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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Delius in Bradford, John Rutter, Copland's Quiet City

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 – stories behind the music-making of the British Isles.

1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the composer John Rutter

1110 Essential Five – this week we suggest five essential pieces of music by Elgar

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • William James

    An Australian Christmas

    Orchestra: Sellers Engineering Band. Conductor: Phillip McCann.
    • A Christmas Celebration.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Daniel François Esprit Auber

    Overture: Leicester, or Kenilworth Castle

    Orchestra: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice. Conductor: Dario Salvi.
    • Naxos.
  • Michael Praetorius

    Wachet auf (Christmas Vespers)

    Ensemble: Apollo’s Fire. Orchestra: Cleveland Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Jeannette Sorrell.
    • Avie.
  • Peteris Vasks

    White Landscape [Winter] (The Seasons)

    Performer: Alessandro Stella.
    • KHA.
  • Aaron Copland

    Quiet City

    Performer: Thomas Stacy. Performer: Philip Smith. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • DG.
  • Alexander Borodin

    String Sextet

    Performer: Louise Williams. Performer: Raphael Wallfisch. Ensemble: Lindsay String Quartet.
    • ASV.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Harpsichord Concerto No.7 in G minor, BWV1058

    Performer: Andreas Staier. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Chiara Margarita Cozzolani

    O quam bonus es

    Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia.
    • I Vespri Natalizi (1650).
    • Tactus.
    • 007.
  • Franz Schubert

    Der Leiermann (Winterreise)

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Singer: Mark Padmore.
    • Schubert Winterreise: Mark Padmore - Paul Lewis.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 24.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: Mambo

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • DG.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata in D major for two pianos, K 448 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Katia Labèque.
    • Schubert / Mozart Katia Et Marielle Labeque.
    • KML.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scheherazade (The Sea and Sinbad's Ship)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • RCA.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Violin Sonata in A major Op.5`9

    Performer: Fabio Biondi. Performer: Antonio Fantinuoli. Performer: Giangiacomo Pinardi. Performer: Paola Poncet.
    • Glossa.
  • Edward Elgar

    Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Hyperion: CDA68077.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Impromptu in G flat major Op.51

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Perahia Plays Chopin.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Gustav Holst

    Christmas Day

    Conductor: John Scott. Choir: St Paul's Cathedral Choir. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • The St. Paul's Christmas Concert: St. Paul's Choir, RPO, Scott.
    • RPO.
    • 15.

Broadcast

  • Fri 20 Dec 2019 09:00

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