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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Essential Scherzos, Old Blind Sarah's Hurdy Gurdy, Saint-Sa毛ns's Organ Symphony

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 orchestral scherzos.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Tango (Espa帽a)

    Music Arranger: Xuefei Yang. Performer: Xuefei Yang.
    • Rodrigo, Concierto de Aranjuez: Xuefei Yang.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 10.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini (extract)

    Performer: Behzod Abduraimov. Orchestra: Luzerner Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: James Gaffigan.
    • Sony.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 45 in F sharp minor, 'Farewell' (4th movement)

    Orchestra: Anima Eterna. Conductor: Jos van Immerseel.
    • Zig Zag Territories.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in A minor, K.511

    Performer: Francesco Piemontesi.
    • 狈础脧痴贰.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Symphony No 3 in C minor (Finale)

    Performer: Olivier Latry. Orchestra: Liege Philharmonic. Conductor: Pascal Roph茅.
    • CYPRES.
  • Francesco Geminiani

    Concerto Grosso No 5 in G minor after Corelli

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Lorenza Borrani. Ensemble: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 14.
  • Ethel Smyth

    Concerto for violin, horn and orchestra - II. Elegy (In Memoriam)

    Performer: Richard Watkins. Performer: Sophie Langdon. Ensemble: Lontano. Conductor: Odaline de la Martinez.
    • Ethel Smyth Premiere Recordings.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Hear my prayer

    Singer: Thomas Herford. Choir: Choir of New College Oxford. Performer: Matthew Halls. Performer: Christopher Hughes. Conductor: Edward Higginbottom.
    • Agnus Dei: Choir of New College, Oxford/Higginbottom.
    • Erato.
  • Pauline Hall

    Little Dance Suite for Winds

    Performer: Steinar Hannevold. Performer: Lars Kristian Brynildsen. Performer: Per Hannevold.
    • Pauline Hall:Verlaine Suite.
    • SIMAX.
    • 19-24.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Trio Sonata in C major, RV 82

    Performer: Avi Avital. Performer: Mahan Esfahani. Performer: Ophira Zakai. Performer: Patrick Sepec.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Folk Dances, Op 17

    Performer: H氓vard Gimse.
    • NAIM.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 2, 'Resurrection' (5th mvt)

    Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Singer: Barbara Hendricks. Singer: Christa Ludwig. Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic.
    • Bernstein: Mahler.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.
  • William Lawes

    Royall Consort Suite no.3 in D minor

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Phantasm. Director: Laurence Dreyfus.
    • LINN.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 36 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 2 & 8: London Classical Players/Norrington.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 3.
  • Franz Schubert

    Violin Sonata No 1 in D major, D 384, 'Sonatina'

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Performer: Martin Helmchen.
    • Complete Works for Violin and Piano, Volume 1.
    • Pentatone.
    • 1-3.
  • Andrea Tarrodi

    String Quartet no.1 "Miroirs"

    Ensemble: Dahlkvist Quartet.
    • Andrea Tarrodi: String Quartets.
    • db Productions.
    • 2.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Introduction and Allegro arr for two pianos

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Alessandro Stella.
    • EMI CLASSICS.
  • Walter Piston

    Symphony no 2: Adagio

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • Delos.
  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Navarra

    Performer: Alicia de Larrocha.
    • Albeniz: Iberia; Navarra; Suite Espanola - Larrocha.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Ballet of the Slaves (Les Troyens)

    Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg. Conductor: John Nelson.
    • ERATO.
  • Joseph Haydn

    'Little Organ Mass', Hob.XXII:7

    Singer: Janice Watson. Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.

Broadcast

  • Thu 27 Feb 2020 09:00

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