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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.

3 hours

Last on

Fri 12 Feb 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Concerto for trombone and military band (1st mvt)

    Performer: Christian Lindberg. Conductor: Chikara Imamura. Orchestra: Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra.
    • 'Windpower': Christian Lindberg, Kosei Wind Orchestra.
    • BIS.
    • 3.
  • Richard Strauss

    Liebesliedchen for Piano Quartet

    Ensemble: Oculi Ensemble.
    • Champs Hill Records.
  • Vincenzo Bertolusi

    Osculetur me osculo oris sui

    Conductor: Rapha毛l Pichon. Ensemble: Pygmalion.
    • Johann Sebastian Bach: Motets.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 2.
  • York Bowen

    A Leaf from the Sky (Fragments from Hans Andersen)

    Performer: Nicolas Namoradze.
    • Hyperion.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia - suite Op.11

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.
    • BIS.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    On Wenlock Edge (No 1, On Wenlock Edge)

    Performer: Simon Crawford鈥怭hillips. Singer: Andrew Kennedy. Ensemble: Dante Quartet.
    • Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge / / Gurney: Ludlow and Teme / Venables: Songs.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1.
  • Francesco Venturini

    Concerto da camera in A minor Op.1`2

    Ensemble: la festa musicale.
    • Audite.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Silken Ladder (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata in F major Op.24 'Spring' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Michael Foyle. Performer: Maksim 艩t拧ura.
    • Challenge Classics.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony No 2 in E minor, Op 27 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra. Performer: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.
    • ICA Classics.
  • Giovanni Pacoloni

    Passamezzo di Zorzi

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg. Performer: Nigel North. Performer: Paul O鈥橠ette. Performer: Robert Meunier.
    • Three, Four and Twenty Lutes, Lindberg etc..
    • BIS.
    • 2.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture-Suite in G Major, 'Burlesque de Quixotte' (His Fight with the Windmills)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Masques. Director: Olivier Fortin.
    • Alpha.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    A blown-away leaf (On an Overgrown Path)

    Performer: Thomas Ad猫s.
    • Jan谩膷ek: Solo Piano.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 102.
  • Victor Herbert

    March of the Toys (Babes in Toyland)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Bell.
    • A Family Christmas.
    • Signum.
    • 8.
  • Frank Loesser

    Wonderful Copenhagen

    Singer: Danny Kaye. Ensemble: Gordon Jenkins And His Chorus And Orchestra.
    • MCA Records.
  • 笔茅谤辞迟颈苍

    Beata viscera

    Singer: Rebecca Hickey.
    • NAXOS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quintet in E flat for piano and winds K 452 - 3rd mvt

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Performer: Neil Black. Performer: Thea King. Performer: Anthony Halstead. Performer: Graham Sheen.
    • Mozart / Beethoven: Quintets for Piano & Winds.
    • CBS Masterworks.
    • 6.
  • Florence Price

    Silk Hat and Walking Cane (Dances in the Canebrakes)

    Music Arranger: William Grant Still. Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen.
    • Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers.
    • Cedille.
    • 103.
  • Gerald Finzi

    At the middle-field gate in February (I said to love, Op 19b)

    Performer: Howard Ferguson. Singer: John Carol Case.
    • Lyrita.
  • Ina Boyle

    Psalm

    Performer: Nad猫ge Rochat. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • DUTTON EPOCH.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for Harpsichord and Two Recorders in F Major, BWV1057 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Francesco Corti. Performer: Andr茅s Locatelli. Performer: Alessandro Nasello. Ensemble: Il Pomo d鈥橭ro.
    • J.S. Bach: Harpsichord Concertos, Vol. 2.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 7.
  • Jonathan Dove

    An Airmail Letter From Mozart

    Performer: Melvyn Tan. Orchestra: London Mozart Players.
    • Signum Classics : SIGCD452.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1.
  • Sergei Voitenko

    Revelation

    Performer: Ksenija Sidorova.
    • Piazzolla Reflections.
    • Alpha.
    • 2.
  • Ferruccio Busoni

    Sonatina No 6 (Chamber Fantasty on Themes of Carmen)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in C Major, Op 76 No 3, 'Emperor' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Op. 76 Nos. 1-3.
    • BIS.
    • 12.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Symphony No 2 in B minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Warner Classics.

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