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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Rachel Riley, Yeats's Salley Gardens, Grieg's Wedding Day at Troldhaugen

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, television presenter and mathematician Rachel Riley.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Jarom铆r Weinberger

    Svanda the bagpiper [Svanda dudak] - suite: Polka

    Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland鈥怭falz. Conductor: Karl鈥怘einz Steffens.
    • CPO.
  • Martin Peerson

    The Fall of the Leafe

    Performer: Skip Semp茅.
    • The Virgin Harpsichord.
    • INTERARTS.
    • 3.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Herbstlied (6 Duets Op.63)

    Singer: Barbara Bonney. Singer: Angelika Kirchschlager. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • First Encounter: Angelika Kirchschlanger/Barbara Bonney.
    • Sony.
    • 4.
  • Nikos Skalkottas

    Four Greek Dances (from 36 Greek Dances for Orchestra arr Farmakis)

    Ensemble: Kottos.
    • Orchid Classics.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Waverley Overture, Op.1

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Josef Myslivecek

    Wind Octet no.1 in E flat major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: L鈥橭rfeo Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Carin van Heerden.
    • Myslivecek: Complete Wind Octets & Quintets: L'Orfeo Blaeserensemble/van Heerden.
    • CPO.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, Op.65 No.6

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Sinfonia concertante in B flat major H.1.105 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Hyperion.
  • George Lloyd

    Symphony no.5 in B flat major (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: George Lloyd.
    • George Lloyd: Symphony No.5: 大象传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra/Lloyd.
    • Albany.
  • 脡douard Lalo

    Symphonie espagnole, Op 21 (5th mvt)

    Performer: Nikita Boriso-Glebsky. Orchestra: Sinfonia Varsovia. Conductor: Augustin Dumay.
    • Fuga Libera.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Irish Rhapsody No 3 in D major

    Performer: Raphael Wallfisch. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Trad.

    Down by the Salley Gardens

    Composer: Herbert Hughes. Performer: Gerald Moore. Singer: John McCormack.
    • Symposium.
  • Rebecca Clarke

    Down by the Salley Gardens

    Performer: Kathron Sturrock. Singer: Patricia Wright.
    • Gamut.
  • Ivor Gurney

    Down by the Salley Gardens

    Performer: David Willison. Singer: Benjamin Luxon.
    • Butterworth and Gurney - Songs.
    • Chandos.
  • Traditional Irish

    Salley Gardens

    Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Singer: Arleen Aug茅r. Performer: Dalton Baldwin.
    • Love Songs.
    • Delos.
    • 23.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for 4 harpsichords BWV 1065 Arr. for 8 Marimbas and Orchestra

    Ensemble: Wave Quartet. Ensemble: L'Orfeo Baroque Orchestra.
    • Sony.
  • Richard Rodgers

    The King and I

    Performer: Boston Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Arthur Fiedler.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Les noces (1923 Version): Scene 3: The Departure of the Bride (Chorus, Bride, Pa

    Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta. Choir: Virginia Symphony Chorus.
    • Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale Suite, Octet & Les noces.
    • Naxos.
    • 303.
  • Derek Bourgeois

    Serenade Op.22

    Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Michael Antrobus.
    • Chandos.
  • Bohuslav Martin暖

    Spalicek (Fairy tale of Cinderella, Waltz, Wedding, Polka)

    Choir: K眉hn暖v sm铆拧en媒 sbor. Orchestra: Brno Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Franti拧ek J铆lek.
    • Spalicek (Ballet in 3 acts).
    • SUPRAPHON.
    • 7.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Waltz (Sc猫nes de ballet, Op 52)

    Orchestra: USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan and Ludmila (Overture)

    Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila, Kirov Opera / Gergiev.
    • Philips.
    • 1.
  • Nils Frahm

    Ambre

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Jane Berthe. Performer: Christoph Anacker. Performer: Jacques Ammon. Ensemble: Kaiser Quartett.
    • DG.
  • C茅sar Franck

    Symphonic Variations

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: St茅phane Den猫ve.
    • 狈础脧痴贰.
  • Niels Wilhelm Gade

    String Sextet in E flat major, Op.44 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Ensemble MidtVest.
    • Niels W. Gade: Chamber Works Volume 1.
    • CPO.
    • 2.
  • Claude Debussy

    Le vent dans la plaine (Preludes, Book 1)

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • Debussy, Preludes etc.: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Franz Schubert

    Am Tage aller Seelen [Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen] D.343

    Singer: Matthias Goerne. Performer: Helmut Deutsch.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture in C major TWV.55:C3 'Hamburger Ebbe und Fluth'

    Ensemble: Zefiro.
    • Ambroisie.
  • Franz Reizenstein

    Cyrano de Bergerac Overture, Op. 28

    Orchestra: N眉rnberger Symphoniker. Conductor: Yaron Traub.
    • Reizenstein: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Orchestral Works.
    • CPO.
    • 301.

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