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Suzy Klein with Essential South American music, Gabriella Swallow, Handel's Ma quando tornerai

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 favourite performers.

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we bring you five great pieces of music by South American composers.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Federico Garc铆a Lorca

    Sevillanas del siglo XVIII (No. 6 from Canci贸nes spa帽olas antiguas)

    Performer: Rafael Aguirre. Singer: Fatma Said.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Henry Purcell

    Curtain Tune (Timon of Athens Z.632)

    Music Arranger: Barokksolistene. Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Performer: Bjarte Eike.
    • The Alehouse Sessions.
    • RUBICON.
    • 102.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Romance in F major, Op 50

    Performer: Christian Tetzlaff. Orchestra: Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Beethoven: Violin concerto etc: Tetzlaff/Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich/Zinman.
    • Arte Nova Classics.
    • 5.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Ma quando tornerai (Alcina)

    Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Conductor: Alan Curtis. Orchestra: Il Complesso Barocco.
    • Joyce DiDonato: Drama Queens.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 3.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Study in C sharp minor, Op 2 No 1

    Performer: John Ogdon.
    • EMI.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio No. 11 in E major, Hob.XV:34; Finale (Presto)

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Philips.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Apres un reve

    Music Arranger: Pau Casals. Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Decca.
  • Louis Armstrong

    La Vie En Rose

    • Decca.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.4 in F minor Op.36 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Symphonies Vol. 2.
    • ONYX.
    • 4.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Piano Concerto no.5 in F major Op.103 'Egyptian' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Emmanuel Krivine.
    • Erato.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Sonata jucunda

    Performer: Edwin Huizinga.
    • Olde Focus Recordings.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet No 4 in C major, D46 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.
    • Erato.
  • Oliver Knussen

    Violin Concerto, Op. 30: II. Aria

    Performer: Leila Josefowicz. Ensemble: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Conductor: Oliver Knussen.
    • Oliver Knussen: Autumnal.
    • NMC Recordings.
    • 602.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her; Var. 4, In canone all'ottava per augmentatione

    Composer: Raaf Hekkema. Ensemble: Calefax Reed Quintet.
    • Bach's Musical Offerings.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 1104.
  • Franz Schubert

    Violin Sonata No 1 in D major, D 384, 'Sonatina' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.
    • Schubert Complete Violin Works for Violin and Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Ah fuggi rapido (from Orlando Furioso)

    Performer: Cecilia Bartoli. Orchestra: Ensemble Matheus. Conductor: Jean鈥怌hristophe Spinosi.
    • Decca.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in A major, Op.118 no.2

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Un bel di vedremo (Madama Butterfly)

    Singer: Anna Netrebko. Orchestra: Orchestra of Santa Cecilia. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Anna Netrebko: Verismo.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • John Williams

    Buckbeak's Flight (From "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban")

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nic Raine.
    • Silva Screen Records.
  • Hubert Parry

    Lady Radnor's Suite

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • British Composers - Elgar, Stanford & Parry.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 313.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Die Mainacht, Op.9 no.6

    Singer: Soraya Mafi. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • Vivat.
  • Charles鈥怣arie Widor

    Piano Quintet in D minor Op.7 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: I Giardini.
    • ALPHA.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden BWV.230

    Choir: VOCES8. Ensemble: Senesino Players. Director: Barnaby Smith.
    • Bach Motets.
    • Signum.
    • 3.
  • Trad.

    Mareta, mareta no'm faces plorar

    Music Arranger: Ensemble NAYA. Singer: Yaniv d'Or. Performer: Ensemble NAYA.
    • NAXOS.
  • Adolphus Hailstork

    Epitaph for a Man who dreamed (In memoriam Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)

    Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • African Heritage Symphonic Series volume II.
    • CEDILLE RECORDS.
    • 13.
  • Lili Boulanger

    Psalm 24

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quartet for oboe and strings in F major, K.370 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alexei Ogrintchouk. Performer: Boris Brovtsyn. Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Kristina Blaumane.
    • BIS.
  • Robert Schumann

    Liederkreis (Op.24), no.5; Sch枚ne Wiege meiner Leiden

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Singer: Matthias Goerne.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Robert Schumann

    Liederkreis (Op.24), no.6; Warte, warte, wilder Schiffmann

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Singer: Matthias Goerne.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

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  • Thu 15 Oct 2020 09:00

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