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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 We celebrate the music of Astor Piazzolla, the centenary of whose birth falls this week.

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

3 hours

Last on

Fri 12 Mar 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Cos矛 fan tutte (Overture)

    Orchestra: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • Sony.
  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Printemps d'amour Op.49

    Performer: Philip Martin.
    • Gottschalk: Piano Music 6: Philip Martin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Octet in E flat major Op.20 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Beethoven/Mendelssohn: Nash Ensemble.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.
    • 6.
  • Geraldine Mucha

    The Tempest Overture

    Orchestra: Hradec Kr谩lov茅 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andreas Sebastian Weiser.
    • Macbeth And Other Orchestral Works.
    • ARCO DIVA.
    • 1.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Flute Concerto in G major, RV 435

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Tognetti.
    • EMI.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Cello Sonata no.2 in F major, Op.99 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Emanuel Ax.
    • RCA VICTOR GOLD SEAL.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Semiramide (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Santa Cecilia. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Michael Nyman

    De L'hotel de la ville a la Concorde

    Music Arranger: Joel Garthwaite. Ensemble: Lunar Saxophone Quartet.
    • Flux.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 207.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Un bel d矛 vedremo (Madam Butterfly)

    Singer: Angela Gheorghiu. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Sir Edward Downes.
    • CONIFER.
  • Max Reger

    Clarinet Sonata no.2 in F sharp minor Op.49`2 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Bettina Aust. Performer: Robert Aust.
    • Fin de si猫cle.
    • Genuin.
    • 304.
  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    Bachiana brasileira No 5

    Singer: Victoria de los 脕ngeles. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Heitor Villa鈥怢obos.
    • Alto.
  • Weronika Ratusi艅ska

    Cello Concerto (1st mvt)

    Performer: Tomasz Strahl. Orchestra: Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Miroslaw Jacek Blaszczyk.
    • Weronika Ratusinska: Works for Orchestra.
    • DUX.
    • 1.
  • Franz Schubert

    Allegretto in C minor, D 915

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • Schubert, Live, Volume 3: Imogen Cooper.
    • Avie.
    • 9.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Full fathom five (Three Shakespeare Songs, No 1)

    Choir: The Finzi Singers. Conductor: Paul Spicer.
    • Holst & Vaughan Williams - Choral Music.
    • Chandos.
    • 15.
  • Claude Debussy

    L'isle joyeuse

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 2: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Da tempeste il legno infranto (Giulio Cesare in Egitto)

    Singer: Natalie Dessay. Orchestra: Le Concert d鈥橝str茅e. Conductor: Emmanuelle Ha茂m.
    • Handel : "Cleopatra" - Giulio Cesare Opera arias.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 116.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet in F minor, Op.2 (1st mvt)

    Performer: John Fadial. Performer: Janet Orenstein. Performer: Scott Rawls. Performer: Brooks Whitehouse. Performer: Andrew Harley. Performer: Mary Ashley Barret. Performer: Michael Burns. Performer: Kelly Burke. Performer: Lynn Huntzinger Beck.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; Chamber Music.
    • CENTAUR.
    • 9.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Overture (Sinfonia) (L'Isola disabitata, Hob.28:9)

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Solo E Pensoso.
    • Alpha.
    • 5.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Czech Suite (Polka)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jos茅 Serebrier.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Fracanapa

    Performer: Astor Piazzolla.
    • Union Records.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio in B flat major, Op 97, 'Archduke' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Andr茅 Previn. Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Performer: Heinrich Schiff.
    • Beethoven: Archduke Trio: Previn, Mullova, Schiff.
    • Philips.
    • 7.
  • William Byrd

    Browning [The leaves be green]

    Ensemble: Capriccio Stravagante.
    • William Byrd: Virginal & Consorts.
    • INTERARTS.
    • 110.
  • John Jacob Niles

    I wonder as I wander

    Music Arranger: Svante Henryson. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Svante Henryson. Performer: Markus Leoson.
    • Home for Christmas.
    • DG.
    • 12.
  • Owain Park

    I wonder as I wander

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Park: Choral Works.
    • Hyperion.
    • 014.
  • George Gershwin

    Embraceable You

    Composer: Ira Gershwin. Ensemble: The Julian Bliss Septet.
    • I Got Rhythm.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 103.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in G major, K 260

    Performer: Anne Queff茅lec.
    • MIRARE.
  • Aaron Copland

    Party Scene and Finale from The Tender Land

    Performer: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Aaron Copland.
    • RCA.

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