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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Buxton Opera House, Harriet Walter

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 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

Last on

Fri 3 Jan 2020 09:00

Music Played

  • Ernesto Halffter

    Habanera

    Performer: Mats Lidström. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • Hyperion.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    Guitar Quintet in D: iii) Fandango

    Performer: Sharon Isbin. Ensemble: Pacifica Quartet.
    • Cedille.
  • Teresa Carreño

    Ballade, Op 15

    Performer: Clara Rodriguez.
    • Teresa Carreno: Clara Rodriguez.
    • Nimbus.
    • 3.
  • Joseph Horovitz

    Music Hall Suite

    Ensemble: Budapest Brass Quintet.
    • HUNGAROTON.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Air on a G string (Suite no.3 in D major BWV.1068)

    Music Arranger: Jacques Loussier. Ensemble: Jacques Loussier Trio.
    • Air On A 'G' String - The Very Best Of Jacques Loussier.
    • Music Club.
    • 1.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Wind Octet in E flat major, Op 103 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Mozzafiato. Conductor: Charles Neidich.
    • Beethoven: Chamber music for wind instruments: Mozzafiato/Neidich.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Souvenir d'une nuit d'été à Madrid

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Salve Regina in C minor

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • DECCA.
  • Herbert Howells

    Elegy for viola, string quartet and string orchestra

    Performer: Matthew Souter. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Claude Debussy

    La cathédrale engloutie (Preludes, Book 1)

    Performer: Zoltán Kocsis.
    • Debussy: Preludes Books I & II: Zoltan Kocsis.
    • Philips.
    • 10.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Koulutie, JS112 (The Way To School)

    Choir: Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor. Conductor: Heikki Seppänen.
    • Sibelius: Complete Works for Mixed Choir.
    • Ondine.
    • 21.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Fountains of Rome

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • DG.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Sinfonia in E flat major, Wq. 183/2

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Raymond Leppard.
    • Philips.
  • Doreen Carwithen

    Sonatina: ii.Molto adagio

    Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • Neglected Works For Piano.
    • db Productions.
    • 7.
  • Robert Schumann

    Manfred (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in E flat major Op.33`2 'Joke' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • George Gershwin

    By Strauss

    Performer: Wayne Marshall.
    • A Gershwin Songbook & Improvisations.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
    • 13.

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