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Suzy Klein with Essential Cello, Robert Hollingworth, Das Lied von der Erde

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

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

0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Well known musicians reveal their favourite performers.

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we bring you five great pieces of music written for the cello.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Quintet in E flat major Op.44 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Fazil Say. Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • Ballads & Quintets.
    • SOLO MUSICA.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E major, RV 269, 'Spring' (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Candida Thompson. Performer: Henk Rubingh. Performer: Julian Rachlin. Performer: Maarten Jansen. Performer: Stacey Watton. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Performer: Jan Jansen.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; Janine Jansen.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Concerto Grosso (1st mvt)

    Performer: Tai Murray. Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Chi-Chi Nwanoku. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Parnther.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No 16 in C major, K 545

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Philips.
    • 1.
  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir

    Heyr 镁煤 oss himnum 谩 [Hear us in the heavens]

    Choir: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis. Conductor: H枚r冒ur 脕skelsson.
    • Meditatio: Music for Mixed Choir.
    • BIS.
    • 10.
  • J贸runn Vi冒ar

    Slatta - Piano Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Steinunn Birna Ragnarsd贸ttir. Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Petter Sundkvist.
    • Smekkleysa.
  • Frederick Delius

    The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Tu del Ciel ministro eletto, from Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno

    Singer: Sophie Bevan. Orchestra: London Early Opera. Conductor: Bridget Cunningham.
    • Handel in Italy, Vol. 2.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 004.
  • Frank Foster

    Blues in Hoss' Flat

    Performer: Count Basie.
    • Essential Jazz Classics.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Zefiro torna

    Choir: I Fagiolini. Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Director: Robert Hollingworth.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Josef Suk

    String Serenade Op.6 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Dvo艡谩k: Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88 - Suk: Serenade f眉r Streicher, Op. 6.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 204.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Brindisi (La Traviata)

    Singer: Angela Gheorghiu. Singer: Roberto Alagna. Choir: London Voices. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Verdi per due.
    • EMI CLASSICS.
    • 19.
  • Claude Debussy

    Estampes (Pagodes)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Hungarian Sketches for orchestra (No 4)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Bartok: Miraculous Mandarin (The) (Complete Ballet) / Hungarian Pictures / Dance.
    • Naxos.
    • 21.
  • Carl Orff

    Carmina burana: O fortuna

    Singer: Patricia Petibon. Singer: Hans-Werner Bunz. Singer: Christian Gerhaher. Choir: Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • DG.
  • Jacques Ibert

    3 Pieces breves

    Performer: Les Vents Fran莽ais.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    On Time, Op.142

    Ensemble: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Music Of The Spheres.
    • Signum.
    • 16.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto in C major H.7b.1 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Sol Gabetta. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Sergio Ciomei.
    • RCA.
  • Claude Debussy

    Serenade for the Doll (Children's Corner)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.3: Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
    • 13.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Sheherazade - symphonic suite Op.35

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • GB成人快手.
  • Franz Schubert

    Du bist die Ruh D.776

    Performer: Irwin Gage. Singer: Gundula Janowitz.
    • DG.
  • Luke Howard

    Dappled Light

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Jess Gillam Ensemble.
    • DECCA.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 6 in F major, Op 68, 'Pastoral' (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲. Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra.
    • Beethoven: The Symphonies: Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska.
    • BIS.
    • 7.
  • Marin Marais

    La sonnerie de Sainte-Genevi猫ve du Mont de Paris

    Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Decca Eloquence.
  • Le贸 Weiner

    Hungarian Folk Dance Suite, Op 18 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Bartok, Weiner, Enescu: Philharmonia Orchestra, RSNO< Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.

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