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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Harriet Walter, Nijinsky's Deathbed

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 actress Dame Harriet Walter.

1110 Essential Classics pays tribute to some of the great musicians who died in 2019.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Example of a Christmas Carol in the Italian Style

    Performer: Alessandro Marangoni.
    • Naxos.
  • Rachel Stott

    The Cyclops

    Performer: Catherine Martin. Performer: Alex McCartney. Ensemble: English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble.
    • Omnibus Classics.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op 27

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claus Peter Flor.
    • RCA.
  • Josef Suk

    Towards a New Life, Op 35c

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: V谩clav Neumann.
    • Supraphon.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Adagio in F major, H.18.9

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • DECCA.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in F minor, RV 297, 'Winter'

    Performer: Jeanne Lamon. Ensemble: Tafelmusik. Director: Jeanne Lamon.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Tafelmusik, Lamon.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 10.
  • Gian Francesco Malipiero

    Symphony No 1 (in four movements, like the four seasons): 4. Winter

    Orchestra: The Moscow Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antonio de Almeida.
    • Naxos.
  • Franz Schubert

    An den Mond (Fullest wieder Busch und Tal) D.259

    Performer: Andreas Haefliger. Singer: Matthias Goerne.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Josef Suk

    Towards a New Life, Op 35c

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: V谩clav Neumann.
    • Supraphon.
  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Fast Blue Village 2

    Ensemble: Del Sol String Quartet.
    • Dorian Sono Luminus.
  • 脡lisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Violin Sonata no.2 in D minor (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Bizzarrie Armoniche.
    • Naive.
  • John Sheppard

    Verbum caro factum est

    Ensemble: Stile Antico.
    • Puer Natus Est, Tudor Music For Advent and Christmas: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 12.
  • Josef Suk

    Towards a New Life, Op 35c

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: V谩clav Neumann.
    • Supraphon.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Sinfonietta, 1st movement

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubel铆k.
    • DG.
  • Franz Schubert

    Prometheus, D 674

    Performer: Graham Johnson. Singer: Simon Keenlyside.
    • The Hyperion Schubert Edition vol 34 - 1817-1821.
    • Hyperion.
    • 015.
  • Arthur Bliss

    Things to come (March)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Chandos Movies.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Hymne (Three Pieces for Piano)

    Performer: Pascal Rog茅.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 6 in F major, Op 68, 'Pastoral' (4th and 5th mvts)

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • EMI.
  • Guillaume Dufay

    Bon jour bon mois, bon an et bonne estraine

    Ensemble: Continens Paradisi.
    • RICERCAR.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Pines of Rome

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Rodion Shchedrin: Carmen Suite 鈥 Respighi: Pini di Roma (Live).
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 201.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    A Chloris

    Singer: Susan Graham. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • Onyx.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto no.1 in D major K.412

    Performer: Alessio Allegrini. Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart: Horn Concertos: Allegrini/Orchestra Mozart/Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • William Byrd

    Mass for 5 voices (Sanctus)

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • The Phoenix Rising.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 11.
  • Arnold Bax

    Mater ora filium

    Choir: Finzi Singers. Conductor: Paul Spicer.
    • CHANDOS.

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