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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.

3 hours

Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Alla Hornpipe; Allegro (Water music - suite in D major HWV.349)

    Music Arranger: Iain Farrington. Ensemble: Ferio Saxophone Quartet.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Character Piece no.3 in B major

    Performer: Béatrice Rauchs.
    • BIS.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Tango (The Bolt - suite Op.27a)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Magnificat (Vespers)

    Choir: Moscow Academy of Choral Art. Conductor: Victor Popov.
    • Rachmaninov, S.: All-Night Vigil, "Vespers".
    • Delos.
    • 111.
  • 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.
  • Nigel Westlake

    Flying Fish (6 Fish)

    Ensemble: Guitar Trek.
    • Bluetongue.
    • Naxos.
    • 106.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata no.18 in E flat major Op.31`3 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • DG.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Vissi d'arte (Tosca)

    Singer: Angela Gheorghiu. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • VIRGIN.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto no.4 in A major BWV.1055

    Ensemble: Il Pomo d’Oro.
    • J.S. Bach: Harpsichord Concertos.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 403.
  • 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.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Marriage of Figaro (Overture)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • TELARC DIGITAL.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Impromptu in B minor Op.5 no. 5

    Performer: Folke Gräsbeck.
    • BIS.
  • William Grant Still

    Symphony no. 2 "Song of a new race" (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Henry Purcell

    Fantazia upon one note in F major Z.745

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Henry Purcell The Complete Fantazias Fretwork.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 13.
  • 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.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    At Church (Album for the Young)

    • Tchaikovsky, P.I.: Album for the Young (The Snow Queen).
    • Delos.
    • 212.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No 3, 'Pastoral' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Vaughan Williams: Pastoral Symphony and other works.
    • HALLE.
    • 4.
  • 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.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Rückert-Lieder)

    Singer: Jessye Norman. Performer: Irwin Gage.
    • Jessye Norman, Schubert & Mahler, Irwin Gage.
    • Philips.
    • 10.
  • Nino Rota

    Death on the Nile (Main Titles)

    Orchestra: Unnamed orchestra. Conductor: Marcus Dods.
    • CNR.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Berceuse in D flat major Op.57

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Erato.
  • 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.

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  • Wed 21 Oct 2020 09:00

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