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Suzy Klein with Essential Cello, Bridge's The Dew Fairy, Davina Shum

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 written for the cello.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Carl Nielsen

    Dance of the Cockerels (Maskarade)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • Sibelius: Finlandia; Valse Triste; Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar; Salonen.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue in A minor, BWV.947

    Performer: Laurindo Almeida. Ensemble: The Modern Jazz Quartet.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Go, lovely rose (3 Flower Songs)

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Cloudburst and other choral works.
    • HYPERION.
    • 5.
  • Frank Bridge

    The Hour Glass (The Dew Fairy)

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Bridge - PIano Sonata etc Kathryn Stott.
    • Conifer.
    • 10.
  • Amy Beach

    Pastorale for Woodwind Quintet, Op. 151

    Ensemble: Ambache Chamber Ensemble.
    • Beach: Violin Sontata etc..
    • CHANDOS.
    • 6.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Piano Quartet Movement in A minor

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Paul Neubauer. Performer: David Finckel. Performer: Wu Han.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON : 479 4609.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 001.
  • George Frideric Handel

    'Revenge, Timotheus cries' (Alexander's Feast)

    Singer: Christopher Purves. Orchestra: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • HYPERION.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Enchantment (Beyond The Dream)

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • My Cup Runneth Over.
    • NAVONA.
    • 14.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in B flat major, K.270 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra Wind Soloists.
    • Linn.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony no.9 in E minor, Op.95 'From the New World' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • GB大象传媒.
  • Philip Glass

    String Quartet no.3 'Mishima' (Blood Oath)

    Ensemble: Brooklyn Rider.
    • Orange Mountain Music.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Mandolin Concerto in C major, RV.425

    Performer: Paul O鈥橠ette. Ensemble: Parley of Instruments. Director: Peter Holman.
    • HYPERION.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.3 in D major D.200 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: B鈥橰ock Orchestra. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs.
    • Pentatone.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    Che Si Puo Fare Op.8 no.6

    Singer: Simone Kermes. Ensemble: La magnifica comunit脿. Director: Enrico Casazza.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream Op.61 (Fairy's March)

    Orchestra: Hungarian State Orchestra. Conductor: 脕d谩m Fischer.
    • HUNGAROTON.
  • Trad.

    The Foggy Foggy Dew

    Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Singer: Robert Tear. Performer: Philip Ledger.
    • The Foggy, Foggy Dew.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • Anthony Holborne

    The Fairie-Round Galliard

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Music for Viols.
    • Virgin.
    • 14.
  • Claude Debussy

    La danse de Puck (Preludes, Book 1)

    Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
    • BIS.
  • Caroline Shaw

    Third Essay: Ruby

    Ensemble: Calidore String Quartet.
    • Babel: Schumann, Shaw, Shostakovich.
    • Signum Classics.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Fantaisie-tableaux, Op.5 (Barcarolle)

    Performer: Andr茅 Previn. Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Rachmaninov: Suites 1&2: Ashkenazy/Previn.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Roderick Williams

    Ave Verum Corpus re-imagined

    Choir: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Edward Elgar

    Cello Concerto in E minor Op.85 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Jean鈥怗uihen Queyras. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • harmonia mundi.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in B flat major Op.76`4 'Sunrise' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets, op. 76 4-6.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Edward Gregson

    Horn Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Richard Watkins. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Bramwell Tovey.
    • Gregson: Dream Song etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 008.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Agnus Dei (Mass in B minor)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Ensemble: Collegium Vocale Gent. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    String Sextet in D major Op.10 (Intermezzo)

    Performer: Jennifer Stumm. Performer: Bartholomew LaFollette. Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • Korngold: Piano Sextet/String Quintet: Doric String Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Edvard Grieg

    4 Symphonic dances Op.64 (no.3)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2 etc..
    • ERATO.
    • 12.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Concert champ锚tre (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Maggie Cole. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Poulenc: The Concertos for Solo Keyboard: Hickox.
    • Virgin.
    • 9.

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  • Tue 20 Oct 2020 09:00

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