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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Harriet Walter, Weber dies in London

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein.

Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Musical Time Travellers – stories behind the music making of the British Isles.

1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the actress Dame Harriet Walter.

1110 Essential Classics pays tribute to some of the great musicians who died in 2019.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.5 in B flat major, D.485 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Schubert: Symphonies no.5 & 6: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Treasure Waltz

    Performer: Heinz Medjimorec. Performer: Alfred Mitterhofer. Music Arranger: Anton Webern. Ensemble: Alban Berg Quartett.
    • Strauss: Walzer.
    • EMI.
    • 7.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Oboe Concerto in B flat major Wq.164 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Xenia Löffler. Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • C.P.E. Bach: Oboe Concertos.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 109.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Une barque sur l'océan (Miroirs)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music: Steven Osborne, Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Adam Schoenberg

    Picture Studies (Pigeons in Flight)

    Orchestra: Kansas City Symphony. Conductor: Michael Stern.
    • Adam Schoenberg: American Symphony, Finding Rothko & Picture Studies.
    • Reference Recordings.
    • 310.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Trio Sonata in D Minor, Op. 1 No. 12, RV 63 "La follia" (Arr. J. Steenbrink & T.

    Ensemble: Holland Baroque Society.
    • Silk Baroque.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 501.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Viola Sonata in D minor (1st mvt)

    Performer: Nobuko Imai. Performer: Roland Pöntinen.
    • Bis.
  • Alfred Schnittke

    Fugue & Pantomime (Suite in the Old Style)

    Performer: Olga Martynova. Performer: Andrey Doynikov. Performer: Dmitri Vlassik. Performer: Roman Mints.
    • Alfred Schnittke - Roman Mints / Katya Apekisheva.
    • QUARTZ.
    • 4-5.
  • Adam Schoenberg

    Picture Studies (Pigeons in Flight)

    Orchestra: Kansas City Symphony. Conductor: Michael Stern.
    • Adam Schoenberg: American Symphony, Finding Rothko & Picture Studies.
    • Reference Recordings.
    • 310.
  • Franz Liszt

    Rigoletto: concert paraphrase

    Performer: Jorge Bolet.
    • Decca.
  • Thomas Arne

    Overture No 3 in G major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Collegium Musicum 90. Conductor: Simon Standage.
    • Arne: Overtures: Collegium Musicum 90, Standage.
    • Chandos.
    • 12.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Oberon (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Overtures: London Classical Players/Norrington.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Mourn thou, poor heart (Oberon)

    Singer: Hillevi Martinpelto. Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in D major, K.382

    Performer: Alfred Brendel. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Mozart, Piano Concertos No. 20 K. 466 & No. 24 K. 491 Concerto Rondo K. 382.
    • PHILIPS SILVER LINE CLASSICS.
    • 4-6.
  • Franz Schubert

    Die Taubenpost, D.965a (Schwanengesang, D.957)

    Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau. Performer: Gerald Moore.
    • DG.
  • Michael Torke

    Javelin

    Orchestra: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yoel Levi.
    • Michael Torke: Three: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
    • Ecstatic Records.
    • 1.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Sonatae tam aris quam aulis servientes (Sonata VII)

    Performer: Andreas Lacker. Performer: Herbert Walser. Ensemble: Clemencic Consort. Director: René Clemencic.
    • OEHMS.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Les Sylphides, Op 18 (Finale)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Offenbach/Chopin/Delibes: Gaite Parisienne: Berliner Philharmoniker/Karajan.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 25.
  • Sir Hamilton Harty

    With the Wild Geese

    Orchestra: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Proinnsías Ó Duinn.
    • Naxos.
  • Jean‐Féry Rebel

    Les Caracteres de la Danse

    Ensemble: Ensemble Meridiana.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Rückert-Lieder)

    Singer: Jessye Norman. Performer: Irwin Gage.
    • Jessye Norman, Schubert & Mahler, Irwin Gage.
    • Philips.
    • 10.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 3 in F major, Op 90 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orcehstra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Brahms - The Symphonies.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Partita no.3 in E major BWV.1006 (Prelude)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust.
    • J.S. Bach: Sonatas & Partitas. Isabelle Faust.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 15.
  • Julius Fucik

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    Performer: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Václav Neumann.
    • WARNER APEX.

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