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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Robert Clarke's Penny Whistle, Angela Hewitt, Schumann's Toccata

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.

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1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the pianist Angela Hewitt..

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Zais (Overture)

    Ensemble: Les Talens Lyriques. Conductor: Christophe Rousset.
    • L鈥橭ISEAU LYRE.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Cello Sonata in C major, Op.119; Moderato - Andante dolce (2nd movement)

    Performer: Bruno Philippe. Performer: Tanguy de Williencourt.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 4 in G Major, Op. 58 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Lars Vogt. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • ONDINE.
  • Agust铆n Barrios Mangor茅

    La Catedral

    Performer: Thibaut Garcia.
    • ERATO.
  • Henry Purcell

    O dive custos Auriacae domus

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Singer: Christophe Dumaux. Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Stefano Montanari.
    • Henry Purcell, O Solitude: Andreas Scholl/Accademia Bizantina.
    • Decca.
    • 14.
  • Edward Elgar

    La Capricieuse Op.17

    Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Chandos.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides Overture 'Fingal's Cave', Op.26

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • BIS.
  • Philip Glass

    Etude no.2

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • Deustche Grammophon.
  • Andrea Falconieri

    Ciaccona

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Lorenza Borrani. Performer: Jonathan Cohen. Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout. Performer: Stefan Maass. Performer: Stephan Rath. Performer: Hans-Kristian Kjos Sorensen.
    • Air, A Baroque Journey: Daniel Hope.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Adagio for trumpet and orchestra

    Performer: Gianluigi Petrarulo. Orchestra: Giuseppe Verdi Orchestra of Milan. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    The Rock, Op 7

    Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic.
    • Rachmaninov: Symphony no. 2, The Rock: 大象传媒 Philharmonic, Noseda.
    • Chandos.
  • Henry Purcell

    When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas)

    Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Director: Elizabeth Kenny. Director: Steven Devine.
    • Purcell: Dido and Aeneas.
    • Chandos.
    • 30.
  • Richard Wagner

    Siegfried's Funeral Music (G枚tterd盲mmerung)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
  • Johan Halvorsen

    Passacaglia on a Theme of Handel

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Performer: Daniel M眉ller鈥怱chott.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Impromptu

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzona seconda 脿 6

    Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • King's College.
  • Fela Sowande

    Joyful Day (African Suite)

    Orchestra: CBC Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Mario Bernardi.
    • CBC.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Tzigane

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Nicola Benedetti: Fantasie.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Character Piece no.3 in B major

    Performer: B茅atrice Rauchs.
    • BIS.
  • Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger

    Libro quarto d'intavolatura di chitarone: Toccata No. 1

    Performer: Jonas Nordberg.
    • Intavolatura di chitarone.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.32 in G major K.318 [Overture]

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Mozart: Symphonies: SCO, Sir Charles Mackerras.
    • Linn.
  • Steve Reich

    Nagoya Marimbas

    Performer: Colin Currie. Performer: Sam Walton.
    • EMI.
  • George Enescu

    Concert Overture on Popular Romanian Themes, Op 32

    Orchestra: Tampere Filharmonia. Conductor: Hannu Lintu.
    • ONDINE.

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  • Wed 16 Oct 2019 09:00

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