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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Fatma Said, Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances, Marie Lloyd

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 nocturnes.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Seven Preludes arr Strakhov

    Performer: Lawrence Power. Performer: Simon Crawford鈥怭hillips. Music Arranger: Yevgeny Strakhov.
    • Shostakovich: Music for viola and piano: Power/Crawford-Phillips.
    • Hyperion.
  • Robert Schumann

    Mein Herz ist schwer Op.25 no.15

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Bryn Terfel.
    • Schumann - Liederkreis etc..
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 27.
  • William Alwyn

    7 Irish Tunes

    Ensemble: Villiers Quartet.
    • Lyrita.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Ancient Airs and Dances Suite no.1

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6-9.
  • Emily Howard

    Magnetite

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Gourlay.
    • NMC.
    • NMC.
    • 1.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Lyric Pieces: March of the Trolls

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Introduction and Rondo capriccioso Op.28

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Janine Jansen.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • George Arthurs

    A little bit of what you fancy does you good

    Singer: Marie Lloyd.
    • REGAL.
  • Karl Hoschna

    Every little movement has a meaning of its own

    Singer: Marie Lloyd.
    • Zono.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto no.2 in E flat major K.417

    Performer: Barry Tuckwell. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • DECCA.
  • Anon.

    Italiana

    Performer: Paul O鈥橠ette.
    • Ancient Airs and Dances: Paul O'Dette.
    • Helios.
    • 15.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Courtly Dances (Gloriana)

    Music Arranger: Julian Bream. Ensemble: Julian Bream Consort.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 104 in D major, 'London' (Finale)

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • J. Haydn: Symphonies nos. 103 & 104: Norrington.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 8.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata No 89, 'Was soll ich aus dir machen, Ephraim'

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • J.S. Bach, Cantatas Vol 12: Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 6.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Nocturne, Op 54 No 4 (Lyric Pieces)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Grieg: Lyric Pieces: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E minor, RV.277 'Il favorito'

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Onyx.
  • Emil von Sauer

    Piano Concerto no.1 in E minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lawrence Foster.
    • Scharwenka/Sauer: Piano Concertos: Hough/CBSO/Foster.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.
  • Sulpitia Cesis

    Stabat Mater

    Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia. Director: Candace Smith.
    • Tactus.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No 1 in D major, 'Classical' (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Prokofiev: Symphonies nos. 5 & 1: Tilson Thomas.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.
  • Thomas Tomkins

    Pavan 脿 5

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Sacrae symphoniae (1597): Canzon septimi et octavi toni a 12

    Conductor: Paul McCreesh. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort.
    • A New Venetian Coronation 1595.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1201.

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  • Fri 31 Jan 2020 09:00

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