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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Kate Romano, Moeran's Lovely Water, Essential Schumann

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein.

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

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

1010 Well known musicians reveal their personal favourite performers.

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we bring you five great pieces by Robert Schumann.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Heute noch, heute noch (Cantata no.211 "Kaffee-Kantata")

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S. Bach: Secular Cantatas: Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
    • 18.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    The pines of the Appian Way (Pines of Rome)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No 15 in F major, K 533/494 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Mozart: Piano Sonatas K.310, 331 & 533/494: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.
  • George Gershwin

    Lullaby

    Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Ernest John Moeran

    Lonely Waters

    Singer: Rebekah Coffey. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • E. J. Moeran: Cello Concerto / Serenade.
    • Naxos.
    • 12.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    O clap your hands together

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Concert Fantasy on Verdi's Rigoletto

    Music Arranger: Franz Doppler. Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Juliette Hurel. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Fantasy, A Night at the Opera: Emmanuel Pahud.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in G major, K 427

    Performer: Christian Zacharias.
    • EMI.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance no.1 in G minor

    Music Arranger: Marc-Olivier Dupin. Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Marin Marais

    Les Voix Humaines (Suite - book 2 no. 3 in D major)

    Performer: Hille Perl. Performer: Lee Santana.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Elizabeth Maconchy

    String Quartet No 3, 'In one continuous movement'

    Performer: Peter Hanson. Performer: Iris Juda. Performer: Douglas Paterson. Performer: Lionel Handy. Ensemble: Hanson String Quartet.
    • Elizabeth Maconchy: Hanson String Quartet: Peter Hanson, Iris Juda....
    • Unicorn-Kanchana.
    • 9.
  • Franz Schubert

    6 Moments musicaux, Op. 94, D. 780: No. 1 in C Major: Moderato

    Performer: Lars Vogt.
    • Schubert: Piano Works.
    • Ondine.
    • 11.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The Blue Bird (8 Partsongs Op.119)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Music of the Spheres.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 15.
  • Gerald Finzi

    A Severn Rhapsody Op.3

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit - The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 16.
  • Trad.

    Down to the River to Pray

    Music Arranger: Alison Krauss. Performer: Alison Krauss.
    • Mercury Nashville.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in D minor, H XV 23 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Philips.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Favourite Things (More Light)

    Composer: Richard Rodgers. Performer: Errollyn Wallen.
    • Errollyn.
    • AVIE.
    • 11.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    S茅r茅nade m茅lancolique, Op.26

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.
    • Pentatone.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Zartliche Liebe (Ich liebe dich, so wie du mich) WoO.123

    Performer: Graham Johnson. Singer: Benjamin Appl.
  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No 3 in E flat major, Op 97, 'Rhenish' (1st mvt)

    Conductor: David Zinman. Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Z眉rich.
    • Robert Schumann: Symphonies 1-4.
    • Arte Nova Classics.
  • Alessandro Striggio

    Ecce beatam Lucem

    Choir: I Fagiolini. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.
    • DECCA.
  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir

    Aequa: Fields

    Ensemble: International Contemporary Ensemble. Conductor: Steven Schick.
    • DORIAN SONO LUMINUS.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Mazurka in A minor, Op 7 No 2

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Alexandre Tharaud: Chopin; Journal Intime.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 7.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Dawn over the Moscow River (Khovanshchina)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Wiener Philharmoniker/Gergiev.
    • Decca.
    • 16.
  • Franz Schubert

    St盲ndchen (Schwanengesang)

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Singer: Mark Padmore.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op 8 No 2, RV 315 'Summer'

    Performer: Arabella Steinbacher. Orchestra: M眉nchener Kammerorchester.
    • Four Seasons.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 6-8.

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  • Tue 28 Jul 2020 09:00

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