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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Essential mezzo sopranos, Biber's Battalia, Elizabeth Llewellyn

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 – 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

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto Movement for Horn in E flat Major K.370b

    Performer: Sarah Willis. Orchestra: Havana Lyceum Orchestra. Conductor: José Antonio Méndez Padrón.
    • Alpha.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    English Suite no.2 in A minor BW. 807 (Prelude)

    Music Arranger: Colin Currie. Music Arranger: Sam Walton. Performer: Colin Currie. Performer: Sam Walton.
    • Striking a Balance.
    • EMI.
    • 11.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake, Op. 20, Act I: No. 2, Valse

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
    • Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1.
  • Aaron Copland

    Quiet City

    Performer: Simon Höfele. Performer: Sarah-Jane Porsmoguer. Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Duncan Ward.
    • BERLIN CLASSICS.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Battalia

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Teldec.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Klavierstuck in A minor 'Fur Elise' and Bagatelle in C minor

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • HYPERION.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Laudate Dominum

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Singer: Núria Rial. Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Via Crucis; L'Arpeggiata; Christina Pluhar.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 15.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Ruy Blas, Op.95

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mendelssohn Overturen London Symphony Orchestra Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • Foday Musa Suso

    Tilliboyo (Sunset)

    Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in E minor, Op 72 No 2

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: José Serebrier.
    • Warner.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Make Our Garden Grow (Candide)

    Singer: Jerry Hadley. Singer: June Anderson. Singer: Adolph Green. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Bernstein - Candide.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 016.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op 52

    Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Tielman Susato

    Pavane (Suite from Danserye arr Iveson)

    Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • La Battaglia: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • Decca.
    • 9.
  • Charles Ives

    Country Band March

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Experiments on a March: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra/Rundell.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Enya

    May It Be

    Music Arranger: Matt Sheeran. Performer: VOCES8.
    • Enchanted Isle.
    • Decca Classics.
    • 4.
  • Béla Bartók

    Rhapsody No. 1 for Violin & Orchestra, Sz. 87:

    Performer: Baiba Skride. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Eivind Aadland.
    • Bartók: Works for Violin & Orchestra.
    • Orfeo.
    • 202.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Albumblatt in D flat major

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Tine Thing Helseth, Kathryn Stott: Puccini, Falla, Hindemith, Rachmninov, Kreisl.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Louis' Loops

    Performer: Errollyn Wallen.
    • Errollyn.
    • AVIE.
    • 10.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Dopo notte (Ariodante)

    Singer: Janet Baker. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Raymond Leppard.
    • Philips.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Flute Concerto in G major

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • WARNER.
  • Thomas Tallis

    In jejunio et fletu

    Conductor: Suzi Digby. Ensemble: ORA.
    • Spem in alium. Vidi aquam.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 108.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 17

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Decca.
  • Franz Schubert

    Moment musical in C sharp minor D.780 no.4

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Schubert: Piano Sonata/Moments Musicaux: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 8.
  • George Gershwin

    Cuban Overture

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Warner.

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  • Mon 7 Sep 2020 09:00

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