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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 Musicians recommend their favourite recordings.

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we bring you five settings of poems by Thomas Hardy.

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

3 hours

Last on

Tue 9 Feb 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Piano Sonata No 1 in C major, Op 24 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • Weber: Complete Piano Sonatas: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • Hyperion.
  • Andrea Falconieri

    Il primo libro (Excerpts): No. 15, Passacalle

    Ensemble: Cembaless.
    • Passacaglia della vita.
    • Naxos.
    • 1301.
  • Robert Parsons

    Ave Maria

    Director: Philip Cave. Choir: Magnificat Choir.
    • Where late the sweet birds sang: Latin Music form Tudor England.
    • Linn.
    • 3.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Love and the Poet Op.54 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Carl Nielsen: Orchestral music: Danish National Symphony Orch/Dausgaard.
    • Dacapo.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mass in C Minor, K. 427 "Great" (Reconstr. C. Kemme): IIb. Laudamus te [Live]

    Singer: Anke Vondung. Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Howard Arman.
    • Mozart: Mass in C Minor, K. 427 "Great" (Reconstr. C. Kemme).
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 202.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Valse-Caprice, d'apr猫s 'l'Etude en forme de valse'

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
  • Bright Sheng

    Zodiac Tales (2016 Version): II. Of Mice and Cats

    Orchestra: Shanghai Municipal Committee Band. Conductor: Bright Sheng.
    • Bright Sheng: Let Fly, Zodiac Tales & Suzhou Overture.
    • Naxos.
    • 202.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Polovtsian Dances

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Choir: Czech Philharmonic Choir, Brno. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude and Fugue in F major, Op 87 No 23

    Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Shostakovich The Preludes & Fugues Alexander Melnikov Piano.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 21.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Va col canto (Cor Fedele [Clori, Tirsi et Fileno])

    Singer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Orchestra: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • Clori, Tirsi e Fileno.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 6.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quartet No 6 in F minor, Op 80

    Ensemble: Quatuor 脡b猫ne.
    • ERATO.
  • Philip Glass

    Les Enfants Terribles: Suite - 3. The Somnambulist

    Ensemble: Katia & Marielle Lab猫que.
    • DG.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (Cantata No 20)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists.
    • Bach Choruses - Gardiner.
    • SDG.
    • 11.
  • C茅sar Franck

    Psych茅 - III. Les jardins d'Eros

    Performer: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Jean-Luc Tingaud.
    • Naxos.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Humoresque-Bagatelles, Op 11 (No 2, 'Spinning Top')

    Performer: Martin Roscoe.
    • Carl Nielsen: Complete piano music: Martin Roscoe.
    • Hyperion.
    • 21.
  • Maurice Ravel

    L' Enfant et les Sortileges (Garden Scene)

    Choir: Berlin Radio Choir. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    Amor dormiglione Op.2 no.22

    Singer: Suzie LeBlanc. Ensemble: Ensemble Constantinople.
    • ANALEKTA.
  • Richard Strauss

    Serenade in E flat major, Op.7

    Ensemble: Ensemble Paris-Bastille. Director: Fran莽ois Leleux.
    • Francois Leleux - Richard Strauss.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • Juan Bautista Jos茅 Cabanilles

    Corrente italiana despacio

    Ensemble: Harp Consort. Director: Andrew Lawrence鈥怟ing.
    • Missa Mexicana.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 6.
  • Ian Venables

    A Kiss, Op.15

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Sh茅h茅razade, ouverture de f茅erie

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Ravel: Ma M猫re l'Oye, Le tombeau de Couperin & Sh茅h茅razade, ouverture de f茅erie.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 13.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    2 Pieces for piano 6 hands

    Performer: Alexander Melnikov. Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Performer: Aleksandar Mad啪ar.
    • Tharaud Plays Rachmaninov.
    • Erato.
    • 10-11.
  • Andrea Tarrodi

    Mad谩rdal - String Quartet no.2 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: The Dahlkvist Quartet.
    • Andrea Tarrodi: String Quartets.
    • db Productions.
    • 5.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15: II. Largo (Live)

    Performer: Igor Levit. Orchestra: K枚lner Kammerorchester. Conductor: Helmut M眉ller鈥怋r眉hl.
    • Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (Live).
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op.64`5 'The Lark' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • AVI MUSIC.

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