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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Essential Schumann, Grieg's Holberg Suite, Alpesh Chauhan

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

  • Jean Sibelius

    Overture in A minor

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.
    • Jean Sibelius.
    • BIS.
    • 2.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Keyboard Sonata no.13 in G Major, Hob.XVI:6 Ist movt. Allegro

    Performer: Tuija Hakkila.
    • Haydn: 8 Early Sonatas.
    • Ondine.
    • 1.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C major for 2 trumpets, RV.537

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Performer: Crispian Steele鈥怭erkins. Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Conductor: Peter Holman.
    • Music for two trumpets from the Italian Baroque.
    • Hyperion.
    • 33.
  • Jacques Ibert

    Jeux

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Eric Le Sage.
    • WARNER.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg suite Op.40 vers. for string orchestra - ii: Sarabande

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ole Kristian Ruud.
    • BIS.
  • William Byrd

    Nunc dimittis servum tuum

    Ensemble: Stile Antico.
    • Tallis/Byrd/Sheppard: Music for Compline: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 15.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Vltava (M谩 vlast)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • B. Smetana; Ma Vlast: Detroit Symphony Orchestra/Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Eleanor Alberga

    Ride Through

    Performer: Robert Irvine.
    • Songs and Lullabies.
    • DELPHIAN.
    • 011.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Scherzo no.2 in B flat minor Op.31

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Chopin: 26 Preludes.
    • DG.
    • 28.
  • Robert Schumann

    Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 129 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Pablo Ferr谩ndez. Orchestra: Stuttgart Philharmoniker. Conductor: Radoslav Szulc.
    • Onyx.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    Salve Regina (Sacri Musicali Affetti, Book 1)

    Singer: Mar铆a Cristina Kiehr. Ensemble: Concerto Soave.
    • Barbara Strozzi.
    • l'empreinte digitale.
    • 1-2.
  • Peter Warlock

    Bransles (Capriol Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Clio Gould.
    • English String Classics 2: Vaughan Williams/Warlock/Tippet/Elgar etc.
    • Apex.
    • 10.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Oberon (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Overtures: London Classical Players/Norrington.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Margaret Hubicki

    Piano Sonata (1st mvt)

    Performer: James Kirby.
    • Chandos.
  • Robert Schumann

    Dichterliebe, Op.48: nos.12-13

    Performer: Gerald Moore. Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau.
    • Orfeo.
  • Gustav Holst

    Indra - symphonic poem Op.13

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Holst: Cotswolds Symphony.
    • Naxos.
    • 12.
  • John Cage

    A Room

    Performer: Bruce Brubaker.
    • glass cage, music for piano by Philip Glass and John Cage. Bruce Brubaker (pno).
    • Arabesque recordings.
    • 2.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane pour une infante d茅funte

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Dario Castello

    Sonata 脿 due No 5

    Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts.
    • The Floating City.
    • Helios.
    • 8.
  • Josef Suk

    Elegie, Op.23

    Ensemble: The Florestan Trio.
    • HYPERION.

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