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Suzy Klein with Monteverdi's Zefiro Torna and an essential Opus 1

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

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

1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five composer’s Opus Ones.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    Scherzo in D major, Op.16

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes.
    • Much loved music: Halle Orchestra and Choir/Hughes.
    • EMI.
    • 2.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Zefiro Torna

    Singer: Anna Prohaska. Singer: Magdalena Kožená. Orchestra: La Cetra Barockorchester Basel. Director: Andrea Marcon.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo for Violin and Orchestra in B flat, K269

    Performer: Christian Tetzlaff. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Mozart: The 5 Violin Concertos.
    • ERATO.
    • 17.
  • Eugene Zádor

    Music for Clarinet & Strings: III. Alla zingaresca

    Performer: Pál Sólyomi. Orchestra: MÁV Szimfonikus zenekar. Conductor: Mariusz Smolij.
    • Zádor: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Robert Schumann

    Toccata in C major Op.7

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • PIANO CLASSICS.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Canticles of Ecstasy

    Ensemble: Ensemble for medieval music.
    • deutsche harmonia mundi.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Much Ado About Nothing (Garden scene)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Jérôme Ducros.
    • Capriccio - Violin Pieces.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 15.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 5 in E flat major, Op. 82

    Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thomas Søndergård.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in C major H.16.1

    Performer: Marc-André Hamelin.
    • Haydn: Piano Sonatas III: Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5-7.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Filiae maestae Jerusalem, RV 638: II. Sileant Zephyri

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Ensemble: Ensemble Artaserse.
    • Pietà - Sacred works.
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 115.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    The Arts and the Hours (Les Boreades)

    Music Arranger: Víkingur Ólafsson. Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Debussy & Rameau.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 17.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Soave sia il vento (Così fan tutte)

    Singer: Miah Persson. Singer: Christine Rice. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Mozart: Tutto Mozart!: Bryn Terfel/Sir Charles Mackerras.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Prague Waltzes

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Dvorak: Legends: Prague Waltzes: Buadapest festival Orchestra / Ivan Fischer.
    • Phillips.
    • 16.
  • Claude Debussy

    The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (Preludes, Bk.1)

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman.
    • Debussy: Preludes: Krystian Zimerman.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • Arvo Pärt

    Da pacem Domine for chorus

    Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Graham Ross.
    • Arvo Pärt: Stabat.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1.
  • Niccolò Paganini

    Theme and Variations in A minor, Op 1 No 24

    Performer: Julia Fischer.
    • Paganini, 24 Caprices: Julia Fischer.
    • Decca.
    • 24.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Academic Festival Overture Op.80

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68, etc..
    • Naxos.
    • 6.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Novelettes Nos 1, 2 and 3

    Performer: Pascal Rogé.
    • Poulenc: Piano Works: Pascal Roge.
    • Decca.
    • 12.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Oblivion - tango

    Performer: Håkan Hardenberger. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Kenneth Sillito.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Chromatic fantasia and fugue in D minor BWV.903 for keyboard

    Performer: Sir András Schiff.
    • J.S. Bach: Piano Music.
    • Hungaraton.
    • 1.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet in D minor, D 810, 'Death and the Maiden' (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Pavel Haas Quartet.
    • Schubert: Death and the Maiden - String Quintet.
    • Supraphon.
    • 3.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    L'Inganno Felice (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.

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