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Suzy Klein with Essential pianists, Duparc's Invitation au Voyage and Dalia Staveska

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 celebrate the work of five collaborative pianists.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Concerto no.1 in F minor Op.73 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Blue Hour - Weber, Brahms, Mendelssohn.
    • DG.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata in F major K.332 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Philips.
    • 3.
  • Henri Duparc

    L' Invitation au voyage

    Singer: Christiane Karg. Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Afkham.
    • Berlin Classics.
  • C茅sar Franck

    Violin Sonata in A Major M.8 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Cesar Franck:聽Sonata for Piano and Violin - Ernest Chausson: Concert.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 4.
  • George Gershwin

    Fascinating rhythm

    Music Arranger: Turtle Island String Quartet. Ensemble: Turtle Island String Quartet.
    • Windham Hill Records.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto Grosso in D major Op.6`4

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • 础笔础搁罢脡.
  • Franz Liszt

    Les Jeux d'Eau a la Villa d'Este

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Virgin.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Violin Concerto in D major (4th mvt)

    Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Naive.
  • Joaqu铆n Turina

    La Oraci贸n de Torero Op.34

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony no.4 in A minor Op.63 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥 Philharmonie. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • RCA.
  • Padre Antonio Soler

    Fandango

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Los Pajaros Perdidos: L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 19.
  • Ronald Binge

    Sailing By

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • Hyperion.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Les chemins de l'amour

    Singer: V茅ronique Gens. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
    • VIRGIN.
  • Alain Romans

    Quel temps fait-il 脿 Paris

    Performer: No performers credited.
    • Polygram.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie Fantastique Op.14 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue no.24 in B minor BWV.893

    Performer: Piotr Anderszewski.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Ola Gjeilo

    Ubi Caritas

    Choir: VOCES8. Performer: Ola Gjeilo.
    • DECCA.
  • John Williams

    Donnybrook Fair (Far and Away)

    Performer: Anne鈥怱ophie Mutter. Orchestra: Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angeles.
    • DG.
  • Franz Schubert

    Der Wanderer D.649

    Singer: Florian Boesch. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
    • Schubert - Der Wanderer.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • Richard Strauss

    Morgen Op.27 no.4

    Singer: Katarina Karn茅us. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Steve Reich

    Electric Counterpoint: II. Slow

    Performer: Pat Metheny.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.5 in C minor Op.67 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Musica Aeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • Sony.
  • Maya Youssef

    The Sea

    Performer: Maya Youssef. Performer: Sebastian Flaig. Performer: Barney Morse-Brown.
    • Syrian Dreams.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 9.
  • Franz Schubert

    4 Impromptus D.899 (no.3 in G flat major)

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.
    • Schubert: Impromptus: Maria Joao Pires.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Gelido in ogni vena (Farnace RV.711)

    Singer: Lea Desandre. Ensemble: Jupiter. Director: Thomas Dunford.
    • ALPHA.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Trio no.1 in D minor Op.49 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Itzhak Perlman.
    • Mendelssohn: Piano Trios, Opp. 49 & 66: Perlman : Ma : Ax.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.
  • William Lawes

    Royall Consort Suite no.1 in D minor (Aire; Alman; Corant)

    Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • William Lawes: The Royal Consort.
    • LINN.
    • 1.
  • Duke Ellington

    In A Mellow Tone

    Singer: Ella Fitzgerald. Ensemble: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.
    • Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook.
    • Verve Records.

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  • Wed 20 Jan 2021 09:00

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