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Suzy Klein with Essential Quintets, Daniel Kidane and Mozart's Soave sia il vento from Cos矛 fan tutte

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

  • Franz Liszt

    Transcendental Study in B flat major S.139 no.5

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Cyril Scott

    3 Symphonic Dances (no.1)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • CHANDOS CHAN.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Violin Sonata no.1 in D minor Op.75 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Jeremy Denk.
    • French Impressions.
    • Sony.
    • 4.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Soave sia il vento (Cosi fan tutte K.588)

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Singer: Lea Desandre. Singer: Florian Sempey. Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Erato.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in D major RV.208 'Il Grosso Mogul' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico.
    • ALPHA.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Ritual Fire Dance (El Amor Brujo)

    Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado.
    • Harmonia mundi.
  • Duke Ellington

    Solitude

    Music Arranger: Morton Gould. Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Chandos.
  • Andrea Falconiero

    Ciaccona

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Lorenza Borrani. Performer: Jonathan Cohen. Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout. Performer: Stefan Maass. Performer: Stefan Rath. Performer: Hans-Kristian Kjos S酶rensen.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 49 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma.
    • Mendelssohn: Piano Trios, Opp. 49 & 66: Perlman : Ma : Ax.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Heute noch, heute noch (Cantata no.211 "Kaffee-Kantata")

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S. Bach: Secular Cantatas: Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
    • 18.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Sinfonia concertante in B flat major H.1.105 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Hyperion.
  • Gary Carpenter

    SET (No Hiding Place)

    Performer: Iain Ballamy. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Nimbus.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Rondo in C major B.27, Op.73

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov. Performer: Sergei Babayan.
    • Chopin Evocations.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 16.
  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Intermezzo (Hary Janos Suite, Op.35a)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Zoltan Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite: Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer.
    • Philips.
    • 15.
  • Richard Strauss

    Hab' mir's gelobt (Der Rosenkavalier)

    Singer: Diana Damrau. Singer: Adrianne Pieczonka. Singer: El墨na Garan膷a. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Fabio Luisi.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 9.
  • Michael Tippett

    Deep River (5 Spirituals from 'A Child of our Time')

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Collins Classics.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Some other time (On The Town)

    Singer: Frederica von Stade. Singer: Tyne Daly. Singer: David Garrison. Singer: Kurt Ollmann. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • DG.
  • Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Trio Sonata no.5 in F major (Allegro)

    Ensemble: Collegium 1704. Performer: V谩clav Luks.
    • Accent.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Adelaide, Op.46

    Singer: James Newby. Performer: Joseph Middleton.
    • I Wonder as I Wander.
    • BIS.
    • 801.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Maigesang Op.52 no.4

    Singer: James Newby. Performer: Joseph Middleton.
    • I Wonder as I Wander.
    • BIS.
    • 901.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Piano Quintet no.2 in A major Op.81 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Stefan Vladar. Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
    • Dvorak: Quatuor Op.95 'Americain'.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 8.
  • George Gershwin

    Strike Up the Band (Overture)

    Orchestra: WDR Funkhausorchester. Conductor: Wayne Marshall.
    • Born to play Gershwin.
    • AVI.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in C sharp major, BWV.848

    Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
    • DECCA.
  • Richard Walthew

    Clarinet Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Orchestrator: Alfie Pugh. Performer: Robert Plane. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Champs Hill Records.
  • Manuel de Falla

    7 Canciones Populares Espanolas (Nana)

    Performer: Yaniv d'Or. Performer: Ensemble NAYA.
    • Naxos.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Nocturne in E flat major

    Performer: Xavier de Maistre.
    • Sony.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Sento la gioia (Amadigi di Gaula)

    Music Arranger: Trevor Pinnock. Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • EMI.
  • Philip Glass

    Etude no.13

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    Almighty and everlasting God

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • The Phoenix Rising.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 10.
  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Trio in G minor Op.17 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.

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  • Wed 18 Nov 2020 09:00

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