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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Essential autumnal music, Rachel Podger

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Suzy Klein.

0915 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 pieces of music inspired by Autumn.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Giuseppe Torelli

    Sinfonia In C Major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Adrian Chandler. Ensemble: La Serenissima.
    • The Italian Job.
    • Avie.
    • 23.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Morning Mood, Op 23, No 13 (Peer Gynt)

    Conductor: Neeme Järvi. Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
    • Grieg: Complete music with orchestra: Gothenburg SO/Jarvi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 14.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Rondo in G major, Op.129 'Rage over a lost penny'

    Performer: Evgeny Kissin.
    • Bach-Bussoni - Chaconne, Beethoven - Rondos: Evgeny Kissin.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 3.
  • Heinrich Marschner

    Der Vampyr (overture)

    Orchestra: WDR Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Helmuth Froschauer.
    • CAPRICCIO.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Double Concerto in D minor BWV.1043 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • Bach: Double and Triple Concertos.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 02.
  • Roxanna Panufnik

    St Pancras Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (Magnificat)

    Choir: Ex Cathedra Choir. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Roxanna Panufnik: Celestial Bird.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 501.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503: I. Allegro maestoso

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Piotr Anderszewski.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 25 & 27.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 101.
  • Francesca Caccini

    Romanesca

    Choir: Cappella di Santa Maria degli Angiolini. Conductor: Gian Luca Lastraioli.
    • BRILLIANT.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    A Night on the Bare Mountain

    Orchestrator: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition etc.: Jansons.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 16.
  • Robert Schumann

    Ich Grolle Nicht (Dichterliebe, Op 48, No 7)

    Performer: Hubert Giesen. Singer: Fritz Wunderlich.
    • DG.
  • Florence Price

    Symphony No. 1 in E Minor: II. Largo, maestoso

    Conductor: John Jeter. Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony.
    • Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4.
    • Naxos.
    • 102.
  • James Bernard

    The Kiss of the Vampire

  • Joseph Achron

    Golem: IV. Dance of the Phantom Spirits

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • NAxos.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    When the night wind howls (Ruddigore)

    Librettist: W. S. Gilbert. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Choir: Radiokören. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Daniel.
    • Bryn Terfel: Bad Boys; Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Flute Concerto in F major RV.433 'La tempesta di mare'

    Performer: Lisa Beznosiuk. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Vivaldi: 6 Flute Concertos Op. 10: Beznosiuk, The English Concert, Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 1-3.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in E major Op.54 no.3 (1st movement)

    Ensemble: London Haydn Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Opp. 54 & 55.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Otono Porteno

    Performer: Astor Piazzolla.
    • Rough Guide.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit (A German Requiem)

    Singer: Anna Lucia Richter. Choir: MDR Leipzig Radio Choir. Orchestra: MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Naxos.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Sonata a 22 S.241 [1615 no.20]

    Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Violin Concerto in D major Op.35 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Gaffigan.
    • Warner.
  • George Gershwin

    Introduction; Summertime (Porgy and Bess)

    Singer: Leontyne Price. Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Choir: RCA Victor Choir. Conductor: Skitch Henderson.
    • RCA.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Enchantment (Beyond The Dream)

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • My Cup Runneth Over.
    • NAVONA.
    • 14.
  • Gustav Holst

    Beni Mora Op.29`1 (In the street of the Ouled Nails)

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Holst: Orchestral Works, Volume 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • John Dowland

    Mr Dowland's Midnight

    Performer: Joanna MacGregor. Performer: Markus Van Horn. Performer: Roger Linley. Music Arranger: Joanna MacGregor. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia.
    • Joanna MacGregor: Live in Buenos Aires.
    • Warner Classics and Jazz.
    • 8.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Harold in Italy - 4th mvt: Orgy of Brigands

    Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • NAIVE.

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