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Suzy Klein with 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

  • Johan Svendsen

    Polonaise, Op 28 No 2

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Svendsen: Symphonies nos1 & 2: DNRSO/Dausgaard.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.
  • Darius Milhaud

    Duo concertante Op.351

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • CHANDOS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Ah, crudel! nel pianto mio, HWV. 78: Aria "Per trofei di mia costanza"

    Conductor: H茅lo茂se Gaillard. Singer: St茅phanie d'Oustrac. Ensemble: Amarillis.
    • Portraits de la Folie.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 17.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Ruy Blas, Op.95

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mendelssohn Overturen London Symphony Orchestra Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • Karol Szymanowski

    Mythes, Op.30: La Fontaine d'arethuse

    Performer: Michel B茅roff. Performer: Ulf Hoelscher.
    • Ulf Hoelscher spielt Schumann & Szymanowski.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 109.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Spem in alium

    Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Ballade no.3 in A flat major Op.47

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman.
    • DG.
  • Adolphus Hailstork

    Fanfare on Amazing Grace

    Orchestra: Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Adolphus Hailstork: An American Port of Call.
    • Naxos.
    • 9.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet in C major, K.465 'Dissonance' (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • Mozart/Schubert: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • APARTE.
    • 3.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Oboe and Violin Concerto in B flat major RV.548

    Performer: Paolo Grazzi. Performer: Stefano Montanari. Ensemble: Zefiro.
    • 狈础脧痴贰.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Bolero

    Orchestra: National Theater Opera Orchestra of Paris. Conductor: Philippe Jordan.
    • Debussy: Stravinsky: Ravel.
    • NAIVE.
    • 16.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Arethusa (Six Metamorphoses after Ovid)

    Performer: Hansj枚rg Schellenberger.
    • Campanella.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Heart, The Seat Of Soft Delight (Acis and Galatea)

    Performer: Jeremy Budd. Performer: Grace Davidson. Performer: Stuart Young. Performer: Mark Dobell. Performer: Simon Berridge. Ensemble: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Handel: Acis and Galatea.
    • CORO.
  • Claude Debussy

    La cath茅drale engloutie (Preludes, Book 1)

    Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Os justi

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • A Choral Tapestry: Voces 8.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1.
  • Bill Evans

    Peace Piece

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • Conversations with Bill Evans: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 10.
  • Manning Sherwin

    A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

    Lyricist: Eric Maschwitz. Singer: Vera Lynn.
    • The White Cliffs of Dover.
    • EMI.
    • 3.
  • Friedrich Kuhlau

    The Robbers' Castle (Overture)

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Sch酶nwandt.
    • Kuhlau: Overtures: Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra/Schonwandt.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Romance in G major, Op 40

    Performer: Anne鈥怱ophie Mutter. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Kurt Masur.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scheherazade, Op. 35: I. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • Zubin Mehta conducts Strauss and Rimsky-Korsakov.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 106.
  • Franz Schubert

    Overture in C minor, D 8a

    Ensemble: Escher String Quartet.
    • MUSIC@MENLOLIVE.
  • John Dowland

    I saw my lady weep

    Singer: Iestyn Davies. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • Hyperion.
  • Amy Woodforde-Finden

    Kashmiri Song (4 Indian Love Lyrics)

    Music Arranger: Sir Stephen Hough. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hough - 'My Favourite Things': Virtuoso Encores and Transcriptions.
    • Nimbus Records.
    • 12.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Three-Part Invention in E minor, BWV 793

    Performer: Dmitry Sitkovetsky. Performer: Yuri Zhislin. Performer: Luigi Piovano.
    • J S Bach Goldberg Variations 15 Sinfonias The Art Of Transcription.
    • Nimbus.
  • Claude Debussy

    Saxophone Rhapsody

    Performer: Theodore Kerkezos. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yuri Simonov.
    • Legende: Theodore Kerkezos.
    • Onyx.

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