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Suzy Klein with Mary Bevan, Weber's Abu Hassan, Essential Quintets

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

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Impromptu no.3 in A flat major Op.34

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Faure - The Complete Music for Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for strings in F major RV.141

    Orchestra: Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. Director: Paul Dyer.
    • Decca.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Water Night

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Choir: Laudibus. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Eric Whitacre, Light & Gold.
    • Decca.
    • 14.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Abu Hassan (Overture)

    Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jean鈥怞acques Kantorow.
    • Weber: Overtures.
    • BIS.
    • 3.
  • L茅o Delibes

    Flower Duet (Lakm茅)

    Music Arranger: Philip Sparke. Ensemble: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Garry Cutt.
    • Classic Brass: Grimethorpe Colliery RJB Band.
    • RCA.
    • 12.
  • Claude Debussy

    Violin Sonata in G minor

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Andrew Armstrong.
    • Onyx Classics ONYX 4159.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 1.
  • Lera Auerbach

    Lullaby Op.66

    Choir: Allm盲nna S氓ngen. Conductor: Maria Goundorina.
    • Femina moderna.
    • BIS.
    • 401.
  • Franz Schubert

    Scherzo in B flat major D.593 no.1

    Performer: Ll欧r Williams.
    • A Schubert Journey.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 701.
  • Doreen Carwithen

    ODTAA[(One Damn Thing After Another]

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Carwithen: Orchestral Works.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 001.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Sextet in D major Op.110 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Aaron Pilsan. Performer: Anna Reszniak. Performer: Elisabeth Kufferath. Performer: Maya Meron. Performer: Gustav Rivinius. Performer: Edicson Ruiz.
    • Mendelssohn & Penderecki: Sextets.
    • CAvi-music.
    • 4.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Saul (Act I, Scene 3)

    Singer: Christopher Purves. Ensemble: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Johan Halvorsen

    Bergensiana

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Chandos.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Gallop (The Nose - suite Op.15a)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky.
    • Praga.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Oriental Festmarch (Aladdin Suite)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Nielsen: Aladdin Suite etc: Gothenbug Symphony Orchestra/Jarvi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo alla Turca (Piano Sonata in A major K.331)

    Music Arranger: Arcadi Volodos. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • DG.
  • Frederick Delius

    Serenade (Hassan)

    Music Arranger: Thomas Beecham. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Vaughan Williams / Delius / Elgar / Warlock.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • Luigi Cherubini

    Ali-Baba (Overture: Allegro molto)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lawrence Foster.
    • Claves.
  • Thelonious Monk

    Misterioso

    Music Arranger: Tom Darter. Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.
    • Kronos Quartet Plays Music Of Thelonious Monk.
    • SAVOY JAZZ.
    • 6.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude and Fugue in B flat minor Op.87`16

    Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Shostakovich The Preludes & Fugues Alexander Melnikov Piano.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 7.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quintet in G minor K.516 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Philip Dukes. Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Mozart: String Quintets; Nash Ensemble, Philip Dukes.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Herr Christ, der ein'ge Gottes-Sohn BWV.601

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • DG.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    In dir ist Freude BWV.615

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • DG.
  • Arvo P盲rt

    And I Heard a Voice...

    Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • ...and....
    • Naxos.
    • 1201.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Cello Sonata no.2 in F major, Op.99 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Emanuel Ax.
    • RCA VICTOR GOLD SEAL.
  • Louis Spohr

    Nonet in F major, Op.31 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Spohr: Nonet and Octet: Nash Ensemble.
    • CRD.
  • Philip Glass

    Japur谩 River (Aguas da Amazonia)

    Ensemble: Uakti.
    • Orange Mountain.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Finlandia Op.26

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Sibelius: Symphonies No.1 & 3/Finlandia: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/O.
    • Erato.
    • 8.

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  • Tue 17 Nov 2020 09:00

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