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Suzy Klein with Essential Quintets, Ben Parry, Harty's The Fair Day

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 quintets.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    Tocata - The little train of the caipira (Bachianas Brasileiras no.2)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Heitor Villa鈥怢obos.
    • EMI CLASSICS: 5099902820224.
    • EMI CLASSICS.
    • 7.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for violin and oboe in C minor, BWV.1060R (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Cecilia Bernardini. Performer: Alfredo Bernardini. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • Linn Records : CKD519.
    • Linn Records.
    • 2.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Andante Soave, Op.5 no.6

    Performer: B茅atrice Rauchs.
    • BIS.
  • Sir Hamilton Harty

    The Fair Day (An Irish Symphony)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • An Irish Rhapsody: Ulster Orchestra/Handley/Thomson.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • William Byrd

    Quomodo cantabimus

    Choir: Contrapunctus. Conductor: Owen Rees.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Songs my mother taught me, Op.55 no.4

    Music Arranger: Schubert Ensemble. Ensemble: Schubert Ensemble.
    • Dvorak: Piano quintet/Piano quartet: Schubert Ensemble.
    • Chandos.
  • Samuel Barber

    Essay no.2 Op.17

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Measham.
    • UNICORN-KANCHANA.
  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Eliza's Aria (Wild Swans)

    Singer: Jane Sheldon. Conductor: Ola Rudner. Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.
    • ABC.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Andante with variations in F minor H.17.6 'Un piccolo divertimento'

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Philips.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty Suite (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 11.
  • Anders Edenroth

    Words

    Choir: The Real Group.
    • Virgin.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto grosso in D major Op.6`4

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Le Concert Spirituel: Les Concert des Nations/Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 1-6.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor Op.10 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Quintet; Clarinet Quintet.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.
  • Aaron Copland

    Hoe-Down (Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo)

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • ARGO.
  • Trad.

    She moved through the fair

    Performer: Ann Murray.
    • Ann Murray and Graham Johnson: Last rose of Summer.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Gustav Holst

    St Paul's suite Op.29`2 (Finale - The Dargason)

    Ensemble: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Eduard Erdmann

    Foxtrot in C major

    Performer: Gottlieb Wallisch.
    • 20th Century Foxtrots, Vol. 2.
    • Grand Piano.
    • 501.
  • Kieran Brunt

    Inside I'll sing

    Music Arranger: Nico Muhly. Choir: Shards. Choir: Isolation Choir.
    • Erased Tapes.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in D major Wq.183`1 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Gustav Leonhardt.
    • CPE Bach: Symphonies: OAE, Leonhardt.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 3.
  • Henry Lawes

    Love's Sweet Repose: Amidst the myrtles as I walk

    Singer: Robin Blaze. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Performer: William Carter. Performer: Frances Kelly.
    • Songs By Henry And William Lawes.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Quintet in A major, D.667 'Trout' (4th mvt)

    Performer: Andreas Haefliger. Performer: Joseph Carver. Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • Decca.
  • Arnold Bax

    November woods

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • Bax: The Garden of Fand / Tintagel / November Woods.....
    • LYRITA.
    • 005.
  • Johann Christoph Bach

    Es ist nun aus

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • J C Bach Welt, gute Nacht - Gardiner.
    • SDG.
    • 7.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    String Sonata no.1 in G major

    Performer: Elizabeth Wallfisch. Performer: Marshall Marcus. Performer: Richard Tunnicliffe. Performer: Chi-Chi Nwanoku.
    • HELIOS.
  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Allemande la verneuil (Pieces de Clavecin - ordre no.18)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Couperin: Keyboard Music 1: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Eleanor Alberga

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Celebration Dance)

    Orchestra: The Taliesin Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Ash.
    • ORCHID CLASSICS.

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  • Mon 16 Nov 2020 09:00

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