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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 pieces of music that look forward to Spring

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

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Last on

Wed 3 Mar 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    L'脡toile (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Neeme Jarvi conducts Chabrier.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.
  • Anonymous

    Lenox Avenue: The Blues (Arr. for Violin & Piano)

    Composer: William Grant Still. Performer: Rachel Barton Pine. Performer: Matthew Hagle.
    • Blues Dialogues: Music by Black Composers.
    • Cedille.
    • 1301.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wachet! Betet! Betet! Wachet! (Cantata no.70)

    Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
  • Jacques Ibert

    The Little White Donkey

    Performer: Varda Nishry.
    • DECCA.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Octet in E flat major, Op.20 (4th mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Ensemble: Seattle Chamber Players.
    • Onyx.
  • Meirion Williams

    Gwynfyd

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Performer: Annette Bryn Parri.
    • The Songs of Meirion Williams.
    • Sain.
    • 2.
  • Karl Goldmark

    In Italien, Op. 49

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fabrice Bollon.
    • Goldmark: Symphonic Poems, Vol. 2.
    • CPO.
    • 301.
  • Rebecca Clarke

    Midsummer Moon

    Performer: Jonathan Rees. Performer: Kathron Sturrock.
    • Guild.
  • Henry Purcell

    The Gordian Knot Unty'd

    Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Stefano Montanari.
    • Henry Purcell, O Solitude: Andreas Scholl/Accademia Bizantina.
    • Decca.
    • 11.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No 5 in A major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Giuliano Carmignola. Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Archiv.
  • Franz Schubert

    St盲ndchen (Schwanengesang, D 957)

    Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau. Performer: Gerald Moore.
    • DG.
  • Albert Roussel

    Divertissement Op.6

    Ensemble: Les Vents Fran莽ais.
    • WARNER.
  • Edvard Grieg

    String Quartet in G minor, Op 27 (Romanze arr Ardal)

    Music Arranger: Alf 脜rdal. Ensemble: Oslo Camerata. Director: Stephan Barratt-Due.
    • Grieg: String Quartets (arr. String Orchestra).
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • Hubert L茅onard

    Donkey and Driver

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Thomas Ad猫s.
    • RCA.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Le galope de Rosinante

    Ensemble: Apollo鈥檚 Fire. Director: Jeannette Sorrell.
    • Avie.
  • Gabriel Grovlez

    L'almanach aux images: No. 5. Les anes

    Performer: Daniel Lockert.
    • Dorian Sono Luminus.
  • Ferde Grof茅

    On the Trail (Grand Canyon Suite)

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • Copland, A.: Hoe Down / An Outdoor Overture / Billy the Kid Suite / Grofe, F.: O.
    • Delos.
    • 2.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Introduction et Polonaise brillante, Op 3

    Performer: Truls M酶rk. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • VIRGIN.
  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No 1 in B flat major, Op 38 'Spring' (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Mariss Jansons. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • R. Schumann: Symphony No. 1, Op. 38 "Spring" - Schubert: Symphony No. 3, D. 200.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 4.
  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Dream Coloured Mobile II, Op.58a

    Performer: Joe Houghton. Performer: Kate Wilson. Ensemble: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Sachio Fujioka.
    • Chandos.
  • Arthur Bliss

    Kenilworth March

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Peter Parkes.
    • Life Divine: Black Dyke Mils Band.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.
  • Thomas Tallis

    In Nomine a 4 No 1

    Performer: Christopher Wilson. Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • AMON RA.
  • Arvo P盲rt

    And I Heard a Voice...

    Choir: Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir. Conductor: Howard Arman.
    • Arvo P盲rt: Miserere (Live).
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 701.
  • Doreen Carwithen

    String Quartet No. 1 - II. Lento

    Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
    • SOMM.
  • Stefano Landi

    Passacaglia della vita

    Singer: Marco Beasley. Singer: Johannette Zomer. Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • ALPHA.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Tambourin Chinois Op.3

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Paul Coker.
    • Joshua Bell: The Kreisler Album.
    • Decca.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Spring, Op.34

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • CHANDOS.

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