Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Piazzolla's Oblivion, Tom Holland, Harlech Choral Festival
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 writer and historian Tom Holland.
1110 Essential Five 鈥� this week we suggest five essential Haydn Quartets.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection
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Malcolm Williamson
Tarantella (Sinfonietta)
Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.- Williamson: Orchestral Works, Volume 1.
- Chandos.
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Ach bittrer Winter
Singer: Dorothee Mields. Ensemble: Lautten Compagney. Director: Wolfgang Katschner.- Wie Schon Leuchtet Der Morgenstern.
- DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Rebecca Dale
Winter
Choir: VOCES8. Performer: H氓kon Samuelsen. Performer: Mari Samuelsen. Performer: Huw Watkins.- Decca.
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Albert Roussel
Le festin de l'araign茅e, Op. 17, L. 19: IIIb. Danse du papillon
Orchestra: Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire. Conductor: Pascal Roph茅.- Dukas: Polyeucte Overture & L'apprenti sorcier - Roussel: Le festin de l'araign茅.
- BIS.
- 204.
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Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
Double Oboe Concerto in C major, Op 7 No 11
Performer: Heinz Holliger. Performer: Hans Elhorst. Orchestra: Camerata Bern.- Albinoni: Concerti per oboe: Holliger/Elhorst/Camerata Bern.
- Archiv Produktion.
- 13.
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Astor Piazzolla
Oblivion
Performer: Astor Piazzolla.- Tango Piazzolla: Astor Piazzolla Key Works 1984-1991.
- Music Club 鈥�.
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Gerald Finzi
Five Bagatelles, Op 23, arr Ashmore
Performer: Robert Plane. Music Arranger: Lawrence Ashmore. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.- Finzi: Clarinet Concert, Five Bagatelles: Robert Plane.
- Naxos.
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Johannes Brahms
Serenade no.2 in A, Op. 16 - i) Allegro moderato
Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- SDG.
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Astor Piazzolla
Oblivion
Performer: Astor Piazzolla.- Tango Piazzolla: Astor Piazzolla Key Works 1984-1991.
- Music Club 鈥�.
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Iiro Rantala
My Finnish Calendar (December)
Performer: Iiro Rantala.- ACT.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
3 Preludes on Welsh hymn tunes for organ; no.2; Rhosymedre
Performer: Huw Williams.- GUILD.
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Traditional Welsh
Men of Harlech
Ensemble: The Band of the Coldstream Guards. Conductor: Major Roger G. Swift.- REGIS.
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Joseph Holbrooke
Pandora
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: George Vass.- J Holbrooke, Symphony no.4: RLPO/RSNO/Wallfisch/Vass.
- Epoch.
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Traditional Welsh
Men of Harlech
Choir: Treorchy Male Voice Choir. -
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Traditional Welsh
David of the White Rock [Dafydd Y Garreg Wen]
Singer: Bryn Terfel. Performer: Katherine Thomas.- We'll Keep A Welcome.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Hamish MacCunn
The Ship o' the Fiend Op.5
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.- Maccunn - Land of the Mountain and the Flood and other music.
- Hyperion.
- 3.
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Joby Talbot
The Queen Of Hearts' Tango (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - suite)
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Austin.- Alice's Adventures In Wonderland.
- SIGNUM CLASSICS.
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Duke Ellington
Solitude
Performer: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra. -
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Edward Elgar
Softly and gently (The Dream of Gerontius, Op.38)
Singer: Alice Coote. Choir: Hall茅 Choir. Choir: Hall茅 Youth Choir. Orchestra: Halle. Director: Sir Mark Elder.- The Dream of Gerontius.
- Halle.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No 4 in E flat major, Op 7 (4th mvt)
Performer: 脡ric Heidsieck.- Beethoven The Collector's Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
- EMI Classics.
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George Frideric Handel
Ombra mai fu (from Serse, HWV 40, arr Pluhar)
Singer: Valer Barna-Sabadus. Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.- Erato.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Le rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31, R. 169
Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lille. Conductor: Jun M盲rkl.- Saint-Sa毛ns: Symphonic Poems.
- Naxos.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Heilig, heilig ist Gott, TWV 2:6, Machet die Tore weit
Choir: Collegium Vocale Siegen. Orchestra: Hannoversche Hofkapelle. Ensemble: Friedemann Immer Trumpet Consort. Conductor: Ulrich St枚tzel.- Telemann: Sacred Music.
- haenssler CLASSIC.
- 301.
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Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in B flat major, Op.76`4 'Sunrise' (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Schumann Quartett.- Berlin Classics.
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Franz Schubert
Impromptu in A flat major, D.899 no.4
Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.- DG.
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Vardapet Komitas
Hays hark nviranats ukhti
Performer: Jan Garbarek. Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble.- Officium Novum: Hilliard Ensemble/Jan Garbarek.
- ECM New Series.
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Hector Berlioz
Harold in Italy (Marche des p猫lerins)
Performer: David Aaron Carpenter. Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.- Ondine.
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Thomas Morley
Joyne hands 脿 6
Ensemble: Dowland Consort. Director: Jakob Lindberg.- Heavenly Noyse: Download Consort/Jakob Lindberg.
- BIS.
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Joachim Raff
Romeo and Juliet - overture
Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- CHANDOS.
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