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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 the story of Romeo and Juliet.

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

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Last on

Thu 20 May 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Nais - Suire (Ouverture)

    Ensemble: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Piano Quintet no.2 in A major Op.81 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Stefan Vladar. Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
  • Duke Ellington

    In A Mellow Tone

    Singer: Ella Fitzgerald. Ensemble: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.
    • Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook.
    • Verve Records.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    Variations chantantes sur un air ancien

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Connie Shih.
    • Cello Music from Proust's Salons.
    • BIS.
    • 101.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.6 in B minor Op.74 'Path茅tique' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Tchaikovsky 6: Romeo and Juliet.
    • Orfeo.
    • 4.
  • Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger

    Toccata Arpeggiata

    Performer: Jonas Nordberg.
    • Heroines of Love & Loss.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Manuel Ponce

    Estrellita

    Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz. Performer: Ray Chen. Performer: Julien Quentin.
    • DECCA.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Horn Concerto, Op.58 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: David Pyatt. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite.
    • British Horn Concertos: Jacob/Arnold/Bowen/Gipps/Vinter.
    • Lyrita.
    • 11.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Sinfonia concertante in B flat major H.1.105 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Hyperion.
  • Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita

    Ceffylau [Horses]

    • ARC.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    A Night on the Bare Mountain

    Orchestrator: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition etc.: Jansons.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 16.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Vado, ma dove?, K 583

    Singer: Magdalena Ko啪en谩. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 9.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Bassoon Concerto in G minor, RV.495

    Performer: Peter Whelan. Ensemble: Jupiter. Director: Thomas Dunford.
    • Alpha.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Idylle (10 Pi猫ces pittoresques)

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • UNICORN-KANCHANA.
  • Richard Strauss

    Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1912 version): Ouvert眉re zum ersten Aufzug

    Conductor: Kent Nagano. Orchestra: Orchestre de l鈥橭p茅ra de Lyon.
    • R. Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 101.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Improvisation on the first movement of Bach's Concerto in D minor, BWV.1043

    Music Arranger: St茅phane Grappelli. Music Arranger: Eddie South. Music Arranger: Django Reinhardt. Performer: St茅phane Grappelli. Performer: Eddie South. Performer: Django Reinhardt.
    • MELODIE.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Les Larmes De Jacqueline (Harmonies des bois)

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mirga Gra啪inyt臈鈥怲yla.
    • Inspiration.
    • DECCA.
    • 9.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • Barber/Korngold: Violin Concerto op.14: Gil Shaham/LSO/Andr茅 Previn.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • William Lawes

    Royall Consort Suite no.1 in D minor (Aire; Alman; Corant)

    Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • William Lawes: The Royal Consort.
    • LINN.
    • 1.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Queen Mab scherzo (Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • DECCA.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Nights in the gardens of Spain (En el generalife)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov.
    • Live from the Lugano Festival 2009, Martha Argerich and friends.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.
  • Albert Roussel

    Divertissement Op.6

    Ensemble: Les Vents Fran莽ais.
    • WARNER.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Quintet in C major, D. 956 - ii) Adagio

    Performer: Cleveland Quartet. Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma.
    • SONY.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    La Rameau (Pieces de clavecin en concerts - concert no.4)

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • Debussy/Rameau.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 22.
  • Johann Stamitz

    Clarinet Concerto in B flat major (1st mvt, Allegro moderato)

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy.
    • Decca.

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