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Suzy Klein with Lully's Musketeers' March, Elizabeth Llewellyn, Essential Cello

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

  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Iberia (El Puerto)

    Orchestrator: Enrique Fern谩ndez Arb贸s. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥 Philharmonie. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Albeniz: Argerich, Barenboim.
    • Elatus.
    • 4.
  • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

    Sonatina for piano duet

    Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard. Performer: Irina Kataeva.
    • Ligeti: Keyboard Works.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6-8.
  • James Whitbourn

    Of one that is so fair and bright

    Choir: Commotio. Conductor: Matthew Berry.
    • Whitbourn: Luminosity and other choral works.
    • Naxos.
    • 8.
  • Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully

    Marche des mousquetaires du roy

    Ensemble: Ensemble de Trompettes de Cavalerie de Paris. Conductor: Pierre Br茅ard. Ensemble: Trompes de chasse du Rallye-Louvarts de Paris. Ensemble: Ensembles d'instruments a vent et de tambours. Conductor: Jean鈥怓ran莽ois Paillard.
    • Music at the Court of Versailles: Charpentier/Delalande/Lully/Rameau.
    • Erato.
    • 26.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia (Overture Op.10)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • BIS.
  • Arno Babajanian

    Piano Trio in F-Sharp Minor: II. Andante

    Performer: Vadim Gluzman. Performer: Johannes Moser. Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
    • Tchaikovsky, Schnittke & Babajanian: Works for Piano Trio.
    • BIS.
    • 202.
  • Johann Christian Bach

    Symphony no. 4 for wind instruments in B flat major T.285/3`4

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • J.C. Bach: Wind Symphonies: Consortium Classicum.
    • MDG.
    • 11-13.
  • Richard Strauss

    Aus Italien Op.16 for orchestra (2nd movement - In Roms Ruinen)

    Orchestra: Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Strauss: 3.
    • Hanssler Classic.
    • 11.
  • Henri Vieuxtemps

    脡l茅gie Op. 30

    Performer: Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad. Performer: David Meier.
    • Correspondances.
    • Rubicon.
    • 5.
  • Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger

    Toccata arpeggiata for chitarrone [no.2 in Libro 1o .. di chitarrone, 1604]

    Performer: Paul O鈥橠ette.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Simon Boccanegra (End of Act 1)

    Singer: Piero Cappuccilli. Singer: Mirella Freni. Singer: Jos茅 van Dam. Choir: Chorus of La Scala, Milan. Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Romance in B flat, Op.28

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: Piers Lane.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    The 3 Musketeers, Act II (Arr. J. Longstaff) - No. 23, All for One

    Orchestra: Northern Ballet Theatre Orchestra. Conductor: John Pryce-Jones.
    • Quartz.
  • Thomas Tomkins

    A Sad Pavan for these distracted time

    Performer: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • Chaconne.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie fantastique (March to the Scaffold)

    Ensemble: Les Si猫cles. Director: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
  • Henry Purcell

    King Arthur (Overture)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Hengelbrock.
    • Purcell: Instrumental Musik: Freiburger Barockorchester.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 14.
  • Duke Ellington

    Isfahan

    Composer: Billy Strayhorn. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • American Music.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 305.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Ruy Blas (Overture)

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • GB成人快手.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op 50 No 3

    Performer: Ingrid Fliter.
    • LINN.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 107 1st mvt

    Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Jukka鈥怭ekka Saraste.
    • Hyperion.
  • Morten Lauridsen

    O Magnum Mysterium

    Ensemble: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • Advent Calendar.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 9.
  • Doreen Carwithen

    Men of Sherwood Forest (Overture)

    Music Arranger: Philip Lane. Orchestra: 成人快手 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Dutton.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Clarinet Concerto, Op.31: ii) Adagio, ma senza rigore

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra.
    • Chandos.
  • 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.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Amoroso (Cinderella Suite No 3); Waltz (Cinderella Suite No 1)

    Orchestra: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov.
    • Prokofiev: Excerpts from Cinderella/Romeo & Juliet: Yuri Temirkanov.
    • Signum.
    • 7-8.

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  • Thu 22 Oct 2020 09:00

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