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Suzy Klein with Essential Stars and Max Baillie

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 pieces of music inspired by stars.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Cum Sancto Spiritu (Missa Dei filii, ZWV 20)

    Choir: Kammerchor Stuttgart. Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Frieder Bernius.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Polonaise (Christmas Eve Suite)

    Orchestra: Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Kees Bakels.
  • Michael Wollny

    The Rain Never Stops On Venus

    Performer: Michael Wollny.
    • Mondenkind.
    • ACT.
    • 10.
  • Matthew Curtis

    Christmas Rush

    Orchestra: RT脡 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Another Night Before Christmas.
    • NAXOS.
    • 9.
  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet No 2 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    H盲nsel und Gretel (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Anton Rickenbacher.
    • Humperdinck: Fairy-Tale Music: Karl Anton Rickenbacher.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 1.
  • Kenneth Leighton

    Lully, Lulla, Thou Little Tiny Child (Coventry Carol)

    Singer: Aiken Anderson-Jan茅. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Daniel Hyde.
    • Carols From King's (2020 Collection).
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 7.
  • Trad.

    Sussex Carol (On Christmas Night)

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Daniel Hyde.
    • Carols From King's (2020 Collection).
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 8.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Trio sonata in A major Op.3`12

    Ensemble: The Purcell Quartet.
    • HYPERION.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Idomeneo (Ballet music K.367)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Mozart: Symphonies 41 & 40 - Marc Minkowski.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 5.
  • William Byrd

    Rorate coeli for 5 voices

    Ensemble: Stile Antico.
    • Puer Natus Est, Tudor Music For Advent and Christmas: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No 4 in E-Flat Major BWV 1010 (Bourees 1 & 2)

    Performer: Paolo Pandolfo.
    • Glossa Music.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Intermezzo Symphonique in Modo Classico

    Orchestrator: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Orchestra: Russian State Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.
    • Mussorgsky - Without the Sun.
    • RCA Victor Red Seal.
    • 002.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Tocco la prima sorte a voi (O di Betlemme altera)

    Singer: Nancy Argenta. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Gloria.
    • Archiv.
    • 4.
  • Leroy Anderson

    March of the Two Left Feet

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Naxos.
  • Trad.

    Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle

    Choir: Westminster Choir College of Rider University. Conductor: Joe Miller.
    • Westminster Choir College of Rider University.
  • Eric Coates

    Calling all the workers

    Orchestra: New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • British Light Music Classics.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Arianna Savall

    La Salve

    Singer: Arianna Savall. Ensemble: Hirundo Maris. Director: Petter Udland Johansen.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Jester's Dance (The Snow Maiden)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Chandos.
  • Aulis Sallinen

    Sunrise serenade, Op.63

    Orchestra: Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jorma Panula.
    • Finnish Orchestral Favourites.
    • NAXOS.
    • 15.
  • Edward Elgar

    The Sun has gone (Starlight Express - suite)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.
  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Der Herr ist mit mir, BuxWV 15 (Alleluia)

    Choir: Accentus Chamber Choir. Orchestra: Concerto K枚ln. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Nuit Sacr茅e: Accentus/Concerto K枚ln/Laurence Equilbey.
    • Naive.
    • 5.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Andante Soave, Op.5 no.6

    Performer: B茅atrice Rauchs.
    • Fanny Mendelssohn - Piano Music.
    • BIS.
    • 17.
  • Paul Dukas

    The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Musicales Actes Sud.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier (Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248)

    Choir: Dresdner Kammerchor. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Bach: Weihnachts-Oratorium; Dresdner Kammerchor, Gewandhausorchester, Riccardo C.
    • Decca.
    • 24.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Berceuse Op.16

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Florent Boffard.
    • Faure: Violin sonatas: Isabelle Faust/Florent Boffard.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 8.
  • Traditional Spiritual

    Walk together, children

    Music Arranger: Eurydice Osterman. Choir: London Adventist Chorale. Conductor: Ken Burton.
    • Deep River, spirituals and gospel songs.
    • PARADISUM.
    • 8.
  • Johann David Heinichen

    Concerto 脿 8 in C major

    Performer: Pieter Brulleman. Performer: Baldrick Deerenberg. Performer: Sabine d'Hont. Performer: Barbara Karst. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Conductor: Hartmut Haenchen.
    • Christmas Concertos - Kammerochestrer Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Mervyn Burtch

    Aladdin Overture

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • Welsh Classical Favourites: Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Penny.
    • Marco Polo.

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