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Suzy Klein

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 Musicians recommend their favourite recordings.

1100 Essential Five 鈥 this week we bring you five settings of poems by Thomas Hardy.

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

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Last on

Thu 11 Feb 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in A minor, RV 356

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • Italian Concertos; Alison Balsom, Scottish Ensemble.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Mary Lou Williams

    Walkin' and Swingin'

    Performer: Mary Lou Williams. Ensemble: Andy Kirk and the 12 Clouds of Joy.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Ritual Fire Dance (El Amor Brujo)

    Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado.
    • Harmonia mundi.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in B flat major Op.76 no.4 'Sunrise' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • BIS.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Zefiro Torna

    Singer: Anna Prohaska. Singer: Magdalena Ko啪en谩. Orchestra: La Cetra Barockorchester Basel. Director: Andrea Marcon.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major, Op 19 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • Beethoven Complete Piano Concertos Lewis - Belohlavek.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 5.
  • Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello

    Concerto for Violin, Strings & Continuo in G, Bre.9

    Performer: Adrian Chandler. Ensemble: La Serenissima.
    • Extra Time.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 301.
  • Trad.

    Do the Birds Worry?

    Music Arranger: Cyrillus Kreek. Choir: Vox Clamantis. Performer: Anna-Liisa Eller. Performer: Marco Ambrosini. Performer: Angela Ambrosini. Conductor: Jaan-Eik Tulve.
    • ECM.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony no.6 in D major, Op.60 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • Decca.
  • Aaron Copland

    Old American Songs, Set 1: Simple Gifts

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Susan Chilcott.
    • OPUS ARTE.
  • Antoine Forqueray

    Jupiter (Suite no. 5 in C minor)

    Performer: Thomas Dunford. Performer: Jean Rondeau.
    • ERATO.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Symphony No 3, Op 43 (Jeu divin)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • LAWQ CLASSICS.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Vision 1 "The fire of creation": Et audivi

    Ensemble: Anonymous 4.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Richard Wagner

    Magic Fire Music (Die Walk眉re)

    Singer: Tomasz Konieczny. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Marek Janowski.
    • Wagner: Die Walkure.
    • Pentatone Classics.
  • William Grant Still

    Incantation and dance for oboe and piano

    Performer: Joseph Robinson. Performer: Pedja Mu啪ijevi膰.
    • Cala.
  • Gustav Holst

    Dance of Spirits of Fire (The Perfect Fool)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor Op.10 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Anthony McGill. Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Azica Records.
  • Gabriela Montero

    Baroque and Me

    Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • Improvisations.
    • Warner.
    • 5.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Midnight on the Great Western (Winter Words)

    Performer: Sir Antonio Pappano. Singer: Ian Bostridge.
    • Britten: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo: Pappano / Bostridge.
    • EMI.
    • 2.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Tuba Concerto in F Minor (Arr. for Euphonium & Orchestra)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Ben Gernon.
    • Chandos.
  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    Variations on the theme 鈥楧al tuo stellato soglio鈥 from Mos猫 in Egitto by Rossini (鈥楳oses Fantasy鈥)

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Vivian Hornik Weilerstein.
    • EMI.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Les Chemins de L'amour

    Ensemble: Van Kuijk Quartet.
    • 大象传媒 New Generation Artists recording.
  • John Dowland

    Time stands still

    Singer: Iestyn Davies. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • DG.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 5 (4th mvt, 'Adagietto')

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.
  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    12 Studies for guitar; no. 3 in D major

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Trio No 1 in B major, Op 8 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Jeremy Denk. Performer: Joshua Bell.
    • For the Love of Brahms.
    • Sony.

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