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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Essential Love Songs, Shaw's Plan and Elevation, Music on the Meare

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.

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we suggest five essential love songs.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • William Boyce

    Symphony No 2 in A major: III. Presto (Allegro)

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Archiv.
  • Dora Peja膷evi膰

    Piano Quintet in B minor Op.40 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Oliver Triendl. Ensemble: Quatuor Sine Nomine.
    • Pejacevic: Chamber Works.
    • CPO.
    • 2.
  • Jaroslav Je啪ek

    Bugatti-Step

    Performer: Gottlieb Wallisch.
    • 20th Century Foxtrots, Vol. 1: Austria & Czechia.
    • Grand Piano.
    • 1101.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony no.3 in A minor Op.56 'Scottish' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.
  • Caroline Shaw

    Plan & Elevation (The Orangery / The Beech Tree)

    Ensemble: Attacca Quartet.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Thomas Canning

    Fantasy on a hymn tune by Justin Morgan

    Orchestra: Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Raymond Leppard.
    • American Dreams.
    • Decca.
    • 5.
  • Franz Danzi

    Wind Quintet in F major, Op.56`3 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Philharmonisches Bl盲serquintett Berlin.
    • Bis.
  • Claude Debussy

    Fantaisie (1st mvt)

    Performer: Barry Douglas. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Marek Janowski.
    • Debussy: Fantasy for piano and orchestra: Douglas/Janowski.
    • RCA.
    • 1.
  • Caroline Shaw

    Plan & Elevation (The Orangery)

    Ensemble: Attacca Quartet.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988v (Aria; Variations 1-3)

    Ensemble: Britten Sinfonia. Director: Thomas Gould.
    • Goldberg Variations.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 1-4.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Sailing (Holiday Diary)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Concert waltz no.2 in F major Op.51

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Orfeo.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Stravinsky: Concerto in E-Flat Major, 'Dumbarton Oaks': I. Tempo giusto

    Ensemble: The Knights.
  • Michael Nyman

    The garden is becoming a robe room (The Draughtsman's Contract)

    Ensemble: Michael Nyman Band.
    • The Essential Michael Nyman Band.
    • ARGO.
    • 3.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Let the bright seraphim (Samson)

    Singer: Elin Manahan Thomas. Performer: Crispian Steele鈥怭erkins. Orchestra: Armonico Consort. Director: Christopher Monks.
    • Let The Bright Seraphim Works by J.S. Bach, Telemann, A.Scarlatti and Handel.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 26.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Serenade to Music

    Choir: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Vaughan Williams: Serenade to music/Sinfonia Antartica: Handley.
    • EMI.
  • Anon.

    Danza del hacha

    Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Villancicos y danzas criollas 1550-1750: Hesperion XXI/Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 2.
  • Michael Haydn

    Symphony in E flat major, P 26

    Orchestra: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Hans鈥怭eter Frank.
    • BIS.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Serenade, Op 98

    Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: C茅cile Licad.
    • HYPERION.
  • Gustav Mahler

    5 R眉ckert-Lieder: No. 5, Liebst du um Sch枚nheit

    Singer: Ruby Hughes. Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Jac van Steen.
    • Clytemnestra: Orchestral Songs.
    • BIS.
    • 105.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio in B flat major D.898 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Vienna Piano Trio.
    • Schubert: Complete Piano Trios vol.2: Vienna Piano Trio.
    • MDG.
    • 3.
  • Agust铆n Barrios Mangor茅

    Un Sueno en la Floresta

    Performer: John Williams.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Richard Blackford

    Canticle of Winter

    Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Carr. Performer: Amy Dickson.
    • Pieta.
    • Nimbus Alliance.
    • 10.
  • Gaetano Donizetti

    L'Elisir d'amore, Act I: Chiedi all'au (duet)

    Singer: Mirella Freni. Singer: Nicolai Gedda. Orchestra: The Rome Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Francesco Molinari鈥怭radelli.
    • Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 110.
  • Richard Wagner

    The Master-Singers of Nuremberg (Prelude)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Wagner: Budapest Festival Orchestra.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 1.

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