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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Tracy Chevalier, Winifred Atwell plays the Palladium, Saint-Sa毛ns's Tarantella

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein.

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 author Tracy Chevalier, best known for her novel 鈥淕irl with a Pearl Earring鈥.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Scherzo

    Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Puccini: Discoveries: Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi/Chailly.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • Carlo Gesualdo

    Se la mia morte brami (Book 6); Ardita zanzaretta (Book 6)

    Choir: Exaudi. Director: James Weeks.
    • WINTER & WINTER.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    12 Variations on 'Ein Madchen oder Weibchen' Op.66

    Performer: Jean鈥怗uihen Queyras. Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Beethoven: Complete Works for Violoncello and Piano.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in B minor, Op.32 No.10

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • DG.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Tarantelle Op.6

    Performer: Susan Milan. Performer: James Campbell. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Saint-Sa毛ns: Africa.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 8.
  • Henry Purcell

    Three Parts upon a Ground, Z.731

    Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    La semaine grasse (3 Movements from Petrushka)

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Ruy Blas - Overture Op.95

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Zadok the priest

    Choir: The Sixteen. Orchestra: Orchestra of The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz in D flat major Op.64 no.1 'Minute'

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • Chopin: Waltzes: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • Helios.
    • 6.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz in A flat, Op 64 No 3

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • Chopin: Waltzes: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • Helios.
    • 8.
  • Dag Wir茅n

    Serenade for Strings, Op. 11

    Orchestra: Stockholm Sinfonietta. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • A Swedish Serenade.
    • BIS.
    • 1-4.
  • Albert Roussel

    Le Festin de l'araignee (The Spider's Banquet); mvts 7-11

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane/Le Festin de L'Araign茅e - 大象传媒 Philharmonic/Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
    • 29-33.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    La boutique fantasque (Tarantella)

    Orchestra: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Rossini-Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque - Davis.
    • CBS.
    • 2.
  • Daniel Bacheler

    Pavane No 18

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • Nocturnal.
    • BIS.
    • 8.
  • Herbert Howells

    Magnificat (The Winchester Service)

    Performer: Simon Bell. Choir: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Andrew Lumsden.
    • Howells: The Winchester Service and other late works.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dances No 1 in G minor and No 3 in F major

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Brahms: The Symphonies.
    • Decca.
    • 25-26.
  • Franz Liszt

    Sonetto 123 del Petrarca (Annees de pelerinage, 2eme annee, Italie, S161)

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Naive.
  • Barbara

    Septembre

    Music Arranger: Vincent Manac'h. Choir: Ensemble Vocal Aedes. Director: Mathieu Romano.
    • EVIDENCE.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for oboe and violin in C minor, BWV 1060

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Alexei Ogrintchouk. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
    • BIS.
  • Hans Pfitzner

    Palestrina; Prelude to Act 3

    Orchestra: German Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.
    • DG.
  • Dudley Moore

    Little Miss Britten

    Performer: Dudley Moore.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Flight of the Bumble Bee (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)

    Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • EMI.
  • Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

    Islamey orch Lyapunov

    Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata No 49 in C sharp minor, H XVI 36 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Haydn Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.

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  • Thu 5 Sep 2019 09:00

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