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Suzy Klein with essential Tudor music and Purcell's Third Part on a Ground

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

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

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

1010 An Essential Symphony movement from the 成人快手 archive.

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we suggest five pieces of Tudor music.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • George Gershwin

    Variations on 'I got rhythm'

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue & Piano Concerto: Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op 9 No 2 (Adagio)

    Performer: Paolo Grazzi. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Artist Portrait: Il Giardino Armonico.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Em谩nuel Mo贸r

    Suite for 4 Cellos in C Major, Op. 95: II. Molto allegro

    Performer: Sebastian Hess. Performer: David Stromberg. Performer: Niklas Eppinger. Performer: Carina Reeves.
    • Mo贸r: Cello Works.
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 302.
  • Douglas Lilburn

    Aotearoa

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Lilburn: Orchestral Works: James Judd.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Henry Purcell

    Three parts upon a ground Z.731

    Ensemble: London Baroque.
    • Purcell: Chamber Music: London Baroque.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no.9 in E flat major, K.271 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.
    • Mozart Piano Concertos nos. 8 & 9.
    • Philips.
    • 3.
  • Django Reinhardt

    Minor Swing

    Ensemble: Aquarelle Guitar Quartet.
    • FINAL CUT: Music for four guitars.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 001.
  • Henry Purcell

    Three parts upon a ground Z.731

    Ensemble: Taverner Players.
    • EMI.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Drake's Drum (Songs of the Sea, Op.91)

    Singer: Gerald Finley. Choir: 成人快手 National Chorus of Wales. Orchestra: 成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Symphony No 2 in B minor

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
  • Franz Leh谩r

    Vilja-Lied (The Merry Widow)

    Singer: Kate Royal. Orchestra: The English National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Kate Royal: Midsummer Night.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.
  • Michael Torke

    Bright Blue Music

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Michael Torke - Ecstatic Orange etc..
    • Argo.
    • 005.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    March (The Love for Three Oranges - suite)

    Orchestra: S茫o Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Prokofiev: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 201.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No 13 in B flat major, K 333 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue in E flat major 'St Anne', BWV 552

    Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Chandos.
  • Gustav Holst

    Walt Whitman - overture Op.7

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Holst: Cotswolds Symphony.
    • Naxos.
  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    Sexteto Mistico

    Ensemble: Lontano. Conductor: Odaline de la Martinez.
    • Villa-Lobos - Chamber & Choral Music.
    • Lorelt.
    • 001.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Sinfonia concertante in B flat major H.1.105 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Hyperion.
  • William Byrd

    Ave verum corpus

    Choir: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • Upheld by Stillness.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 013.
  • Robert Schumann

    Introduction and Allegro appassionato op.92

    Performer: Jan Lisiecki. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • DG.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    Che Si Puo Fare Op.8 no.6

    Singer: Simone Kermes. Ensemble: La magnifica comunit脿. Director: Enrico Casazza.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Somei Satoh

    叠颈蹿奴

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Performer: Cory Smythe.
    • In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores.
    • DG.
    • 2.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Bella figlia dell'amore (Rigoletto)

    Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Singer: Huguette Tourangeau. Singer: Joan Sutherland. Singer: Sherrill Milnes. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Verdi: Rigoletto.
    • Decca.
    • 11.
  • Amilcare Ponchielli

    The Meeting

    Performer: Daniel Ottensamer. Performer: Ernst Ottensamer. Ensemble: Wiener Virtuosen.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • John Dowland

    Mrs Winter's Jump

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • BIS.

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