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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 Song of the Day

1100 Essential Five - this week we choose five great pieces of music composed for saxophone.

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

3 hours

Last on

Mon 24 May 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Georges Bizet

    L'Arl茅sienne Suite no.1 (Carillon)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles. Director: Marc Minkowski.
    • Bizet: L'arlesienne, Carmen suites: Minkowski.
    • Naive.
    • 8.
  • Ludovic Lamothe

    Danza no.4

    Performer: C茅lim猫ne Daudet.
    • Ha茂ti mon amour.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 103.
  • Niels Wilhelm Gade

    String Octet in F major Op.17 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic String Octet.
    • MDG - GOLD.
  • Gerald Finzi

    A Severn Rhapsody Op.3

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit - The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 16.
  • Franz Liszt

    Hungarian Rhapsody in D major S.359 no.3

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.
    • MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE.
  • Alessandro Stradella

    Sinfonia no.9

    Ensemble: Repicco.
    • Assassini, assassinati.
    • Ambronay.
    • 108.
  • Gabriel Dupont

    La Maison dans les dunes (Le soleil se joue dans les vagues)

    Performer: Marie-Catherine Girod.
    • Gabriel Dupont: La Maison dans les dunes - Gustave Samazeuilh: Le Chant de la me.
    • Mirare.
    • 106.
  • Traditional

    Rolig Pers Polska

    Music Arranger: Hans Ek. Performer: Martin Fr枚st. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Sony.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Intermezzo in D minor

    Performer: James Boyd. Ensemble: Fitzwilliam String Quartet.
    • LINN.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.40 in G minor K.550 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphonies 38 - 41 Scottish Chamber Orchestra Sir Charle.
    • Linn.
    • 4.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Pastoral (Serenade Op.31)

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Radek Babor谩k. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.
  • Judd Greenstein

    Clearing, Dawn, Dance

    Ensemble: yMusic.
    • New Amsterdam Records.
  • John Banister

    A division upon a ground in F

    Performer: Alice Julien-Laferri猫re. Ensemble: Ground Floor.
    • 鈥業l genio inglese'.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 35.
  • Anthony Hedges

    Scenes from the Humber (Lincoln Castle Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: RT脡 Sinfonietta. Conductor: Anthony Hedges.
    • Marco Polo.
  • Herbert Howells

    Missa Sabrinensis (Benedictus)

    Singer: Janice Watson. Singer: Della Jones. Singer: Martin Hill. Singer: Donald Maxwell. Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Edward Elgar

    Minuet (Severn Suite, Op.87)

    Ensemble: The Fairey Band. Conductor: James Gourlay.
    • Brass from the Masters, Vol. 1.
    • Chandos.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Polonaise in C sharp minor Op.26 no.1

    Performer: Janina Fialkowska.
    • Atma.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Behold, I tell you a mystery / The Trumpet shall sound (Messiah)

    Singer: Christopher Purves. Performer: Robert Farley. Orchestra: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Saxophone Concerto in E flat major Op.109

    Performer: Eugene Rousseau. Orchestra: Orchestre de Chambre. Conductor: Paul Kuentz.
    • DG.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata no.1 in G minor BWV.1001 (Fugue)

    Music Arranger: Paul Cassidy. Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Homage to Bach.
    • Chandos.
    • 102.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Pur ti miro, pur ti godo (L'incoronazione di Poppea)

    Singer: Sylvia McNair. Singer: Dana Hanchard. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea: John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 10.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Pines of the Janiculum (Pines of Rome)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Agust铆n Barrios Mangor茅

    Maxixe

    Performer: Antigoni Goni.
    • Naxos.
  • Arthur Somervell

    Piano Concerto in A minor, 'Highland' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Martin Roscoe. Orchestra: 成人快手 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Somervell - 'Highland' Concerto; Cowen - Concertstuck.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.

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