble: Bang on a Can All-Stars.
    • Memory Game.
    • Cantaloupe Music.
    • 6.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Oboe d'amore concerto in E minor TWV.51:e2

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Ensemble: Berlin Baroque Soloists. Director: Rainer Kussmaul.
    • Telemann: Concertos: Berlin Baroque Soloists/Kussmaul.
    • EMI.
    • 1-3.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No 1 in D major, D 82 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Schubert: 8 Symphonies: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.
  • Claude Debussy

    Lindaraja

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy. Performer: Vovka Ashkenazy.
    • Debussy/Ravel: Music for 2 pianos: Ashkenazy/Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
    • 5.
  • Tibor Serly

    Rhapsody for viola and orchestra

    Performer: Lawrence Power. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • HYPERION.
  • Johann Christoph Bach

    Ach das ich Wassers g'nug hatte

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Ensemble: Concerto di Viole. Ensemble: Basel Consort.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Johan Svendsen

    Romeo og Juliet Op.18

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Svendsen: Orchestral Works Vol. 1: Thorsen / BPO / Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude and Fugue in A flat major, Op.87 no.17

    Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Shostakovich The Preludes & Fugues Alexander Melnikov Piano.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 21.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The infinite shining heavens (Songs of Travel)

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Simon Keenlyside.
    • Songs of War: Keenlyside/Martineau.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Variazioni a più strumenti obbligati

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
  • Morten Lauridsen

    Contre qui, rose (Les chansons des roses)

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Les Chansons Des Roses.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.
  • Moritz Moszkowski

    Spanish Dances Op.65 (Habanera)

    Ensemble: Duo Scaramouche. Ensemble: Malvina Renault-Vieville. Ensemble: Filippo Antonelli.
    • Duo Scaramouche - Grieg, Moszkowski, Brahms.
    • Scar.
    • 12.
  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Navarra, Op.33

    Performer: David Oistrakh. Performer: Igor Oistrakh. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Franz Konwitschny.
    • DG.
  • Don Macdonald

    Moonset

    Ensemble: Papagena.
    • SOMM.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Sonata, S 164

    Performer: Emily Beynon. Music Arranger: Lennox Berkeley. Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Bramwell Tovey.
    • British Flute Concertos.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 10.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Fantasia in C major H.17.4 for piano

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Philips.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Spring, Op.34

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Quintet in B flat major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Eric Le Sage. Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
    • Warner.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in G major op 37 no 2

    Performer: Ingrid Fliter.
  • Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky

    String Quartet no. 13 in A minor iii: Andante con moto e molto cantabile

    Ensemble: Borodin Quartet.
    • Onyx Classics.
  • Jonathan Dove

    Seek Him that maketh the Seven Stars

    Performer: Jeremy Filsell. Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.
  • John Jenkins

    Fantasia in G for 6 viols

    Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • John Jenkins: Six part consorts: Phantasm.
    • Avie.
    • 7.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 34 in C major, K 338 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • HUNGAROTON.

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  • Wed 18 Mar 2020 09:00

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