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Suzy Klein

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 – this week we bring you five pieces of music for winter.

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

3 hours

Last on

Tue 1 Dec 2020 09:00

Music Played

  • John Foulds

    Bells at Koblenz (Holiday Sketches Op.16)

    Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • John Foulds: Keltic Suite & Suite Fantastique.
    • Dutton.
    • 9.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Keyboard Suite no.1 in B flat major HWV.434 (Minuet)

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Motherland.
    • Sony.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Oboe Concerto in B flat major Wq.164 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Xenia Löffler. Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • C.P.E. Bach: Oboe Concertos.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 109.
  • Sir James MacMillan

    The Gallant Weaver

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Franz Berwald

    Symphonic Poem 'Wettlauf'

    Orchestra: Gävle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Petri Sakari.
    • Berwald: Tone Poems: Gavle Symphony Orchestra/Sakari.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    In The Bottoms (Barcarolle)

    Performer: William Chapman Nyaho.
    • MSR Classics.
  • François-André Danican Philidor

    L'art de la Modulation [Quartet no.1 in G minor]

    Performer: Karl Kaiser. Ensemble: Camerata Köln.
    • Francois Andre Philidor: Six Quatuors: Camerata Koln.
    • cpo.
    • 1-3.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    String Quintet no.2 in C minor Op.85 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Krysia Osostowicz. Performer: Yuko Inoue. Performer: Richard Jenkinson. Performer: Ralph de Souza. Performer: Garfield Jackson.
    • SOMM.
  • Stefano Landi

    Augellin

    Music Arranger: Nora Fischer. Music Arranger: Marnix Dorrestein. Singer: Nora Fischer. Performer: Marnix Dorrestein.
    • Hush.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 3.
  • Isaac Albéniz

    Espana Op.165 (Serenata)

    Music Arranger: Xuefei Yang. Performer: Xuefei Yang.
    • Rodrigo, Concierto de Aranjuez: Xuefei Yang.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 12.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.98 in B flat major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Haydn: 7 "London" Symphonies: COE, Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

    Concerto for clarinet and chamber orchestra (2nd mvt)

    Performer: David Shifrin. Orchestra: Chamber Music Northwest. Conductor: Ransom Wilson.
    • Delos.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in C K.373

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Mozart Anniversary Orchestra.
    • CACBC.
  • John Taverner

    Western Wynde Mass (Gloria)

    Choir: Taverner Choir. Conductor: Andrew Parrott.
    • Avie.
  • Steve Reich

    Electric Counterpoint (Fast)

    Performer: Pat Metheny.
    • ELEKTRA NONESUCH.
  • Sir James MacMillan

    O Radiant Dawn [Strathclyde Motets]

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Gilbert Vinter

    Hunter's Moon

    Performer: David Pyatt. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite.
    • British Horn Concertos: Pyatt/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Braithwaite.
    • Lyrita.
  • John Adams

    The Chairman Dances

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Edo de Waart.
    • John Adams: The Chairman Dances: San Francisco SO, Edo de Waart.
    • Elektra Nonesuch.
    • 1.
  • Rudy Wiedoeft

    Valse Vanite

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Zeynep Özsuca.
    • Decca.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Winter (The Four Seasons)

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • VIVALDI: LE QUATTRO STAGIONI.
    • Channel Classics.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata no 8 in C Minor Op.13 "Pathétique" (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Boris Giltburg.
    • Beethoven 32, Vol. 3: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8-11.
    • Naxos.
    • 102.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Gagliarda (Ancient Airs and Dances Suite no.1)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • Ian Shaw

    I Sing of a Maiden

    Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Performer: Anne Denholm. Conductor: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • Advent Live.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1601.
  • Shara Nova

    From The Invisible To The Visible

    Performer: Nadia Sirota. Performer: James McVinnie. Performer: Valgeir Sigurðsson.
    • Bedroom Community.
  • Michael Torke

    Javelin

    Orchestra: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yoel Levi.
    • Michael Torke: Three: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
    • Ecstatic Records.
    • 1.
  • Thomas Weelkes

    To shorten winter's sadnesse

    Music Arranger: Nikolaus Newerkla. Ensemble: Quadriga Consort.
    • Quadriga Consort - On a Cold Winter's Day.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 7.
  • Richard Wagner

    The Ring - An Orchestral Adventure (Brunnhilde's Sacrifice)

    Music Arranger: Henk de Vlieger. Orchestra: Baltic Sea Philharmonic. Conductor: Kristjan Järvi.
    • Sony : 88985360682.
    • Sony.
    • 14.

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