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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Gabriella Swallow, Essential Schumann, Walton's Spitfire Prelude and Fugue

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

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Barcarolle in F sharp major Op.60

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Benjamin Grosvenor: Homages.
    • Decca.
    • 009.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet in D minor, D 810, 'Death and the Maiden' (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Pavel Haas Quartet.
    • Schubert: Death and the Maiden - String Quintet.
    • Supraphon.
    • 3.
  • Arvo P盲rt

    Magnificat

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • Gimell CDGIM 049.
    • Gimell.
    • 008.
  • 脡lisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Trio sonata no. 3 in D major

    Ensemble: The Bach Players.
    • Coviello.
  • William Walton

    'Spitfire' Prelude and Fugue

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Hyperion.
  • Lili Boulanger

    Vieille pri猫re bouddhique

    Singer: Julian Podger. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Josef Myslivecek

    Wind Octet no.2 in E flat major

    Ensemble: Budapester Bl盲serensemble.
    • Hungaroton.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in C major, Op 119 No 3

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Brahms Handel Variations - Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 12.
  • George Walker

    Lyric

    Ensemble: Son Sonora String Quartet.
    • Walker: Chamber music and songs.
    • NAXOS.
    • 3.
  • Peter Lieberson

    Amor mio si muero y tu no mueres (Neruda Songs, No 5)

    Singer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Levine.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Domenico Cimarosa

    Concerto for Oboe and Strings in C major

    Performer: Heinz Holliger. Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Maag.
    • Great Oboe Concertos.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 1-4.
  • William Walton

    Battle in the Air (Battle of Britain Suite)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Walton: Battle of Britain Suite etc.: ASMF/Marriner.
    • Chandos.
    • 17.
  • Maurice Durufl茅

    Pr茅lude et fugue sur le nom d'Alain Op.7 (Fugue)

    Performer: John Scott.
    • Maurice Durufle: Organ Music: John Scott.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Richard Wagner

    The Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walk眉re)

    Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Wagner - Dudamel.
    • DG.
    • 1.
  • John Dowland

    Come again, sweet love doth now invite

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Xuefei Yang.
    • Songs from Our Ancestors.
    • GLOBE MUSIC.
    • 2.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in C minor, D 899 No 1

    Performer: Grigory Sokolov.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Robert Schumann

    Concertstuck in F major Op.86

    Performer: Roger Montgomery. Performer: Gavin Edwards. Performer: Susan Dent. Performer: Robert Maskell. Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Schumann: Complete Symphonies.
    • ARCHIV PRODUKTION.
    • 1.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Cello Sonata No 2 in F major, Op 123 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Mats Lidstr枚m. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • Camille Saint-Saens: Music for Cello: Lidstrom/Forsberg.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Iain Hamilton

    Clarinet Concerto, Op.7: 2) Adagio sereno

    Performer: Robert Plane. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Reawakened.
    • Champs Hill.
    • 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ch'io mi scordi di te? K.505

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Performer: Ronald Brautigam. Orchestra: Die K枚lner Akademie. Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens.
    • BIS.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    Go from my window

    Performer: Susanna Pell. Performer: Asako Morikawa. Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • Gibbons: Consorts for Viols.
    • Avie.
    • 21.
  • George Gershwin

    Summertime (Porgy & Bess)

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Angel Blue.
    • OPUS ARTE.

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  • Thu 30 Jul 2020 09:00

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