Suzy Klein with Bryn Terfel, Essential Cello, Rachmaninov's All-Night Vigil
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 – 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.
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Music Played
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George Frideric Handel
Alla Hornpipe; Allegro (Water music - suite in D major HWV.349)
Music Arranger: Iain Farrington. Ensemble: Ferio Saxophone Quartet.- CHANDOS.
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Fanny Mendelssohn
Character Piece no.3 in B major
Performer: Béatrice Rauchs.- BIS.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Tango (The Bolt - suite Op.27a)
Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- DECCA.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Magnificat (Vespers)
Choir: Moscow Academy of Choral Art. Conductor: Victor Popov.- Rachmaninov, S.: All-Night Vigil, "Vespers".
- Delos.
- 111.
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Edvard Grieg
4 Norwegian dances Op.35 (no.1)
Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ole Kristian Ruud.- Grieg: The Orchestral Music: Bergen PO, Ruud.
- BIS.
- 1.
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Nigel Westlake
Flying Fish (6 Fish)
Ensemble: Guitar Trek.- Bluetongue.
- Naxos.
- 106.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata no.18 in E flat major Op.31`3 (1st mvt)
Performer: Daniel Barenboim.- DG.
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Giacomo Puccini
Vissi d'arte (Tosca)
Singer: Angela Gheorghiu. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.- VIRGIN.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto no.4 in A major BWV.1055
Ensemble: Il Pomo d’Oro.- J.S. Bach: Harpsichord Concertos.
- PENTATONE.
- 403.
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Richard Wagner
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Was duftet doch der Flieder)
Singer: Bryn Terfel. Choir: Vienna State Opera Choir. Orchestra: Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.- Wiener Opernfest 2005.
- Orfeo.
- 202.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Marriage of Figaro (Overture)
Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- TELARC DIGITAL.
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Jean Sibelius
Impromptu in B minor Op.5 no. 5
Performer: Folke Gräsbeck.- BIS.
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William Grant Still
Symphony no. 2 "Song of a new race" (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- CHANDOS.
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Henry Purcell
Fantazia upon one note in F major Z.745
Ensemble: Fretwork.- Henry Purcell The Complete Fantazias Fretwork.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 13.
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Maximilian Steinberg
Do not weep for me mother (Passion Week Op.13)
Singer: Leslie Green. Performer: Cappella Romana. Performer: Alexander Lingas.- Steinberg: Passion Week/Capella Romana.
- Cappella Romana.
- 9.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
At Church (Album for the Young)
- Tchaikovsky, P.I.: Album for the Young (The Snow Queen).
- Delos.
- 212.
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Arvo Pärt
De Profundis Clamavi [Psalm 130]
Choir: Polyphony. Performer: Andrew Lucas. Conductor: Stephen Layton.- Berliner Messe: Magnificat Antiphons etc: Polyphony: Andrew Lucas/Steven layton.
- Hyperion.
- 25.
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Luigi Boccherini
Fandango (Guitar Quintet no. 4 in D major G.448)
Performer: Giangiacomo Pinardi. Ensemble: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi.- Boccherini: Quintets: Europa Galante.
- Virgin Veritas.
- 4.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No 3, 'Pastoral' (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.- Vaughan Williams: Pastoral Symphony and other works.
- HALLE.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Cello Sonata in G minor Op.19
Performer: Anastasia Kobekina. Performer: Tom Poster. -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.104 in D major (H.1.104) "London"
Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.- GB´óÏó´«Ã½.
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Gustav Mahler
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Rückert-Lieder)
Singer: Jessye Norman. Performer: Irwin Gage.- Jessye Norman, Schubert & Mahler, Irwin Gage.
- Philips.
- 10.
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Nino Rota
Death on the Nile (Main Titles)
Orchestra: Unnamed orchestra. Conductor: Marcus Dods.- CNR.
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Claude Debussy
Pour l'égyptienne (6 Épigraphes Antiques)
Orchestrator: Ernest Ansermet. Orchestra: Opéra de Lyon. Conductor: Jun Märkl.- Debussy.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5; Markl.
- Naxos.
- 12.
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Julian Slade
Cleopatra (Salad Days)
Librettist: Dorothy Reynolds. Librettist: Julian Slade. Singer: Roy Hudd. Performer: Jonathan Cohen. Performer: Mark W. Dorrell. Conductor: John Owen Edwards.- EMI.
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Johann Christian Bach
Harpsichord Concerto in F minor T.298/1`2 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Jean Rondeau. Performer: Sophie Gent. Performer: Louis Creac’h. Performer: Fanny Paccoud. Performer: Antoine Touche.- Dynastie.
- ERATO.
- 005.
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Frédéric Chopin
Berceuse in D flat major Op.57
Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.- Erato.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Apotheosis of Fevronia (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh - suite)
Orchestra: Gürzenich-Orchester Köln. Conductor: Dmitri Georgievich Kitayenko.- Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov & Lyadov: Works.
- Oehms Classics.
- 204.
Broadcast
- Wed 21 Oct 2020 09:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3