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Suzy Klein with Essential Dvo艡谩k

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 by Antonin Dvorak

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Fela Sowande

    African Suite (Akinla)

    Orchestra: CBC Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Mario Bernardi.
    • CBC.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Concerto in 7 parts no.6 in E major

    Ensemble: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi.
    • A & D Scarlatti 鈥 Concerti & Sinfonie.
    • Virgin.
    • 27.
  • Claude Debussy

    Par les rues et par les chemins (Iberia - 2nd mvt of Images)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Debussy: Images, Jeux, La Plus que Lente.
    • SFS media.
    • 2.
  • Philip Glass

    Evening Song no.2

    Performer: Timo Andres.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Don Giovanni (Overture)

    Orchestra: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • SONY : 88985316032.
    • Sony.
    • 1.
  • Jennifer Higdon

    All Things Majestic (String Lake)

    Orchestra: Nashville Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero.
    • Higdon: All Things Majestic, Viola Concerto & Oboe Concerto (Live).
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony no.3 in A minor, Op.56 'Scottish' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol.2.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Vladimir Martynov

    The Beatitudes

    Choir: Conspirare. Director: Craig Hella Johnson.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in F major RV.433 'La tempesta di mare'

    Performer: Lucie Horsch. Orchestra: Amsterdam Vivaldi Players.
    • Decca.
  • Kerry Andrew

    Apples, Plums, Cherries

    Choir: Juice Vocal Ensemble.
    • Snow Queens.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 1.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Adi贸s Nonino - Vuelvo al sur - Buenos Aires hora cero

    Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰. Performer: Nikoloz Rachveli.
    • DG.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    French suite no.5 in G major BWV.816 (Sarabande)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • J.S. Bach, The French Suites: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 24.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no. 5 in E Minor Op.64: 4th mvt; Finale

    Conductor: Manfred Honeck. Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5.
    • EXTON.
    • 4.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Impromptu in B minor, Op. 5/5

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
  • Alan Hovhaness

    Symphony No 2, Op 132, 'Mysterious Mountain' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.
    • Williams: The Five Sacred Trees: Leclair/London Symphony Orchestra/Williams.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.
  • Henry Purcell

    The Fairy Queen Z.629 (Act 4 Symphony)

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Deep River, Op. 59 No.10

    Performer: Lara Downes.
    • America Again.
    • Sono Luminus.
    • 501.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Praeludium and Allegro in the style of Pugnani

    Performer: Jack Liebeck. Performer: Katya Apekisheva.
    • Kreisler: Violin Music.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise

    Performer: Robert Jordan. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Gernon.
    • Peter Maxwell Davies - An Orkney Wedding With Sunrise and other works.
    • LINN.
    • 9.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

    Singer: Ren茅e Fleming. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Renee Fleming: By Request.
    • Decca.
    • 9.
  • Ferde Grof茅

    Sunrise (Grand Canyon Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Enrique B谩tiz.
    • EMI.
  • Adolfo Berio

    Maria Isabella

    Performer: Katia Lab猫que. Performer: Marielle Lab猫que.
    • Encore! Katia and Marielle Labeque.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Castor et Pollux (Tristes apprets)

    Singer: Nadine Koutcher. Orchestra: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • Sony.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Study in A minor, Op 10 No 2

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • DG.
  • George Gershwin

    Fascinating rhythm

    Music Arranger: Turtle Island String Quartet. Ensemble: Turtle Island String Quartet.
    • Windham Hill Records.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Violin Concerto in D minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.
    • PentaTone classics.

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  • Thu 25 Jun 2020 09:00

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