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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Aaron Copland
Quiet City
Performer: Simon Höfele. Performer: Sarah-Jane Porsmoguer. Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Duncan Ward.- BERLIN CLASSICS.
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Battalia
Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.- Teldec.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Klavierstuck in A minor 'Fur Elise' and Bagatelle in C minor
Performer: Steven Osborne.- HYPERION.
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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.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Ruy Blas, Op.95
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- Mendelssohn Overturen London Symphony Orchestra Claudio Abbado.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Foday Musa Suso
Tilliboyo (Sunset)
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.- Nonesuch.
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AntonÃn Dvořák
Slavonic Dance in E minor, Op 72 No 2
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: José Serebrier.- Warner.
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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.
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Frédéric Chopin
Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op 52
Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.- Harmonia Mundi.
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Tielman Susato
Pavane (Suite from Danserye arr Iveson)
Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.- La Battaglia: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
- Decca.
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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.
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Enya
May It Be
Music Arranger: Matt Sheeran. Performer: VOCES8.- Enchanted Isle.
- Decca Classics.
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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.
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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.
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Errollyn Wallen
Louis' Loops
Performer: Errollyn Wallen.- Errollyn.
- AVIE.
- 10.
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George Frideric Handel
Dopo notte (Ariodante)
Singer: Janet Baker. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Raymond Leppard.- Philips.
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Flute Concerto in G major
Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.- WARNER.
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Thomas Tallis
In jejunio et fletu
Conductor: Suzi Digby. Ensemble: ORA.- Spem in alium. Vidi aquam.
- harmonia mundi.
- 108.
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Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No 17
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.- Decca.
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Franz Schubert
Moment musical in C sharp minor D.780 no.4
Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.- Schubert: Piano Sonata/Moments Musicaux: Mitsuko Uchida.
- PHILIPS.
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George Gershwin
Cuban Overture
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.- Warner.
Broadcast
- Mon 7 Sep 2020 09:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3