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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, 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

  • William Walton

    5 Bagatelles - No.5 - Con slancio

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Delphian.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Concerto no.1 in C, Op.15: 3) Rondo

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
    • Chandos.
  • Arvo P盲rt

    Magnificat

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • Gimell CDGIM 049.
    • Gimell.
    • 008.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Toccata in G major BWV.916 for keyboard

    Performer: Mahan Esfahani.
    • The Toccatas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Ma m猫re l'oye (Le jardin f茅erique)

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Yannick Nezet-Seguin Ravel Rotterdam Phiharmonic Orchestra.
    • EMI.
    • 17.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Horseplay (Lively)

    Ensemble: Ensemble X.
    • AVIE.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet in D major, K.155

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • DG.
  • Arnold Bax

    The Happy Forest

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Made In Britain.
    • Avie.
    • 5.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Barcarolle in F sharp major Op.60

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Benjamin Grosvenor: Homages.
    • Decca.
    • 009.
  • Richard Wagner

    Das Rheingold (Scene 1)

    Singer: Oda Balsborg. Singer: Hetty Pl眉macher. Singer: Ira Malaniuk. Singer: Gustav Neidlinger. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • DECCA.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Bassoon Concerto, RV.501 'La notte'

    Performer: Peter Whelan. Orchestra: La Serenissima. Conductor: Adrian Chandler.
    • AVIE.
  • Edward Elgar

    The Wild Bears (The Wand of Youth Suite No 2)

    Orchestra: Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Argo.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Berceuse; Finale (The Firebird)

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Franz Schubert

    Die Forelle

    Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Ian Bostridge.
    • Schubert: Lieder: Bostridge, Drake.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Geoffrey Bush

    Consort Music

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Naxos.
  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op 44 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Dora Schwarzberg. Performer: Lucy Hall. Performer: Nobuko Imai. Performer: Mischa Maisky.
    • Schumann: Chamber Works: Martha Argerich.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Jacques Ibert

    Divertissement

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Louis Fr茅maux.
    • EMI.
  • Alessandro Stradella

    La Susanna - Da chi spero aita, o cieli

    Singer: Emanuela Galli. Ensemble: Ensemble Aurora. Conductor: Enrico Gatti.
    • Glossa.
  • Madeleine Dring

    Trio for flute, oboe and piano

    Performer: Nancy Ruffer. Performer: John Anderson. Performer: Helen Crayford.
    • Dutton.
  • William Lawes

    Royal Consort Sett no.4 in D: Paven

    Ensemble: Phantasm. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
    • LINN.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Moonlight (4 Sea interludes [from 'Peter Grimes'] Op.33a)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Steuart Bedford.

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