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Suzy Klein

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

Suzy Klein playing the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises along the way.

0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

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1100 Essential Five - this week we bring you five musical caprices.

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

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Last on

Mon 7 Jun 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Overture in D major

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Chanson Russe (Mavra)

    Music Arranger: Igor Stravinsky. Music Arranger: Dimitry Markevitch. Performer: Pierre Fournier. Performer: Ernest Lush.
    • DG.
  • Giovanni Benedetto Platti

    Harpsichord Concerto in G Major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Roberto Loreggian. Orchestra: L'Arte dell'Arco. Conductor: Federico Guglielmo.
    • Platti: Chamber Works.
    • CPO.
    • 1.
  • Robert Johnson

    The Satyr's Dance (Oberon, The Faery Prince)

    Music Arranger: Howard Cable. Ensemble: Brass Quintet of the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
    • Capriccio.
  • Gabriel Piern茅

    Scherzo-Caprice in D major, Op.25

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Performer: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Charles鈥怣arie Widor

    Introduction and rondo Op.72

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
    • La clarinette parisienne.
    • BIS.
    • 201.
  • Edward Elgar

    Sea Pictures Op.37 (Where Corals Lie)

    Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Sea Pictures.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 4.
  • Scott Joplin

    Magnetic Rag

    Performer: Joshua Rifkin.
    • Scott Joplin: Piano Rags: Joshua Rifkin.
    • Elektra Nonesuch.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Domingo

    Music Arranger: Aleksander D臋bicz. Performer: Aleksander D臋bicz. Performer: 艁ukasz Kuropaczewski.
    • Warner.
  • Bohuslav Martin暖

    Little Dance Suite

    Orchestra: Sinfonia Varsovia. Conductor: Ian Hobson.
    • Toccata Classics.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Trio in B flat major, D.581 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Sergey Ostrovsky. Performer: No茅mie Bialobroda. Performer: Daniel Mitnitsky.
    • Schubert: String Trio in B-Flat Major & String Quintet in C Major.
    • Naxos.
    • 101.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    La danza (Soir茅es musicales)

    Music Arranger: Douglas Gamley. Singer: Juan Diego Fl贸rez. Orchestra: Filarmonica Gioachino Rossini. Conductor: Carlo Tenan.
    • Italia.
    • Decca.
    • 10.
  • Gjermund Larsen

    Polonaise

    Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Performer: Gjermund Larsen. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.
    • BIS.
  • Francesco Molino

    3 Duos Op.16 (no.3)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Christian Rivet.
  • Anthony Holborne

    The Fairie-round - galliard (courante) [1599 no.63]

    Ensemble: Early Music Consort of London. Director: David Munrow.
    • Instruments Of The Middle Ages.
    • ERATO.
    • 10.
  • Benjamin Britten

    A Midsummer Night's Dream Op.64 (I Know A Bank)

    Singer: James Bowman. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • VIRGIN.
  • Howard Hanson

    Nymphs and Satyr

    Performer: Holly Blake. Orchestra: Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Spalding.
    • Hanson: Organ Concerto.
    • Naxos.
    • 003.
  • Henry Purcell

    The Fairy Queen Z.629 (Sing While We Trip It)

    Singer: Rowan Pierce. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Purcell: The Fairy Queen, 1692.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 506.
  • Claude Gervaise

    Branle de Bourgogne no.3

    Music Arranger: Peter Reeve. Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • Decca.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Flute Concerto in D major K.314 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Wolfgang Schulz. Orchestra: Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. Conductor: Leopold Hager.
    • Mozart: The complete wind concertos.
    • Teldec.
    • 3.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Quintet no.1 in A min Op.30 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Ironwood.
    • ABC Classics.
  • Joaqu铆n Rodrigo

    Canario (Fantas铆a para un gentilhombre)

    Performer: Charles Ramirez. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Douglas Boyd.
    • Rodrigo: Ramirez, C.O.E., Boyd.
    • Signum Classics.
  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    24 Caprices Op.1 (no.24 in A Minor)

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman.
    • Paganini: 24 Caprices.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 124.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wir eilen mit swachen, doch emsigen Schritten (Cantata no.78)

    Singer: Ingrid Schmith眉sen. Singer: Charles Brett. Orchestra: La Chapelle Royale. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • J.S. Bach: Trauer-Ode: La Chapelle Royale/Herreweghe.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 12.
  • Max Reger

    A Romantic Suite Op.125 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.
    • Christian Thielemann - Staatskapelle Dresden: Ferruccio Busoni / Hans Pfitzner /.
    • Profil Medien.
    • 2.
  • Nicola Porpora

    Vaghi amori (La festa d'Imeneo)

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Decca.
  • Steve Reich

    Nagoya marimbas

    Ensemble: Third Coast Percussion.
    • CEDILLE.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle in E flat major Op.126 no.6

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Beethoven: Alfred Brendel plays, vol.4.
    • Vox Box.
    • 6.
  • Alexandre Guilmant

    Organ Symphony no.1 in D minor Op.42 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Simon Preston. Orchestra: Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite.
    • ABC CLASSICS.

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