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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Avril in Aberdeen, Angela Hewitt

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 pianist Angela Hewitt..

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Jean Sibelius

    Overture in A minor

    Orchestra: Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leif Segerstam.
    • Sibelius: Kuolema: King Christian II.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Albert de Rippe

    La Seraphine

    Performer: Paul O鈥橠ette.
    • Rippe: Works for lute 'Un perfaict sonneur de Leut'.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 25.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Novelettes, Op.15: No.5 All'Ungherese

    Ensemble: Vertavo Quartet.
    • SIMAX.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Recorder Concerto No 7 in D minor after Corelli

    Composer: Francesco Geminiani. Performer: Maurice Steger. Ensemble: The English Concert. Director: Laurence Cummings.
    • Mr. Corelli In London.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 17-20.
  • Robert Schumann

    Toccata in C major Op.7

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • PIANO CLASSICS.
  • William Byrd

    Rorate coeli for 5 voices

    Ensemble: Stile Antico.
    • Puer Natus Est, Tudor Music For Advent and Christmas: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 3.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Mazurka in E major, Op. 6 No. 3

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 3.
  • Lars鈥怑rik Larsson

    Little Serenade, Op.12

    Ensemble: Musica Vitae. Conductor: Wojciech Rajski.
    • Nordic Music Vol. 1.
    • BIS.
    • 5-8.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    A Musical Joke, K.522 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Mozart: Serenate, Notturne, Eine kleine Nachtmusik: Le Concert des Nations, Jord.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 14.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Buttercup Serenade (Cox and Box)

    Singer: James Gilchrist. Singer: Neal Davies. Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Sullivan, A: Cox and Box / Trial by Jury.
    • Chandos.
    • 12.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    3 Symphonic dances Op.45 for orchestra: no.1; Non allegro - lento - tempo 1

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Rachmaninov: The Bells, Symphonic Dances.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 005.
  • Razvan Metea

    Bagatelle

    Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet.
    • 大象传媒 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert - encore.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Toccata Op. 11

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Martha Argerich: Early Recordings.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony no.2 in C major Op.61 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Toccata (Three Pieces for Piano)

    Performer: Pascal Rog茅.
    • Poulenc Les Soirees De Nazelles 3 Mouvments Perpetuels 3 Novlettes 9 Improvisati.
    • Decca.
  • Maria Xaveria Perucona

    Gaude, plaude

    Choir: Cappella Artemisia. Conductor: Candace Smith.
    • Rosa Mistica.
    • Tactus.
    • 9.
  • Harold Arlen

    I Could Go On Singing

    Lyricist: Yip Harburg. Singer: Judy Garland. Conductor: Mort Lindsey.
    • Rhino Movie Music.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Rondo capriccio in G major Op.129 'Rage over a Lost Penny'

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • DG.
  • Samuel Barber

    Knoxville: Summer of 1915

    Singer: Dawn Upshaw. Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke鈥檚. Conductor: David Zinman.
  • Henry Purcell

    Fantazia upon one note in F major Z.745

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Henry Purcell The Complete Fantazias Fretwork.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 13.
  • Claude Debussy

    Marche 茅cossaise sur un th猫me populaire

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk.
    • Musica Mundi.
  • Harold Budd

    Late October

    Composer: Brian Eno. Performer: Harold Budd. Performer: Brian Eno.
    • EDITIONS EG.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Trio in G major (3rd mvt, Rondo all'ongarese)

    Ensemble: Kungsbacka Trio.
    • Haydn: Piano Trios Hob XV 24, 25, 26 and 31.
    • Naxos.
    • 9.
  • Sir James MacMillan

    The Gallant Weaver

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Romance in F minor Op.11

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.

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