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Suzy Klein with Butterworth's Gigues and Tom Poster

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.

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Thu 13 Aug 2020 09:00

Music Played

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Espana - rhapsody

    Ensemble: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Escales.
    • Chandos.
    • 01.
  • Roderick Williams

    Let Nothing Trouble You

    Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in B flat major, Op.3'1

    Orchestra: Academy For Early Music, Berlin. Director: Georg Kallweit.
    • Handel: Concerti grossi, Op. 3.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 1.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Piano Trio No 2 in G minor, Op 26 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Joachim Trio.
    • Dvorak: Piano Trios Vol. 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 006.
  • Arthur Butterworth

    Gigues

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Arthur Butterworth.
    • A Butterworth, Symphony no.5: RSNO/Butterworth.
    • Epoch.
    • 10.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Septet in E-Flat Major: I. Adagio maestoso - Allegro moderato

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • Glinka: Septet, Trio Pathetique, Serenade & 3 Russian Songs.
    • CPO.
    • 101.
  • Gabriela Montero

    'Continuum'

    Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • EMI.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 40 in G minor, K 550 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphonies 38 - 41 Scottish Chamber Orchestra Sir Charle.
    • Linn.
    • 3.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Ave Maris Stella (Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • DG.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor, Op 15 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Domus.
    • Hyperion.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    La Cenerentola, ossia La bonta in trionfo: Overture

    Orchestra: German Radio Philharmonic. Conductor: Alberto Zedda.
    • NAXOS.
  • Claude Debussy

    Gigues (Images)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue a la Gigue, BWV577

    Music Arranger: Gustav Holst. Ensemble: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Charles Avison

    Concerto Grosso in F major, Op 9 No 10

    Performer: Pavlo Beznosiuk. Ensemble: Avison Ensemble.
    • The Avison Ensemble: Avison: Concerti Grossi, op. 9 & op. 10.
    • Divine Art.
    • 1.
  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Tango (Espana)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Decca.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Le rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31, R. 169

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lille. Conductor: Jun M盲rkl.
    • Saint-Sa毛ns: Symphonic Poems.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.

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