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Suzy Klein with an essential Opus 1 and Saint-Sa毛ns's Le Rouet d'Omphale

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

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

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we suggest five composer鈥檚 Opus Ones.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    10 Pi猫ces pittoresques (no.10)

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • UNICORN-KANCHANA.
  • Antonio Salieri

    La Locandiera (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • Chandos.
  • Peteris Vasks

    Quartet for Strings & Piano: VI. Postludio

    Performer: Vadim Gluzman. Performer: Ilze K募ava. Performer: Reinis Birznieks. Performer: Angela Yoffe.
    • P膿teris Vasks: Distant Light, Piano Quartet & Summer Dances.
    • BIS.
    • 21.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a; Act 1 No 2, chorus: 'Oh the pleasure of the plains'

    Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Director: William Christie.
    • Erato.
  • Richard Strauss

    Suite in B flat major for 13 wind instruments, Op 4 (Pr盲ludium)

    Ensemble: London Winds. Director: Michael Collins.
    • Richard Strauss - Complete Music for Winds.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Le Rouet d'Omphale, Op.31

    Conductor: Orchestre national de Lille. Conductor: Jun M盲rkl.
    • NAXOS.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude and Fugue in F major, Op 87 No 23

    Performer: Tatiana Nikolayeva.
    • Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87: Tatiana Nicolayeva.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.
  • Claude Debussy

    Danse sacree et danse profane

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer. Ensemble: Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
    • Voyage.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 13-14.
  • Henry Purcell

    An Evening Hymn Z.193

    Singer: Michael Chance. Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 104 in Dmaj 'London'; mvt 2. Andante

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Deus est Caritas

    Choir: Ex Cathedra. Performer: Rupert Jeffcoat. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Signum Classics.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No.3 in D major, BWV.1068 (Gavottes 1 and 2)

    Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Ton Koopman.
    • J.S. Bach, Orchestral Suites, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra / Ton Koopman.
    • RCA.
    • 3.
  • Bernard Herrmann

    Souvenirs de voyage (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hermann Gershwin Waxman Copland.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    La Fileuse (Pelleas et Melisande - suite Op.80)

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Performer: Akira Eguchi.
    • Vanguard Classics.
  • Albert Roussel

    Le Festin de l'araignee (The Spider's Banquet); mvts 7-11

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane/Le Festin de L'Araign茅e - 大象传媒 Philharmonic/Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
    • 29-33.
  • Franz Schubert

    Gretchen am Spinnrade, D.118

    Performer: Geoffrey Parsons. Singer: Christa Ludwig.
    • EMI.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake (Finale)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture in D major, TWV.55:D18

    Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • Telemann: Orchestral Suites.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.
  • Michiru Oshima

    Memories

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Performer: Cory Smythe.
    • In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 9.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano concerto no 1 in F sharp minor i: Viivace

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • DG.
  • Stephen Wilkinson

    The Sunlight on the Garden

    Performer: Anna Markland. Singer: James Gilchrist.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Wonderful Town (Entr'acte)

    Ensemble: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Wonderful Town.
    • EMI.
    • 012.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    7 Variations on 'Bei M盲nnern, welche Liebe f眉hlen' from Mozart's Magic Flute

    Performer: Anastasia Kobekina. Performer: Elisabeth Brauss.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Symphony No 1 in E flat major - third movement (Andante)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • DECCA.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The Blue Bird, Op.119 no.3

    Choir: Swedish Chamber Choir. Conductor: Simon Phipps.
    • Like to the Lark.
    • Chandos.
    • 07.
  • Claude Debussy

    L' Isle joyeuse

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • Debussy: Suite bergamasque.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 1.
  • Hugo Wolf

    Italian Serenade

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

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  • Wed 29 Apr 2020 09:00

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