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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.

3 hours

Last on

Thu 4 Mar 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Marche miniature viennoise

    Performer: Midori. Performer: Robert McDonald.
    • SONY.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony no.2 in C minor (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • DG.
  • C茅cile Chaminade

    Guitare Op.32

    Performer: Eric Parkin.
    • Chaminade: Piano Works - Eric Parkin.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.
  • Alan Silvestri

    Back to the Future Part III: End Credits

    Conductor: Alan Silvestri. Orchestra: Orchestra.
    • VARESE SARABANDE.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Les Indes Galantes (Chaconne; Ballet of the Flowers - Thunderstorm)

    Orchestra: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • SONY.
  • Caroline Shaw

    and the swallow

    Conductor: Paul Hillier. Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen.
    • ...and....
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • William Walton

    Symphony No 2 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Henry Purcell

    Sonata no.6 in C major Z.795

    Ensemble: Retrospect Trio.
    • Purcell: Twelve Sonatas in Three Parts: Retrospect Trio.
    • Linn.
    • 28.
  • Franz Liszt

    Piano Sonata in B minor (3rd & 4th mvts)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • DECCA.
  • Clair Omar Musser

    Etudes Op.6 (no.10 in C major)

    Performer: Evelyn Glennie. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • RCA.
  • Giovanni Sollima

    Prelude for Mandolin Solo

    Performer: Avi Avital.
    • DG.
  • Kurt Weill

    The 7 Deadly Sins: No 7 Envy; Epilogue

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Orchestra: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Singer: Christfried Biebrach. Singer: Karl-Heinz Lampe. Singer: Fr茅deric Martin. Singer: James Sims.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Concerto for violin & orchestra in G minor (2nd movement)

    Performer: Philippe Graffin. Orchestra: Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mike Hankinson.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Concerto.
    • AVIE.
    • 2.
  • Arthur Bliss

    Things to come (March)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Chandos Movies.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue in G minor, BWV.578

    • Bach to the future.
    • La Dolce Volta.
    • 2.
  • Scott Joplin

    The Easy Winners

    Performer: Joshua Rifkin.
    • EMI.
  • Larry Adler

    Genevieve Waltz

    Performer: Larry Adler. Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Douglas Gamley.
    • The Genius of Larry Adler.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Robert Schumann

    Manfred, Op.115 (Overture)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: George Szell.
    • SONY.
  • Joseph Haydn

    The Seasons: Spring - "See Winter, stern and gloomy flees... Come, gentle Spring!"

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Singer: Jeremy Ovenden. Singer: Andrew Foster-Williams. Orchestra: Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra. Choir: Ch贸r NFM. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Sonata a 22 S.241 [1615 no.18]

    Ensemble: Berlin Brass. Performer: Andreas Sieling. Conductor: Lucas Vis.
    • PENTATONE.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    脡l茅gie Op.24

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Pascal Devoyon.
    • RCA.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka, Op. 214 "Triqui Traqui"

    Music Arranger: Paul Desenne. Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Self release by Gustavo Dudamel.
  • John Christopher Smith

    O balmy Sleep! (Rebecca)

    Singer: Ruby Hughes. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Laurence Cummings.
    • CHACONNE.
  • Claude Debussy

    Ballade slave

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Aaron Copland

    Concerto for clarinet, strings, harp and piano

    Performer: Martin Frost. Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Director: Richard Tognetti.
    • Dances to a Black Pipe.
    • BIS.
    • 1-2.

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