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Suzy Klein with Tiersen's Valse d'Am茅lie, Owain Park, 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

  • L茅o Delibes

    Galop Final (Copp茅lia)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • CHANDOS.
  • John Tavener

    The Lamb

    Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.
    • Death and the Maiden.
    • Sancho Panza Records.
    • 1.
  • Niccol貌 Jommelli

    Par che di giubilo (Attilio Regolo)

    Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Ensemble: Il Pomo d鈥橭ro. Director: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • In War & Peace.
    • Erato.
    • 12.
  • Yann Tiersen

    La valse d'Am茅lie

    Performer: Yann Tiersen.
  • Nikolai Karlovich Medtner

    Skazka (Fariy Tale), Op 26 No 3 in F Minor

    Performer: Nelly Akopian-Tamarina.
    • Slavonic Reflections (Live).
    • PENTATONE.
    • 16.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in D major, K.320 'Posthorn' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Mozart: Essential Symphonies Vol.III, No.8 K320, No.40.
    • Hanssler Classic.
    • 5.
  • Alison Willis

    Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep

    Singer: Melissa Davies. Choir: The Blossom Street Singers. Conductor: Hilary Campbell.
    • This Day.
    • Naxos.
    • 13.
  • Alexander Borodin

    In the steppes of central Asia

    Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Philips.
  • Antonio Vandini

    Cello Concerto in D Major

    Performer: Francesco Galligioni. Ensemble: L'Arte dell'Arco.
    • Vandini: Complete Works.
    • Dynamic.
    • 10-12.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Act 4: "Belle nuit, 么 nuit d'amour" (Arr. for

    Performer: Lucienne Renaudin Vary. Performer: Erik Truffaz. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lille. Conductor: Roberto Rizzi Brignoli.
    • The Voice of the Trumpet.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Violin Sonata in A minor (1st mvt)

    Performer: Jennifer Pike. Performer: Martin Roscoe.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Samuel Barber

    Agnus Dei arr from String Quartet in B minor

    Choir: Choir of New College Oxford. Conductor: Edward Higginbottom.
    • Agnus Dei: Choir of New College, Oxford/Higginbottom.
    • Erato.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite in A Major, HWV 426: III. Courante

    Performer: Pierre Hanta茂.
    • H盲ndel: Suites pour clavecin.
    • Mirare.
    • 3.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 87 in A major, H.1.87 (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Harry Christophers. Orchestra: Handel and Haydn Society.
    • Haydn: Symphonies 49 & 87.
    • CORO.
    • 11.
  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Les baricades mist茅rieuses (Pieces de clavecin - ordre no. 6)

    Music Arranger: Thomas Ad猫s. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Insomnia.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.
  • Frank Barcellini

    Mon oncle (from Mon oncle)

    Composer: Alain Romans.
    • Stage & Screen.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    String Quartet No 2, 'Intimate Letters' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Newton Classics.
  • Jacques Brel

    La Valse a mille temps

    Conductor: Fran莽ois Rauber.
    • Jaques Brel - La Valse a Mille Temps.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 001.
  • William Bolcom

    3 Ghost Rags: No. 2. The Poltergeist

    Performer: Spencer Myer.
    • William Bolcom: Piano Rags.
    • Steinway and Sons.
    • 601.
  • Ruggero Leoncavallo

    Recitar!... Vesti la giubba'(I Pagliacci)

    Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Giuseppe Patan猫.
    • DECCA.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op 115 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Maximiliano Mart铆n. Ensemble: The Oculus Ensemble.
    • CHAMPS HILL.
  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Nobody's Jig (Country Dances, Book 1)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sinfonia concerto (Cantata no.174)

    Orchestra: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • Bach: Brandenburg Concertos: Concerto Italiano/Alessandrini.
    • Naive.
    • 16.
  • Jessie Montgomery

    Source Code

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Azica.
  • Simone de Bonefont

    Missa pro mortuis (Agnus Dei)

    Choir: Huelgas Ensemble. Conductor: Paul Van Nevel.
    • Cypres.
  • Franz Liszt

    Paraphrase sur Rigoletto

    Composer: Giuseppe Verdi. Performer: Vanessa Benelli Mosell.
    • DECCA.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Orchestra: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto / Stravinsky: Les Noces.
    • Sony.
    • 3.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade (K.525) in G major "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik", 4th movement; Rondo...

    Ensemble: The Hanover Band. Director: Roy Goodman.
    • Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Clarinet Concerto, Horn Concerto: The Hanover Ba.
    • Nimbus.
    • 5.

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