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Suzy Klein with Essential Dvořák and Still's Symphony No 3

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

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

1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five great pieces by Antonin Dvorak

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Partita no.3 in E major BWV.1006 (Prelude)

    Performer: Rachel Podger.
    • Johann Sebastian Bach Vol.2.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 1.
  • Georges Bizet

    Danse Bohème (Carmen Suite no.2)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • The Best of Bizet.
    • Philips.
    • 14.
  • Edmond Dédé

    Mephisto Masque

    Performer: David Sachs.
    • Naxos.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 2 - 2nd mvt: Larghetto

    Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Bernhard Forck.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 - C.P.E. Bach: Symphonies, Wq 175 & 183/17.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 112.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Octet in E flat major Op.20 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Gringolts Quartet. Ensemble: Meta4.
    • Felix Mendelssohn & Enescu: Octets.
    • BIS.
    • 103.
  • William Grant Still

    Symphony no.3 "The Sunday Symphony" (Prayer)

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • Still: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3.
    • Naxos.
    • 10.
  • Claude Debussy

    Tarantelle Styrienne

    Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
    • BIS.
  • Ethel Smyth

    The Boatswain's Mate (Overture)

    Ensemble: Lontano. Conductor: Odaline de la Martinez.
    • The Boatswain's Mate.
    • Retrospect Opera.
    • 1.
  • Philip Glass

    Facades

    Ensemble: Philip Glass Ensemble.
    • The Essential Philip Glass.
    • SONY.
    • 3.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat, K. 482: I. Allegro

    Conductor: Jonathan Biss. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 21 & 22.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 104.
  • Geoffrey Burgon

    Nunc dimittis

    Performer: Michael Laird. Performer: Jeremy Suter. Choir: Chichester Cathedral Choir. Director: Alan Thurlow.
    • Burgon: Cathedral Music.
    • HYPERION.
    • 002.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Le carnaval romain

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.
  • Percy Grainger

    Mock Morris

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Grainger Edition Vol.6: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 12.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (Dawn)

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.
  • Duke Ellington

    Black, Brown and Beige: Part V (Come Sunday Interlude)

    Performer: Ray Nance. Performer: Duke Ellington. Orchestra: Duke Ellington Orchestra.
    • COLUMBIA.
  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Evening Prayer / Dream Pantomime (Hansel & Gretel)

    Singer: Jennifer Larmore. Singer: Ruth Ziesak. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Donald Runnicles.
    • Humperdinck: Hansel und Gretel.
    • TELDEC.
    • 17.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in B flat major, D 935 No 3

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Schubert: Impromptus D 899 & D935: Perahia.
    • Sony.
    • 7.
  • Anna Meredith

    Majolica (Tripotage Miniatures)

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra.
    • Anna Meredith, Alexander Goehr & Colin Matthews: Chamber Works (Live).
    • NMC Recordings.
    • 106.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Quartet No 12 in F major, Op 96, 'American' - 1st movement, Allegro

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Dvorak: String Quartets: Takacs Quartet.
    • Decca.
    • 6.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in F major RV.538 for 2 horns and orchestra

    Performer: Anneke Scott. Performer: Jocelyn Lightfoot. Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • AVIE.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Gestille Sehnsucht, Op.91 no.1

    Singer: Jessye Norman. Performer: Wolfram Christ. Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • DG.
  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Summer Morning by a Lake (5 Orchestral Pieces Op.16)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Simon Rattle Edition: The Second Viennese School.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 403.
  • Emilie Mayer

    Piano Sonata in D Minor: II. Scherzo

    • Mayer: Symphony No. 4, Piano Concerto, String Quartet & Piano Sonata.
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 202.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon a 10 [1597 no.9]

    Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Director: Paul McCreesh.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Helios Overture

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • DACAPO.

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  • Wed 24 Jun 2020 09:00

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