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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: The Food of Love, Essential Tchaikovsky

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein.

Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.

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1110 Essential Five 鈥 this week we suggest five essential piece of music by Tchaikovsky.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Ruth Crawford Seeger

    Risselty rosselty

    Ensemble: Sch枚nberg Ensemble. Conductor: Oliver Knussen.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Gaetano Donizetti

    String Quartet no.4: 1) Allegro

    Ensemble: Pleyel Quartet.
    • CPO.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Organ Sonata in C minor, Op 65 No 2

    Performer: Peter Hurford.
    • ARGO.
  • Jean Fran莽aix

    Divertissement for oboe, clarinet and bassoon

    Ensemble: Chicago Chamber Musicians.
    • CEDILLE.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Barcarolle in F sharp major Op.60

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Benjamin Grosvenor: Homages.
    • Decca.
    • 009.
  • Alice Mary Smith

    Symphony in C minor (IV. Allegro maestoso)

    Ensemble: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Johann Friedrich Fasch

    Ouverture in D major

    Orchestra: Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra. Director: Gwyn Roberts. Director: Richard Stone. Conductor: Emlyn Ngai.
    • Fasch: Orchestral Works, Vol.3 - Tempesta di Mare.
    • Chandos.
    • 1-3.
  • Samuel Barber

    Agnus Dei

    Ensemble: Corydon Singers. Conductor: Matthew Best.
    • HYPERION.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Academic Festival Overture Op.80

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • CHANNEL.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Barcarolle no.5 in F sharp minor Op.66

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's French Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 006.
  • Claude Debussy

    En bateau (Petite suite)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Cristina Marton.
    • Martha Argerich and Friends Live from the Lugano Festival 2013.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Quintet in A major D.667 'Trout' (4th mvt)

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Performer: Pamela Frank. Performer: Rebecca Young. Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Edgar Meyer.
    • Schubert: "Trout" Quintet, Hummel: Quintet in E flat: The Schubert Ensemble of L.
    • Helios.
  • Rohan Kriwaczek

    Bee Sting Dance in Rohan's Kitchen

    Ensemble: Cohen Ensemble. Conductor: Jacques Cohen.
    • Music For Strings: Isis Ensemble/Jacques Cohen.
    • Meridian.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor Op. 23

    Performer: Beatrice Rana. Orchestra: Santa Cecilia Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky Piano Concerts.
    • Warner.
    • 005.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Di' tu se fedele (Un ballo in maschera)

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Choir: Chorus of the Municipal Theatre of Piacenza. Orchestra: Parma Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Pier Giorgio Morandi.
    • Jonas Kaufmann - The Verdi Album.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    Sopra l'acqua indormenzada (Venezia)

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • Souvenirs de Venise.
    • Helios.
    • 13.
  • William Walton

    5 Bagatelles (no.2)

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Delphian.
  • Gerald Finzi

    The Fall of the leaf - elegy in D minor Op.20

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Amanda R枚ntgen-Maier

    6 Pieces for violin and piano (no.6)

    Performer: Cecilia Zilliacus. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • Amanda Maier, Volume 2.
    • db Productions.
    • 12.
  • William Byrd

    Pavan & Galliard, MB 60 "Ph. Tregian",: I. Pavan

    • William Byrd: Virginal & Consorts.
    • INTERARTS.
    • 118.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Non pi霉 andrai (The Marriage of Figaro)

    Singer: Lorenzo Regazzo. Orchestra: Concerto K枚ln. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs.
    • Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro: Concerto K枚ln/Jacobs.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

Broadcast

  • Fri 24 Jan 2020 09:00

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