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Suzy Klein with Kerry Andrew, Essential Quintets, Gottschalk's Maiden's Blush

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

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.31 in D major 'Hornsignal' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • LINN.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Four Pieces Op. 81 - II: Scherzo in A minor

    Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.
    • ERATO.
  • Sir James MacMillan

    So Deep

    Choir: The Elysian Singers. Director: Sam Laughton.
    • The Elysian Singers - Cantos Sagrados.
    • Signum.
    • 10.
  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Le sourire d'une jeune fille

    Performer: Philip Martin.
    • Gottschalk: Piano Music 6: Philip Martin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Silken Ladder (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.
  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Introduction et tarentelle, Op. 43

    Performer: Charlie Siem. Performer: Itamar Golan.
    • Between The Clouds.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 701.
  • Claude Debussy

    Reve (Orchestral Suite no.1)

    Orchestrator: Philippe Manoury. Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Musicales Actes Sud.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in B minor Op.6`12

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Handel: Twelve Concerti Grossi, Op.6 Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini.
    • Decca.
    • 12.
  • James Whitbourn

    Lux in tenebris (Luminosity)

    Choir: Commotio. Performer: Levine Andrade. Performer: Henry Parkes. Performer: Andrew Ker. Performer: Steffan Jones. Conductor: Matthew Berry.
    • Whitbourn: Luminosity and other choral works.
    • Naxos.
    • 10.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Suite no.2 Op.17 (Romance)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Philips.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite No 3 in D Major, BWV 1068 (Aria) arr. for solo voice

    Music Arranger: Bobby McFerrin. Singer: Bobby McFerrin.
    • Columna M煤sica SL.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Serenade in E major Op.22 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Saito Kinen Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Dvorak, Bartok, Wolf: Saito Kinen, Ozawa.
    • Philips.
    • 2.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • HYPERION.
  • Tekla B膮darzewska

    The Maiden's Prayer

    Performer: Philip Martin.
    • The Maiden's Prayer: Philip Martin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Le spectre de la rose (Les nuits d'茅t茅)

    Singer: Karen Cargill. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • Berlioz: Les nuits d'ete: SCO/Ticciati.
    • Linn.
    • 2.
  • Erik Satie

    Je te veux

    Performer: Anne Queff茅lec.
    • ERATO.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Petite suite de concert Op.77: 3. Un sonnet d'amour

    Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • African Heritage Symphonic Series, Volume 1.
    • CEDILLE.
    • 4.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for cor anglais after BWV 54 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Music Arranger: Andreas N. Tarkmann. Conductor: Albrecht Mayer. Orchestra: The English Concert.
    • Voices Of Bach Albrecht Mayer.
    • Decca.
    • 8.
  • 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.
  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Concerto in A minor - 3rd movement, Allegro non troppo

    Performer: Lucy Parham. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Robert and Clara Schumann: Piano Concertos.
    • Sanctuary.
    • 6.
  • C茅sar Franck

    String Quartet in D major M.9 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Danel.
    • Franck: String Quartet in D Major & Piano Quintet in F Minor.
    • CPO.
    • 2.
  • Franz Schubert

    Du bist die Ruh, D.776

    Singer: Christian Gerhaher. Performer: Gerold Huber.
    • RCA.
  • Charles Ives

    Symphony no.1 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.
  • Teresa Carre帽o

    Gottschalk Waltz op 1

    Performer: Alexandra Oehler.
    • Grand Piano.
  • Philip Wilby

    A Breathless Alleluia

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Performer: Philip Wilby. Conductor: Nicholas Childs.
    • A Breathless Alleluia.
    • NAXOS.
    • 1.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Une barque sur l'oc茅an

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • DG.

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  • Thu 19 Nov 2020 09:00

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