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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Essential Schumann, Barnaby Smith

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

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

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

1010 Well known musicians reveal their personal favourite performers.

1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five great pieces by Robert Schumann.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Italian Concerto - 3rd mvt: Presto

    Music Arranger: Kokio Tochi. Ensemble: Ferio Saxophone Quartet.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Johann Christian Bach

    Fra l'orrore (Carattaco)

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Ensemble: Le Cercle de l'Harmonie. Conductor: Jérémie Rhorer.
    • La Dolce Fiamma.
    • ERATO.
    • 9.
  • Florence Price

    Tropical Noon (Dances in the Canebrakes)

    Performer: Althea Waites.
    • Black Diamonds.
    • Cambria.
    • 005.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony no.3 in A minor Op.56 'Scottish' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.
  • Kaspar Jr Förster

    Sonata á 7

    Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen. Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
    • Ich bin die Auferstehung: Buxtehude & His Copenhagen Connections.
    • Dacapo.
    • 9.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Waverley

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Quintet in A major, D 667, 'Trout' (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Performer: Pamela Frank. Performer: Rebecca Young. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Edgar Meyer.
    • Schubert: Trout Quintet/Arpeggione Sonata:Ax/Frank/Ma/Meyer/Bonney.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Claude Debussy

    Pagodes (Estampes)

    Orchestrator: André Caplet. Orchestra: Lyon Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Jun Märkl.
    • Debussy.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5; Markl.
    • Naxos.
    • 14.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 19 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Leonard Elschenbroich. Performer: Alexei Grynyuk.
    • Shostakovich/Rachmaninov: Cello Sonatas: Elschenbroich/Grynyuk.
    • Onyx.
    • 2.
  • Rebecca Dale

    Winter

    Choir: VOCES8. Performer: Håkon Samuelsen. Performer: Mari Samuelsen. Performer: Huw Watkins.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Rodelinda (Vivi, tiranno)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • DECCA.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 1 in E minor, Op 39 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds.
    • Sibelius: Complete Symphonies/Three Late Fragments.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 3.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet Op 64 No 4 in G major (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: London Haydn Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    Marmion Overture

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Royston Nash.
    • DECCA.
  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Spargi d'amaro pianto (Lucia di Lammermoor)

    Singer: Joan Sutherland. Choir: Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • DECCA.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Trio in E flat major, K 498 'Kegelstatt' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Concerto; Kegelstatt Trio.
    • BIS.
    • 4.
  • Vivien Ellis

    Coronation Scot (Paul Temple)

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • British Light Music Classics: The New London Orchestra/Ronald Corp.
    • Hyperion.
  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Concerto in A Minor Op.54 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Ingrid Fliter. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Antonio Méndez.
    • Schumann & Mendelssohn Piano Concertos.
    • Linn Records.
    • 101.
  • Marin Marais

    Pièces de viole, Troisième livre: I. Prélude

    Performer: Benjamin Perrot. Performer: Florence Bolton. Ensemble: La Rêveuse.
    • Marin Marais: Pièces de viole.
    • Mirare.
    • 101.
  • Henry Purcell

    Strike the viol (from Come, ye sons of art away)

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Singer: Raquel Andueza. Orchestra: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Music for a While - Improvisations on Purcell.
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 103.
  • Franz Liszt

    Transcendental Study no.3 in F major 'Paysage'

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Pavane Op.50

    Choir: Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Faure: Requiem: Paavo Jarvi.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
    • 010.
  • Max Richter

    On the Nature of Daylight

    Performer: Louisa Fuller. Performer: John Metcalfe. Performer: Philip Sheppard. Performer: Chris Worsey.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pulcinella Suite: Duetto, Minuetto & Final

    Conductor: Joshua Weilerstein. Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.
    • MDG.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in C major, Kk.72

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • D. Scarlatti: Sonatas: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 5.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Scenes from Hiawatha - overture Op.30`3

    Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.

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  • Fri 31 Jul 2020 09:00

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