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Suzy Klein with Kerry Andrew

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

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

1010 Well-known musicians reveal their personal favourite performers.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Stabat Mater, P.77 (Stabat mater dolorosa)

    Singer: Lucy Crowe. Singer: Tim Mead. Ensemble: La Nuova Musica. Conductor: David Bates.
    • Pergolesi: Stabat Mater - Bach: Cantatas BWV 54 & 170.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 104.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Pr茅lude in G sharp minor No. 12, Op. 32

    Performer: Sergei Babayan.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Eleanor Alberga

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Celebration Dance)

    Orchestra: The Taliesin Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Ash.
    • ORCHID CLASSICS.
  • William Byrd

    Pavan and Galliard No 2 in C minor

    Performer: Mahan Esfahani.
    • WIGMORE HALL LIVE.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Quartet No 2 in A major, Op 26 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Performer: Isaac Stern. Performer: Jaime Laredo. Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma.
    • Brahms: Piano Quartets Opp. 25, 26 & 60: Ax/Stern/Laredo/Ma.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pulcinella Suite

    Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite, Apollon musag猫te & Concerto for Strings in D Major.
    • BIS.
    • 108.
  • Claude Debussy

    La cath茅drale engloutie (Preludes, Book 1)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
  • Gra偶yna Bacewicz

    Sinfonietta

    Orchestra: New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • Hyperion.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Polonaise in C sharp minor Op.26 no.1

    Performer: Janina Fialkowska.
    • Atma.
  • Karen Siegel

    Why Do We Love Our Guns?

    Choir: Tonality. Conductor: Alexander Lloyd Blake.
    • Tonality.
  • Henry Purcell

    The Virtuous Wife

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • DECCA.
  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    A prole do beb锚 No. 1, W. 140: No. 7, O polichinelo

    Performer: Arthur Rubinstein.
    • RCA.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Bransle de Bourgogne (Suite fran莽aise)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥 Philharmonie. Conductor: Georges Pr锚tre.
    • EMI.
  • Luciano Berio

    Quattro versioni originale della ritirata notturna di Madrid di Luigi Boccherini

    Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.8 in B minor D.759 'Unfinished' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos 8 & 9, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Robert Schumann

    Von fremden L盲ndern und Menschen (Kinderszenen, Op 15)

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Schumann - Kinderszenen & Waldszenen; Janacek - On the overgrown path I..
    • HYPERION.
    • 20.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in C minor Op.18`4 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • Decca.

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  • Wed 12 Aug 2020 09:00

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