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Suzy Klein with Elgar's May Song and an essential Opus 1

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 Musical Time Travellers 鈥 stories behind the music-making of the British Isles.

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

  • Georges Bizet

    L'Arl茅sienne Suite No 1

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Naive.
  • Leone Sinigaglia

    2 Characterst眉cke, Op.35; No.2 - 脡tude-Caprice

    Ensemble: Archos Quartet.
    • Sinigaglia: Complete Works for String Quartet, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Missa Regina coeli (Kyrie)

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Palestrina - Volume 3.
    • Coro.
    • 10.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in F for wind, No.8 K213

    Ensemble: Holliger Wind Ensemble.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Edward Elgar

    May Song

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • EMI.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor, Op. 19 - II. Allegro Scherzando

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • HYPERION.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Africa, Op 89

    Performer: Laura Mikkola. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jean鈥怞acques Kantorow.
    • BIS.
  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Fast Blue Village 2

    Ensemble: Del Sol String Quartet.
    • Zia.
    • Dorian Sono Luminus.
    • 14.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 5 in C minor Op.67

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Donald Runnicles.
    • GB大象传媒.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Septet in E-Flat Major: I. Adagio maestoso - Allegro moderato

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • Glinka: Septet, Trio Pathetique, Serenade & 3 Russian Songs.
    • CPO.
    • 101.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Laudate pueri, Dominum (Vespro della Beata Vergine)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Robert Schumann

    Im wundersch枚nen Monat Mai (Dichterliebe)

    Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau. Performer: Christoph Eschenbach.
    • Grosse Stimmen: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 15.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    May Night - Overture

    Orchestra: Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Fedoseyev.
    • Relief.
  • Thomas Morley

    Now is the month of maying

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • Collegium.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    From Bohemia's Woods and Fields (M谩 vlast)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Libor Pe拧ek.
    • Smetana - Ma Vlast.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
    • 4.
  • Joby Talbot

    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Suite: IX. The Flower Garden Part II

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Austin.
    • Talbot: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Fool's Paradise.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 109.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Waverley

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.
  • Amy Beach

    Piano trio in A minor, Op.150

    Ensemble: Romantic Chamber Group of London.
    • BIS.
  • Henry Purcell

    Nymphs and shepherds (The Libertine)

    Singer: Judith Nelson. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • DECCA.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No 1 in B flat major for keyboard, BWV 825 (Sarabande)

    Performer: Piotr Anderszewski.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Serenata in E flat major

    Orchestra: Members of the Bologna Municipal Theatre Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.
  • Claude Debussy

    Valse romantique

    Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
    • Debussy: Suite Bergamasque, Pour le Piano etc., Noriko Ogawa.
    • Bis.
    • 5.
  • Witold Lutos艂awski

    Little Suite

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

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