Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Debussy all at sea, Alex Jennings
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. Today's starter is Bach's Concerto for 4 harpsichords. Other musical highlights this morning include the Gloria from Ethel Smyth's colossal Mass, and Brahms's Piano Quintet in F minor.
1010 Musical Time Travellers 鈥� stories behind the music making of the British Isles.
1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the actor Alex Jennings.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Flute Quartet in D major, K.285 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Guy Eshed. Ensemble: Ensemble 360.- Mozart: Flute Quartet No. 1 in D major, K285, etc.: Ensemble 360.
- ASV.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 2 in C minor, Op 17 (Little Russian) III. Scherzo
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.- ONYX.
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Gustav Holst
Mars, the Bringer of War (The Planets, Op 32)
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- Holst: The Planets; Asteroids.
- EMI Classics.
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Antoine Reicha
Grande symphonie de salon No. 1: II. Adagio
Conductor: Julien Chauvin. Ensemble: Le Concert de la Loge.- Reicha: Grande symphonie de salon - Beethoven: Septet, Op. 20.
- 础辫补谤迟茅.
- 102.
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Trad.
Down by the Salley Gardens
Performer: Barry Douglas. Music Arranger: Barry Douglas.- Celtic Reflections.
- Chandos.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for 4 keyboards in A minor BWV.1065
Performer: Lars Ulrik Mortensen. Performer: Trevor Pinnock. Performer: Marieke Spaans. Performer: Marcus Mohlin. Orchestra: Concerto Copenhagen. Director: Lars Ulrik Mortensen.- Bach Harpsichord Concertos Vol 3.
- CPO.
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Amy Beach
Violin Sonata in A minor, Op. 34 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: John Lenehan.- Works For Violin and Piano.
- CHANDOS.
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Edward Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March in C minor, Op 39 no.3
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.- Teldec.
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Johann Christian Bach
Symphony in G minor Op.6`6
Orchestra: Nederlands Kamerorkest. Conductor: David Zinman.- Newton Classics.
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Johann Strauss II
Die Fledermaus (Overture)
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Franz Welser鈥怣枚st.- J. Strauss II: Walzes & Overtures: Welser-Most.
- EMI Classics.
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Claude Debussy
La mer
Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Orchestra: Lucerne Festival Orchestra.- Debussy: La Mer: Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Claude Debussy
Dialogue du vent et de la mer (La Mer)
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.- Debussy: Nocturnes/La Mer/Jeux: Boulez.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Philip Glass
Wichita Vortex Sutra
- Glass: Glassworlds, Vol. 6.
- Grand Piano.
- 301.
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Carl Maria von Weber
Der Freisch眉tz (Schelm! Halt fest)
Music Arranger: Wenzel Sedlak. Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.- Weber: Der Freischutz (Harmoniemusik), Consortium Classicum.
- MD&G.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Goldberg Variations, BWV.988 (Aria da capo)
Performer: Zuzana R暖啪i膷kov谩.- Erato.
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Missa Salisburgensis (Kyrie)
Choir: La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.- ALIA VOX.
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Robert Schumann
Concertstuck in F major Op.86 (1st mvt)
Performer: Roger Montgomery. Performer: Gavin Edwards. Performer: Susan Dent. Performer: Robert Maskell. Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Schumann: Complete Symphonies: John Eliot Gardiner.
- Archiv Produktion.
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Malcolm Arnold
The Belles of St Trinian's (Prelude)
Music Arranger: Christopher Palmer. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.- CHANDOS.
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Johannes Brahms
Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34: I. Allegro non troppo
Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.- Schumann: Piano Quartet, Op. 47 - Brahms: Piano Quintet, Op. 34.
- BIS.
- 201.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Abduction from the Seraglio (Overture)
Ensemble: Concerto K枚ln. Ensemble: Sarband. Conductor: Werner Ehrhardt.- Archiv.
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Marius Neset
Viaduct - Part 1f
Performer: Marius Neset. Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: Geoffrey Paterson.- Act.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Piano Concerto No. 4 in C minor (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jean鈥怞acques Kantorow.- Saint-Sa毛ns: Piano Concertos Nos. 3-5.
- BIS.
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George Frideric Handel
Se potessero i sospir' miei from Imeneo
Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Orchestra: Ensemble Artaserse.- The Handel Album.
- Erato.
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Franz Schubert
Moments musicaux D.780 (no.4 in C sharp minor)
Performer: Stephen Kovacevich.- Schubert: Piano Sonata No.21, Allegretto in C minor, Moment Musicaux: Kovacevich.
- EMI Classics.
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Dame Ethel Mary Smyth
Mass in D - Gloria
Conductor: Sakari Oramo. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Choir: 大象传媒 Symphony Chorus. Singer: Susanna Hurrell. Singer: Catriona Morison. Singer: Ben Johnson. Singer: Duncan Rock.- Chandos.
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