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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Carwithen's love letters, Essential music for spring, Haydn's Philosopher 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 pieces for spring.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Bluebird Pas de Deux from The Sleeping Beauty

    Orchestrator: Igor Stravinsky. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Stravinsky: Le Baiser de la F茅e etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Chorale Prelude: Valet will ich dir geben BWV 736

    Performer: Catherine Ennis.
    • Catherine Ennis plays the Nigel Organ of All Saints' Friern Barnet.
    • Priory Records.
    • 4.
  • Xavier Montsalvatge

    Madrigal sobre un tema popular

    Performer: Peter Burns. Singer: El墨na Garan膷a. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Fabio Luisi.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Franz Liszt

    3 脡tudes de concert, S. 144: No. 2 in F Minor "La leggierezza"

    Performer: Boris Giltburg.
    • Liszt: Piano Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 14.
  • Franz Schreker

    Scherzo

    Orchestra: Auvergne Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Roberto For茅s Veses.
    • Berg, Webern, Schreker.
    • 础辫补谤迟茅.
    • 108.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.22 in E flat major 'The Philosopher' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra. Conductor: 8 Bit.
    • Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 2, 24 & 45: Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orch, Fischer.
    • Nimbus.
    • 5.
  • Francisco T谩rrega

    Recuerdos de la Alhambra

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰.
    • The Guitar: Milos Karadaglic.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.
  • Ola Gjeilo

    Sacred Heart (Ubi Caritas III)

    Choir: VOCES8. Performer: Ben Hancox. Performer: Hannah Dawson. Performer: Simone van der Giessen. Performer: Matthew Sharp.
    • Decca.
  • Richard Strauss

    Romanze in F major

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • Strauss: Don Quixote Op.35; Romanze F-dur; Cellosonate Op.6.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 14.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Sonata in A flat major, H31 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Mahan Esfahani.
    • C P E Bach - Wurttemberg Sonatas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.22 in E flat major 'The Philosopher' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra. Conductor: 8 Bit.
    • Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 2, 24 & 45: Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orch, Fischer.
    • Nimbus.
    • 5.
  • Fulvio Caldini

    Clockwork Toccata

    Ensemble: Sirena Recorder Quartet.
    • BIS.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor)

    Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Choir: Chorus of the Kirov Opera. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Tchaikovsky 1812 - Borodin - Glinka - And More - Kirov Orchestra - Gergiev.
    • Phillips.
    • 4.
  • Friedrich Nietzsche

    Nachspiel

    Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau. Performer: Aribert Reimann.
    • Lieder 1850-1950.
    • EMI.
    • 33.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade for 13 wind instruments in B flat major, K 361 (3rd mvt, Adagio)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.
  • George Frideric Handel

    As steals the morn (L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato)

    Singer: Mary Bevan. Singer: Allan Clayton. Orchestra: Orchestra of Classical Opera. Conductor: Ian Page.
    • 'Where're You Walk' - Aria's for Handel's Favourite Tenor.
    • Signum.
    • 10.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Zefiro Torna

    Performer: Jeremy Denk.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    Aria (Bachiana brasileira no.5)

    Singer: Ren茅e Fleming. Orchestra: New World Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • RCA.
    • 5.
  • Franz Schubert

    Rondo brillant, D 895

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.
    • Hyperion.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    La Primavera (Trittico Botticelliano)

    Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Li猫ge. Conductor: John Neschling.
    • Respighi: Vetrate di chiesa, Il tramonto & Trittico botticelliano.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Alessandro Marcello

    Oboe Concerto in D minor

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Ensemble: New Seasons Ensemble.
    • In Venice: Albrecht Mayer.
    • Decca.
    • 8-10.
  • Herbert Howells

    King David

    Singer: Christine Rice. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
    • Handel; Brahms; Wolf; Duparc; Howells.
    • EMI.
    • 26.
  • Meredith Monk

    Fields/Clouds (Book of Days)

    Singer: Johanna Arnold. Singer: Joan Barber. Singer: Andrea Goodman. Singer: Naaz Hosseini. Singer: Meredith Monk. Singer: Robert Een. Singer: John Eppler. Singer: Ching Gonzalez. Singer: Wayne Hankin. Singer: Nicky Paraiso. Singer: Timothy Sawyer.
    • ECM.
  • Reinhold Moritzevich Gli猫re

    String Octet in D Major, Op. 5: IV. Allegro assai

    Performer: Florian Donderer. Performer: Hanna Weinmeister. Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Tanja Tetzlaff. Performer: Byol Kang. Performer: Gergana Gergova. Performer: Alban Gerhardt.
    • Gli猫re, Shostakovich & Hahn.
    • CAvi-music.
    • 4.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Harold in Italy (Marche des p猫lerins)

    Performer: David Aaron Carpenter. Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Ondine.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Make our garden grow (Candide)

    Singer: Barbara Cook. Singer: Robert Rounseville. Orchestra: Candide Orchestra and chorus. Conductor: Samuel Krachmalnick.
    • CBS.

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