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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Yarmouth Fair, Tippett's A Child of Our Time, Essential Scherzos

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

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto for 3 Trumpets and Timpani in D major, TWV 54:D3

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Christopher Hogwood.
    • L鈥橭ISEAU LYRE.
  • William Walton

    Crown Imperial coronation march

    Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.
    • MERCURY.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Sonata No. 22 in A major, K305 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Michael Tippett

    A Child In Time - "How can I cherish my man"... & "Steal Away"

    Singer: Jessye Norman. Singer: John Shirley鈥怮uirk. Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Choir: 大象传媒 Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davies.
    • Philips.
  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Concerto in A minor Op.7 (3rd mvt; Allegro non troppo)

    Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Holly Mathieson.
    • Decca.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op 125, 'Choral' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Singer: 慕uba Orgon谩拧ov谩. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Singer: Gilles Cachemaille.
    • Beethoven: The Symphonies, John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 2.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Serenade in D minor, Op 44 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
    • DELOS.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Sonata a Quatro No.4

    Performer: Salvatore Accardo. Performer: Sylvie Gazeau. Performer: Alain Meunier. Performer: Franco Petracchi.
    • DECCA.
  • Trad.

    Go down, Moses

    Music Arranger: Harry Burleigh. Singer: Paul Robeson. Performer: Lawrence Brown.
    • Songs for Free Men: Paul Robeson.
    • Gemm.
    • 24.
  • Benjamin Britten

    War Requiem: Lacrimosa; Move him into the sun

    Singer: Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya. Singer: Peter Pears. Choir: Bach Choir. Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • DECCA.
  • Franz Schubert

    String quartet In C minor D.703

    Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • Chandos : CHAN 10931.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Scherzo 脿 la russe

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Stravinsky: The Firebird: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Rattle.
    • EMI.
    • 13.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Keyboard Concerto in D major, H XVIII 2

    Performer: Alicia de Laroccha. Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Decca Eloquence.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Pur ti miro, pur ti godo (The Coronation of Poppea)

    Singer: Roberta Invernizzi. Singer: Sonia Prina. Ensemble: Ensemble Claudiana. Director: Luca Pianca.
    • Naive.
  • Leo Brouwer

    Cuban Landscape with Bells

    Performer: Carlos Bonell.
    • The Private Collection: Carlos Bonell.
    • Upbeat Classics.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony No. 9 'New World' Op. 95 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Signum Classics SIGCD515.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 4.
  • Henryk Miko艂aj G贸recki

    Totus tuus

    Choir: Exultate Singers. Director: David Ogden.
    • Panufnik/Vaughan Williams/Tavener/Gorecki: All shall be well: Exultate Singers.
    • Naxos.
  • Arnold Bax

    The Garden of Fand

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • PRT.
  • Billie Holiday

    God bless the child

  • George Frideric Handel

    Da tempeste il legno infranto [aria, Cleopatra]

    Performer: Maxim Emlyanychev. Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Orchestra: Il Pomo d鈥橭ro.
    • In War & Peace.
    • Erato.
    • 15.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia Suite Op.11 (Alla marcia)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Sibelius: Symphony No.5/Karelia Suite etc: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
    • Erato.
    • 6.

Broadcast

  • Tue 25 Feb 2020 09:00

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