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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Schumann's Abegg variations, Jack Liebeck, Essential mezzo sopranos

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

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 mezzo-sopranos.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Intermezzo (Hary Janos Suite Op.35a)

    Performer: Laurence Kaptain. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
  • Robert Fuchs

    Violin Sonata no.2 in D Major, Op.33: 3rd movt - Finale. Allegro giocoso

    Performer: Hyejin Chung. Performer: Warren Lee.
    • Fuchs: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.
  • Jean Sibelius

    The Oceanides, Op 73

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thomas S酶nderg氓rd.
    • Sibelius.
    • Linn Records.
    • 4.
  • Alessandro Striggio

    Mass "Ecco si beato giorno" (Agnus dei)

    Choir: Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. Director: Geoffrey Webber. Choir: Armonico Consort. Conductor: Christopher Monks.
    • Supersize Polyphony.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 011.
  • Robert Schumann

    Abegg variations Op.1

    Performer: Alexandra Dariescu.
    • Champs Hill Records.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Souvenir d'une nuit d'茅t茅 脿 Madrid

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.
  • Florence Price

    5 Folksongs in Counterpoint (Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes)

    Ensemble: Apollo Chamber Ensemble.
  • Claude Debussy

    Pagodes (Estampes)

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • Debussy, Preludes etc.: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 13.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Ode for St Cecilia's day (What passion cannot music raise and quell!)

    Singer: Simone Kermes. Ensemble: Collegium Cartusianum. Conductor: Peter Neumann.
    • CARUS.
  • Christopher Headington

    Violin Concerto (1st mvt)

    Performer: Xue Wei. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jane Glover.
    • ASV.
  • Carl Nielsen

    String Quintet in G major (4th mvt)

    Performer: Tim Frederiksen. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Carl Nielsen: String Quartets Vol.1.
    • Da Capo.
    • 12.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Edward Elgar

    Allegretto on G-E-D-G-E

    Performer: Marat Bisengaliev. Performer: Benjamin Frith.
    • Elgar: The Violin Music: Marat Bisengaliev.
    • Naxos.
    • 13.
  • Lars鈥怑rik Larsson

    Concertino for horn and strings, Op 45 No 5

    Performer: S枚ren Hermansson. Orchestra: Ume氓 Sinfonietta. Conductor: Edvard Tjivzjel.
    • Horn Concertos: Hermansson, Umea Sinfonietta.
    • BIS.
    • 4.
  • Nancy Dalberg

    String Quartet No.1 in D minor (2nd mvt: Scherzo: Allegretto gracioso)

    Ensemble: Nordic String Quartet.
    • Dalberg: The String Quartets.
    • Dacapo.
    • 2.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Una voce poco fa (Il barbiere di Siviglia)

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Orchestra: Orchestra La Scintilla. Conductor: 8 Bit.
    • Sospiri: Cecilia Bartoli.
    • Decca.
    • 10.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Oboe Sonata in D major

    Performer: Gareth Hulse. Performer: Ian Brown.
    • HYPERION.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Rondo in B flat major for piano and orchestra, WoO 6

    Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • WARNER.
  • John Dowland

    Sir John Smith, his Almain

    Performer: Paul O鈥橠ette.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Peteris Vasks

    The Fruit of Silence

    Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Orchestra: Sinfonietta R墨ga. Conductor: Sigvards K募ava.
    • Vasks: Laudate Dominum.
    • Ondine.
    • 5.
  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Navarra Op.33

    Performer: Chlo毛 Hanslip. Performer: Mikhail Ovrutsky. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Bruch - Violin Concertos nos. 1 & 3: Sarasate - Navarra.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
    • 7.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in G major, K 260

    Performer: Anne Queff茅lec.
    • MIRARE.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphonic Dances, Op.45 (no.2)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, The Isle of the Dead, The Rock.
    • Avie.
    • 2.

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