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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Smetana's 'From my life' Quartet and Ailish Tynan

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

  • Lili Boulanger

    D'un matin de Printemps

    Orchestra: Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Stringer.
    • Timpani.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Serenade in D major Op.41 (6th mvt)

    Performer: Luisa Sello. Performer: Bruno Canino.
    • Beethoven: Flute Works.
    • Dynamic.
    • 6.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Veni,veni me sequere fida (Juditha Triumphans)

    Singer: Magdalena Ko啪en谩. Ensemble: Academia Montis Regalis. Conductor: Alessandro De Marchi.
    • OPUS.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Wine, women and song, Op.333

    Music Arranger: Alban Berg. Ensemble: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mario Venzago.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    String Quartet No.1 in E minor 'From my life' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto no.2 in F major, BWV.1047

    Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • Naive.
  • William Grant Still

    Prelude (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Alexa Still. Performer: Michael Steer. Performer: Susan DeWitt Smith. Ensemble: New Zealand String Quartet.
    • KOCH.
  • Franz Schubert

    Auf dem Wasser zu singen D.744 [S.558 no.2]

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Evgeny Kissin.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Preludio Sinfonico

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Hugo Wolf

    Ganymed (Goethe-Lieder)

    Singer: John McCormack. Performer: Edwin Schneider.
    • Pearl.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Trombone Concerto in B flat major

    Music Arranger: Otto Zurm眉hle. Performer: Christian Lindberg. Ensemble: Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Chikara Imamura.
    • BIS.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    String Quartet no.8 in C minor, Op.110 (5th mvt)

    Ensemble: St. Petersburg String Quartet.
    • Shostakovich: St Petersburg String Quartet: Alla Aranovskaya, Ilya Teplyakov....
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.2 in D major, Op.36 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Beethoven: 9 Symphonies: Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • Bob Chilcott

    Five Days That Changed the World (The Discovery of Penicillin)

    Choir: 成人快手 Singers. Performer: Gemma Beeson. Conductor: David Hill.
    • The Angry Planet.
    • SIGNUM.
    • 4.
  • Edward Elgar

    Allegretto on G-E-D-G-E

    Performer: Marat Bisengaliev. Performer: Benjamin Frith.
    • Elgar: The Violin Music: Marat Bisengaliev.
    • Naxos.
    • 13.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony no.1 in C minor 'The Bells of Zlonice' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • Decca.

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  • Wed 19 Aug 2020 09:00

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