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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Jessie Grimes and Balakirev's arrangement of Glinka's The Lark

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.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Wonderful Town (Overture)

    Orchestra: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Bernstein: Wonderful Town.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Henry Purcell

    Sweeter than Roses (Pausanias)

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Jory Vinikour.
    • Music for a While, Baroque melodies: Anne Sofie von Otter.
    • Archiv Produktion.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute (Overture)

    Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni. Performer: Marco Rapetti. Performer: Aldo Orvieto.
    • Busoni: Works for 2 Pianos.
    • Naxos.
    • 601.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Brass Quintet no.1 Op.73 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Stockholm Chamber Brass.
    • BIS.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony no.1 in C minor Op.11 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Freiberg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

    The Lark [after Glinka's song]

    Performer: Danny Driver.
    • Balakirev - Piano Sonatas and Other Works.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.
  • Nitin Sawhney

    River Pulse

    Performer: Anoushka Shankar. Performer: Nitin Sawhney. Performer: Ian Burdge. Performer: Pirashanna Thevarajah.
    • Traces of you.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • Johannes Brahms

    String Sextet no.1 in B Flat major, Op.18 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: Christoph Koncz. Performer: Marie Chilemme. Performer: G茅rard Causs茅. Performer: Clemens Hagen. Performer: Gautier Capu莽on.
    • ERATO.
  • Cecilia McDowall

    Regina caeli

    Choir: Wells Cathedral School Choralia. Conductor: Christopher Finch.
    • NAXOS.
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Excelsior! Op.13

    Orchestra: Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Lindberg.
    • BIS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Jack Brymer. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Philips.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso Op.28

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Nicola Benedetti: Fantasie.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 3.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark in the Morning

    Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks.
    • ALBION RECORDS.
  • Franz Schubert

    Standchen (Horch, horch) D.889

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Ll欧r Williams.
    • Signum Classics.
  • Robert Johnson

    Hark! hark! the lark

    Singer: Joseph Cornwell. Performer: Paul O鈥橠ette.
    • Hyperion.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op.64`5 'The Lark' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • AVI MUSIC.
  • William Lawes

    Royall Consort Suite no.1 in D minor (Aire; Alman; Corant)

    Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • William Lawes: The Royal Consort.
    • LINN.
    • 1.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs)

    Ensemble: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • France-Espagne.
    • Musicales Actes Sud.
    • 9.

Broadcast

  • Tue 18 Aug 2020 09:00

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