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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Essential Love Songs, Locke's The Tempest, Julia Chatterton

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

  • Jacques Ibert

    3 Pi猫ces Br猫ves

    Ensemble: Athena Ensemble.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Quartet in E flat major Op.51 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Albion Quartet.
    • Dvor虒谩k: String Quartets Nos. 8 & 10.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 8.
  • Jean Sibelius

    The Bard, Op 64

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • EMI.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Sonata in E flat major H.16.52 for piano - iii. Finale Presto

    Performer: Leon McCawley.
    • Haydn: Sonatas Nos 33, 53, 60, 62 and variations.
    • Somm.
    • 12.
  • Matthew Locke

    Air pour les z茅phirs; Orage; Air pour Bor茅e (Les Indes galantes)

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Tzigane

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • EMI.
  • Caroline Shaw

    Partita (Sarabande)

    Ensemble: Roomful of Teeth.
    • New Amsterdam.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Serenata in vano

    Ensemble: Athena Ensemble.
    • Nielsen: Wind Music.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 4.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Overture mit Konzertschluss from Iphigenie en Aulide

    Music Arranger: Richard Wagner. Orchestra: Das Neue Orchester. Conductor: Christoph Spering.
    • Oehms.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Piano Concerto no.5 "Egyptian" (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Hyperion.
  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Re-invention No.1 [After J S Bach Invention no.8]

    Performer: Genevieve Lacey. Ensemble: Flinders Quartet.
    • Reinventions.
    • ABC Classics.
    • 1.
  • John Blow

    Venus and Adonis (Venus! Adonis!)

    Singer: Rosemary Joshua. Singer: Gerald Finley. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs.
    • Venus and Adonis.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 8.
  • Jean Sibelius

    The Tempest: Prelude, Op.109,鈥疦o.1鈥

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • BIS.
  • Frank Martin

    Songs of Ariel (Full fathom five)

    Singer: Lauritz Jakob Thomsen. Ensemble: Danish National Vocal Ensemble. Conductor: Marcus Creed.
    • The Secret Mass.
    • OUR RECORDINGS.
    • 11.
  • Dag Wir茅n

    Serenade for Strings, Op. 11

    Orchestra: Stockholm Sinfonietta. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • A Swedish Serenade.
    • BIS.
    • 1-4.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Un'aura amorosa (Cosi fan tutte)

    Singer: Rainer Trost. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Nadia Boulanger

    3 pieces for cello and piano: No 3 in C sharp minor, Vite et nerveusement rythme

    Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Performer: Jos茅 Gallardo.
    • Naxos.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for oboe and violin in C minor, BWV 1060

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Alexei Ogrintchouk. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
    • BIS.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    Dance of Nymphs and Reapers (Suite from The Tempest)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in B flat major, Op 130: 5th movement, Cavatina

    Ensemble: Lindsay String Quartet.
    • Beethoven: String Quartets Volume 7: The Lindsays.
    • ASV.
  • Josquin des Prez

    De profundis / Requiem aeternam

    Choir: Cappella Amsterdam. Conductor: Daniel Reuss.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Study in C sharp minor, Op 10 No 4

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Chopin: Etudes Op.10 & Op.25: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.
  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Concerto for orchestra (Sz.116), 5th mvt; Finale (Pesante - presto)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Bela Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer.
    • Hungaroton.

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  • Thu 13 Feb 2020 09:00

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