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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Don Paterson, Tommy Armstrong's Pit Songs

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein. Plus inspirations from poet Don Paterson.

Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Musical Time Travellers 鈥 stories behind the music-making of the British Isles.

1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the poet Don Paterson.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Cole Porter

    Too Darn Hot

    Singer: Ella Fitzgerald.
    • Verve.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Laudate Dominum (Vesperae solennes de confessore K.339)

    Singer: Danielle de Niese. Choir: The Apollo Voices. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • The Mozart Album: Danielle de Niese/OAE/Mackerras.
    • Decca.
    • 12.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in D major, RV 234, 'L'inquietudine'

    Performer: Enrico Onofri. Ensemble: Academia Montis Regalis. Director: Enrico Onofri.
    • 狈础脧痴贰.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony no. 9 "From the New World" (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, A Hero's Song: Bavarian Radio Symphony, Nelsons.
    • BR Klassik.
    • 3.
  • Bobby Krlic

    The House that Harga built (from Midsommar Soundtrack)

    • Milan.
  • Vincent Youmans

    Tahiti Trot

    Music Arranger: Dmitry Shostakovich. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Young Apollo, Op.16

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • HYPERION.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Long Day Closes

    Ensemble: The King鈥檚 Singers.
    • Romance Du Soir.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 19.
  • Wynton Marsalis

    Violin Concerto in D Major (Hootenanny)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Cristian M膬celaru.
    • Decca.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in B flat major, K 472

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • D. Scarlatti: Sonatas: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 14.
  • Amy Beach

    Romance, Op.23

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Michael Brown.
    • Echoes.
    • BIS.
    • 6.
  • Richard Wagner

    Tannh盲user (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Teldec.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker (Tea)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Heute noch, heute noch (Cantata no.211 "Kaffee-Kantata")

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S. Bach: Secular Cantatas: Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
    • 18.
  • Ben Oakland

    Java Jive

    Performer: The Ink Spots.
    • Laser Light.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in C major, H.15.27 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: The Florestan Trio.
    • Haydn: Piano Trios, Vol.1: The Florestan Trio.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Nun komm der Heiden Heiland BWV.659

    Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni. Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • Solo Piano Works.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 8.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Sarabande et rigaudon, Op.93 (Rigaudon)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • SAINT-SAENS: Volume 1.
    • CALA.
    • 6.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto Grosso in G minor Op.6`8 'Christmas night'

    Ensemble: Gli Incogniti. Director: Amandine Beyer.
    • Corelli: The Complete Concerti Grossi.
    • ZIG ZAG.
    • 30-34.
  • Trad.

    St Patrick's Day - Young May Moon

    Performer: Sam Sweeney.
    • Mighty Village.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Violin Concerto in E minor Op. 64 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado.
    • Violin Concerto.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.
  • Edward Elgar

    5 Polkas: No.1 Maud

    Ensemble: Innovation Chamber Ensemble. Conductor: Barry Collett.
    • SOMM.
  • Jerome Kern

    All the Things You Are

    Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Performer: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Erato.
  • Maurizio Cazzati

    Ciaccona

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • All'Improviso.
    • ALPHA.
    • 3.
  • Franz Liszt

    Au bord d'une source (Ann茅es de p猫lerinage I)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Murray Perahia Plays Franck & Liszt.
    • Sony.
    • 8.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Daphnis et Chlo茅 Suite no.2

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Yannick Nezet-Seguin Ravel Rotterdam Phiharmonic Orchestra.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Dorilla In Tempe, RV 709: Dell'aura al sussurar

    Singer: Elin Manahan Thomas. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • HELIODOR : 4765970.
    • HELIODOR.
    • 1.

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  • Wed 24 Jul 2019 09:00

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