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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 pieces of music that look forward to spring.

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

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Mon 1 Mar 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Andrea Falconieri

    Chaconne in G major

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Simos Papanas. Performer: Emmanuele Forni. Performer: Michael Metzler. Performer: Naoki Kitaya.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No. 12 in F major, K332 - II. Adagio

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.
    • DG.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Clarinet Concerto in G minor Op.9 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Robert Plane. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Champs Hill Records.
  • Eleanor Daley

    Grandmother Moon

    Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • All Things are Quite Silent.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 11.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for oboe and violin in C minor, BWV 1060

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Alexei Ogrintchouk. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
    • BIS.
  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Le Menetou (Pieces de clavecin - ordre no. 7)

    Performer: Thomas Dunford. Performer: Jean Rondeau.
    • Erato.
  • Edgar Meyer

    Concert Duo for Violin & Bass - IV. Finale

    Performer: Tessa Lark. Performer: Edgar Meyer.
    • The Stradgrass Sessions.
    • First Hand.
    • 5.
  • Maurice Ravel

    La valse

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Yannick Nezet-Seguin Ravel Rotterdam Phiharmonic Orchestra.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 12.
  • Ellis Marsalis

    Fourth Autumn

    Performer: Karen Walwyn.
    • Albany.
  • Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita

    Ceffylau [Horses]

    • ARC.
  • Claude Debussy

    Jardins sous la pluie (Estampes)

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Uuno Klami

    The Creation of the Earth from Kalevala Suite, Op 23

    Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Storg氓rds.
    • ONDINE.
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Stabat Mater dolorosa

    Lyricist: Jacopone da Todi. Singer: Giulia Semenzato. Singer: Lucile Richardot. Orchestra: Ensemble Resonanz. Conductor: Riccardo Minasi.
    • Pergolesi: Stabat Mater - Rossell: Salve Regina.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 101.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2: IV. Allegro molto, quasi presto

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • Beethoven : Revelations, 1.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 4.
  • Frederick Delius

    La lune blanche

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Eric Fenby.
    • Heritage.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Il mondo della luna (Sinfonia)

    Orchestra: Haydn Sinfonietta Vienna. Conductor: Manfred Huss.
    • Haydn Overtures/Haydn Sinfonietta Wiern.
    • BIS.
    • 10.
  • Vincenzo Bellini

    Vaga luna che inargenti

    Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Piero Gamba.
    • DECCA.
  • Amy Beach

    Invocation Op.55

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: John Lenehan.
    • Schumann, Smyth, Beach.
    • Chandos.
    • 13.
  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F major D.803 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Anne Katharina Schreiber. Performer: Danusha Waskiewicz. Performer: Kristin von der Goltz. Performer: James Munro. Performer: Lorenzo Coppola. Performer: Teunis van der Zwart. Performer: Javier Zafra.
    • Schubert: Oktett.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 102.
  • Frank Bridge

    Enter Spring

    Performer: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Dave Maric

    Trilogy - Tamboo

    Performer: Colin Currie.
    • Colin Currie - Borrowed Time.
    • ONYX.
    • 11.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.49 in F minor H.1.49 'La Passione' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Ludwig Orchestra. Conductor: Barbara Hannigan.
    • La Passione: Nono, Haydn & Grisey.
    • Alpha.
    • 3.
  • Alan Hovhaness

    Prayer of St Gregory, Op 62b

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Performer: Anthony Newman.
    • Classic Wynton.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 17.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Sleep

    Performer: VOCES8.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV826 - V. Rondeau

    Performer: Scott Ross.
    • Erato.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise, Op. 22

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Decca.

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