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Suzy Klein with Gershwin's I Got Rhythm and Essential Sea Music

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

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

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we suggest five great pieces with a sea theme.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Festive overture Op.96

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • DG.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    June: Barcarolle (The Seasons Op.37b)

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Tchaikovsky - The Seasons.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

    6 Bagatelles (no.1)

    Ensemble: London Winds.
    • Chandos.
  • William Byrd

    Hear My Prayer

    Choir: Magdalena Consort. Ensemble: Fretwork. Singer: Elizabeth Paul.
    • In Chains of Gold, The English Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem, Volume 2: William B.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No 1 in B flat major, K 207 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Warner.
  • George Gershwin

    Variations on 'I got rhythm'

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue & Piano Concerto: Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe (Cantata no.34)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach Choruses - Gardiner.
    • SDG.
    • 1.
  • Lera Auerbach

    24 Preludes Op.47 (no.22)

    Performer: Ani Aznavoorian. Performer: Lera Auerbach.
    • Cedille.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    The Cunning Little Vixen - Suite

    Music Arranger: V谩clav Talich. Music Arranger: Charles Mackerras. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.
  • Henry Purcell

    Chacony in G minor Z.730

    Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Stefano Montanari.
    • Henry Purcell, O Solitude: Andreas Scholl/Accademia Bizantina.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Darius Milhaud

    Scaramouche Op.165b (Brazileira [Mouvement de Samba])

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Piers Lane.
  • William Grant Still

    Symphony no.1 'Afro-American' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Witold Lutos艂awski

    Variations on a theme of Paganini

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Rachmaninov:Suite No.2 /Ravel a Valse/Lutoslawski:/Paganini Variations - Argeric.
    • Philips.
    • 6.
  • Irving Berlin

    Puttin' on the Ritz

    Music Arranger: Nelson Riddle. Performer: Yehudi Menuhin. Performer: St茅phane Grappelli. Orchestra: Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra.
    • Top Hat.
    • Classic For Pleasure.
    • 01.
  • Karol Szymanowski

    Romance in D, Op.23

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.
    • HYPERION.
  • Richard Strauss

    Suite in B flat major for 13 wind instruments Op.4 (Gavotte)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Paris-Bastille. Director: Fran莽ois Leleux.
    • Strauss: Francois Leleus, Swedish RSO, Ensemble Paris-Bastille.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Knut Nystedt

    Immortal Bach

    Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.
    • Nystedt & Bach: Meins Lebens Licht.
    • BIS.
    • 17.
  • Grace Williams

    Calm Sea in Summer (Sea Sketches)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: David Atherton.
    • Grace Williams: Fantasia On Welsh Nursery Tunes, Carillons, Penillion, Trumpet C.
    • Lyrita.
    • 17.
  • Paul Dukas

    The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    Music Arranger: Victor Staub. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Fantasia.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 012.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Con l'ali di costanza (Ariodante)

    Singer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No 1 in D major, D 82 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Schubert: 8 Symphonies: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Piano Quartet no 1 Op 15 iii adagio

    Ensemble: Domus.
    • Hyperion.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Loving (Five Tango Sensations)

    Performer: Astor Piazzolla. Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.
    • Piazzolla: Five tango sensations: Kronos Quartet/Piazzolla.
    • Elektra Nonesuch.
  • Traditional Irish

    The Galway Bay Hornpipe

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Performer: Andrew Lawrence鈥怟ing. Performer: Frank McGuire.
    • The Celtic Viol 2: Savall/Lawrence-King/McGuire.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 1.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Concerto no.2 in D minor Op.40 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lawrence Foster.
    • Hyperion.

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