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Suzy Klein

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

Suzy Klein plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

0915 Playlist starter 鈥 listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

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

1030 Playlist reveal 鈥 a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1100 Essential Five 鈥 the second of our choices of Claude Debussy's best music.

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

3 hours

Last on

Tue 17 Aug 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    Keyboard Concerto in G major H.18.4 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin. Orchestra: Les Violons du Roy. Conductor: Bernard Labadie.
    • Haydn: Piano Concertos: Hamelin/Les Violons du Roy/Labadie.
    • HYPERION.
    • 9.
  • Federico Mompou

    Suite compostelana (Preludio)

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Camino.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 601.
  • Wilfred Josephs

    Cliarinet Quintet Op.135 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Linda Merrick. Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet.
    • Wilfred Josephs: Music For Clarinet: Linda Merrick, Benjamin Frith, Kreutzer Qua.
    • Metier.
    • 3.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Straussiana

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Korngold - Symphony in F sharp.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Rhapsody in B minor Op.79 no.1

    Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1 etc.: Lupu, LPO, De Waart.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Ernest John Moeran

    Sinfonietta (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Sinfonietta. Conductor: Norman Del Mar.
    • Moeran: Cello Concerto and Sinfonietta.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Lascia ch'io pianga (Rinaldo)

    Singer: Patricia Petibon. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.
    • Rosso Italian Baroque Arias: Patricia Petibon.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 4.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pezzo capriccioso Op.62

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Virgin.
  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Stephen Kovacevich. Performer: Michael De Roo. Performer: Willy Goudswaard.
  • Gustav Holst

    A Fugal Concerto Op.40`2

    Performer: William Bennett. Performer: Peter Graeme. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Imogen Holst.
    • Holst: Brook Green Suite, Lyric Movement, Fugal Concerto: ECO, Imogen Holst.
    • Lyrita.
    • 3.
  • Agathe Backer-Gr酶ndahl

    Sleep now sweetly (The Child's Spring Day Op.42)

    Singer: Mari Eriksmoen. Performer: Alphonse Cemin.
    • ALPHA.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Op.27

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mendelssohn: Overtures: LSO/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Un Poco di Chopin (18 Pieces Op.72)

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov.
    • Mariinsky.
  • Toru Takemitsu

    Face of Another (Waltz)

    Ensemble: Moscow Soloists. Conductor: Yuri Abramovich Bashmet.
    • ONYX.
  • George Gershwin

    By Strauss

    Performer: Ella Fitzgerald.
    • Not Now Music.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Lagunen, Op. 411 (arr. A. Schoenberg)

    Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.
    • CAPRICCIO.
  • Leopold Godowsky

    Studies on the Chopin Etudes (no.45 in E Major [After Chopin's B. 130 no. 2])

    Performer: Konstantin Scherbakov.
    • MARCO POLO.
  • Michael Torke

    Bright Blue Music

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Michael Torke - Ecstatic Orange etc..
    • Argo.
    • 005.
  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune (Suite Bergamasque)

    Music Arranger: Isang Enders. Performer: Isang Enders. Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • BERLIN CLASSICS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wir danken, wir preisen (Cantata no.134)

    Singer: Daniel Taylor. Singer: James Gilchrist. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SOLI DEO GLORIA.
  • Miguel del 脕guila

    Presto II

    Ensemble: Santiago Quartet.
    • Cubafilin Records.
  • George Lloyd

    Symphony no.5 in B flat major (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: George Lloyd.
    • George Lloyd: Symphony No.5: 大象传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra/Lloyd.
    • Albany.
  • John Tavener

    Song for Athene

    Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Conductor: Martin Neary.
    • John Tavener: Innocence: Westminster Abbey Choir/English Chamber Orch/Neary.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Quartet in G major for recorder, oboe, violin and continuo TWV:43:G6

    Ensemble: Musica Alta Ripa.
    • Telemann: Overtures, Sonatas, Concertos: Musica Alta Ripa.
    • MDG.
    • 16.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Fantasia 脿 5

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • AMON.
  • C茅cile Chaminade

    Etude Romantique Op.132

    Performer: Johann Blanchard.
    • MDG.

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