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Suzy Klein with Prokofiev's Dance of the Knights and essential Tudor music

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 An Essential Symphony movement from the 大象传媒 archive.

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we suggest five pieces of Tudor music.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Flute Concerto in G major, K 313 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Lisa Beznosiuk. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Mozart - Flute And Harp Concerto.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.
    • 9.
  • Robert Johnson

    Where the bee sucks (The Tempest)

    Performer: Desmond Dupr茅. Singer: Alfred Deller.
    • The Very Best of English Song.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 205.
  • Robert Johnson

    Full fathom five (The Tempest)

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Singer: Robin Blaze.
    • English Lute Songs.
    • Helios.
    • 1.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor, Op 66

    Performer: Mao Fujita.
    • Chopin: Impromptus & Scherzos.
    • Naxos.
    • 401.
  • Francesco Geminiani

    Concerto Grosso no.11 in E major after Corelli

    Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Geminiani: Concerti Grossi: Academy of Ancient Music.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 18.
  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Kyrie after Byrd

    Choir: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Dance of the Knights (Romeo and Juliet Op.64)

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • DG.
  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Les bergeries (Pi猫ces de clavecin, Ordre No 6)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Couperin: Keyboard Music 1: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Let us garlands bring, Op 18

    Singer: John Carol Case. Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • LYRITA.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Quartet in G minor, TWV 43:g4 (second movement)

    Ensemble: Florilegium.
    • Channel Classics.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Dance of the Knights (Romeo and Juliet Op.64)

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • DG.
  • Florence Price

    Symphony No 3: third movement - Juba

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Valentina Peleggi.
  • Anon.

    Fuy茅s de moy

    Music Arranger: Oswald von Wolkenstein. Ensemble: La Reverdie.
    • CANTUS.
  • Jehan Vaillant

    Par maintes foys

    Ensemble: La Reverdie.
    • CANTUS.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.
    • Mercury.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Dance of the Knights (Romeo and Juliet Op.64)

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • DG.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (Prologue)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Bernstein: Arias and Barcarolles etc.:LSO/Tilson Thomas.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 15.
  • Arthur Bliss

    The Red Knight's Mazurka (Checkmate)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • A Colour Symphony.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.
  • Thomas Linley

    Arise! Ye spirits of the storm (The Tempest)

    Orchestra: Parley of Instruments. Choir: Parley of Instruments Choir. Conductor: Paul Nicholson.
    • HELIOS.
  • Egon Wellesz

    Ferdinand and Miranda; Prospero's Epilogue (from Prospero's Spells)

    Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gerd Albrecht.
    • ORFEO.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Horseplay (2nd movement - Lively)

    Ensemble: Continuum Ensemble. Conductor: Philip Headlam.
    • Wallen: The Girl in my Alphabet.
    • AVIE.
    • 9.
  • John Sheppard

    Missa Cantate: Sanctus

    Choir: Clerkes Of Oxenford. Conductor: David Wulstan.
    • CALLIOPE.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song without Words in C major, Op 102 No 3 (Presto)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mendelssohn: Lieder Ohne Worte: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 21.
  • Dag Wir茅n

    Portia's Castle Orchestra (Romantic Suite, Op 22)

    Orchestra: Dalasinfoniettan. Conductor: Stefan Karpe.
    • Nosag.
  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Overture to L'Amant anonyme

    Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Director: Jeanne Lamon.
    • TMK.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Au couvent (In the monastery) from Petite Suite

    Performer: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Russian Piano Music: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Chandos.
    • 16.
  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    Aria [Cantilena] (Bachianas brasileiras no.5)

    Singer: Arleen Aug茅r. Ensemble: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • WARNER.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite in D major, HWV 341, 'Water Piece' (Overture)

    Performer: John Wallace. Performer: Michael Bochmann. Ensemble: Wallace Collection. Singer: Edward Barham. Choir: Leeds Festival Chorus. Ensemble: English Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: William Boughton.
    • Rule Britanna.
    • Nimbus.
    • 2.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Serenade to Music

    Performer: Duncan Riddell. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington. Singer: Felicity Lott. Singer: Lisa Milne. Singer: Rosa Mannion. Singer: Yvonne Kenny. Singer: Ann Murray. Singer: Diana Montague. Singer: Della Jones. Singer: Catherine Wyn-Rogers. Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Singer: Robert Lloyd. Singer: Robert Lloyd. Singer: Toby Spence. Singer: Toby Spence. Singer: Timothy Robinson. Singer: Timothy Robinson. Singer: John Mark Ainsley. Singer: John Mark Ainsley. Singer: Christopher Maltman. Singer: Christopher Maltman. Singer: Stephen Roberts. Singer: Stephen Roberts. Singer: Michael George. Singer: Michael George. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Vaughan Williams: Serenade to music/Sinfonia Antartica: Handley.
    • Decca.
    • 6.

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