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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 Song of the Day

1100 Essential Five - this week we bring you five pieces of music inspired by great rivers.

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

3 hours

Last on

Wed 28 Apr 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Overture to The Marriage of Figaro arranged for brass by Bergler

    Music Arranger: Geoffrey Bergler. Ensemble: Canadian Brass. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra.
    • Best of The Canadian Brass.
    • CBS.
    • 4.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Violin Sonata in G major (Blues)

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Itamar Golan.
    • Beau Soir: Janine Jansen/Itamar Golan.
    • Decca.
    • 12.
  • Bohuslav Martin暖

    Dance of the Bumblebee (Spalicek)

    Orchestra: Brno Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Conifer.
  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Butterflying

    Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska.
    • ABC CLASSICS.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.3 in D major D.200 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: B鈥橰ock Orchestra. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs.
    • Pentatone.
  • Alessandro Stradella

    Sinfonia no.2

    Ensemble: Repicco.
    • Ambronay.
  • Steven Stucky

    O Sacrum Convivium (3 New motets 'in memoriam Thomas Tallis')

    Choir: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • Many Are The Wonders.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 4.
  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Dances of Marosszek

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • HUNGAROTON.
  • Franz Liszt

    Transcendental Study no.12 in B flat minor 'Chasse-neige'

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • Liszt: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • Naive.
    • 1.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Viola d'amore Concerto in A major, RV.396

    Performer: Fabio Biondi. Ensemble: Europa Galante.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    La Barcheta (Venezia)

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • Souvenirs De Venise.
    • Helios.
    • 13.
  • Walter Braunfels

    Ariels Gesang Op.18

    Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gregor B眉hl.
    • Braunfels: Orchestral Works.
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 301.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV.197 (Gott ist unsre Zuversicht)

    Choir: Amsterdam Baroque Choir. Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Ton Koopman.
    • J.S. Bach: Wedding Cantatas.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 12.
  • Emil Kronke

    2 Papillons Op.165

    Performer: Anna Pope. Performer: Nancy Ruffer. Performer: Helen Crayford.
    • Guild.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Humming Chorus (Madame Butterfly)

    Choir: Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ivan Repu拧i膰.
    • Famous Opera Choruses.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 6.
  • James Oswald

    Narcissus (Airs for the Four Seasons)

    Ensemble: Concerto Caledonia. Director: David McGuinness.
    • LINN.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Butterfly (Lyric Pieces - book 3 Op.43)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI.
  • Richard Wagner

    The Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walk眉re)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Donald Runnicles.
    • Wagner: Der Ring - Orchestral Highlights: Runnicles.
    • Teldec.
  • Elgar Howarth

    Mosaic

    Ensemble: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Elgar Howarth.
    • Bold as Brass.
    • Belart.
    • 9.
  • Pietro Locatelli

    Concerto grosso in F major Op.1`7

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • Harmonia mundi.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Khovanshchina (Prelude [Dawn over the Moscow River])

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Accentus Music.
  • Claude Debussy

    Violin Sonata in G minor

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Andrew Armstrong.
    • Onyx Classics ONYX 4159.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 1.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Ma quando tornerai (Alcina)

    Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Orchestra: Il Complesso Barocco. Conductor: Alan Curtis.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Amy Beach

    Piano Quintet in F minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson. Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
  • Duke Ellington

    Solitude in Transblucency

    Composer: Eddie DeLange. Music Arranger: Lawrence Brown. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • American Music.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 310.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Scherzo no.3 in C sharp minor Op.39

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • DECCA.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Dance in A flat major Op.72 no.8

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Dvorak: Complete Slavonic Dances: Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 16.

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