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Suzy Klein with Essential pianists, Bernstein's Glitter and Be Gay and Leon Bosch

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

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wachet! Betet! Betet! Wachet! (Cantata no.70)

    Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Manchega, Op.38

    Performer: Alan Feinberg.
    • Argo.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Coriolan Overture

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Glitter and be gay (Candide)

    Singer: Natalie Dessay. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Mad Scenes.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 104.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in C major, Hob. XV:21 - 2nd mvt

    Ensemble: Trio Wanderer.
    • Haydn: Piano Trios, HOB. XV:14, 18, 21, 26 & 31.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 108.
  • Manuel de Falla

    The Corregidor's dance (El Sombrero de tres picos)

    Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado.
    • Falla: El sombrero de tres picos.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 107.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Jota (El Sombrero de tres picos)

    Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado.
  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Green Leaf Prelude

    Performer: Nicola Sweeney. Performer: Sarah Nicolls.
    • Ragtime & Blue.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
    • 2.
  • Lorne Balfe

    Between the Worlds (His Dark Materials)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales.
    • Silva Screen.
  • Michael William Balfe

    Excelsior

    Singer: Robert Tear. Singer: Benjamin Luxon. Performer: Andr茅 Previn.
    • HMV.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony no.5 in E flat major Op.82 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.
    • BIS.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de l鈥橭p茅ra de Lyon. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • EMI.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in D minor for 2 violins and cello, RV 565

    Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Vivaldi: L'Estro Armonico: ASMIF/Marriner.
    • Decca.
  • 脡tienne M茅hul

    La Chasse du Jeune Henry - Overture

    Orchestra: The Gulbenkian Orchestra. Conductor: Michel Swierczewski.
    • Nimbus.
  • Philip Glass

    Etude no.2

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • Deustche Grammophon.
  • Louis鈥怌laude Daquin

    Le coucou (Harpsichord Suite no.3 in E minor)

    Performer: Sophie Yates.
    • La Sophie: Sophie Yates.
    • Chandos.
    • 12.
  • Charles Gounod

    O Dieu! que de bijoux... Ah! je ris (Faust)

    Singer: Sumi Jo. Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Giuliano Carella.
    • Les bijoux, French arias: Sumi Jo/English Chamber Orchestra/Carella.
    • Erato.
  • Ermanno Wolf鈥怓errari

    The Jewels of the Madonna (Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • EMI CLassics.
  • Jule Styne

    Diamonds are a girl's best friend

    Performer: Ethel Merman. Librettist: Leo Robin. Conductor: Jay Blackton.
    • Decca Broadway.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet in A minor D.804 'Rosamunde' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • APARTE.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Laetatus sum (Vespro della Beata Vergine)

    Choir: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Monteverdi: Vespro Della Beata Vergine: L'Arpeggiata/Pluhar.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 6.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Havanaise

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Paris La Belle Epoque.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No 5 in B flat major, Op 100 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Marin Alsop. Orchestra: S茫o Paulo Symphony Orchestra.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony no. 5.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for Recorder and 2 Violins in A minor RV.108

    Performer: Tabea Debus. Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • Settecento: Baroque Instrumental Music fromt the Italian States.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 701.
  • Trad.

    Where were you last night so late?

    Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Last Leaf.
    • ECM.
    • 14.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Chorale

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Swan. Director: David Le Page.
    • Timelapse.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1201.
  • Suzanne Van Soldt

    Renaissance dances

    Composer: Antonio Valente. Performer: Vincent Barras. Performer: Vincent Thevenaz.
    • Contrastes.
    • Klarthe.
    • 104.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Nocturne No. 13 in C Minor, Op. 48 No. 1

    Performer: David Fray.
    • Chopin: Piano Works.
    • Erato.
    • 102.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Violin Concerto Op.33 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Eivind Gullberg Jensen.
    • Nielsen / Tchaikovsky violin concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 107.

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  • Fri 22 Jan 2021 09:00

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