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Suzy Klein with essential winter music, Wayne Marshall, Paganini's La Campanella

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 pieces of music for winter.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Nicola Matteis

    Grave / Ground after the Scotch Humour (Ayres for the Violin)

    Performer: Amandine Beyer. Performer: Michael Oman. Ensemble: Austrian Baroque Company.
    • Fra Bernardo.
  • Frederick Delius

    On hearing the first cuckoo in spring

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song Without Words in D major, Op. 109

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Sony Masterworks.
  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    Violin Concerto No 2 in B minor, Op 7 'La campanella' (3rd mvt, Rondo)

    Performer: Rudolf Koelman. Orchestra: Netherlands Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend.
    • Challenge Classics.
  • Aaron Copland

    Saturday Night Waltz (Rodeo - 4 dance episodes)

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Aaron Copland.
    • Chandos.
    • 020.
  • Matthew Martin

    O Oriens

    Performer: Jeremy Filsell. Choir: Choir of Keble College, Oxford. Conductor: Matthew Martin.
    • CRD.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 6 in F Major, Op 68 'Pastoral' (2nd mvt, Szene am Bach) arr. for four hands

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Theodosia Ntokou. Music Arranger: Selmar Bagge.
    • Warner.
  • Trad.

    Sevillanas

    Performer: Paco Pe帽a. Performer: Guillermo Basilico.
    • Fabulous Flamenco! - Paco Pe帽a.
    • Eclipse.
    • 2.
  • Vincenzo Bellini

    Norma (Overture)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Overtures, Preludes and Intermezzi.
    • Decca.
    • 6.
  • Anonymous

    Concerto in E flat major for horn, two oboes and continuo

    Performer: Ursula Paludan Monberg. Performer: Katharina Spreckelsen. Performer: Sarah Humphrys. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Director: Jonathan Cohen.
    • HYPERION.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    Le baiser de l'Enfant-J茅sus (Vingt Regards sur l'enfant J茅sus)

    Performer: Michel B茅roff.
    • Messiaen: 100th Anniversary Box Set.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 607.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet No 8 in F Major, K 168 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Armida Quartett.
    • AVI.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Firebird Suite (1919 Version): VII. Finale [Live]

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1919 Version) [Live].
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 107.
  • Antonio Bazzini

    La ronde des lutins Op.25

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Eduard Laurel.
    • Homage: James Ehnes.
    • Onyx.
    • 1.
  • Jean Villard Gilles

    Les Trois Cloches

    Singer: 脡dith Piaf. Ensemble: Les Compagnons de la Chanson.
    • Enchant茅: The Great French Stars 1927 - 1947.
    • ASV LIVING ERA.
    • 24.
  • Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin

    Study No 3 after Paganini-Liszt

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Hamelin - Etudes; Con Intimissimo Sentimento; Cathy's Variations.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude in G minor, BWV 861 (The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1)

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock.
    • DG.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue in G minor, BWV 861 (The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1)

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock.
    • DG.
  • John Dowland

    Time stands still

    Singer: Iestyn Davies. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • DG.
  • Meredith Monk

    On Behalf of Nature (Eon)

    Performer: John Hollenbeck. Performer: Bohdan Hilash. Performer: Allison Sniffin.
    • On behalf of nature.
    • ECM.
    • 5.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 1 in G minor, Op 13 'Winter Daydreams' (1st mvt, Reveries of a Winter Journey)

    Conductor: Valery Gergiev. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 1-3.
    • Lso Live.
    • 1.
  • Nicolas Gombert

    Missa Media Vita (Kyrie)

    Choir: Beauty Farm.
    • Fra Bernardo.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet in C Minor, D. 703 "Quartettstatz": I. Allegro assai

    Music Arranger: Julian Azkoul. Ensemble: United Strings of Europe. Director: Julian Azkoul.
    • In Motion.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Florence Price

    Organ suite no.1 (Toccato)

    Performer: Kimberly Marshall.
    • GAMUT CLASSICS.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Dormi, o fulmine di guerra (La Giuditta)

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Ensemble: Ensemble Artaserse.
    • ERATO.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no. 9 in C major H.1.9

    Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Alpha.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    The Old Castle (Pictures from an Exhibition)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Hyperion.
  • George Gershwin

    Girl Crazy (Overture)

    Orchestra: WDR Funkhausorchester. Conductor: Wayne Marshall.
    • Born to Play, Wayne Marshall, Gershwin.
    • CAvi-music.
    • 7.

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