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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.

1010 Song of the Day 鈥 focusing on the magic of words, music and the human voice.

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

Fri 11 Jun 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen Suite No 1 (Les tor茅adors)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de l'Opera Bastille. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • 111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 1.
  • Padre Antonio Soler

    Keyboard Sonata No 69 in F major

    Performer: Scott Ross.
    • Padre Soler - Fandango, Sonatas.
    • ERATO.
    • 7.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op. 52: Nos.1-6

    Performer: Dace Klava. Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Conductor: Sigvards K募ava.
    • Brahms: Liebeslieder.
    • Ondine.
    • 301.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Manfred Symphony Op.58 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony, The Voyevoda: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orches.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Music for the Royal Fireworks - Overture

    Orchestra: Le Concert Spirituel. Director: Herv茅 Niquet.
    • Handel: Water Music & Fireworks: Concert Spirituel, Niquet.
    • Glossa.
    • 19.
  • Florence Price

    Elfentanz

    Performer: Dawn Wohn. Performer: Esther Jung-A Park.
    • Perspectives.
    • Delos.
    • 7.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Piano Concerto in D flat - 2nd mvt

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • Khachaturian, A.I.: Piano Concerto / Prokofiev, S.: Piano Concerto No. 3.
    • Delos.
    • 102.
  • Aaron Copland

    Buckaroo Holiday (Dance Episodes from Rodeo)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Copland: Rodeo, Dance Panels, El Sal贸n M茅xico & Danz贸n Cubano.
    • Naxos.
    • 101.
  • Marin Marais

    La Sonnerie de Sainte-Genevi猫ve du Mont de Paris

    Performer: Fabio Biondi. Performer: Jordi Savall. Performer: Rolf Lislevand. Performer: Pierre Hanta茂.
    • Auvidis.
  • William Grant Still

    A song for the lonely

    Performer: Georgia Akst. Singer: Claudine Carlson.
    • Lenox Avenue - the music of William Grant Still.
    • CAMBRIA.
    • 009.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No.3 in E flat major, K.447

    Performer: Roger Montgomery. Performer: Margaret Faultless. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
    • Mozart: Complete Horn Concertos.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 401.
  • Percy Grainger

    The Lost Lady Found (A Lincolnshire Posy)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • Grainger: Works for Wind Orchestra: RNCM WInd Orchestra, Reynish, Rundell.
    • Chandos.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Harold en Italie - symphony Op.16 for viola and orchestra; 3rd mvt; Serenade

    Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • LSO.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    A cenar teco m'invitasti (Don Giovanni)

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Choir: Radiok枚ren. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Daniel.
    • Bryn Terfel: Bad Boys; Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 15.
  • Bob Marley

    Redemption Song

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Aminata Kanneh-Mason. Performer: Mariatu Kanneh-Mason. Performer: Jeneba Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Braimah Kanneh-Mason. Performer: Konya Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Carnival.
    • DECCA.
    • 45.
  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Quintet in E flat Op.44 - Finale

    Performer: Christophe Gaugu茅. Ensemble: Trio Wanderer.
    • Robert Schumann: Complete Piano Trios, Quartet & Quintet.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 108.
  • Philip Glass

    Truman Sleeps (The Truman Show)

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Ensemble: Jess Gillam Ensemble.
    • Decca.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Capriccio espagnol, Op 34

    Orchestra: Bavarian State Orchestra. Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch.
    • Kabalevsky: The Comedians etc, Sawallisch.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 11.
  • Thomas Morley

    Aprill is in my mistris face

    Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble.
    • English and Italian Renaissance Madrigals.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 3.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in C major, Op 53, 'Waldstein' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Beethoven Piano Sonatas: 'Moonlight' 'Pathetique' 'Waldstein' Steven Osborne pia.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.
  • George Walker

    Lyric for Strings

    Orchestra: Cleveland Chamber Symphony. Conductor: Edwin London.
    • WALKER: Serenata / Lyric for Strings / Poeme / Orpheus / Folksongs for Orchestra.
    • Albany.
    • 3.
  • Franz Leh谩r

    Vilja-Lied (The Merry Widow)

    Singer: Lucia Popp. Choir: Ambrosian Singers. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Great Moments of Lucia Popp.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 306.
  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Russian Rag

    Performer: Sarah Nicolls. Performer: Nicola Sweeney.
    • Kats-Chernin: Ragtime and Blue.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 301.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Concertino in E flat major Op.26

    Performer: Kari Kriikku. Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • ONDINE.

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