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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Essential mezzo sopranos, Nicholas Collon

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

    Violin Concerto no. 1 in B flat major K.207 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Baiba Skride. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Eivind Aadland.
    • Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 1-5.
    • Orfeo.
    • 103.
  • Henri Duparc

    Chanson triste

    Performer: Fazil Say. Singer: Marianne Crebassa.
    • Secrets.
    • ERATO.
    • 118.
  • Turlough O'Carolan

    Carolan's Cup

    Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Music Arranger: Barokksolistene. Performer: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene.
    • The Alehouse Sessions.
    • RUBICON.
    • 111.
  • Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Colas Breugnon Op.24 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Director: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Khachaturian, Mussorgsky, Shchedrin etc..
    • Onyx.
    • 01.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Quintet in E flat major Op.97 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet. Performer: Veronika Hagen.
    • Dvorak: String Quintet, Op. 97 & String Sextet, Op. 48.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 108.
  • Franz Liszt

    Transcendental Study in B flat major S.139 no.5

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    O clap your hands; God is gone up

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Voces 8: A Choral Taspestry.
    • Signum Classics.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Cello Concerto in G minor RV.416

    Performer: Bruno Philippe. Ensemble: Jupiter.
    • ALPHA.
  • Enrique Granados

    Danza española, Op. 37 No. 5 'Andaluza'

    Performer: Xavier de Maistre. Performer: Lucero Tena.
    • Sony.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 7 in C major, Op 105

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Philips.
  • François Couperin

    Les baricades mistérieuses (Pièces de clavecin, Ordre no.6)

    Performer: Jean Rondeau. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • Erato.
  • William Byrd

    Mass for 4 voices (Gloria)

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • The Tallis Scholars Sing William Byrd.
    • Gimell.
    • 7.
  • Steve Reich

    Clapping Music

    Performer: Steve Reich. Performer: Colin Currie.
    • COLIN CURRIE RECORDS.
  • George Gershwin

    Clap Yo' Hands

    Lyricist: Ira Gershwin. Performer: Oh, Kay! Ensemble.
    • Masterworks Broadway.
  • Amy Beach

    Romance Op.23

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: John Lenehan.
    • Chandos.
  • Henry Purcell

    Strike the viol (from Come, ye sons of art away)

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Orchestra: L’Arpeggiata. Conductor: Christina Pluhar.
    • Music for a While - Improvisations on Purcell.
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 103.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Keyboard Concerto in D major H.18.2 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.
    • Leif Ove Andsnes - a portrait.
    • EMI.
    • 9.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no. 2 in C minor; 4th movement; Urlicht (Sehr feierlich, aber schlicht)

    Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Zander.
    • Linn.
  • Luiz Bonfá

    Manhã de Carnaval

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Daniel Ottensamer. Performer: Ernst Ottensamer. Performer: František Jánoška.
    • DG.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    Italian Ground in C major, MB.20.27

    Performer: Glenn Gould.
    • The Glenn Gould Edition.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.
  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Una furtiva lagrima (L'elisir d'amore)

    Performer: Kauno Miesto Simfoninis Orkestras. Singer: Stephen Costello. Conductor: Constantine Orbelian.
    • DELOS.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Eclogue in F major Op.10

    Performer: Tom Poster. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 17.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D major, BWV 1050 - 3rd movement, Allegro

    Performer: Enrico Onofri. Performer: Giovanni Antonini. Performer: Michele Barchi. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • J.S. Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos; Il Giardino Armonico.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major Op.20`4 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Op. 20.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    La Silken Ladder (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.

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  • Thu 10 Sep 2020 09:00

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