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 - this week we bring you five great performances by pianist Martha Argerich.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
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Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully
Marche pour la c茅r茅monie des Turcs
Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.- Tous les matins du monde: Original soundtrack.
- Alia Vox.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Romance in F major for violin and orchestra, Op 50
Performer: Anne鈥怱ophie Mutter. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Kurt Masur.- Beethoven: Violin concerto/Romances: Mutter/New York Philharmonic/Masur.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Agust铆n Barrios Mangor茅
La catedral (3rd mvt)
Performer: Thibaut Garcia.- ERATO.
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Kenneth Leighton
Drop, drop, slow tears (Crucifixus pro nobis, 4th mvt)
Choir: Choir of St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Christopher Robinson. -
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Larghetto & Allegro for two pianos and orchestra in E flat major
Composer: Tomer Lev. Performer: Tomer Lev. Performer: Alon Kariv. Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra.- Hyperion.
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Angelus Domini
Performer: Bruce Dickey. Performer: Kris Verhelst.- Passacaille.
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Johannes Brahms
Symphony no.4 in E minor, Op.98 (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Brahms - The Symphonies.
- Decca.
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Earl Wild
I Got Rhythm and The Man I Love (7 virtuoso etudes after Gershwin, Nos. 1 and 7)
Composer: George Gershwin. Performer: Vittorio Forte.- Odradek.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Symphony in C major Wq.182`3
Ensemble: Gli Incogniti. Director: Amandine Beyer.- C.P.E. Bach: "Beyond the Limits" Complete Symphonies for Strings and Continuo.
- harmonia mundi.
- 13-15.
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Gaetano Donizetti
Amor marinaro
Singer: Juan Diego Fl贸rez. Performer: Avi Avital. Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Performer: Guido Sodo. Performer: Walter Zanetti. Performer: Massimo Jean Gambini. Conductor: Carlo Tenan.- Decca.
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Hannah Peel
Sunrise through the Dusty Nebula
Ensemble: Tubular Brass. Conductor: Sandy Smith.- My Own Pleasure.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Wir setzen uns mit Tr盲nen nieder (St Matthew Passion, BWV 244)
Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Choir: Monteverdi Choir.- J.S.Bach: St. Matthew Passion: John Eliot Gardiner.
- Archiv.
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Fran莽ois鈥怉drien Bo茂eldieu
Overture to La Dame blanche
Orchestra: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- CHANDOS.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Humoresque (Fantasiest眉cke Op.5)
Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.- Azica Records.
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Orlando Gibbons
Drop, drop, slow tears
Choir: St Paul's Cathedral Choir. Singer: Anthony Way. Director: John Scott.- Passiontide at St Paul's: The Choir of St Paul's Cathedral, John Scott.
- Hyperion.
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John Dowland
Lachrimae antiquae - pavan for 5 viols and lute [Lachrimae or 7 Teares, 1604]
Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Phantasm.- Linn Records CKD 527.
- Linn Records.
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Francis Poulenc
Quatre Motets pour un temps de penitence; no. 2 Vinea mea electa
Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.- CORO.
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Django Reinhardt
Tears
Performer: Django Reinhardt. Performer: St茅phane Grappelli.- Past Perfect.
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William Walton
A Litany for Chorus (Drop drop slow tears) (Version 1)
Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.- HYPERION.
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George Frideric Handel
Alexander's Feast (Overture)
Music Arranger: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Orchestra: Stavanger Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend.- Challenge Classics.
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Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in D major Op.64`5 'Lark' (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.- Harmonia Mundi.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor, Op 23 (1st mvt)
Performer: Martha Argerich. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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Jocelyn Pook
How sweet the moonlight (The Merchant of Venice)
Singer: Andreas Scholl. Performer: Siobh谩n Armstrong. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Baroque String Quartet.- Decca.
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Gabriel Faur茅
Romance in A Major, Op 69
Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Connie Shih.- Cello Music from Proust's Salons.
- BIS.
- 201.
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Mystery Sonata No 7, 'The Agony in the Garden'
Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Marcin 艢wi膮tkiewicz. Performer: David Miller.- Channel Classics.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Slavonic Dance in F major, Op.46 no.4
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.- Dvorak: Slavonic Dances, op.46 and op.72.
- Channel Classics.
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Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin
8 Concert Studies, Op.40 (Prelude)
Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.- Kapustin: Piano music: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
- Hyperion.
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Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet No 6 in F minor, Op 80 (4th mvt)
Ensemble: Quatuor 脡b猫ne.- ERATO.
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