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Suzy Klein with Berlioz's Nuits d'脡t茅 and Essential Dvo艡谩k

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

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

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we suggest five great pieces by Antonin Dvorak

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    L'脡toile (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Neeme Jarvi conducts Chabrier.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite in C minor BWV 997 Preludio

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Delphian Records.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    4 Pieces Op.32 (Waltz)

    Performer: Vadym Kholodenko.
    • Prokofiev: Sonata No. 6 & Visions fugitives.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 10.
  • Jean-Baptiste Arban

    Variations on The Carnival of Venice

    Music Arranger: Donald Hunsberger. Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Donald Hunsberger.
    • CBS.
  • Edvard Grieg

    4 Norwegian dances Op.35 (no.1)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ole Kristian Ruud.
    • Grieg: The Orchestral Music: Bergen PO, Ruud.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Villanelle (Les nuits d'茅t茅 Op.7)

    Singer: Karen Cargill. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • Berlioz: Les nuits d'ete: Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
    • Linn.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in C major, K 373

    Performer: Christian Tetzlaff. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Heinrich Schiff.
    • Virgin.
  • Ola Gjeilo

    Second Eve

    Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Decca.
  • Richard Strauss

    Till Eulenspiegel's lustige Streiche Op.28

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Lawo Classics.
  • Claude Debussy

    Danse sacree et danse profane

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer. Ensemble: Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
    • Voyage.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 13-14.
  • Florence Price

    Silk Hat and Walking Cane

    Performer: Althea Waites.
    • Black Diamonds.
    • Cambria.
    • 6.
  • Henri Vieuxtemps

    Elegie Op.30

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Ke Ma.
    • CHAMPS HILL RECORDS.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Wenn ich in deine Augen sehe

    Performer: Eugene Asti. Singer: Sophie Daneman. Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly.
    • Mendelssohn: Songs and Duets - 3: Daneman, Connolly, Padmore, Loges, Asti.
    • Hyperion.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Summer schemes (Earth and air and rain, Op.15)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Iain Burnside.
    • Finzi: The English Song Series 15: Williams/Burnside.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Charles Camilleri

    Concertino no.4 for two pianos 'Summer Nights in Malta' (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Glen Inanga. Performer: Jennifer Micallef. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Brian Schembri.
    • Camilleri - Orchestral Works.
    • Divine Art.
    • 7.
  • Jacobus Clemens non Papa

    Ego flos campi for 7 voices

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • Clemens Non Papa: Missa Pastores quidnam vidistis: Tallis Scholars.
    • Gimell.
    • 9.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Belkis, Queen of Sheba (The Dance of Belkis at Dawn)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Respighi: Belkis Queen of Sheba and Metamorphoseon.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Allegro appassionato in C sharp minor Op.70

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Saint Saens: Concertos 2 & 5; Solo Piano Works.
    • ERATO.
    • 11.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Improvisation on Lascia ch'io pianga (Rinaldo)

    Music Arranger: Duran & Turri. Performer: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Performer: Christina Pluhar.
    • Erato.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Clarinet Concerto in C minor, Op 31 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra.
    • Chandos.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony no. 9 "From the New World" (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, A Hero's Song: Bavarian Radio Symphony, Nelsons.
    • BR Klassik.
    • 3.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in E major, H.15.28 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Haydn: Complete Piano Trios: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Philips.
    • 7.
  • E虅riks Es虒envalds

    Rivers of light

    Performer: Shankar Viswanathan. Choir: Portland State University Chamber Choir. Singer: Emmalyn Fox. Singer: Sterling Roberts. Conductor: Ethan Sperry.
    • 膾riks E拧envalds: The Doors of Heaven.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • Edward Elgar

    Symphony No 1 op. 55: Adagio

    Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin.
    • Decca.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata No 140 "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" (opening chorus)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • J.S. Bach, Cantatas Vol 12: Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 19.
  • Charles鈥怣arie Widor

    Symphony for organ no 5: Toccata

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • The World of The Organ, Simon Preston.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

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